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I am really liking this vacuum so far. It's quick and easy to get it set up -- you follow the included Quick Start guide and you've got it put together and you're up and running on the app in 10-15 minutes. You then go through a mapping process where the robot goes around the perimeter of each room, creating a map that you can see in the app. You can then tweak the map as needed: separating or merging rooms, renaming rooms, etc. The app gives you the choice of cleaning every room or selecting one or more rooms and then cleaning them. You can customize the suction level, how wet you want the floors to be, and you can even have it repeat each room up to three times in a given cleaning session for extreme cleaning.
As far as the efficacy, it's reasonable. I won't say it's great. If you're expecting spotless floors, you'll be disappointed. It misses a lot and you definitely need to turn it on the Turbo suction mode, which requires more battery power. Still, it leaves your floors looking and feeling clean and it's definitely better than nothing. We run this thing each day and our floors feel great. We then do a "real" vacuuming on the weekend and we find this routine to work really well.
The mopping aspect is nice -- it does leave the floor feeling clean and when you look at the dirty water tank, it's clear that it is indeed taking dirt off your floors. However, "mopping" here is a bit of a misnomer. It's wiping your floors with water. It will not scrub or lift any stuff that is really stuck to the floor, and you're instructed not to add any cleaning solutions to the mop water, so it's really just giving your floors a wipe. Still, as I noted, it leaves them feeling nice and clean.
The app is fantastic. You can specify which floors are made of which material (e.g., carpet, tile, wood) and you can even specify the direction of the flooring and tell the robot to clean in the same direction as the flooring. It's pretty cool.
The robot does a great job maneuvering around rooms and obstacles, and it's reasonably quiet. It is considerably louder on the Turbo suction mode, but still not super loud. I run it on our main floor while everyone is in bed, and so far no one has complained. The robot automatically determines whether your carpets / mats are, and it will raise its mops whenever it goes over any of them. You can configure it through the app to do all your carpets / mats first in a cleaning cycle, which I like. It first vacuums my mats and then it goes back and vacuums and mops my floors.
It returns to the dock as needed to recharge, empty its dust bin, and/or wash the mops. So far, it's been working really well for us overall and we're pleased with it. It's a fantastic solution if, like us, you're a busy family and you have very limited time to clean.