Rollibot BL100 Mini Robot Vacuum Cleaner, Black

I was very excited about this product, and enjoyed it at first. However, I have had it a year now and I wish I had saved my money for a better brand. This robot worked pretty well on a hardwood floor. It did a reasonable job of collecting our dog hair. Very little of the dog hair was ever sucked into the actual bin. Instead it would stick at the entrance of the bin and be carried around with it. When it was done, you would pick the machine up and there would be a pile of hair under it. This worked well enough for us and made our lives easier so it was okay with us. However, there are a few things you should know before purchasing: This will not make a flooring transition greater than 1/2". It often got stuck on the transition board between our tile and hardwood or our hardwood and carpet. It does not remove dog hair from carpet. Instead, the hair spins around on the rotters until it gets caught on a carpet fiber. The machine would leave behind little balls of hair that then have to be cleaned up. We closed the doors to our carpeted areas when running this unit. This will not transition onto the memory foam floor mats we had in our kitchen. Instead it would push them around until it pinned the mat against a wall and then proceed to get stuck as it tried to drive onto them. When running it will sense that there is a wall and then proceed to bump into it repeatedly as it slowly tries adjust it's angle. This is very annoying it listen to. Do not set it to run in the middle of the night. It is not very easy to program as it does not always take the program and does not give very good feedback on whether it did or not. Now again, all of these were things that we could live with. We figured it was just what you get out of a robot vacuum. But here is the kicker... THE VACUUM NO LONGER HOLDS A CHARGE! Like I said, we have had this vacuum for just over a year. Almost immediately after the warranty expired, the battery life started to decrease rapidly. It got to the point where I would hit the button to tell it to run, and then before I even got down the hall, it would beep at me that the battery was dead and needed to recharge. I think this is due to the way it sits on the dock. The contacts don't make great contact (you can hear the electrical whine when it is charging). I think this greatly fatigued the battery, but I am not an electrical engineer. We contacted the company to see if we could just purchase a new battery. They refused to sell one to us. They said we would have to ship the unit to them and pay a $60 service fee for them to fix it for me. That's half the price I paid in the first place! We will not be buying this brand again and I highly recommend that everyone else look elsewhere.

I like this little fella. He's a trooper and keeps going even under poor conditions. There are some design issues so I'm not 100% satisfied but given the entry price, and what we throw at him, he's a good worker. The environment he's in isn't the best, actually it's pretty rough. We've had few weeks' of post-flooding home repair which means there's drywall dust everywhere. Also I've two Labrador dogs with "doggie door" access to the frequently-muddy backyard. And a grandchild in the home who does the usual grandchild things that leave grandchild-sized tracks around. Yes, I'm tired of sweeping. Hence the addition of the bot to the household. So after a few weeks of continuous usage I'm noticing that the motor is definitely louder than when we first got young bottie. Also sometimes he'd "stutter" - that is, he'd move forward about an inch, jerk backwards, move forward again, jerk, etc. til I switched off the power button on the bottom and let him be overnight. (Update: The "stuttering" seems to be due to hair that gets wrapped around the sweeper axles and slows or stops one from spinning correctly. Whenever this happens I remove the easily-removable brushes and take care of that. Then it's back to normal business.) That behaviour was partly user error - my grandson was "helping" me one day and accidentally threw away the HEPA filter without my knowledge. The bot ran for a few days without it before I noticed this, and a ton of drywall/doggie/grandchild dust got into the inner workings of the guy. Inside the inner workings of the bot, not my grandson. Although he *does* have odd eating habits, so one never knows. In an attempt to clean out the inside (again the bot, not the grandboy), I took it apart (not difficult but not recommended, so don't try this at home, kids) and indeed the circuitry and interior were caked with dust. After (carefully) dusting off the circuitry and wires I put him back together. This has resolved the "stutter" but the fan motor is still very noisy. That's because I knew I was tempting the gods of destruction and wanted to save the fan cleaning for another day. So, the lesson to take away from this is to keep that HEPA filter in place - better yet, get a spare or two. Where to get them is anyone's guess, as Amazon hasn't a vendor to sell these and rollibot.com is conspicuously silent on this topic... I ended up gambling some money away and purchased kit from a different manufacturer (Infinuvo 600 series) whose parts looked the same. They weren't, naturally, so they weren't interchangeable but at least I could cut the too-large HEPA filter down to a size that fits my bot. Pros Keeps going under duress. After all the "larger" debris has been picked up (see Cons) it does a fine job sweeping up the remaining dirt and dust. This guy frees me up to do things like, o, posting reviews and contributing to society in small ways, heh. As others have noted, this will pick up loads of hidden dust - which makes for exciting bin-emptying adventures. Hold your breath when you empty the bin as the fine dust will fly everywhere. Sounds like a Con but that's actually a Pro because that stuff should be gone from the floor! He's very polite when moving around and bumps one's feet or legs of furniture only slightly. My 60-lb Labs now know not to leap away from him and now usually don't mind when he taps them by accident. If either one of them starts riding on him like an Internet Kitty you'll be the first to know as I'll link to my video here. Cons This fella is NOISY. Not the motor (initially) but the BEEPING can drive one mad. It talks to us constantly - "Hey, i think my tiny intake slot is clogged", "Hallo, I'm switching cleaning modes now", "Hey what's this - did someone pick me up?", "Oi! I'm getting tired, where's me home?", "Hi did you know you pushed the 'CLEAN' button? Well you did", etc. We can do with the whirring of the motor in the wee hours when I'm the only one awake in the household, but the BEEPING will guarantee to wake an exciteful child at exactly the time a wee child ought not be awake. What would make this guy wonderful is a switch to mute His Noisiness. Shhh I don't want to embarrass him, but his intake slot is far too small. On any given too-shaggy-doggy day, the slot gets clogged after about 30 seconds. The tank itself isn't full, mind you, but frequently the slot gets filled with yummy floor goodness like fur or dust bunnies or the odd unknown floor-based thing. Naturally bottie does his beeping thing and shines his red CLEAN button at me but I've learnt to ignore this and let things be. The clogginess and red-lightedness doesn't stop him from continuing to sweep; after about 5 mins I'll pick him up, pull the mat of (thankfully dry) yuck that the bot has clumped together, and then do a proper tank emptying. Two or three repeats of this, and then we're down to the stuff that bottie likes best - the dust. Oddly enough, the ONLY time bottie doesn't BEEP BEEP at me is when he's stuck under something odd-shaped (which only happens rarely). He doesn't know his wheels aren't moving any more and just stays in place, whirring until he runs low on power, when he BEEP BEEPs and tries to find home, which of course he can't, being a Stuck Creature and all, and sadly remains there until he dies of exhaustion.

I have 5 other robovacs - 3 Roombas, 1 Bobsweep and a Neato, The first 4 all lost their minds after just a few months, The Neato fried all its capacitors. In every case the company offered to fix it if I sent it in. I don't need the aggravation! Which brings us to the Rollibot. It is dumber than the rest but way cheaper and simpler. That simplicity means it is less likely to fail! Another plus is its silence. The only drawback is it has a small mouth and chokes easily on larger objects.

Dropping it to one star - after only a few months, it's battery now only lasts about 15 mins - not even long enough to clean a small room. It's pretty much worthless at this point and my money was wastedd. Update - dropping it to 2 stars. After only a short time, it's battery life has decreased dramatically. Also, the collection bin is too small and it beeps constantly and very loudly. It also gets stuck on the slightest little thing. At this point I would recommend spending a little more and getting a better robotic vacuum. Original: For the price, it's actually a pretty good little robot vacuum. I was surprised at how nicely it's packaged and how nice it looks - it doesn't feel like a cheap robot vacuum. As far as function, it was a little concerned at first when I realized it had no brush rolls, which makes it worthless for anything besides hard floors. But that was all I wanted it for anyway. I have a roomba for the main areas of the house and I love it, but I am constantly having to unwind cords or other things from it's rollers as well as pull off the all the dog hair that collects on the rollers. I wanted a cheap robot vacuum for my kids' rooms that I could schedule to basically sweep crumbs and pet hair daily off their dark hardwood floors. The rollibot suits this purpose perfectly, and does a surprisingly good and thorough job of vacuuming up all the pet hair that collects daily on their floors. I think as long as you're not expecting a roomba, and you have no rugs or carpet, the rollibot mini is a good economical choice.

I have had to order this item twice. the first one that I ordered the battery was horrible. It barely lasted 20 minutes before it had to redock and charge itself. So in no way shape or form was this thing lasting up to 100 minutes as advertised in their description. That was a huge disappointment. What was an even greater disappointment is having to send it to the manufacturer for service and it was only 2 weeks old when I was running into issues with the battery. Instead of sending me a brand new vacuum I had to wait almost 3 weeks for the manufacturer to send me back my old vacuum but with a new battery in it. That solved the battery issue but then a whole other issue arose where it would just spin around in circles and not do anything other than that just spin around in circles. Move a little bit spin around in circles and stop I was so frustrated. So instead of sending it back to the company again and have them troubleshoot and repair again I decided to just send it back to Amazon as defective and order a new one. Well guess what ...? I'm having the same issue with the battery now in this new one. How can this be?? I'm so frustrated with this whole situation that if this vacuum didn't work as good as it does when it works I would just return it and go with a whole other brand but this does work exceptionally well in my apartment and the size is perfect. And I think the suction is really good and it cleans really well I am really pleased with it in that aspect but again as far as the customer service and the battery life that's terrible. I just don't know what route to take with this new vacuum now. UPDATE: I was keeping my fingers crossed that the 3rd time would be a charm- no such luck. =( What is going on with these batteries?? How can they all be defective? This vacuum didn't even have the clear protective static sticker on the top. Makes me wonder if this was someone else's return. Not at all happy with the quality control/ assurance. The anti collision sensors are not working...as you can see in the video just how rough this vacuum is.

Purchased back in April, wanted to give it a few months before I reviewed it. I have 2 small dogs and hair gets everywhere so I wanted something to at least keep the floors clean. Worked very well for the first couple months but then it went downhill. Setting up the schedule is a little confusing so make sure you keep up with the booklet. Sometimes it wouldn't run for days then randomly get back on schedule. The bristles on one side don't spin anymore so I'll probably just trash it soon

Great little vacuum... Picks up dog hair off of my hard floors and low pile rugs. When I'm done with it I always have to empty it out. Occasionally gets stuck, just like any other robot vacuum. I use it daily and love it. Only complaint is that it takes a long time to charge.

I wanted this to work well, but, it worked about as well as one of those toys where you wind a key, and then letting it go, watch it bang off random objects. Tiny suction port, no brush roll, got stuck on everything no matter what 'mode' I set it to on the remote, and failed to pick up cat hair from my two cats well enough. Had decent battery life to ping around for awhile...but...I still had to clean up behind whatever it left, which, in my household, was a 'fail'. Returned it and bought a more expensive robot which is working wonderfully. Sorry!