roborockQ8 Max Robot Vacuum and Mop Cleaner, DuoRoller Brush, 5500Pa Strong Suction, Lidar Navigation, Obstacle Avoidance, Multi-Level Mapping, Perfect for Pet Hair

This vacuum is exactly what I need to keep my apartment clean. I am blind and always have had trouble with a regular vacuum.It was easy to setup right out of the box. It first connected to my WiFi and then started to map my apartment with amazing accuracy. It is 770 square feet with mostly low pile carpet (except for the kitchen and bathroom).Once mapped it started to clean, finding and avoiding any obstacles. It knew the difference between carpet and hard flooring, mopping the hard surfaces while lowering the suction and resuming when it got to carpet again. The mopping is not deep scrubbing, it’s just like rubbing with a damp wash cloth.It cleaned my apartment in 45 minutes and returned to the charging station.One thing I noticed is that when I place the plastic floor sheet in front of the charging station, the mop head gets stuck in it and I have to manually dock the unit. It also stuck on a small rug in front of my sink, it avoided it and carried on from then on. You can remove the mop head to avoid these issues.Oh, I have a long haired cat and it gets all of the hair with ease. It might also help people with cat allergies.

This RoboRock vacuum is the third robot vacuum I have purchased. I began with an Eufy. Worked ok for three weeks, then quit dead. Returned and replaced. That one lasted 10 days. Returned it and purchased a Shark. But it couldn't connect to my dual band wifi. After two calls totaling 90 minutes, a Shark rep said, "by the way, your network name cannot have spaces between words." WTF! He suggested that I change the name of the network, which would then entail me reinitializing everyone of my digital devices (14 at last count) to the newly named network! So, back went the Shark. I then purchased this RoboRock. It was like going to heaven. Setting it up was a snap. It mapped my house and cleaned it the way it should be cleaned. One other positive note. I have two long-haired dogs. Hair collects everywhere. The RoboRock has rubber fins on its brush that never, repeat, never clog. Finally, there is a hair issue that all three vacuums have. Hair tends to wind around the spindles at each end of each brush. With Eufy, I had to use tweezers to pull out the hair. The RoboRock is designed so that the spindles pop loose - then the bundles of hair pull off easily. All in all, a great little machine.

When the pandemic and stay at home orders hit, my wife wanted me to vacuum the house. I immediately started looking for Robo Cleaners. Over the past six weeks, I have tried four different models. It was something I did not like about each of the first three.I have a two story house with an elevated entry level that Robot cleaners cannot climb up to. That means I have in effect three floors on the house. In spite of promises, none of the other three could map and retain the maps for more than one floor at a time. The S6 pure can.Also, the S6 maps using a laser guidance system, not a camera. I think it may be more accurate in navigating and finding things, and of course could do the job in total darkness since lasers don’t need the lights on to work. This mapping function actually divides the floor into multiple rooms, this is a function I had to perform manually on other models I tested. If one wants to of course one can of further combine or divide the rooms or set the boundaries anywhere you want manually. One thing I miss on this model that other models that is that other models allowed you to label the names of the room, where is this as he does not. This may be improved on a future software update. However, I can still figure out which is the living room and which is the dining room on the map it draws.We have oriental rugs in some of the rooms. One of the other cleaners I tried promptly chewed up the fringes on the rug and curled it off. It sucked it into its apparatus and stopped and I had to freeze it. No matter what I tried to do or how low I placed the strings, , it constantly choked and had to be rescued every time it crossed the border of the oriental rug. (That one was returned in about two days.) The S6 nibbles the fringes a bit, but passes all of them OK. My wife did not like even that. On previous models, some allowed exclusion zones or no cross lines. This did not work. The no cross line did not work, because I want the vacuum to work on both sides of the line rather than just walling off a corner of the room. One of the other cleaners allowed you to map off a non-entry area. When I tried, the minimum width was something like 6 feet, which was way too large to use just on a fringe of an oriental carpet.Finally I tried the S-6 Pure. This is a brand new model from this company. I usually don’t like to buy things just as they are released, but the clock was ticking and I had no choice. However, I am extremely pleased with the product. As I said, it is brand new so I assume that everything is as up-to-date and improved as possible. It does indeed map more than one floor, and it has map three floors in my house. It has also made a pretty good guess as to how to divide all the rooms on the floor. These are modifiable if you wish. As I said, so far you cannot label the rooms, but that is not really necessary. I tried the no-go zone on this one. Unlike the other cleaner I try it, this cleaner allows a no go zone of perhaps 1 foot in width. This is perfect for the fringes on the carpet. I selected a no go zone around the fringes of the oriental rug and let the cleaner loose. One was pretty much perfect and one just nipple devoid of a little bit. I adjusted the border of the no go zone to include completely the fringes. Now the robot zooms around the living room but avoids the fringes of the oriental rug. I also set little no go zones around the vents which are on the floor in this room, so that the Robot cleaner does not go over the metal grating.This cleaner also has an option, which I have not tried yet, where it will vacuum at a lower strength on hard floors, but will sense when it is on a carpet or rug and increase the vacuum strength to vacuum these areas more heavily. This unit will also mop floors, obviously just smooth non-carpeted floors, but I really did not care about this function(though it is nice to have!). I am glad it is there because it might be of some use in the future, especially for kitchen and bathrooms.This unit has the largest battery size of the various sizes that are available in different manufacturers machines, so they charge more to list out as long as anybody else’s. It also has a vacuum setting which is among the strongest of the ones available in different models you might find.One additional thing I should say is that their customer service appears to be excellent. I have emailed them multiple times with various dumb questions, and I usually get a response within a day. Another nice thing is that they actually appear to read my question and do not give a boilerplate response.This is not the cheapest Robo vacuum cleaner on the market (not the most expensive), but if these features sound interesting to you, I have not found another cleaner even at a higher price that is it’s equal.