- Roomba Plus 505 Combo Robot Vacuum & Mop with AutoWash Dock - Extending Spinning Mop Pads, Self-Empties, Pad Wash & Heated Drying, Self-cleaning, Recognizes & Avoids Obstacles, LiDAR Navigation

We have a very large house, 60/40 tile and carpet. Needed something for routine cleaning. Didn’t think the Roomba 505 would even be able to map the house. To our surprise it did it very quickly. Be sure to open all doors and clear as much of the floor of obstacles as possible for the best mapping. The mopping system works really well (I know lots of Chinese models have had similar features for awhile), but I didn’t want to deal with those companies and waited for iRobot to create a model with these features. The 505 does a great job on tile; with first use it filled the out-water tank with blacken water after double pass mopping over what looked like a generally clean tile floor. Couldn’t have been happier. I have returned to update this review to express how happy we are with its tile mopping. Its impressive how much dirt it picks up on a routine basis. I also have deep cleaned the mop pads in my Samsung drawer washer with great results. The dirty tank gets some grime built up in it, but its easy to clean. The vacuum works pretty well, I understand the double brush vacuums do better, but for general use it picks up the stuff I see typically around the house. I use a Mikita duster to blow out the Roomba's dust bin and filter after a couple of weeks, quick and easy. Keep your station maintained and the whole product should perform well. Its easy to do. The iRobot Home app on my iPhone/iPad still needs improvements. It just got its first update today. My house layout is larger than the software developers probably anticipated. It hard to pick rooms by label, without having to zoom in, as the labels overlap on screen during the room selection process. Note: the map can be zoomed in when doing this once you touch some part of the floor plan first. Sadly, there is no simple list view. Setting up different zones, or correcting missed mapping areas is challenging and cumbersome. iRobot needs to continue focusing on UI and usability improvements to this app. It may frustrate some, and lessen the enthusiasm for Roomba and the dock. NOTE: A great feature would be to direct the Roomba to a mis-mapped area, or changed environment and just have it scan and update that part of the map. Especially so for large houses like mine. We have patterned tile floors and Roomba overcleans some areas "thinking" its some stain or mess. Would be nice to be able to mark these questionable areas as "normal". If you interrupt the cleaning with the app or the battery is low on the Roomba, sometimes the Roomba is left in an odd state. For instance, it won't clean the mop when you expect it should. You can manually force the cleaning routines, but only when a minimum level of battery power is available. Just a few things the app has overlooked and hopefully will eventually be addressed. The user experience and quality robotic system is what will make a "premium" product for iRobot. The mechanical units (Roomba and waste dock work well). The water tanks could be twice the size for my house… but most likely designed for a typically sized house. I am surely planning to keep the Roomba 505, as I expect improvements to the app as iRobot gets more feedback on this newly designed combo vac/mop. There are already articles describing and even better (yet more expensive) 705 combo model on the way. If its better than the 505... it most likely will be worth the extra money. Very happy with this purchase after a few weeks of serious use. Will update if that feeling changes. Summary, I recommend this product at its new price point. A few more weeks have passed, the iPhone app as been updated twice. The app could have a few more nice features added, but it works. We have tile floors that have random patterns, there are a few spots the Roomba mistakes as spills and works very hard to clean them up. This is understandable, and wastes time with extra unnecessary trips back to the dock to clean pads. The app needs a feature to mark and ignore these situations. The Roomba itself has been doing a great job. Its been awhile now and the Roomba is used every day for general cleaning. I works very well, with proper care and feeding. I am impressed the tile floors that typically look clean still manage to brown the empty tank with dirt, kudos Roomba. Do pay attention to the removal and cleaning of the water filter in the bottom to the docking station. I didn't realize it was a plastic removal filter that needed periodic cleaning. Be sure to watch some online videos for the care and cleaning of the robot and docking station. There weren't any real instructions for doing most of this sorta stuff in the box. I do machine was the mop pads (in a Samsung drawer washer) and rinse out the dust filters to extend their use. Don't use any fabric softener with the microfiber pads. Try not to over dry the pads in the dryer, best to exchange pads and let them dry normally. Be careful of the slim clear plastic door in Roomba's dust bin, easy to wash out without noticing. I still really find this Roomba extremely useful and continue to recommend it to those that will take time to use and maintain it properly. The iOS apps gets updates, it still needs a few features to make it of "high quality", but for now its useable enough. Lastly, cleaning the "beater brush" would be far easier if the ends slide out and would allow the tangled hair on the ends to be just easily pulled out. Seems like such a simple and obvious solution, it is a pain to have to pull apart and remove the bound hairs when doing general maintenance. This is something iRobot could fix and improve the user experience a great deal since this is a user serviceable part that needs replacing periodically. I suppose this is my biggest complaint. But, far from a deal breaker. More of a WTF, why didn't you just let the ends of the roller brush pull out just make plucking the hair out super easy? For now my wife just makes me do it, actually I do all of it. :-)

In our pet palace of long hair kitties, the iRobot Roomba Plus 505 is a dream. I'm impressed by the vacuum and mop quality and functions. You can set it to different settings on a schedule that makes it extremely handy. Vac only, Vac + Mop, Mop only and Vac then Mop. Also, you can select how clean of a run like Deep Clean, light clean or smart clean which I also though was nifty. The iRobot is better at navigating areas and not getting stuck AND washes the mop pads itself. It actually looks like I moped my whole floor. My floor was on the dirtier side, so I let it vacuum, then do a deep clean mode mop everyday for 3 days. For any sticky gunks that were hard to get, I just scraped it mostly off the floor and let it run again. After that initial 3 day deep clean run, my floor looks so good and now its easy to upkeep. I now do daily vacuum schedule and a 3 day a week light mop. Some helpful considerations! Setup with the app was a bit frustrating as there was no physical manual that came with it, so you had to search on their side which was confusing or wait for the app to connect to your device and setup to access it from there. It took 2 days to connect to the iRobot app, but it's now connected and seems to be working great to set schedule and check the levels for maintenance on reordering parts. The left water tank is for dirty water emptying and is quite easy to wash out and replace. Same with the right side with is for clean water. It also comes with an already installed inside dry dust filter and dispose bag and 1 extra. There was also 1 extra mop pad replacement. Once you get to the app, you can check these items including another filter inside and how much use you get before you use these, so there are some extra items you would need to buy to upkeep the machine especially if you are vacuuming a lot of dry trash as those bags seem small. Overall, I am so relieved and happy to have clean floors again! The mopping function is the biggest win on this!

I should’ve read the reviews and hopefully if you’re here then you will take this review seriously! The Roomba I ordered didn’t work. I kept getting an error message that one of the compartment tray was full when it wasn’t. I contacted Roomba for tech support. No one answers you have to get a call back. Once they called me back they walked over troubleshooting steps and they realized the Roomba was defective. The customer service rep said she would email a list of things she needed me to email her to be able to initiate a troubleshooting ticket to further help me. I had to upload a receipt from Amazon that I bought the item, a video showing the error message spoken by the robot, among other things. I emailed her immediately everything she asked of me. She said they would contact me in 3 business days. They never did! I called them back and had to wait for them to call me back again the customer service rep said they didn’t have no claim for me and had me do the whole process again. I had the old email I sent them but they didn’t care because it’s all a scam. The company has no intentions on following through with their so called warranty. My Roomba was purchased a month before I called them. It never worked. I should’ve been taken care of immediately. I resent the email and waited again 3 business days still no call. I called again and same thing happened. The customer service rep called me back to tell me that they didn’t have a claim for me and wanted me to do the whole process again. By the way they barely speak English. They were waiting for my return window on Amazon to expire so I would be stuck with a broken item that they didn’t have to fix. Luckily Amazon valued me as a customer and processed the return after the return window expired after I told them of the scam the company had pulled. Amazon received the item and I was fully refunded me. The company IRobot Roomba till this day hasn’t called me back or, reached out via email. A $800 equipment not including taxes and when it stops working you are out of that money. They have no intentions on replacing it or, fixing it. Think about that for a second. This company is scamming people and then they ghost you after they have your money. Not to mention there customer service is not in the USA. The customer service reps barely speak English & can barely understand you. Then they treat you as if you’re a burden for calling. The company as a whole is just awful. Don’t take a chance with them, don’t risk it. I promise you that you’ll regret it. Thank God that Amazon cares about their customers and protects their customers unlike IRobot Roomba.

The IRoomba +505 combo vacuum and mop is an awesome machine that’s made keeping my floors cleaner so much easier. It was easy to set up physically, and once it’s running, it vacuums really well. I’m impressed how it navigates the house and even knows to raise slightly when going over carpet. It’s a very cool feature. The mapping function is smart and being able to program it to clean on his schedule through the app is a huge plus. That said the initial set of process was frustrating. The instructions that came in the box aren’t helpful at all you have to download an app, but even then it doesn’t clearly walk you through everything. It took me a few tries to figure it out and I’m still not completely sure I’m using all the features correctly. As for the mopping, it’s OK. I leave some dry areas and probably isn’t a full replacement for manual mopping but it does work well enough for daily upkeep. The base station does take up a bit of space because of the water tank and the dustbin but that’s expected for a two in one system overall I’m really happy with the cleaning performance, especially the vacuuming, but the user experience could be improved with better instructions and app support.

I must say this is my first time using a robot vacuum and I have to admit I simply loved it, I found it especially incredible how easy it is to use and set up, especially since the robot vacuum does everything I just had to turn it on connect it to my internet and it started scanning my house on its own, I was surprised to see how it can overcome obstacles and reach every corner of my house, even under the bed and desk, going over them it was incredible. I also really liked the way it charges, since I don't have to worry about it charging automatically when it's parked. You can choose between its different modes: vacuum, mop, combo clean, or vacuum first then mop, Intuitive mop pads auto-lift when sensing carpet ahead for seamless multi-surface cleaning, You can also select "Clean with precision" by choosing specific rooms or zones, and there are four levels of suction. You can use it day or night and simply sit back and relax Seeing your house clean itself is amazing, After the first time you use it, you can really feel how thoroughly it cleans, reaching even the most difficult places in my house, like under the bed, For me who usually has very little time due to my job it's definitely a great help especially because I love having my house always clean, Now, with this iRobot Roomba Plus that won't be a problem since it will take care of it without my help, I definitely recommend it.

This unit worked great we had no issues with setup and it was very easy to get it up and running! The mopping feature is amazing and it does a fantastic job. No streaks or spots. We have 3/4 oak floors and they are now spotless! The program feature is amazi g we can set it up to clean when nobody is home so its not tracking under your feet. We just come home to a clean house. We have not had one issue with it yet. The map feature is spectacular.It cleans our entire floor with no issues. This unit is highly recommended again. We've had no issues with this unit. I guess the only negative thing would be that it doesn't come with a small bottle of floor soap so you have to go buy that.

This new model from iRobot has proven to be a major step up from my previous unit from another brand in the same price range. It does a fantastic job cleaning up my apartment while I'm stuck worrying about other busy life things. It's truly a set it and forget it type device and that's what I need most. I have a two bedroom apartment with 2 small dogs. Most of our floors are either deep piley carpets or smooth white tiles, with a few area rugs here and there. This unit handles them all... thanks to it's mapping features which know when to transition from it's powerful but not offensively loud vacuum to it's really cool dual mop feature to leave my tile floors squeaky clean as to where I'd feel comfortable eating a piece of dropped sushi without worrying about the 5 second rule. (don't tell the wife I did that). The extendable mop pad feature is also very cool - a really innovative idea that makes sure the corners of the room as just as clean, something my other unit did not succeed at. The obstacle detection/camera system seems to work great as well. Long gone are the days of having to prep my room by picking things up off the floor and balancing them on my couches or counters. Avoiding things like wires and my latest amazon deliveries really helps alleviate the burden of having to clean before cleaning. I do still recommend you do a generally good job of organizing your room if you want it to be able to get into certain corners and areas, but it's smart enough to figure out whatever setup you have and this just boils down to good ol' feng shui decluttering. The all in one dock is also a major upgrade. It is quite tall, which works perfectly for our setup as the smaller footprint fits better in my room then previous short and stubby versions and the large refill bins allow me to set it and forget it for a far longer amount of time in between actually having to interact with the unit. Overall, I am super happy with this unit and look forward to many more years of coming home to a clean house before I go mess it all up again.

We have 3 cats and 2 dogs which means there's a lot of mess between vacuuming hair or mopping paw prints. This combo Roomba saves us so much time and makes cleaning easier when we do a deep cleaning. The Roomba does a great job getting corners where hair can get trapped and vacuuming up small cat litter pieces. We previously had to vacuum everyday, multiple times a day, to keep up and that has been reduced to once or twice a week. The mopping portion works nicely to keep the floors overall clean and clean up any sticky messes. When we mop now, the water is barely dirty which shows how good of a job the Roomba does in the upkeep. I enjoy the docking station cleans the mop pads and that it has storage in the docking station so you don't have to empty or refill as often. There's also no streaks from mopping!