Deebot T8 Robot Vacuum and Mop Cleaner, Precise Laser Navigation, Multi-floor Mapping, Intelligent Object Avoidance, Full-customize clean, No-go and No-mop Zones, Auto-empty Station Compatible

I bought this a couple weeks or so before xmas and it was swiftly delivered the day after xmas. Having gotten walloped by a flu, I've been responsibly huddled in my bed while responsibly feeling sorry for myself, and have been respectfully listening to my Asian girlfriend clean my house for me. She has an Asian woman's sense of cleanliness, amped up with an OCD toward cleanliness and turbo charged with a cosmic abhorrence toward cat hair. She's thorough. Having mostly conquered the pestilence within, I assembled "that moppy schlingy thing" (say that like an Asian woman), let it charge, downloaded the app, let it map the downstairs, and then I put it into its first clean/mop cycle. What got dumped into the dirty water tank (translation: what an OCD Asian cutness didn't clean off the floor) was gross. It was humbling (not for me, I'm a guy). Honestly, this little robot is thorough, it's quiet and it's freakishly good. The app seems pretty intuitive to use, and it allowed me to actually name the floor cleaner. (My buddy Greg said that "House Slave" is extremely insensitive, so I've named it Greg instead.) Looking at the map of my house what Greg cleans, I can see how accurate the map was - dining room, kitchen, The Dojo (aka powder room), main room, etc etc are all there, and you can watch the thing clean real-time on the app. Assembling and initially setup of Greg and the system was pretty easy - I really think it helps to have the app downloaded first. Really, all I did was install the robot's tray and then plug it in, and then put the cleaner into its nook to charge. The rest was the initial robot setup (date, time, region, cleaning preferences, etc). Actual Greg suggested that I add denture cleaner (those fizzy tablets that I buy my dad but go unused apparently) to cut down on the odor from the dirty water tank. As I've gone through two full cleaning cycles, I've yet to experience this, so I might use the tablets instead in my bath tub if I start to feel crappy again. Bottom line - well worth the buy so far. My floors, a combo of hardwood and carpets have never looked so good. I've got a persian rug that was getting kind of dusty (Asian girlfriend calls it gross and in need of the dump), but I think all it needed was a good vacuuming or two. I think a daily dose of Greg will do the trick, honestly. Setup was easy, the app is intuitive and the cleaning robots are thorough and quiet. I forgot quiet. No one has aver cleaned my house and been that quiet.

I absolutely love this little guy. Setup was quick and easy—once it’s going, it just takes care of everything on its own. It does an excellent job vacuuming and mopping my wooden floors. The only rug I have is a flat cloth one in the bathroom, and it handles it without any issues. Cleaning performance is impressive—it covers the space thoroughly without missing spots, and the suction power is strong. I keep mine on the medium setting, and it picks everything up just fine. My rabbit isn’t a fan, but I appreciate how well it collects all the loose hair from the floor. I kind of wish Fluffy would hop on for a ride like those cats you see online, but oh well! It moves in what feels like a very organized pattern, doesn’t get lost, and always manages to find its way back to the dock. I only have two minor complaints, and they’re not really about the device itself: 1. The company recommends using only their detergent, which is fine—but for a $500 product, it would’ve been nice to include at least a small sample to fill the reservoir once. 2. It only comes with one bag. I’m not asking for a huge supply, but including a spare would’ve been a thoughtful touch for peace of mind.

March 2020 update. Well, I've given up. It's now just a $160 doorstop. It worked great for 6 months. Back in December I contacted customer support. Two of the three people who replied were obviously just giving me their rehearsed response. One actually responded to my issues. They had me do a reset which consists of holding the start button until it beeps 3 times, release that button, turn it off and on, then run as usual. It seemed to help after doing this many times. I think I had a week where it ran normally. Now that resent does not help at all and it is not picking up very well either. Since I gave up on it I let my husband take it apart. There were no clogs anywhere and nothing that looked like it could be repaired. So, lesson learned. I'm saving up for a Roomba. Dec. 2019 update. For the last month or so my beloved Dee has been stopping for no apparent reason. I keep this VERY clean. I empty the bin and clean the filters daily. I purchased extra filters so I can change them out and wash them. I also remove any fibers or hair that become entangled around the brushes. For the first 15-20 minuets it stops and beeps like it is caught on something, but it's not. After that it runs fine. I have to say I am very disappointed. It ran so well for the first 6 months. I have been using my Deebot for a few weeks now and I could not be happier! I read many reviews before purchasing and I believe I had realistic expectations of what this little machine could and could not do. This is the low end of the robot vacuum spectrum. It does not do room mapping. I think some of the negative reviews expected too much and should have bought a more sophisticated machine. I just wanted something to vacuum my hard floors all on 1 level, no stairs. I was a little bit concerned that my very dark floors would be a problem. But Dee has done well. My area rugs are also dark so it does not see a contrast there. Sometimes it gets on to the area rugs and sometimes it does not. But that's okay with me. I just want the dust and cat hair that float around the floors gone and it does a fantastic job. I do the rugs with a more powerful vacuum. About once a week I get into the areas that Dee can not. That was my plan. But now that Dee is sucking up all that dust and cat hair every day there is much less in the areas that are blocked off from it. As a bonus it gets under my china cabinet. I've been battling some very persistent spicers for years and Dee has been victorious! He gets the crumbs under the toe kick area of my kitchen cabinets, another constant battle. He also fits under my sofa and loveseat. My other vacuums do not. I had to move the furniture to get under those. If I want him to get under my curtains I tuck them up under the blinds that day. If not he cleans around them. Yes he bumps into things. This is how he finds his way around. He is suppose to do that. He has not damaged anything, even my newly painted white baseboards. His bumper works well. Often as he approaches a wall he detects it and turns around. I guess the contrast of my dark floors and white baseboards and light beige curtains are what lets him detect them. Although he has several settings I set a time so each day he does his work then finds his way back home. Yes, he sometimes gets stuck on something, but not often. I close doors to bedrooms and bathrooms. I just want my living, dining and kitchen floors done. He is more quiet than any of my other vacuums, yes I have a few. But it's a vacuum. It's not silent. I'll try to post a video soon. After using Dee for a few days I got out my cordless Hoover and vacuumed as usual. I bought the Hoover just for the hard floors when I had less of them. It has a great light on the front that shows dust I can not otherwise see. I was shocked at how clean my floors were. Dee is my hero. That Hoover is a rock star too, but that's another story. I still have to push it around which makes Dee my new best friend. These photos show Dee parked in my dining room, recharging after a hard day's work, how dark my floors are, and some areas he does not fit into. I did not expect him to morph into a 2" machine and vacuum around my tchotchkes. Guess I'm just nice that way. When company is coming I put him in the laundry room. I'm fine with his home in my dining room. It's very much out of the way and mostly unseen unless we are having company. I could ramble on even longer but I hope you get the idea. If you want room mapping and auto emptying buy a more expensive model. If you just don't want to have to vacuum your floors everyday hire Dee. He's worth every penny. Oh, he comes with his own remote control and you can download an app for your smartphone. I have enough apps on my phone. With this remote I see no reason to get the app. Or maybe I'm missing some added features with the app? I don't know. Happy less vacuuming everyone!

Tried to do research on vacuum/mop robots but they're mostly tied in categories. So I picked my criteria of good mapping, good obstacle management, and good mopping. That narrowed it down to just two for me and I just picked the T8. I chose not to get the T8 AIVI with the camera as I don't care to have a photographic map of my house available. It's bad enough there's a digital map but if you want mapping vs random, you have to allow it. So this little machine completely exceeded my expectations. First with the mapping. It mapped our whole 3000 foot house very precisely (less one room we blocked off) and managed to shockingly vacuum the entire house on one charge the first time. Our house is all hardwood tile with rugs. It crawls right onto the rugs, turns up the vacuum, and then back down to the hard floor and turns down the vacuum. The second time it ran out of juice before it was finished and I had to carry it back. Since then there was a firmware upgrade and it usually finishes the whole house and gets back to it's charging station on one charge. Once it wasn't quite done and it announced it was heading back to charge. Impressive. Mopping was trial and error. It remapped the house for mopping, carefully avoiding any rugs. The problem is some of the rugs don't leave enough hard floor for the robot to get through so it avoids those areas. I flipped up the corners of the rugs to give it room to pass and it works fine . Remember, it's not really "mopping", it's dragging a wet pad along the floor. The pad coverage was OK, but I decided to run up the water to max and it's much better. Pad wet trail behind the T8 is still about 75% the width of the pad. I keep an eye on it, and when the water tank gets low, I pause the robot, refill the tank, clean the pad, and let it keep going. This vastly improved performance. I haven't used the app to tell it to re-do specific areas yet, but I will experiment with that in the future. I may consider purchasing the shaker mop, but for the time being, I vacuum one day, mop the next, then one day off, so the floors are actually staying pretty clean. The T8 works its away around all our chair legs very nicely, and it only got stuck once, behind a curtain. I'm not sure why it didn't avoid the curtain, but this is very good performance in my opinion. We have a small dog and I read that if your dog has an pooping accident, robots won't stop and go around, instead smearing the accident as it goes. So we ran a test with a small Baby Ruth bar (hat's off to Caddyshack) and the T8 ran into it and kept going. Bad news if your "accident" is real. Perhaps the AIVI version with the camera and AI would recognize it and go around, but I just don't want a camera. All in all I'm pretty impressed. I vacuumed the house before we let it run loose the first time and the bin still filled completely up (the T8 runs under our beds!). When we ran it the second day it filled up again so I assume it got so full the first day it couldn't take any more debris. Now I pause and check it after an hour. It vacuums as it mops too and it's still picking up residual dust and hair. I won't be getting the tower that cleans the bin. I think it's too tall and I'm placing the T8 under a shelving unit to keep it out of the way when it's not in use. If I feel the mopping isn't working well with the high water setting and moping every third day, I'll consider the shaker. But I gotta say, I'm amazed at how well this worked out.

I've only had this unit for less than a week but I'm really loving it (it's name isn't Brad but Tobor for you SiFi move fans). I got it on sale for $199, hard to turn down considering I had major want bumps for the Dyson robot Vac which I don't even know is available in the US but at over $1000, considering I could buy five of these units, want bumps over. I do own two Dyson's; a Ball and the DC35. Both will still be used but less so thanks to this product. Setup was very easy in terms of the hardware and the iPhone application. The first time I tried this vac, I hadn't done a vacuuming with the Dyson for about 2 days. Note that our home is just under 2500 square feet, all tile with a number of low shag throw rugs. I charged the unit over night and let it go in auto mode. It moved all over the house in some random course and I let it run until the little guy ran out of battery. That was over 2 hours. I've enclosed a photo of the dust found; the unit was filled! Easy to clean up and I was pretty happy overall with the job done. But I don't believe the little guy covered every area of the house and I don't know it is fair to expect one unit to do so. Next I tried a different approah. Set the unit in Auto but shut some doors so it is forced to work in a room or two. For example, the master bedroom has a hallway leading to the master bath. On either side of this hallway is a walk in closet and the toilet area. All in all, I suspect 250 or so square feet. I closed the door leading to the rest of the house, set it on auto and gave it an hour to run. This was 2 days after the major house vac with the Dyson Ball. This worked VERY well and the unit was nearly full. Still having batery left (you can see how much on the iPhone app), I placed it into the Kitchen area and again closed off doors so the unit would only vac there and the 'breakfast nook' area. Did a great job there too. So I think this approach of 'spot cleaning' one or two rooms rather than hoping to do the entire house is a good one. I also am amazed how much the unit picked up after only 2 days from using the Dyson Ball. Fact is, the robot can get into areas the Dyson can't and to some degree, vise versa. I don't expect to use this product 100% instead of the other units but I think several times a week, I may set it loose in a room or two and then do a full on Vac with the Dyson Ball once a week after dusting/cleaning. I suffer from allergies and have three dogs so it isn't difficult to see how much each vacuums picks up after only a few days. After I ran the first test mentioned above (whole house on Auto), I used the Dyson Ball the next day after dusting and was surprised to see how little was picked up but then it was only a mater of maybe 12 hours between the two. Tobar has had only two, minor issues getting stuck. One was on a towel on the floor I didn't see. One of the dogs must have knocked it down. It beeped and it was easy to remove the towel. The unit is surprisingly quiet for a vac, the three dogs don't mind it at all. The new puppy (5 months) is fascinated with it. One time it found the puppy's 'pee-pee' pad I forgot to pick up. Again easy to remove and Tobar went off to finish it's job. No issues with carpets and some do have tassels. Does a very good job on carpet; you can see a pattern expected after a vac. Only minor 'issue' as some have reported, is having the unit find it's way home to charging base. Easy enough to pick up and park it for a charge. And now that I'm moving it manually to zoned off rooms, I have to pick it up and place it where I wish anyway. I either let it do the job until it runs out of battery or pick it up and return to home base. Two photo's; one after it's first use (two days after using Dyson Ball); loaded with dirt. 2nd is about 12 hours after using Dyson; not full but still a lot of dust and gunk picked up. Overall I couldn't be happier at this point with the product!

OK, count me in as impressed with this Deebot N79s. Only had this thing about 10 days and it works great. I did my homework first to make sure this Deebot N79s would work in the house. Read it was 3.1 inches high so I measured my two couches and they were both at 2 inches. Ordered 2 sets of 2 inch risers and now they sit at 4 inches. My coffee table sits on a low pile carpet and was only about 3 inches. Quick trip to the store to buy a set of square rubber carpet pads and solves that table problem. Wrapping the cords up so they were not on the floor to solve the problem of getting caught in the brush, done. Now I buy the Deebot N79s for only $159 on Amazon during Prime days. Arrives and set it up just fine. Being a retired computer engineer and knowing the instructions said the unit works on the 2.4G SSID band only, I test it trying to connect it up with my iPhone connected to my 5G band. And yes, it did not work as expected. So I now switch the iPhone to the 2.4G band and it connects right up and works perfect. Now I can go back to my iPhone and switch back the 5G band and it works just fine, as expected. Yeah, it cleans great just like everyone says. We have 3 short hair cats and really never vacuum the entire place. All hardwood floors except for the 2 low pile rugs a 2’x3’ small and the coffee table one, about 3’x 6’. Both these rugs had fringe on them. I simply cut the fringe off of both. They actually look better and the fringe doesn’t trap the dirt anymore. We are running this every day and the dust bin is full, we can’t believe it. So after the 5th day I break out the Swiffer Wet Jet and I wet jet the entire wood floor under everything and all corners. “OK” I say to myself, now let’s see what it picks up. After the run, the dust bin is full again! So now I vacuum the two rugs with our upright vacuum and hardly get anything in its bin. Fire up the Deebot and again the dust bin is full! Where the heck is all this stuff coming from? It fits under all the furniture and coffee table as they were raised a bit. It just barely got stuck for the first time under one section of the kitchen cabinets. This section must have been 3 inches high from the floor ;-). A simple strip of soft ½ inch self adhesive foam insulation tape stuck under the section solves that problem and you can’t even see it. Now if the unit hits that spot again it will hit the foam tape and back away. Simple fix. All I do is pick up the garbage can from the floor, move the high kitchen chairs out from the island and fire up auto mode. It goes around the island fine, through the kitchen chairs and even the dining room chairs. I would suggest you run the bot around via the remote to all places you think is may get stuck at. Now you can fix those areas so is does not happen. The app on the phone works well and you can set different times of the day for each day of the week. Although it only runs AUTO mode, I wish I could schedule EDGE mode for at least one day a week. The charging station is against the wall. I have one foot clearance on each side and two foot clearance in the front as the IR shoots though the end of the dining room table with chairs. It has always made it back home with no issue. I bought 6 extra filters, 6 extra brushes and brush roller for about $24. The brushes came all bent out of shape but dipping them in hot water for about 4.2 second straightens them out just perfect. This will probably work for brushes that are all bent out of shape from use but still in good shape. Update: This unit works so good I just bought a 2nd one for the upstairs for only $80! $30 off coupon and used my Discover points!

It works great, at least cleaning-wise, yet I had an issue with the accessories tray that won't open and had to return the whole behemoth for revision. They sent me the return label but yet, putting this thing back into the box is a chore. Now, the app is very complex and setting up the vacuum takes some time and a lot of patience. It has a logic, but you'll have to find it: it is not a straightforward process if you want it to do specific things, like, vacuuming on Mondays and moping on Tuesday... You can alway let the AI to choose whatever it think it should do but I'd rather have the robot going around when I decide and not when it does. In shorter words: it is a project, you need to constantly take some level of care with it (it gets disoriented every once in a while, it decides not to mop, so I have had to send it back to the station and start over the process...) the hand held vacuum is powerful and easy to use, and the fact it will empty itself into the base station was the main reason for me to choose this particular model. So in resume, it is a complex not very dependable machine, but it does everything very well, when operating normally. I compare it to a nice old classic car: you take care of it and it may concede you a few weekends of fun. (not guaranteed, though). Buy at your own expense and enjoy the ride.

One of the best purchases for the house, if not the only one, lol. This robot vacuum has been the best. When I got pregnant, my husband started looking for vacuums that would help make life easier while cleaning the house and found this one after a good research. I think we've had it for a year, and it's been a lifesaver and a life-changer. It cleans very well, is easy to clean, all its parts have lasted quite a while, and you can find generic replacement parts for cheaper, and they work perfectly. The app to put it to work is super easy to use and smart, the first day the vacuum will scan all your house and then divide them into rooms according to what it reads, but you can go later to edit how you want it to be divided, you can choose which vacuum or mop, or both, choose the levels from minimum to maximum cleaning, I super recommend it.