iRobot Roomba 960 Robot Vacuum Cleaner, WiFi Connected and Programmable via App, Silve
R960 – Advanced technology for impressive cleaning results
The Roomba 960 robot vacuum uses 5X the air power* for a deeper clean. It seamlessly navigates an entire level of your home, keeping track of its location and recharging as needed until the job is done. With the iRobot HOME App you can clean and schedule on the go.
Lifts it up, suctions it away, filters it clean.
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30 expertise and continuous innovation
With 30 years of robotic expertise and continuous innovation, iRobot has optimized our Roomba’s
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Cleans around your home, and your life
The 960 doesn’t rest until your floors are clean. With cutting-edge and vSLAM navigation.
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Small dust? Large debris? No problem.
Experience a comprehensive clean with Dual Multi-Surface Rubber Brushes and Power-Lifting Suction.
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iRobot Roomba, Your partner for a cleaner home.
Dirt Detect sensors find the dirtiest areas of your home and alert the robot to clean those spots.
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Learns your life. Listens to your voice.
Does it all for you
Your life Your home Your clean
The new iRobot Home App is here. With it, enhanced maps, custom routines, seasonal suggestions, and intuitive smart home integration.
Clean without lifting a finger
Keep doing what you’re doing. Through the iRobot Home app or your Google or Alexa voice assistant, simply tell your robot to clean, and it’s done.
Quality that lasts.
Equipped with advanced hardware capable of providing the intelligent features you love today, and access to our latest advancements in the future
take cleaning off your list.
With Imprint Link Technology, your Roomba robot vacuum and Braava jet m6 robot mop can team up to vacuum then mop in perfect sequence.
R960 Comparison table
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| Weight: | 3.86 kg |
| Dimensions: | 35 x 35 x 9.1 cm; 3.86 Kilograms |
| Brand: | IRobot |
| Model: | Roomba 960 |
| Colour: | Silver |
| Colour: | Silver |
We couldn’t believe the power and performance of our iRobot Romba 360! Absolutely magnificent! We thought that we had clean and well hoovered carpets until we set this machine on them! We certainly recommend this product!
Didnt work as well as we expected
Sent back for refund
I used xiaomi before, it was good but was not enough to clean small pieces. I robot is the best in this industry.
Just wish I’d bought this ages ago. A really great product from Roomba.
This is my second roomba (I had the first one for about 6 years) and for sure this is an upgrade. It does what is supposed to do an management the roomba with the app is si easy and convenient.
Totally worth it.
Thanks
Agus
Forget about your old vacuum cleaner! Only slight issue, if you have a lot of furniture, you need to clear the room before operating it.
Great little machine, what a time saver and just so easy to use.
Haven’t used all the features yet but it is quiet in use and seems thorough.
My roomba is integrated to my home assistant installation, however this is just another way of controlling/scheduling, somewhat more powerful than the default app.
The roomba itself works well, picks up dust, leaves carpet that looks like it has been hoovered. Whilst not as strong as a manual hoover, the benefit is little and often (i.e. daily). It can run when you’re not at home, meaning the house is clean for your return.
It holds a fair amount and once the regular cleaning begins, the bin can hold a few days worth of hoovering.
Wayfinding is good, it rolls towards the top of the stairs at speed, but always stops, it gently bumps in to edges to find the perimeter of its cleaning areas and does a good edge clean with the side brush.
Would recommend.
Absolutely amazing house helper, now I can’t imagine my life without it. Highly recommended.
How did I go this long without one. A self contest gadget freak, this does exactly what’s expected. Good suction, gets up all the cat hair, have mainly hard floors but works well on the rugs too, gets up and down 15mm steps into other rooms no problem, never get the notification to empty but other than that very happy.
100% happy with this – can’t imagine ever having to vacuum again! Floors are always spotless and the scheduling of vacuuming is a brilliant feature
This works really well in a house with 3 kids, 2 dogs and some dark grey carpets. Brilliant!
Just let it run while going out and come back to a clean floor and it parks itself back on the charging statio
Really pleased with this. I have two dogs I use it three times a day. It picks all the hair up. You do need to clean it to keep it in good use.
A must have with dogs. I also have a shark for corners.
Great for carpet, and hard floor, highly recommend. Eventually it is not able to find the home base and run out of battery in the middle of the room, and ask you to put roomba back to the charging area, but that is the only thing and it just happens sometimes , otherwise really happy with this item. Clean well, it hoovers all the surface.
My roomba is my new best friend. We have 2 cats and doors that lead almost straight into the living room so we get a lot of dirt and dust coming in. Roberta just does her thing daily without quibble and the floors have never been cleaner. Got an issue with the app but I’ve not really tried to sort that out yet. Its probably a WiFi thing.
Cleans vv well,but seems to go over the same places again and again even if you only have one pass on your settings
To be honest I was a bit skeptical the Roomba would be able to deal with the cat hair in the rugs. I have been pleasantly surprised at how much it picks up. After doing the equivalent of toddler proofing the floors (fairy light wires etc) it has coped exceedingly well. An unexpected bonus is the box has become the go to space for one of our cats.
It works so well and so nice to see the job report when its finish.
I am so impressed with this hoover (R971). I was skeptical but thought I would give it a go as we have a busy house a small child and a house rabbit. Both working full time means we don’t have time to hoover every day so I brought this with the intention of using an upright vacuum once a week and this to do a daily hoover.
Set up was very straight forward and I managed to link it to alexa without any issues. The hoover was gentle as it went around the house, nudging into things gently to learn boundaries. The clean was good, around the edge of rugs it struggled but thats fair enough as I would normally lift the rugs myself and that is beyond the capability of this hoover. Is it as good as an upright……no not quite but it does a very good job, its not too noisy, a bit more noisy on hard floor than carpet but thats to be expected.
I was very impressed with how it found its way around the house and didn’t get stuck, it also found its way back to its docking station with no issues at all.
Overall an excellent hoover and I wouldn’t hesitate to purchase one again!
I treated myself to an upgrade. As the old roomba was probably one of the first. It still works so it has retired upstairs where there is less to cope with.
The upgrade:
I am impressed. The new rubber brushes seem to work really well on our luxury clock vinyl. It also copes well with tiles and door mats (internal)
The set up was easy enough and an app guides you trough well. To integrate alexa you need to do it from alexa app. I have not yet tested it tho.
It has a camera which then produces a map of hoovered places.
Only think I wish it had was a handle like the old one. That comes handy when they grow old and battery doesn’t last long enough for it to return home. I am hoping replacing spare parts will be as easy as the old one which we replaced few parts to keep it 6 years.
We use ours daily as we have a dog, so we knew already that they are worth their money.
Oh another thing, this one is much quieter so thats most definitely another thumbs
As our dog gets taken out with a dogwalker i always come home to messy floor, so the fact i was able to schedule cleans while I am at work is great!
From the 1st roomba we know that their after sales support is great. They were very helpful when things went wrong with the first one, so I have purchased the upgrade with confidence.
I thought I had a clean floor – until this robot started moving around every day. It is easy to setup, keeps a tiled floor perfectly clean with a daily run! I used to use a sweeping brush – wish I had bought one before now.
It works well in carpet and wooden floor
The only perk is the battery which does not seem to last 75 mins as per the advert
Otherwise it would be a 5/5
I don’t have to worry now about hoovering. it goes every corner to clean too, can set this up to clean when I am not in. too, so I am not in the way of it. I am sure it don’t like me around while cleaning… Lol!
we had this since February and it really makes your life easier. Cleans well and saves you so much time and hassle. We recommend it. Very good price, too. On the negative side, it sometimes gets stuck on things he is convinced it can mount and you have to manually free him. It will also try to suck wires. A couple of tweaks to the house furniture and no more issues. one thing I wish it had is the ability to get him to finish a room before going to the next. It just goes around the house doing a bit here and a bit there until all it’s done. But for the price, it’s great.
Two weeks in and far beyond our expectations, what a contribution to time saving and frequently of cleaning. Wonderful.
I managed to get this on an Amazon deal and that made it fantastic value. This is a great machine for everyday general clean, but is not for deep cleaning (No robot machines are) We have a dog and it does help keep pet hair under control, but we still need to do a proper vacuum at least once a week. The app is good and the mapping is clever, but not that useful. The bin fills up quickly, so would probably go for the new bin emptying version in the future. Overall a great machine for everyday use, especially on hard floors. Ok on carpet but not for a deep clean.
Roomba cleans my whole flat while I can get on with other things. Very effective on hard floors & rugs, all I have to do is press the app on my phone & off it goes. Easy to clean as well, this product is well worth the price. I love my Roomba !
does a good job for
daily clean but can skimp corners and edges and small spaces. – works well if cleaned weekly. has habit of lockingg itself
in rooms. – software is ok but not up
to more expensive 980 model
From a hardware component standpoint, this is straightforward:
It has a charging station, with a standard UK plug. You plug the charging station into a socket, and let it sit on the floor. This is the ‘home base’ for the vacuum – where it starts and ends all its vacuuming jobs, and where it charges between jobs.
It has the vacuum itself, a discus-shaped critter, which is quite wide, but shallow enough that it got under our sofa. There’s a big “CLEAN” button on top, which you can use to make it start cleaning – or restart cleaning if it aborts during a job for some reason (more on that later). The vacuum also contains a storage area for the debris it collects, which also includes a filter for dealing with smaller particles. Emptying the storage is quite simple – it can be removed from the vacuum unit and emptied, without having to pack the entire vacuum over to the bin.
The rotors also deserve a mention. They’re rubberised and textured, presumably to allow for picking up drt from carpet. They’re also very easy to remove, courtesy of a small switch, which is very helpful if they get stuck on something, or if you’ve, say, picked up quite a lot of cat hair and they need cleaning. Access to the bin and the rotors makes maintenance easy, points to the company’s engineers on that one.
Alongside the hardware is some software. Everything has an app these days, why not your vacuum? And the app..well, it’s not bad. I’m not sure if the features available differ depending on the model of vacuum you have, but this one was streamlined and efficient. It lets you check the history of cleaning jobs (i.e. how much dirt the vacuum has sucked up, and whether the job passed or failed). It lets you schedule jobs (so that it, say, runs in the middle fo the day when you’re out, rather than in the middle of the night). And it has a big ‘Clean’ button too, letting you start a cleaning job from your phone, tablet, or wherever you have the app installed. That means no having to go to the charging point to get the vacuum going, it means being able to start a job remotely – so you can be at the shops and come home to a clean house, or be making a cup of tea on a Sunday morning and let the vacuum clean while you do something more interesting.
From a cleaning perspective, it’s decent with a few issues. It copes well with shallow pile carpets and hard floors, and managed to traverse a deep pile rug without getting clogged, which is a positive. It also picks up hair (as promised!) and other debris, and the house certainly feels cleaner.
But it also feels designed as a device you run daily, rather than weekly, because of the pathfinding. Let me explain: When you kick off a job, the robot vacuum zooms off its charging station, vacuuming away. Eventually, it bumps into something. Then it tries to navigate around it. If it can’t, it either edges along it (which is great for cleaning the borders of, say, kitchen cupboards), or zooms off in another direction. This is all fine, and the design of the bumpers on the vacuum means that although it knocks into things, it doesn’t damage itself or your furniture. But it also means that when a job finishes, you can’t be sure that every spot in every room has been seen by the vacuum. If you run it every week, this might be noticeable. If you run it every day, then the bits it missed on day one, it’ll pick up on days two or three, and you’ll end up with a cleaner house overall. It’s a bit of a mindshift though, and something to bear in mind. It feels designed to do small, daily jobs, rather than weekly cleans.
On the other hand, you can let it run while you’re out or doing something else, so running it daily isn’t much ofa hardship.
That said, it does have some issues. Sometimes the pathfinding isn’t perfect, and the vacuum gets ‘lost’ on its way back to base, eventually running out of battery (resulting in a rather mournful message sent to the app!). Sometimesit climbs into a pile of paper you forgot you put on the floor, and scatters them all over the place. Sometimes it runs into that pile of cords you’ve got plugged into a four-way extension in the bedroom, and winds them all up inside itself, necessitating taking the rollers off and detangling everything. This is a vacuum which is not a fan of your clutter. T
In its defence, it does also come with a ‘virtual wall’ which you can set up to stop the vacuum going into certain areas (say “My enormous pile of cords and junk”), but that’s yet another thing to charge/keep an eye on; it works, but it’s a shame its necessary at all.
And although it copes well with stairs – we watched with trepidation when it got near the top of ours the first few times, but it’s never fallen! – it doesn’t climb them, so if you’ve got a multilevel home you want cleaning, you’ll either need two vacuums, or to carry it between floors. And you’ll have to clean your stairs yourself (the horror!).
All in all though, these are very minor complaints. This device has been an absolute revolution in our house. We can run it during the day, each day, and come home to a clean set of floors. I may never have to vacuum again – and that, alone, makes this easily worth the price.
It was very easy to set up and it gets on with the job well. I love watching it as it has its own logic of how it maps out a room and then covers the space to hoover.
The job it does is efficient and picks up all the cat hair my cat shreds everywhere and it has fast become a product I use every few days.
I am not using it with an app of linked to Alexa because I’ve seen Terminator and what happens when the machines rise up
How much fun can you have with a vacuum cleaner? Lots with a Roomba!! To get the most out of a Roomba does require a little effort initially but once you have it sorted it can work really well. It’ll never completely replace the need for another vacuum (it can’t do stairs or small nooks or crannies) but it can take the bulk of the work out of vacuuming.
Before the Roomba starts, move all the things off the floor that you can. For example in our living room I move the cat scratching post and the small tables off the floor and onto the sofa/chairs so that as much as the floor is clear. Move any cables out of the way too.
Our living room is hard floor with a large rug. The Roomba copes really well with the different flooring and the difference in height from the wood floor onto the rug.
The invisible wall gadget is incredibly useful too. It can be set to act as a wall or a ‘halo’ semi-circle. We use the wall to stop it trying to get under the wardrobes in the bedroom (it gets under and then gets stuck half-way if the invisible wall isn’t there), and we use the semi-circle to stop it trying to vacuum the cat food bowls in the kitchen.
It methodically cleans and if it encounters any problems it sends your phone an alert! So when it was getting stuck under the wardrobes I would get an alert so I could go an rescue it, put up the invisible wall and let it carry on. It goes backwards and forwards in different directions until the whole space is done or it runs out of power (90 minutes). It’s really pretty effective and the floor is well cleaned at the end of the session.
It also works with Alexa and you can set it off cleaning with voice commands.
I’m really pleased with it and I’m getting a lot of use out of it, but I still need my other vacuum to do the stairs and get in small spaces. If you have a lot of clutter then you will need to spend time clearing the space to optimise the Roomba’s functioning.
I wouldn’t be able to justify buying one myself, but it is brilliant and no doubt worth the money if you can afford one. It is impressive.
Suprisingly intuitive, efficient and quiet! It follows a thorough and sensible path around the room and genuinely picked up things I didn’t think it would be able to. It’s easy to empty out too. I found it easy to use from the start and I can’t believe how quiet it is.
Straight out of the box it recommends a three hour charge but it has enough power to let you link to the phone app and set everything up and I have to say it was very easy to do .I downloaded the app from the google store linked the roomba following the instructions in the app and then a short wait until full charge was reached which it did quicker than three hours.Open the app press clean,the roomba worked at a seemingly random pattern but it moves over the areas to be cleaned several times before it gets everthing so don’t panick if it doesn’t grab the mess first time .
The little brushes on the side sweep bigger particles into the rubber central sweeper very effectively and if the unit touches a particularly dirty spot it will spot clean the area staying in place and spinning until its work is done.
When anything is wrong with roomba it tells you on the app and all the peripherals can be replaced although the unit comes with a set of two filters and instructions of the maintenance regime. I have had no problems getting the unit to go home after cleaning when using the app its one button and when using the buttons on the top of it you press two buttons. The small battery operated unit that protects an area or gives a do not cross line works very well but place it about 6 inches back from the edge you need cleaned as it seems to engage in the edge of the unit.
The front panel has a soft bumper which when it touches an object depresses and the unit turns.
You will of course have to make sure there are no wires or loose objects in the area before you set this little guy to work but my long hair which tangles around the brushes of my big hoover dont even bother these rollers and as it rolls over the edges of my rug onto the laminate floor and back it has never stopped got stuck or stopped cleaning ,if it gets into tight spaces like under chairs it always found its way out.
The scheduling of the unit can be done once a day but at present my app only gives the choice of 9am so I probably wouldn’t use that feature
Trouble is it’s not at present a time saver as I’m standing there watching the thing clean,the dog ignores it though so thats a good thing.
It’s now the daily cleaner and so much quieter than my big upright.
Once charged, you can either use the iRobot app to set Roomba cleaning or you can simply press the CLEAN button on top of the robot. To pause or return home you can also use the app or press the buttons on top – whichever you prefer.
I have been incredibly impressed with Roomba’s cleaning ability. It seems to be very thorough and has some really impressive cleaning power – picking up a half-full bin of dust and hair from a carpet that had been cleaned with a Dyson just the day before! Roomba is just under 8cm tall so will squeeze under anything higher than that, meaning it can get into places that are tricky to clean on a regular basis with a regular vacuum, such as under our stairs and under the settees. I love it just for that! This Roomba comes with a Virtual Wall barrier – a very neat little block that, when switched on, emits a virtual wall that Roomba won’t cross. It can be set to either emit a straight line wall or a semicircle so can block off doorways or areas that you don’t want Roomba straying into. This is a very clever and useful feature. You should be able to see from the video that Roomba slows down before touching obstacles and so if your foot or some other object gets in the way, Roomba will slow down before gently touching and then setting off in another direction.
Roomba’s battery seems to last very well – it cleans for ages before having to charge. It also tackles edges very well. As you may be able to see at the start of the video that I uploaded, when it is cleaning along an edge it will even follow that edge around corners – unfortunately in my video it then encounters an obstacle, (the radiator valve), that interrupts the edge clean. It seems to be a very robust little robot that handles pretty much anything that it encounters in the rooms. The one thing that we’ve found that has flummoxed it on occasion has been our dining chairs which have long, low bits on the floor (see picture). Roomba has, on occasion, got stuck on these legs and needed rescuing, (it sends a distress call via the app!). I spoke to iRobot technical support about this issue as I figured I’d need to buy a few Virtual Walls in order to successfully block off all the chairs around our round table and wondered if there was any other way around this. I was impressed with the iRobot technical support – they were very responsive, took their time to understand the issue and tried their best to come up with solutions but, ultimately, this is a problem that isn’t easily solved if I want to leave the chairs in their usual positions. Therefore, I am now quickly moving the chairs into one area and excluding that area with the Virtual Wall – a little bit of a pain BUT I have to move the chairs when manually vacuuming anyway so it’s no more hassle than usual. If you have regular dining chairs then Roomba should cope admirably and should be able to hoover around them without problems.
The charging station needs to be left plugged in and in an area with consistent WiFi coverage to allow Roomba to receive info from the iRobot app. However, it is also possible to pick Roomba up and taking it to other rooms such as ones upstairs, where I leave it to clean for a while before manually returning it to the charging station. The edge sensor works really well – Roomba cleans the landing upstairs and never looks likely to fall down the stairs. I watched it for the first few times and wondered if I needed to use the Virtual Wall but no, it confidently detects the edge and sets off in another direction.
Emptying the bin on Roomba couldn’t be easier. There is a button on the side that you push and then the bin slots out and another press of a button opens a door on the bin allowing the dust to be emptied. It is recommended that you clean the filter once or twice a week by removing it and tapping it to clean but it is so easy to do, (it is incorporated into the bin section), that I tend to give it a quick tap every time I empty the dust.
Overall I am incredibly impressed with this little robot. The ease of use, the cleaning power and the fact that it can get into difficult areas means that I would now be lost without it. It definitely saves me a lot of time. Now, if it could only do the stairs for me… 🙂