| iRobot Roomba 560 Vacuum Cleaning Robot | 
| Brand: iRobot
Category: Kitchen
Buy New: £201.99 (On sale from £269.99)
New (5) from £201.99
Rating:  27 reviews
Shipping Weight (lbs): 8.8
Dimensions (in): 20.1 x 17.3 x 5.5
Fastest counter-rotating brushes with improved design pick up more hair, debris and dust and are easy to remove and clean
Advanced filter captures more dust and allergens and holds more debris than other models
New anti-tangle technology keeps Roomba from getting stuck on cords, carpet fringe and tassels
Advanced side brush makes Roomba even more efficient at cleaning edges and corners
Battery charges from flat to full in 3 hours
Brushes spin at up to 1650 RPM
Cleans under furniture as well as the usual visible areas
MPN: DVU00029
Model: DVU00029
EAN: 5060155400037
ASIN: B0013FEND6
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Powerful vacuum and rotating brushes | | • | Automatically adjusts from carpets to hard floors | | • | Autonomously navigates through rooms | | • | Returns to Home Base and shedules cleaning automatically throughout the week! | | • | Cleans under and around furniture, corners, along walls |
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Product Description
As a member of our latest generation of robots, the iRobot Roomba 560 Vacuum Cleaning Robot features iRobot's newest innovations for dramatically improved performance, reliability and durability. Schedule up to seven different cleaning times per week for Roomba to clean when it's most convenient for you - whether you're at home or on the go. Roomba systematically cleans four rooms on a single charge, gets into hard-to-reach areas like wall edges and beneath furniture, avoids stairs and other drop offs and automatically adjusts from carpets to hard floors and back again. Two Virtual Wall Lighthouses confine Roomba to a room until the entire floor is vacuumed before it moves on to clean the next room. When the job is done, or when the battery is running low, Roomba automatically returns to its self-charging Home Base to dock and recharge. Whats in the box ? 1 iRobot Roomba 560 2 Virtual Walls/ Lighthouse units 1 Self-charging Home Base / Docking station 1 Power Supply (3 hour charge time) 1 Brush Cleaning Tool 1 Rechargeable Battery 1 Extra Filter
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| Customer Reviews:
 There's no going back! March 29, 2008
S. Franklin (London (UK))
36 out of 36 found this review helpful
I don't know how we managed before Roomba. It's the best thing I have ever bought! Ok it's a little more expensive than a traditionl vacuum cleaner but it does it all for you, so lots of extra free time and no arguing about whose turn it is to do the vacuuming - and a lot cheaper than employing a cleaner. I was afraid it wouldn't work that well, my husband thought I was completely bonkers buying it. But we were both very impressed and love it. I schedule it to vacuum while we'e at work and come home to a beautifuuly vacuumed home. If you live in a house rather than a flat, you can clean the ground floor on Mon, second floor on Tues... You can schedule it all in advance, and let Roomba do everything else for you - it knows where to go, it doesn't bump into furniture, it cleans brilliantly and redocks itself to recharge when it has finished. It's amazing. I have been raving about it to friends and colleagues since buying it 4 months ago.
I would defnitely recommend it, and frequently do...!
Best home electrical item purchased to date May 2, 2008
Mr. Paul Dingley (Nottingham, England)
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
Someone said they don't know how they managed before buying the Roomba - I do - I tried to avoid vacuuming as much as possible - but with the Roomba 560 it couldn't be easier. Simply press the large green 'Clean' button and let it get on with it. Alternatively, setup the schedule and you don't even have to lift a finger to press the button.
Roomba trundles around merrily cleaning away, and when finished returns to the charging unit and docks itself.
I gave it a supervised trial run in each area I planned to use it - lounge, hall, top of the stairs etc to make sure it didn't get stuck anywhere or tumble down the stairs, but so far it's coped with carpets, hardwood floors, quarry-tiled floors all without complaint.
The soft-approach system is excellent, though doesn't pickup small vertical things like table legs too well, so it tends to charge full-tilt into them at times, but when it does the front bumpers compress, and the Roomba simply stops, turns and goes off in another direction.
In some areas, particularly narrow gaps between furniture I was convinced it would be confused - but it coped with everything in its stride, only once getting stuck on a footstool with a circular slightly raised base - but lifting it off and pressing the clean button had it back in motion again.
The small spinning brush is surprisingly effective at getting into corners, and the Roomba does a very good job of picking up general dust, crumbs, sawdust, wood shavings, pet hairs, Parrot feathers and anything of a similar ilk. It also happily trundles over electrical cables without getting stuck, and unlike the Dyson, doesn't get jammed up on doormats or rugs.
It won't replace a conventional vacuum, but does mean that the Dyson is now relegated to all but the areas that need an extension tool to get to, like the stairs or behind tall cupboards.
In fact, will almost certainly buy a second soon, so that one can clean upstairs and one downstairs - then I can simply set the schedule and forget having to vacuum the main areas of the house again.
 i roomba 560 August 6, 2008
P. D. Alexander (London)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
I purchased this robotic cleaner not entirely convinced it would do the job. The technology is amazing with obstacle avoidance, stairs etc. I don't think the vacuum capability is much good and it does get stuck on carpet edges and fringes on occasion. It also seems to shed quite a lot of fluff and dirt from its rollers when it changes surface from floor to rug. Overall it is a good product but does not replace a conventional vacuum cleaner.
I can't believe it's not butler ... May 11, 2008
Andrew Mowat (Lincolnshire, UK)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Every previous reviewer had given this 5 stars, and I wondered why? But this is just the best purchase I've ever made ...
When you're both out at work all day, and work weekends too, vacuuming is the last thing you want to be doing. This new member of our family is pulling his/her weight ten times over. Does exactly what it's supposed to, with no fuss.
You may wish to order a couple of extra satellites - the units you can set as walls or beacons, to shepherd little Roomba round the house - depending on how many rooms you want it to clean. We found it's a curious little creature - it can push doors open and explore on its own - so virtual walls [satellites] are useful. The bin capacity is fine for a single cycle of cleaning. It seems to do hard floors just as well as carpets. A word of caution for long-haired people and dog owners - the brushes will tangle within about 60 minutes of cleaning, but probably only with the first few uses, and then no more often than with our manual vacuum.
I can't imagine any of the more costly robot vacuums would be any better than this. At best it's made cleaning fun: at worst, I've turned into a compulsive robot programmer, and will shortly be checking into rehab.
It is a robot and it still works! March 30, 2008
M. Adamou (UK)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Ok we all are a bit suspicious of fancy technology. I bought this as a gadget and was surprise to find it really...works. If you have a back problem, don't despair. Just press the clean button and Roomba will do the rest. If spends about 35 minutes cleaning a room (a lot more than I would) and goes round corners, under furniture and places that I would happily miss when I clean a room. Cleaning it can be a bit messy since you have to disassemble the bottom of it if hairs are caught so maybe not very good for dog lovers.It is an excellent talking point as well although most of my friends think its another one of my useless gadgets. Their loss...
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