iRobot Roomba j9+ Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum - Ruby Bronze

The iRobot Roomba j9+ Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum is a sophisticated smart vacuum that cleans and empties itself as it connects back to its charging station that contains a bag to receive the dirt from the cleaning round. Being a smart vacuum, the Roomba needs a wi-fi connection and the iRobot app to operate. And this is where my biggest frustration lies. It would not connect to my phone as much as I tried. I own 2 premium Android phones running on the latest Android 14 and the vacuum would not work with any of them. In the end, I had to borrow an iPhone which quickly established the connection and after doing the set-up, it then connected to my Android phone. Once connected, the set-up was easy and fairly simple. The vacuum charges quickly in its charging station. It looks like a typical Roomba, completely rounded with a camera and a light in the front with sweeping brushes on the right front and a pair of rubber brushes at the bottom. For the first cleaning round, it mapped the entire house as it cleaned. In the end, it produced a virtual map of the area that you can customize and set boundaries within the app. My house is a medium to small house that is a bit cluttered; the Roomba did a great job at mapping accessible areas and avoiding the many obstacles. It felt at ease on the ceramic floor and on the areas with carpet. Performance-wise, I give it a B+. The vacuum makes noise but not loud enough to be an annoyance. Compared to a traditional vacuum, it doesn’t clean as well, especially in the corners and in areas where it cannot fit. In a few instances while mapping the house in the beginning, it would hit the boundaries a bit hard which made me wonder about its long term longevity. The first cleanup for the entire house was done in about 40 minutes. Since the mapping of the house was done, it shaved about 5 minutes. I tried to end the cleanup early and it does a great job at finding and docking to its charging station. It’s also simple to schedule regular cleanup from the app. The iRobot Roomba j9+ is a good performer in the smart vacuum arena. The additional option of self emptying is a very welcome feature. Beside the initial connectivity issues that hopefully will get resolved soon, I would recommend it to someone looking for a smart vacuum that performs well and is easy to program and use.

While it's very loud, it does a good job and let's you know what is doing as it's doing it. I would say, too that i like the empty itself, but not sure I'll like the price to replace those bags. Those bags appear very sturdy. The vacuum doesn't like to pick up pieces of paper kind of things so know that, but i totally love it

I purchased iRobot Roomba j9+ after my 3 previous roomba all went to trash after sweeping up my dog's poo on the floor. I can tell the suction power is much stronger and it is much smarter to navigate around the floor - old models used to vacuum up our dog pee pad but the new one definitely navigates around the pee pad, leaving it intact on the floor. Self-emptying makes daily roomba routine a breeze without requiring me to constantly monitor the machine. It works beautifully for both hardwood floor as well as wall-to-wall carpeted floor as well. I highly recommend to upgrade and get j9+ model if you have a pet home!

I bought the J9+ after buying and quickly returning Evovac's latest Deebot X2. The X2 was clueless as to where it was going. The Roomba J9+ seems to know exactly where it's going. I was super-impressed that on its very first use, it navigated my 4-room apt almost perfectly. When it got hung up on the corner of a throw rug, it spun to move from a different angle and succeeded. The Deebot was a lost soul that I started to feel sorry for. The iRobot knows what's going on. And I look it forward to really getting to really know the space.

iRobot, J9+ is an amazing robot vacuum. Set up was so easy, there was an update immediately and after that, all set. This robot vacuum is actually smart. I’ve had a few others in the past that seemed to behave erratically, with no rhyme or reason to their cleaning pattern. This J9+ makes sense. The cleaning pattern it mapped out seems logical, and it is incredibly efficient as well as effective. I can’t tell you how surprised and kind of relieved I am to watch it and think that it made sense in the way it was vacuuming. Finally! iRobot gets it! One charge and a few empties cleans the entire downstairs of my home. It does a great job getting everywhere with speedy results. It comes with a couple of extras, like an additional filter and little cleaning brush. It also comes with an additional vacuum bag in the base. Thoughtful gestures that I truly appreciate. That was the one surprise to me, that when it empties it actually goes into a bag, inside the base. Once it’s full I’ll have to remove it, which is easy, it’s just slides and clicks into place, and then put a new bag in. I do appreciate the bag vs just a bin that I empty. It will keep the dust better contained. Overall, iRobot is the one for robotic vacuums. They’ve got it down to a science and I’m happy to have this cleaning my home.

I've been an owner of many robot vacs as well as from many different brands such as Neato, Shark & iRobot and the J9+ is to this point been a quantum leap. It's fun to watch as you see the learning process and how it avoids things like my dogs, power cords, furniture and other items in its path with much more ease than my previous units. The roller brush system stays very clean and its much more efficient than the old brush system. I find it easy to clean and maintain unlike the old units. It maps your home and allows you to draw room boundaries, name your rooms and choose what rooms you are going to clean. I have two Maine Coon cats that shed big time and again the improvement in technology is wonderful. No more hair! The self empty feature is wonderful and it's interesting that when the dirt container in the J9 fills, it scampers back quietly to its base and empties itself. Then amazingly it scampers right back to the spot it was cleaning and resumes finishing the cleaning. Same thing happens if the battery goes low. It scampers back to its dock and you get a message from the app that it is recharging with an estimate as to how long it will be before it resumes cleaning. Because it knows how much cleaning is left, you don't have to wait for a full charge too. I love that after it completes the map of your home shows the obstacles if any, that it encountered. Additionally you get pictures of obstacles and you can let the J9 know if those were temporary obstacles, or whether you want it to avoid that obstacle in the future. It's funny to see pictures of things in its path. I notice that now if it gets in the path of an animal it will stop before hitting them, and turn another direction. It's quiet too. Much quieter than my old robots. My cats pretty much ignore it as it moves along the floor where before they would haul butt into another part of the house. Also noticeable is that it will turn off the vacuum motor when it is traveling to specific rooms or when it is returning to its base. It also seems to have an extremely powerful motor on the base to suck the particles from the robot, the thing sounds like an old school Kirby so just beware because it may scare you the first few times. I am totally pleased soo far!

We already have a much older Roomba in a different floor in the house and also used a different brand. The advancement in how this works is really impressive. We also use a j7+ in a different place and differences are negligible. Initial setup was straightforward. Everything else came ready. It even came with dirt bag already installed in the charging base and a spare bag as well. App onboarding takes a few minutes. Already had the iRobot app installed because of the other vacuum. It detected the new vacuum and connected without issues. After finding a good spot for the charging base with a good outlet, it's ready to learn the floor plan. Keep in mind that the docking base draws a good amount of power when emptying the trash from the vacuum into the base, and it can easily trip a circuit. If there are lights on the same circuit it will flicker (This is on a new construction, 15 Amp circuit). The vacuum has to be trained first: The first or two times it runs, it will map the floor and rooms. It will first bump into a few things, although there is a setting in the app that applies additional logic to prevent of the unnecessary bumping. The second time we ran a mapping run, the floorplan started to take shape in the app. After a few cleaning jobs, the floorplan is more or less complete, and the phone app will eventually ask to start organizing the map into rooms. This takes a bit of effort as it might not be immediately intuitive, and in our case it got room divisions incorrectly. Note that I had previous experience setting a similar model on a different floor. Even though the maps will not be perfect it should be good enough to instruct it to clean specific rooms, and over time sections of each room. Once the rooms are divided, it will prompt to name the rooms, from a long list of pre-assigned names, or it can be customized. It will then move to the next training level and start taking pictures of what it think are obstacles. The vacuum has a front camera that has a narrow view of the floor level. It doesn't see much beyond a the height of shoes. With that the app will ask if the vacuum found a new obstacle, and if it's permanent, or temporary. If permanent, it will start adding exclusion zones to the map. Some of the examples are cables and power strips it finds on the floor. Temporary obstacles can be shopping bags or socks or shoes left on the floor. It's smart enough to not go over cables, which was an annoying problem with other vacuums we used before, but it might still ask you to confirm a loose cable almost every vacuuming room, via the app, which can be ignored though. It integrates very well with Alexa and also with Google Home. With Alexa it has a rich integration. I can tell it which of the two Roomba vacuums to use and which room. With Google Home the integration is quite basic, allowing one to start and stop vacuuming the whole floor. There is no integration with Apple HomeKit, and I don't think any robot vacuum works wit it yet, but it supports Siri shortcuts. From the app, one can customize the order on which rooms are cleaned with the option to save the routine as a favorite to reuse later. If using the vacuum on different places (or different floors), it can be done because the app can switch between multiple vacuums each with maps. Vacuuming: It picked everything and went under beds and cabinets without a problem. We have teenagers in the house so there is a good amount of hair to be cleaned on the floor. I was impressed that the main brushes did not get clogged with hair. In fact there was nothing else to clean from the rollers. However the first two times it ran it collected considerable amount of hair that made it fail the job. Cleaning the vacuum: The base does a great job of emptying the dustbin from the vacuum. As I mentioned, it's very powerful (And also very loud). Only takes a few seconds to complete though. However, debris that is larger than a grain of rice will have to be picked up manually from the vacuum's internal dustbin. The brushes are very easy to clean and as I said their design does not collect much hair at all. There is also a caster wheel to be cleaned but it pulls right out. Then the front-side brush will generally get some hair, and I had to unscrew it to pick all the hair from it. But things should be easier if using the vacuum consistently. The first time it will pick up a lot of dirt that the handheld vacuum missed (mostly under cabinets, sofas, etc.). It seems to stumble on legs and chairs more than necessary. With all its smarts it continuously gets stuck on the horizontal frame of an IKEA Poang armchair. I might have to exclude that area from its cleaning cycle. It does handle transitions between bare floors and carpets with ease. The app will show the rough area where it detected carpets. Overall I'm very impressed. Very well designed. Note that have to give it about a week to train it to each space. The docking base works well at emptying the dirt from the vacuum. The phone app is very well designed. iRobot has been making improvements for years, and I'm impressed how much smarter it got since their older vacuums. Integration with Alexa is very good. Compared to our j7 vacuum, the difference in smarts and vacuum power seems negligible in my experience. I also had issues with their support over time, for example waiting for a week to reply and then tell me that the warranty expired four days before submitting a request for a pre-existing issue, so an extended warranty might be worth with this. So it's great but If I had to choose again I'd choose the mid-level model instead.

great roomba, good tracking and room knowledge, the new cameras on the front are nice to let you know where under the bed or couch your cat left a toy or your sock behind. only reason I didn't give it 5 stars, doesn't pick up the cat hair the best off medium shag carpet.

The Roomba J9+ was simple to unbox and get up and running. Everything comes pre-assembled and merely required unpacking and room placement. Device activation and configuration was completed through the iRobot app which subsequently applied a “10 minute” update that actually ran for over 40 minutes. I was forced to abort and close the app due to other obligations, but when I returned later I noticed the vacuum software version number had jumped from 7.X to 9.9. Although it wasn’t exactly a smooth start, the issue apparently resolved on its own and the Roomba has been problem free since. Cleaning tasks are managed through the iRobot app, which also provides the capability to monitor and maintain the device. The Roomba can clean on demand, or as specified through custom cleaning schedules. The app is straightforward and intuitive to use, with all options logically arranged and easily accessible. One of the most useful features of the app is home mapping. The Roomba maps the layout of the home as it cleans, which is then saved in the app. Mapping allows more refined custom on-demand cleaning by allowing me to select specific rooms or the entire floor. Mapping can also be used with scheduling to clean individual rooms or areas on specified dates and times. This is good for automatically cleaning heavily trafficked or soiled areas more frequently and any less trafficked areas less frequently. Mapping isn’t perfect however, especially if there are a lot of random obstacles or oddly shaped or angled rooms. But it gets more accurate the more the machine runs and learns the home’s layout. I can also go in and edit the layout to make it more accurately represent my floorplan. Watching the Roomba run the first few times is like watching a baby deer learn to walk. It’s clumsy, unsure, frequently repeats areas, and seemingly puts too much emphasis on certain spots. Once the vacuum gets a good sampling of the house layout, it runs more efficiently, although it still occasionally runs in questionable patterns at times. The vacuum is moderately loud while cleaning but gets much louder when self-emptying due to the drastically increased suction used to empty the device. Both modes are loud enough to potentially frighten sensitive pets, but the noise from the emptying process is much more likely to do so. Cleaning results are pretty good. The J9+ does a thorough job and frequently doubles back to ensure cleanliness. It occasionally misses debris, just as my previous Roomba 981 did, but it seems a little more thorough than the 981 and usually does a good job overall. It’s adept at traveling onto and cleaning large low pile area rugs and good at avoiding stairs, obstructions, drops and other obstacles. It sometimes lightly bumps against walls and furniture rather than stopping before impact, but this became less frequent the more it learned the layout. Once it finishes all areas, it automatically returns to its home base where it self empties automatically. Dirt is sucked out of the Roomba and into a disposable vacuum bag inside the base. Once the bag is full, it gets removed and tossed like any other vacuum bag. The only areas I don’t like the J9+ traveling onto are floor vents and small rugs and mats. Small lightweight rugs and mats tend to get caught up in the roller and suction, and the grinding sounds the machine makes while traveling over floor vents makes me wince. Out of an abundance of caution, I usually remove small rugs/mats and cover floor vents before cleaning. The rollers and brushes are consumable user replaceable parts that I fear will may deteriorate prematurely from unfriendly surfaces like grated vent covers. The app monitors consumables and advises when it’s time for replacement, but it is time and use based. I suspect it may not accurately account for excessive wear caused by environmental factors. We’ve been pleased with the Roomba J9+ performance. It cleans the house reliably with few missed spots. We don’t have small children, pets, or a lot if foot traffic, so I’m sure that makes it easier to clean and likely plays a role in our results. The iRobot app scheduling, coupled with the self-emptying feature, makes the J9+ practically a set and forget appliance until it’s necessary to empty the base. The robot accurately cleans areas automatically for us on a daily schedule and returns to its home base afterward. Overall, it accomplishes the bulk of our vacuuming needs and even with our large area rugs, we’re seldom forced to use our uprights to supplement the Roomba.