Mine is a Roomba brand (more expensive than the e-bay ones). It's very effective on timber floors and carpets - we run it every day, and only every have to vacuum manually about once a month.
It struggles a bit with the layout of our house, and often can't find it's way back to the dock, but we just carry it back when we get home.
It's capabilities to drive over/around things is amazing - I can't see why NASA wouldn't use it as a MARS probe it's that good.
Check the height of the unit vs you furniture though - ours just misses out on getting under the couch, which is a shame.
We have the language set to french, so I can say I have a french maid

I was told they suck!

The cat video is great. Just want to see the part where its tail gets caught up.

I've got the lg roboking. Best thing ever.
We use it everyday as we have a golden retriever and a cat, it picks there hair and heaps of dust.
Don't buy the el'cheapos waste of time.
Harvey Norman priced match ours from an online site(they don't normally do it) $849 down to $629.
If you can afford it buy the one with a camera. Ours will redock when the battery's low and then go back to where it was last to finish off the cleaning.
The cheap ones just work in a random pattern so could end up cleaning one room over and over

We still vacum once a month as I don't think it sucks out sand from deep in the carpet but for day to day cleaning are floors have never looked better

DavMen said...

I was told they suck!

So do Phillipino Maids.

I was thinking the kid needs help, up until he said he had a vacuum worth $10,000 that he picked up for a buck.

Actually, he still needs help, good professional psychiatric help. Or else he may end up making someone a lovely wife one day.