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Brand iRobot
Model Name i415020
Special Feature Smart Mapping, Ideal for Pet Hair, Wi-Fi Connected, Compatible with Alexa
Color Black
Product Dimensions 13.34"L x 13.26"W x 3.63"H
Surface Recommendation
Carpet, Hardwood, Hard Surfaces
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Lithium Ion
Item Weight
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  • 20% LARGER BATTERY – Larger battery for extended runtime. Compared to other Roomba i series Robot Vacuums
  • CLEANS THE ROOMS YOU WANT WHEN YOU WANT - iRobot OS learns and personalizes your cleaning with Imprint Smart Mapping technology so you can direct it to clean any room you want, any time you want—either on a set schedule or in the moment.
  • SWEEPS UP DUST, DIRT AND DEBRIS WITH EASE - Experience a comprehensive clean with the powerful 3-Stage Cleaning System that pulls in dirt, debris, and pet hair from wherever it hides.
  • PRECISION CLEANING IN TIDY ROWS - Cleans intelligently in straight lines back and forth, to thoroughly clean your floors while navigating around furniture. When it needs to recharge, it will resume right where it left off ensuring a complete clean.
  • FOCUSES ON DIRT - iRobot's Patented Dirt Detect Technology allows the Roomba i4 EVO robot to detect dirtier areas of your home and clean them more thoroughly.
  • PERFECT FOR HOMES WITH PETS - Instead of using a single bristle brush, Roomba i4 EVO uses Dual Multi-Surface Rubber Brushes that flex to adjust to different floor types and avoid getting tangled with pet hair.
  • STAYS ONE STEP AHEAD OF THE MESS - The i4 EVO learns your cleaning habits and can offer up suggestions—even suggesting extra cleanings during peak pollen or shedding season.

Customer ratings by feature

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3.6 3.6
For cleaning up hair
3.4 3.4
Suction power
3.4 3.4
For deep cleaning
3.0 3.0

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Clean the rooms you want when you want with Imprint Smart Mapping.


With a new mapping update, the Roomba i4 EVO robot vacuum can learn and map your home room-by-room for a cleaning experience that fits your life.

iRobot Roomba i4 EVO Features

Roomba

Learns Where & When to Clean

Cleans the rooms you want, when you want—guided by Imprint Smart Mapping.

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Powers Through Cleaning

Pulls in stubborn messes with a Premium 3-Stage Cleaning System and 10x the Power-Lifting Suction*.

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Efficient—and Smart

Cleans in straight lines back and forth, navigating around furniture and obstacles.

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Your Voice is Its Command​

Start cleaning one room or every room—through the iRobot Home App or by voice with Google Assistant and Alexa compatibility.

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How Long Are We Talking Here?

Know how long cleaning jobs will take, whether it’s one room or the whole house—with time estimates in the iRobot Home App.

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Now Taking Suggestions…​

Offers up scheduling suggestions based on your habits and the season.

Roomba

Knows Where to Go

With Imprint Link Technology, the Roomba i4 robot vacuum & Braava jet m6 robot mop team up to vacuum then mop automatically in perfect sequence.

iRobot OS

Powered by iRobot OS

iRobot OS raises the bar - delivering an intuitive cleaning experience tailored to your needs and preferences.

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Get cleaner floors with less effort—with the Roomba® i4 robot vacuum that offers 10X the Power-Lifting Suction* to pull in dirt, dust and pollen. When allergy season hits or peak pet shedding season comes around, it offers extra cleaning sessions to keep your floors looking their best. It even learns your cleaning habits and suggests cleaning times that work around your schedule. Reactive Sensor Technology helps it avoid getting stuck, while Dirt Detect™ Technology focuses cleaning where its needed most. When you’re ready to clean, use the iRobot Home App or just say the word—Google Assistant and Alexa can tell your robot to clean with just the sound of your voice. Navigating purposefully and logically in neat rows, it powerfully vacuums your floors using Dual Multi-Surface Rubber Brushes—taking vacuuming off your mind, and your to-do list. *(Compared to the Roomba® 600 series cleaning system) Alexa and all related logos are trademarks of Amazon.com or its affiliates. Google is a trademark of Google LLC.

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Customer Ratings
Suction power
3.4
3.9
4.1
3.5
4.2
4.2
Battery life
2.5
3.9
4.1
2.8
4.4
4.1
Value for money
3.6
3.9
4.0
3.8
3.8
For cleaning up hair
3.4
4.0
4.3
For deep cleaning
3.0
3.8
3.7
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iRobot Store
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Amazon.com
EufyHome
Roborock Technology Co. Ltd
surface suggestion
Carpet, Hardwood, Hard Surfaces
Carpet, Hard Floor
Carpet, Hard Floor, Tile, Wood, Laminate, Vinyl, Marble
Carpets,Hard Floors
Hard Floor & Tile & Medium carpet
Hard Floor
runtime
90 minutes
75 minutes
100 minutes
240 minutes
batteries included
battery average life
75 minutes
90 minutes
75 minutes
120 minutes
100 minutes
240 minutes
compatible devices
Smartphones, Tablets, Amazon Echo, Google Home
Amazon Echo, Google Home
Amazon Echo, Google Home
Amazon Echo
Amazon Echo, Google Home
weight
10.32 pounds
5 pounds
3.38 kilograms
4990 grams
5.95 pounds
7.5 pounds

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3.8 out of 5 stars
1,923 global ratings

Customers say

Customers have negative opinions about the stickiness and noise of the robotic vacuum cleaner. For example, they mention that it gets stuck a lot, and that the wheels squeak. They are also disappointed with connectivity. Opinions are mixed on mapping, value, quality, ease of use, and suction.

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345 customers mention "Quality"160 positive185 negative

Customers are mixed about the quality of the robotic vacuum cleaner. Some mention that it does a great job cleaning, while others say that it doesn't clean an area and move on. They also say that the dust bin is annoying to empty and the dust tank is harder to clean than any of the others.

"...talk about the pros, first things first it is amazing it picks up A LOT of hair dirt and food on carpet and hardwood and even the edge sweeping..." Read more

"...It has a more annoying dust bin to empty as it doesn’t click straight out but more to the side which I don't care for...." Read more

"...The app has estimated times for replacement parts. And the parts come apart pretty easily...." Read more

"...rooms rather than the old school random vac patterns, but it DOES NOT clean an area and move on, rather it continually comes back over and over and..." Read more

87 customers mention "Ease of use"33 positive54 negative

Customers are mixed about the ease of use of the robotic vacuum cleaner. Some mention it's hassle-free and efficient way to keep their floors clean, while others say it requires a huge amount of manual intervention. They also say the responses are slow and the troubleshooting advice is unhelpful.

"...It’s very frustrating and this is something iRobot needs to address. Clean one area and move on when it’s a whole house run...." Read more

"...The app is fantastic and it’s easy to stop or start the bot from anywhere...." Read more

"...The filters are expensive at $10 each.4. Inefficient navigation. IRobot doesn’t use LiDAR to map the room...." Read more

"...Waited quite a while to purchase this, and am quite disappointed in the interface, however, when it cleans the carpet, it does pick up debris and..." Read more

57 customers mention "Mapping"24 positive33 negative

Customers are mixed about the mapping feature of the robotic vacuum cleaner. Some mention that it's impressive and accurate, while others say that it befuddles the dumb thing and it'll never create a map.

"...FYI, the Roomba will only save one map at a time, so you can't have one Roomba and two floors of your house...." Read more

"...It's mapping is well done. And I like being able to send it to a specific room...." Read more

"...If you have a multi level house the mapping feature is useless.2. Small battery compared to competitors. It has 2210mAh battery...." Read more

"...The iRobot does use the nice mapping of rooms rather than the old school random vac patterns, but it DOES NOT clean an area and move on, rather it..." Read more

53 customers mention "Value"26 positive27 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the value of the robotic vacuum cleaner. Some mention it's worth the price, while others say it'll never be worth the money. The filters are expensive and the product is not very cheap.

"...The filters are expensive at $10 each.4. Inefficient navigation. IRobot doesn’t use LiDAR to map the room...." Read more

"...Overall, it's worth it! Having clean floors helps keep everything else clean so I don't have to wipe and dust as much as I used to." Read more

"...It's just not worth the time & effort required for something that is supposed to be a time saver...." Read more

"...Overall, it seems to be a great vacuum and the price was good since I bought it during Amazon Prime days." Read more

39 customers mention "Suction"24 positive15 negative

Customers are mixed about the suction of the robotic vacuum cleaner. Some mention that it has powerful suction that ensures that every nook and cranny is thoroughly cleaned. They are also impressed with the quality and suction, saying it just FINDS dirt. However, others say that it isn't the best, cannot finish a job, and stops vacuuming before it completes a mapped run.

"...You can also activate the vacuum from anywhere with the app...." Read more

"...I can't believe all the stuff it picks up. Parts of the vacuum have been pretty frustrating though...." Read more

"...We have two dogs and it does a great job cleaning. It has been a fantastic vacuum and is very consistent in its patterns...." Read more

"...The suction seems great on picking things up from the floor (just not enough to push those things into the dustbin - read further below)...." Read more

52 customers mention "Noise"8 positive44 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the noise level of the robotic vacuum cleaner. They mention that it's a bit loud and not quiet. Some customers also mention that the wheels squeak.

"...It's been doing a fine job of it. It is a bit loud, as other reviewers have complained, but unless you want to vacuum at midnight, it's not a big..." Read more

"...And it is loud!..." Read more

"...It is NOT quiet, which is the biggest complaint, but otherwise it does what it’s supposed to do on the hardwood floors." Read more

"...Con: it's a bit noisy and not so long battery.I wish iRobot will improve the software to make the mapping better, especially to big house." Read more

51 customers mention "Connectivity"0 positive51 negative

Customers have issues with the connectivity of the robotic vacuum cleaner. They mention that it has trouble connecting to WiFi, it doesn't connect to their phone and that it often loses connection to WiFi. Some customers also say that the product doesn'll work with their type of WiFi connection.

"...CONS:1. Phone app needs improvement. 1.1 Clean Maps don’t load in cleaning history mode...." Read more

"...Also the app is dumb and annoying and I don't want to use it, I just want to vac my house, so I have no idea what all the different colours of the..." Read more

"...Cons:1. Biggest headache is the cloud connection. When it works, it works great. When you lose connection, you have to reboot the robot...." Read more

"Product does not offer fluid functionality. Often loses connection to Wi-Fi...." Read more

46 customers mention "Stickiness"4 positive42 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the stickiness of the robotic vacuum cleaner. They say it gets stuck a lot, and seems to actively seek obstacles to get stuck on. The machine gets stuck behind doors, and the grip is just too strong.

"...It gets stuck on different things, like the legs of the stool or table legs or under the edge of the couch...." Read more

"...is blocked by a mini dust bunny/hair pile that the suction apparently isn't strong enough to push through into the dustbin...." Read more

"...I was worried about thin carpets but works great on them. Does get stuck at times" Read more

"...It will go under the table and get stuck for a long time, not being able to find its way out from all the chair legs...." Read more

A big disappointment
2 out of 5 stars
A big disappointment
A robot that will clean my house? What a brilliant idea! I've wanted one of these for years, and finally decided to give myself a big Christmas gift of the Roomba i4 EVO. Sadly, it did not meet my expectations and I returned it yesterday.When it first arrived, I followed the directions and set the Roomba on a "map run" of the house; then I let it recharge and the next day set it to clean. It did a pretty decent job, though I was surprised at how often my phone alerted me that it had stopped due to a full bin that needed emptying.So that's my first point of dissatisfaction: the bin is tiny - smaller than on a friend's earlier model of Roomba - and needs frequent emptying (unless you spring for the base unit that claims to empty the unit automatically). I had thought I could leave Roomba to vacuum all the floors while I was out shopping or something, but no, this little guy needs attention every 15-20 minutes or so. Not good.After the first cleaning run, I was pretty happy with the job Roomba had done, especially with the way it was able to clean under the couch and beds. A week later, when I did a second run, I was much less satisfied. It skipped areas of the house, and there didn't seem to be a way to tell it to go back and do those areas that it missed (there were NO instructions included with my Roomba, and the instructions I found on the iRobot website seemed pretty light on details.)Third time I used the Roomba, things got weird. it would make little circles in one area that it had already cleaned and ignore nearby areas that it hadn't. Frustrating! Later I looked at the undercarriage and was shocked to see that 1) the axles of the wheels were all all twisted up in hair, and 2) two of the three brushes on the little whirling thing had broken off (see picture). Granted these problems are fixable: disentangle the hair, order replacement brushes. But after three uses it needed major maintenance? Sorry, I bought this thing to save housekeeping labor, not increase it.So, Roomba went back in the box and was shipped out yesterday. Another unpleasant surprise: I hadn't realized that I had gone through one of Amazon's third-party dealers (they don't exactly emphasize that, now do they?), so I had to pay $27 for the return shipping.And one final thought: dumping out the tiny bin so many times, I was able to get well acquainted with the typical contents. It looked more like dryer lint than what a normal vacuum cleaner pulls up. So that's my theory: Roomba isn't picking up household dirt so much as pulling lint out of the rugs. Not good for the rugs, and not needed for a clean house.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2023
Color: BlackVerified Purchase
I cannot say enough about how much I love my Roomba. The old Roomba I had is on its final leg and it has the non rubber insides which caught a lot more things they shouldn’t and needed more cleaning. It has however lasted me 7+ years which is amazing.

I somehow love this roomba even more than the last! It doesn’t get my long hair and all my cats fur stuck like the old one. It has a more annoying dust bin to empty as it doesn’t click straight out but more to the side which I don't care for. It does pick up a LOT more dirt than the older model. I can run the old one then this one and it will pick up things like the other one didn’t event do anything.

I could go on and on, but ultimately, I have no clue how anyone with pets lives without a Roomba. I feel like I would be living in a fur castle without this product. I can confidently say my house will never be without a roomba!
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Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2024
Color: BlackVerified Purchase
Update: so lets talk about the pros, first things first it is amazing it picks up A LOT of hair dirt and food on carpet and hardwood and even the edge sweeping brush does a great job! Cons, the edge sweeping brush is a little two fast it sometimes spreads dirt. Not really much four deep cleaning but it does a pretty good job. It is mainly good at picking up small two medium debris. Highly recommend!
Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2023
Color: BlackVerified Purchase
So, I got this because it was on sale for half off, and I couldn't pass the offer when I was already looking to get a robot vacuum.

I just moved and was lamenting to a friend that I'd need to get a vacuum and actually do so. I'm disabled and that slight bend to vacuum/sweep/mop is agony.

They recommended looking into a robot vacuum.

Initially I was thinking a Roomba would be far out of my price range. And admittedly, this one would be without the deal I got. But I'm so happy I did.

I have carpet. I saw mixed reviews on it's ability with carpet. It's been doing a fine job of it. It is a bit loud, as other reviewers have complained, but unless you want to vacuum at midnight, it's not a big deal and it's not THAT loud.

It's mapping is well done. And I like being able to send it to a specific room. What's more, after a cleaning session, it shows you everywhere it vacuumed. It apparently will even tell you if it found a high dirt area, though I haven't really had any issues worth it mentioning.

Emptying the bin is super easy, and I'm shocked at how much it gets.

I also enjoy that it can go places I wouldn't get if I was vacuuming personally, such as under the bed.

Another thing I love was this particular one came with a virtual wall. I'm very OCD and didn't want Roomba going in the bathroom. Of course I could just close the door, but this is more convenient. I also plan to get a pet soon, and the circle shaped wall will be great to go around the food/water dish to keep it from bumping into them and spilling water. The wall has two settings. Line or circle. A simple switch on the side will let you choose which. Though I'm wondering how to know when the battery is getting low. (It takes 2 AA batteries which it comes with. It also comes with a spare filter.)

The app has estimated times for replacement parts. And the parts come apart pretty easily. (Roomba vacuumed up a piece of broken door stopper I didn't notice and made the most awful racket. Had to remove the rollers to get it out. Very easy process.) It also lets you know when the dust bin is getting full, though I empty it after each run.

You can also activate the vacuum from anywhere with the app. Out of the house and decide you'd like Roomba to clean while your out so you don't have to listen to it, but forgot to activate it before you left? No problem. It also has the ability to pair with Alexa, but I don't use that feature.

Overall, I highly recommend. If I have any complaints about how it handled pets on carpet (I definitely don't think I'd recommend letting a cat ride it on carpet. I imagine even in hardwood it's hard on the Roomba) such as not doing a great job getting fur, I'll come back and update with complaints.

But so far, I highly recommend this.

Edit: Oh but the buyers remorse. Look, I'll give them credit. Their customer service is fantastic, and they'll spend TWO HOURS on the phone with you if necessary trying to troubleshoot issues. -_-

I spent about 20 minutes trying to reconnect it to my new wifi with no luck. I called customer support. They had me do all kinds of things only to decide it's not charging right and they're gonna order a repair.

Guess what? This is the second unit I've had that needed repairs in less than a year. The first one wouldn't charge at all. They outright replaced it since that was less than a month after I got it.

I don't know what charging has to do with refusing to connect with my phone (you know how devices like this momentarily make their own network for you to connect to? Mine never did, which is why I called them) but whatever.

They're sending me a box to send this in to be repaired and replacing it depending on how the repair goes. Personally, I just wish I had gone with one of those cordless vacuums with the long extension. Hindsight and all that.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2023
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Overall, I'm happy that I bought this vacuum. I got it on half price, about $230, and you can't beat that for a smart mapping vacuum. I have two, one for upstairs and one for downstairs. I can't believe all the stuff it picks up. Parts of the vacuum have been pretty frustrating though.

When I first tried to map the house, it took an entire day because after several hours the vacuum had supposedly mapped everything, and then when I went to pull up the map to label it, everything disappeared. I had to run it three times before it mapped the floor successfully. It was annoying because I picked up literally everything off the floor and put in a ton of work, making my house unusable for a day, and then it took so long that I was barely able to get the smart mapping done in time so I could take the chairs and stuff off my bed to have a bed to go to sleep.

My other frustration is that they get stuck very easily. In a month of running each vacuum a couple times a week at least, I think I've had up to five successful runs where the vacuum hasn't gotten stuck at some point. It gets stuck on different things, like the legs of the stool or table legs or under the edge of the couch. Or, even though I intentionally pick everything up off the floor the night of the scheduled run, some one thing manages to get in the Roomba. A little set of ear plugs, a metal Pokemon card (why didn't it just go over the flat card on tile?).... When it gets stuck, instead of shutting off to save the battery once it realizes that it is stuck, it just keeps going, so the battery dies. Then the vacuum won't return to its home and I have to return it. Getting them docked again is really frustrating because the docking is really finicky, so I have to wiggle the vacuum all around for up to five minutes! Then I have to walk the floor and see which rooms got done before it got stuck, and I have to run it again for the rooms that it didn't get to.

And it is loud! We usually run it at night due to the noise, with the nice scheduling function, but that's part of why the Roombas get stuck and then run out of battery. I'm sleeping and don't fix it fast enough. Then I have to run it during the day anyway to get the rooms it didn't get while getting stuck. This was meant to be something I didn't have to think about, but now it's like a low maintenance pet I have to keep track of.

FYI, the Roomba will only save one map at a time, so you can't have one Roomba and two floors of your house. That's okay with me because I don't want to haul the whole thing up and down every time I want to vacuum, but it does mean that your up front investment doubles.

Also, I was under the impression that the Roomba smart mapping would do one room, then move to the next, and leave parallel lines of vacuum marks, which I really wanted. In reality, the Roomba goes seemingly randomly between rooms over and over doing sections for the whole period it is cleaning. That means that I have to keep all the kitchen chairs and table squashed against the wall for hours at a time instead of being able to say, "The kitchen is done, now we can use the table again while it finishes the rest of the house." It also means that there are random diagonal lines on top of the parallel vacuum lines, so you don't get the pretty look.

Despite the smart mapping, the vacuum still pushes against the wall over and over, trying to get to the edges I guess but the front is getting scratched up after just a month. I'm worried about how long the sensor will function.

I haven't figured out a pattern to this annoying phenomenon yet. Sometimes when it's supposed to do a normal vacuum run, it goes into "discovering and cleaning" mode which makes the vacuum even more unpredictable (see my complaint about not completing one room at a time), and runs for several hours. Last night it was supposed to vacuum the bottom floor of my house, beginning at 11pm, which should have taken a few hours. Instead, I turned it off when it came back into our room at 5am so loud that it woke me (see complaint about sound). This bothers me so much that I contacted customer support. They gave the reason that the vacuum supposedly continues to learn about the environment, which is why it does this super long run at least once a week and could potentially be a cool feature I guess, but I don't see the vacuum adjusting anything. Like I said earlier, it still bumps against all the edges of things and the walls.

(Wow, I didn't realize how many things I dislike about this vacuum until writing this review.)

But like I said, I can't believe how much the vacuum picks up. It gets much more than my regular vacuum. I don't even know how so much crap ends up on my carpet after only a week. We don't even have pets.

I like the feature of setting a job to do any number and choice of rooms at any time from my phone. I wanted the app.

So it remains to be seen how long the vacuum will work when it looks pretty scratched up on the front, and it will continue to be annoying to not just be able to set the auto function and let it go, since it always gets stuck.
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