iRobot Roomba i3 EVO (3150) Wi-Fi Connected Robot Vacuum - Testing & Review

iRobot Roomba i3 EVO (3150) Wi-Fi Connected Robot Vacuum This is my 3rd Roomba. I had one of the very first generation Roombas, a 610 that I used for a long time, and now this one. Overall, Roombas are great for what they are if you have realistic expectations. This one brings some great new additions. Firstly, the room mapping feature is pretty good. It means you no longer need to confine your Roomba to a single room like you used to have to do. You send your Roomba on a mapping run, let it finish, then name the rooms it finds. It did a pretty good job in my house the first time. My house is a rambler that was built in the 60s and added on in the 80s. There are doors everywhere, so I thought it would struggle with that - but it didn&Once you have all of those rooms named, you can open the app and send it to clean any of them one at a time if you&like. You can also set up a group where you decide which rooms it will clean in which order. It goes and does it, and returns to its base. Easy Peasy. I&a Google user, so I LOVE the fact that I can just say "Hey Google, vacuum the living room" and it runs off and does it. It probably does the same with Alexa. Secondly, the fact that it can actually find its charger base is a godsend. My old 610 would try to go back to the base, but never actually find it, so I was constantly playing "where&the Roomba?". It&funny at first, but get&annoying really quickly. Third, they changed the brushes. The older style had a brush. The newer...