EUREKA FORBES ROBO iVac Robotic Floor Cleaner

Good

Worth buying though the mopping function is not so great. The water tank is miniscule so u have to keep filling it again and again. \nit is easier to use a mop. It is a low intelligence robot. e.g. It doesn’t know how to go home – unless home is just 4 feet away. It talks to you \nso beats loneliness in COVID times. Value for money. Simple mechanism. \nDoing a good job now. Will update.

It’s a good product overall and really saved us from a LOT of work during the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting lockdown. I’ll tell you everything you need to know about this that I’ve assimilated after using it for a few weeks now. A lot of effort and thought has gone into writing this detailed review, I hope it helps as many people as possible. :)\n\nPROS:\n\nExcellent cleaning, doesn’t need mopping. Although it has mopping feature, I haven’t used it yet.\n\nGoes under any furniture that has at least a gap of 10 cm above the floor.\n\nNot very noisy, once you’re used to it you’ll not be jolted when it’s working, except when it encounters ‘obstacles’ – more on this under cons.\n\nRemote control makes it easy and you can clean more efficiently with less battery wastage – more on this under cons.\n\nExcellent value for money.\n\nAssembly is easy and you don’t need to be an engineer to figure it out – all the instructions are given in the manual.\n\nSleek and classy.\n\nWon’t fall off stairs or edges, so says the manual, though I haven’t tried that feature yet.\n\nWill climb over doorways and thresholds in the house which are less than about half an inch in height.\n\nThe dust gets collected and neatly becomes one compact compressed piece, which is oddly satisfying to throw out.\n\nEasy to clean the dustbin, very handy, no nonsense appliance.\n\nWonderful addition to a home if you don’t want to deal with a maid’s tantrums, want to save money in the long run – you can even schedule it and leave it.\n\nEdge mode is quite useful. I run it unattended on mode 4 and then mode 3 (edge) to have a perfectly clean space after.\n\nHEPA filter actually works and we see the difference – less dust allergies ever since we bought it. It doesn’t lift up and disperse dust like a broomstick, so you’ll not be sneezing every time it starts cleaning if you have dust allergies.\n\nCONS:\n\nBangs into all furniture, much like a toddler who needs to be kept a watch on sometimes. But it’s not as noisy as you’d think, although you can’t sleep through it if you’re a light sleeper like me. And it will not damage any of your furniture and it will not get damaged itself either – it has shock absorbers and just reroutes every time it encounters an obstacle.\n\nSometimes cleans the same spot over and over again and won’t go into the next room until it learns the layout of the house, which is okay. It just needs a few days to map out your house.\n\nYou’ll have to put fragile items, mats, some rough carpets etc out of the way if you’re going to leave it on unattended. The brushes of the vacuum cleaner might (might, not will) get stuck and/or damaged or bent. Just put the obstacles (other than big furniture) out of the way before you leave it unattended to do its job.\n\nMost of the available cleaning modes are not really necessary, like S shaped (do we place driving test kind of S shaped barriers for this? LOL) and spot cleaning, though the edge mode is quite useful.\n\nIt will not pick up heavy stuff like nuts, bolts, small pebble like stuff, etc (and they might damage the interior of the dustbin) so don’t leave these lying around and also large bits of paper/ crushed up tissue paper, sharp objects, etc.\n\nIt will not clean corners – I think you should just be mentally ready for that and accept that before buying it instead of buying it and then complaining about it, like many other reviews have. There’s no perfect appliance. This is a very small pitfall and we really don’t mind cleaning up the inaccessible spaces once a week, just like we would pick up after a maid who may not do the job as thoroughly as you might (there’s no perfect maid either, so keep that in mind!)\n\nFINAL VERDICT:\nBUY IT!

The sensor is not working at all. And Flipkart is not providing return option. Trapped with this useless product.

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