|
Womens
Mens
Kids & Baby
Beauty
Home Goods
Non-Designer
|
|
|
|
iRobot 560 Roomba Vacuuming Robot, Black and Silver | 
 enlarge
| Brand: iRobot
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $449.99
Buy New: $314.99
You Save: $135.00 (30%)
New (12) Refurbished (6) from $249.99
Rating:  258 reviews
Sales Rank: 175
Color: Black
Shipping Weight (lbs): 14.6
Dimensions (in): 24.3 x 18.2 x 8.4
MPN: 56001
Model: 560
UPC: 853816560011
EAN: 0853816560011
ASIN: B000UUBCNO
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Promotion: Data not available Terms and Conditions
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
| |
| Features:
 | Vacuuming robot picks up dirt and debris with the touch of a button | | | Easy-to-empty bagless dustbin; fine-filtration system traps allergens | | | Anti-tangle technology; gentle-touch bumper system; built-in cliff sensors | | | Self-charging Home Base, 2 Virtual Wall Lighthouses, an extra filter, and more included | | | Measures 16-3/4 by 21 by 5 inches; 1-year limited warranty |
|
| Accessories:
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Life happens in busy homes, and keeping up with accumulating dirt, dust, pet hair, crumbs, and debris can be a daily challenge. Introducing the iRobot Roomba 560- a member of iRobot’s newest generation of Roomba Vacuuming Robots. Now there’s a better way to maintain cleaner floors every day. With dramatically improved navigation, cleaning coverage, vacuum pickup, particle filtration, and scheduling capabilities, the Roomba 560 picks up amazing amounts of dirt and debris from your floors with the touch of a button--so you don’t have to. The Roomba 560 even cleans on schedule when it’s most convenient for you. Use the on-board scheduling system to easily program up to seven days and times per week for Roomba to vacuum--whether you’re at home or on the go. The Roomba 560 also offers the most efficient room-to-room cleaning available using two innovative, new Virtual Wall Lighthouses. With dramatically improved navigation, cleaning coverage, vacuum pickup, and particle filtration, the Roomba 560 vacuuming robot picks up amazing amounts of dirt and debris with the simple touch of a button. The powerful unit features innovative spinning side brushes that grab dirt and dust from corners and along wall edges, as well as two high-speed, counter-rotating brushes that pick up pet hair, cat litter, food crumbs, and other debris from floors. The vacuum sucks up the debris and deposits it into a large, easy-to-empty bagless dustbin, and its improved fine-filtration system traps dust, pollen, and other allergens inside the unit, reducing infiltration into the living environment.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 253 more reviews...
 Excellent Performance January 7, 2009
The Roomba 560 was a gift for my son. He is a neat freak at his condo. A great housekeeper. The Roomba was able to demonstrate a deeper cleaning along walls than he was able to do. The fact that his unit is so automatic and does a complete cleaning of his 2300 square foot warehouse condo on the battery charge is really amazing. With my son's busy schedule and lifestyle, this was a perfect gift to free up some time he would have otherwise spent doing, routine cleaning. I will be buying one for myself since they work so well.
Dogs must love January 7, 2009
I like the roomba because my dogs like it. One would usually attach the old style vacuum, but sleeps while the roomba is on. Even the cat is used to it. I use this roomba for the hardwoods and tile in the main living space.. small home but probably 450sq.ft. living and kitchen. Considering adding the scooba as a finisher.
AWESOME PRODUCT YOU CANT GO WRONG January 7, 2009
This is an awesome machine. It is as good as advertised and equal to any conventional vacuume. I have a longhaired cat and what this machine picks up is amazing. They need to make one that does stairs. Once they do that, this will be a perfect product!
 roomba January 6, 2009
I got it for my parents that are in their 70's. My mom actually asked for it.. They didn't like it..They have three levels of house and this could only clean one. Also they are home all the time which I don't think helped. Easy return though Amazon though. Thanks
Far more useful than I expected, though far from perfect. January 6, 2009
When I ordered the Roomba 560, I honestly didn't think it was going to work very well. As a gadget and especially robot lover, I simply had to try it.
Fast forward a couple weeks and my Roomba has been faithfully cleaning my 1,200 sq ft house with few problems. My floors are MUCH cleaner, and it does a better job cleaning than I expected.
The vacuum is powerful enough to leave "vacuum marks", giving you that freshly vacuumed look basically every day. It does a great job at picking up just about anything. Mine easily sucked up push-pins, cat hair, lint, cat litter, even metal nails. It has two types of brushes, that counter spin and create their own cleaning force, to augment the somewhat low powered vacuum motor. As a result, it's efficient but also fairly quiet, and has a surprisingly good battery life per charge (3 to 4 rooms at almost a half hour each). My only cleaning gripe is that I wish the bin was bigger. I have to empty and clean Roomba after every use (which just takes a second, admittedly).
The design is almost Apple-like in that the unit is very clean, well thought out, and easy to use. The buttons are large and durable, the center and most frequently used one being big enough to push with your toe, even if you're wearing shoes. Nice touch. It also has a nice handle to pick it up by, and is overall much heavier than I expected. From the pictures it looks like a cheap plastic toy, but in reality it's a bit larger and heavy enough that a toddler likely couldn't lift it. The unit feels very durable and is made of modular parts that are user serviceable with little to no tools necessary. The design is such that the Roomba is clearly a long term investment, meant to be repaired as necessary, rather than just thrown away for a new one. Good job iRobot!
When the Roomba encounters errors, it flashes various lights and makes obvious "sad" tones. Should you not be able to decipher these beeps, simply pushing the Clean button once more causes the Roomba to begin talking to you in a pleasant female voice, instructing you as to the problem and how to remedy it. In two weeks of usage the Roomba has done this about 3 times, indicating that its cliff sensors were dirty, or that I needed to clean the bin or wheels.
The clock and scheduling system is super easy to use and works great. The Roomba does however need a few software tweaks at this point. For instance as of right now my Roomba has been trying to find its dock for nearly a half hour, despite being in the same room as the dock, already. I'll likely have to go and dock it myself shortly. It has issues with the lighthouse units, as they have repeatedly prevented Roomba from returning to its charging station, even when it was VERY low on power. This happens in Lighthouse and Wall mode both. It'd say roughly half the time, the Roomba never makes it back home on its own, thanks to these lighthouses messing up the works. That said, the lighthouses DO work great for keeping Roomba to cleaning certain rooms efficiently, before moving onto the next.
Overall I am pleased with Roomba and will likely never be without one again. It truly does clean better than expected and is a great and fun little unit to have around. Friends are impressed by it, and impressed by how clean my floors are now.
|
|
|
| |
