Love it!
We decided not to keep a help about 6 years ago. Reasons: so dependant on them, need to wait till they turn up, never know when they will not, sometimes wait till afternoon. In the meantime house is untidy and desperately crying for attention (in Bangalore, given the dust levels, dust and dirt accumulates if left for some hours!). Also the cleaning done by them, however good they are, leaves much to be desired, given the fact they work in several places.I’ve been using a manual vacuum cleaner for many years ever since they came to India (my trusty and dependable 35 year old Eureka Forbes one) for upholstery, carpets, windows and sometimes floors in my parents place first, then mine. So not new to vacuum cleaners.I’ve been planning to buy a robotic vacuum cleaner since about a couple of years now. Finally decided to invest in one, in great trepidation, as they are very expensive and if they don’t clean as expected, it’s a waste of a lot of money.After a lot of research, finally settled on ILife A80 model primarily as I wanted the best within 20 k, approx the cost of a mid range mobile, thinking that if it turns out great, I will buy a high end one after 3 or 4 years (bought during the Great Indian Festival Sale so got a very good discount). And I’ve not looked back or regretted since!Review after a month+ of use. Will edit later after a few months of use if there are any other comments that would help possible purchasers to make a decision.Pros:1. Excellent sales and customer support services. They called immediately after the delivery of my robot cleaner and arranged a demo at home. They frequently call to follow up on my experience and if I need any help.2. Demo was excellent and helpful.3. Programming and controlling the robot thru app or remote makes things so easy.4. It is very quiet, noise level is very minimal on least or within 25% suction setting.Vacuums up even the finest tiniest particle of dust or dirt and a lot of larger things like fallen peanuts, pieces / cuttings of paper (I read in a review that it doesn’t but that’s not been my experience) – other than of course A4 size or large crumbled balls of paper which anyway should be on a table or in a dustbin not lying around on the floor!), etc.In fact just to test it, I ran it for the first time after I myself had finished sweeping and mopping the floor. And the amount of dust it still managed to suck up was incredible! Actually I was shocked – it was so unbelievable!5. Sensors are very good, when it senses furniture in the way, it slows down. If it’s a table or chair leg, it goes around the leg, cleaning as it goes under and around the legs.6. Love the mapping function. It follows it’s own programming, and cleans apparently randomly, but far more effectively than a human. It first cleans all around the edges of the room then either goes up and down the length and width of the room or diagonally across it. Rarely repeats (though slightly overlaps the previous path – which is good, as anything that gets pushed outside it’s reach the first time, gets picked up when it turns and comes back on the overlapping run).7. Can just be left to do its own thing – no supervising necessary 😄8. Saves a lot of my time, at least an hour or more a day + saves my back too!9. There are 2 different units for vacuuming dry and wet mopping. Easy to remove and interchange.10. Mopping is good enough for daily cleaning (again, given the dust in India). It has a tank capacity of 300 ml max, sufficient to clean my home. At the end of the cleaning there’s barely any water left.11. Love the edge cleaning, spot cleaning, increasing or decreasing suction power and increasing or decreasing water usage for mopping functions provided. As well as manual control of direction when needed.12. Cleaning the robot vacuum is manual in this model – no self clean, but easy to do.13. Goes home by itself most times. Very rarely for some reason, gets a little confused even if it’s just 2 to 3 feet away, and needs a little help. But that’s very very rare. It eventually does find its way even if it’s not helped.Love the way it quietly shuts off most of it’s power and goes very slowly home to its docking station (like it’s very tired after all the work it just did! Gives me a good laugh every time! 😂).Cons:1. Mopping of course (at least in this model) though good cannot be as good as a human mopping using a bucket of water, rinsing the mop often in between and changing water when it gets dirty. Since the mopping unit has only a small thin microfiber mopping cloth it cleans the entire house using this one cloth utilising the 300 ml of water in its tank. Though I’m very happy with this robotic vacuum cleaner, I still resort to manual mopping once a week (but that’s just me!).2. Hard dirt stains on floors if any need to be cleaned manually either before or after, as the robot mopping is a gentle wiping motion not an actual scrubbing action.3. It would help if a small division in tank is provided for floor wash detergent or phenyl etc.4. I feel slightly larger side brushes (legs) would help clean the edges and corners better.All in all, very very happy with my robot vacuum cleaner. Keeps my home spic and span!Thank you very much, ILife and Amazon for bringing this product to us!

Es muy práctica de usar, limpia excelente, ayuda muchísimo en las labores de la casa cuando tienes perritos o gatitos por el tema de los pelitos y al descargarse regresa a su fuente de carga, NO es muy silenciosa, pero nada que perturbe. Como recomendación les comparto que hay que levantar tapetes, jergas, cables que posiblemente podrían enredarse en el robot.Para mi es una excelente inversión, estoy muy feliz con esta compra y por ello la recomiendo.NOTA: este modelo es solamente aspiradora.

We’ve had this vacuum for about a year now and we are still just as pleased with it as the day we bought it. We have a black lab, a blue heeler, and a cat. We lived in a carpeted apartment and bought a house about this time last year. This vacuum was one of our first purchases for the ground floor of our house, which has no carpet.I picked this model because it’s consistently rated as superior in picking up animal hair, which is our biggest battle. It’s lived up to the hype! Even when I don’t think the floor is that bad, I am gob-smacked at the handfuls of fur this thing collects. We run it every day on the program – it’s very easy to schedule, but it does have to be re-scheduled if you ever fully cut the power to the unit, or if you change the batteries in the remote.It doesn’t have any fancy features other than the ability to program it to run every day at a specific time. It doesn’t map your house, or have an app, which was appealing to us. I’m just trying to keep life simple over here. It runs randomly around the house, but it runs for about two hours, and it’s very thorough. It maneuvers around surprisingly well, even handling the transition to our rug in the living room with ease. However, this is why I give the suction four stars – sometimes there’s debris that hasn’t been sucked all the way into the container yet, kinda hanging around the hole, and when the unit transitions to the rug it gets caught on the edge of the rug and left behind. However, it has enough strength that it sometimes tries to suck up the flimsier thin rug in our bathroom.It is surely not the quietest model. This may be it’s biggest flaw, but it doesn’t really bother us. If I could rate with half stars, I would’ve given this 4.5 stars due to how loud it is, but it doesn’t warrant losing a whole star, hence the 5 star rating.It’s not perfect. It’ll catch on a shoelace or a power cord left lying on the floor (but it’s painless to get moving again). It’s not the smartest, but it is extremely efficient and thorough, an absolute powerhouse against pet hair. It is consistent, working just as well today as last year. Overall, this vacuum is a steal for this price, relative to others. Can’t beat it.

Easy to program and handles the pet hair. Fits under most of the furniture.