Johnatan56
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Note my model does not need magnetic strips, you set it on the app where it may not go.My Xiaomi battery lasts nearly two hours. If it gets flat it will dock, charge and resume where ot left off. The software is really smart. I do have to remove the cats water bowls and toys, lift up curtains (so it can get everywhere and also not get stuck). Carpet tassels and some cables can get stuck. Mine will send me a notification to my phone if it needs help. I also got magnetic strips to stop it going certain places (like out to the garden!).
The cheaper models are probably not worth it though.
The lidar models are really smart, it's interesting watching it work, either itself or on the real time phone map.
Would guess the super expensive versions where the charging station includes a larger dustbin would be what you'd need, but the price difference is just so huge that I'd just wait and see if someone finally brings it out of the super premium.
The Ozmo has not sent me a notification on getting stuck yet, they are making quite a few improvements on the app though.
The Roomba generally is better if you have e.g. deep carpets due to the patented bristle brush vs everyone else using extractors, and the app is generally good, competitors only recently are catching up there, but the issue is more that Roomba hasn't really advanced in the last two years. Most competitors are better for things like gap between tiles as Roomba usually does not have as strung a suction as they don't need due to the better brush.
Once vacuum cleaners with their own bin become affordable, I'd probably buy at least 3 of them, for apartment and then both floors in house, but for now, way too expensive, will stick with the robot vacuum cleaner in Apartment due to mop, and then cordless stick in house.