I just bought a Shark IQ R101AE with Self-Empty Base. It was a reconditioned Amazon buy at about $350 usd. This reconditioned unit was only about $25 more then the next lesser module. It has the 30 day self emptying bin. It's not as advanced as these two above robots (S9 and i7) but I'm amazed at how it keeps my 2100 sq ft odd shaped house clean. I have three dogs and a wife with long hair. It's self cleaning brush actually does not let the hair wrap around the brush at all!. I had an old Roomba and it was a discussing nightmare keeping the brushes clean. Till now there was always dog hair around the tile floors of my house and my wife's bathroom was always fill of long hair. None of that anymore! Yah!

This little guy took a couple days to map my house and the technology it uses did an amazing job of it. After a couple tries it nailed every room perfectly. I was able to interact with it's map through a phone app and actually name each room. I then was able to use Alexa to tell it to go clean any of the rooms if it need extra attention or a extra cleaning like the kitchen. It fascinates me how it can find it's charging and emptying base every time. It will dock, recharge and empty then go out back to work! I could actually sit there and watch it for hours. LOL

It's cool that you are going to be mounting your robot on your Roomba. It's going to be awesome watching it move around the house and actually do something productive. From watching my robot vacuum roam around, I think the only problem you're going to have is when it wants to go under something low like a table or couch. The Roomba will want to go under because the bumper sensor will not be hit but the upper body will hit the object. Have you been able to come up with a work around if this happens?

I got an i7....yassss!!!

The great thing about the create 2 series is i can still add all that cool Lidar mapping and many different cameras,sensors,possibly a robotic arm to pick up and toss dirty socks,ha ha,most fun using Ezb Tiny the possibilities are endless. The robot heads will interchange because of the cover on the roomba comes off and I can have a different robot everyday mounted on the cover,thinking of Predator skull next! Ultrasonic sensors on the heads to stop from going under couches.

Boys and their toys. LOL

Yep, but it really is a practical vacuum cleaner,ordered the brushes. May take Terminator Roomba over to moms senior citizen retirement building and clean the big common room.They do have ambulance visits every day there,help out with heart attacks.

Ha ha ha video just because I was bored and love watching it Dock! Ya the removable top cover has screw holes cut around USB plug and Hot glue left overs from trying out different robot bodies on top. Actually dont need it when just cleaning,looks just like new on bottom side.

So it was not really that frightening until I let it go down the dark hallway and come back to me! I need to hide the Hot glue around the neck /cover welding there have an idea to use the old Cylon black ribbing effect around the neck on top of the messy surgery,will look new again. The IO Tiny needs to be found a good location still,used a tie wrap to Keep serial cable shorter.Not too sure I should bring this to my Mothers Old Retirement home to vacuum there at Christmas, some of those 90 year olds may not appreciate my art and helping out to Vacuum their Main Lobbycarpet ,as it is still a Roomba!

very cool robo rad :-)

Also nice movements on the iRobot

EzAng