bObsweep Orb-i Robot Vacuum in Blackberry and Chocolate for $199 (reg. $729) @ Walmart.com
I’m mainly posting this as the most recent thread on this is now labeled as ‘expired’ for some reason even though the $199 price for a LiDAR robot vacuum with 5000pa suction is pretty good.
What did expire was the ~Prime Day price of $188 for the Blackberry color. But, the original deal that was posted ($199 for either Blackberry or Chocolate) is still live.
I set up two of these today and am pretty impressed – not as much with the actual vacuuming, which is odd – but I’m, impressed with the tech. I just set it up, charged it and hit ‘go’. These little robots use their LiDAR to ‘see’ the room then drive around the room to confirm and improve mapping. They avoided falling down the stairs, feeling their way around the edge of the top stair, which was awesome. I expected to have to do a lot of programming (this is my first robot vac), but I’ve had to do none. It went under beds (where I never ever vacuum)! Most of those dust bunnies are no more.
As far as the vacuuming, it’s decent. Better than not doing it, but I’m guessing that it’ll be
a long time until the tech catches up to the quality of me breaking out my plug in Dyson and going to town in my OCD fashion.
Overall, the floors do feel cleaner than they did before I ran these.
It’s cool to watch these guys do their thing and then roll back to home base, park and self empty.
I know that Sam’s has the bObsweep Dustin off and on for $199 but I’m one of those rare birds that doesn’t want more features for the same price. I read that the mopping is ‘meh’ and can actually leave trails of dampness on your rugs. I’d rather avoid that and take the higher 5000pa suction of the Orb-i over the lower 4100pa of the Dustin.
For $200/floor (I know these can work on up to 3 floors each, but…) I’m pretty happy with how they perform.