SAMSUNG Jet Bot+ Robot Vacuum Cleaner w/ Clean Station, Automatic Emptying, Precision Cleaning, 5-Layer Filter, Intelligent Power Control for Hardwood Floors, Carpets, Area Rugs, VR30T85513W/AA, White

I had issues with actually receiving this item because they're in low stock everywhere. Im not weighing that in my review its just some background context, which is why Im still giving it 5 stars. But I ordered this thing 3 times and finally it was fulfilled and Im very glad I was patient and waited. Samsung has been killing it on the innovation side. This vaccum like most of their stuff is awesome. As for the performance of the vaccum. It is great if you have other Samsung products because everything links together on the Smart Things app, which you can still download if you dont have it. The app will allow you to control where, when, and how you want it to vaccum. Requires a little bit of setup the first time (~15-30 mins depending on the size of your house) but once its ready to go, you probably will never have to edit it again. Vaccum performance. If you live in a studio or very small home you can defenitly get away with using just one of these (that goes for all robot vaccums). If you have a home thats medium to large size you may want to consider 1 - 3 depending on how many stories/floors you have. You can sync multiple samsung jet bots together and schedule cleaning times where they can all clean at the same time (like before you wake up in the morning or after you go to bed). It is a game changer not having to constantly vaccum. Its just one less thing to do. All you really have to do is empty the trash bags at the base station where the robot empties its dust bin. Overall probably buying a 2nd one to add this first one.

Overall great product, makes life so easy, but somehow it feels like you just got very dumb trash eating cat. Pretty entertaining. It will chew any abandoned cords and will stuck in floor vents or slippers, on a piece of nut shell, and then will send distress signal buzzling your phone. Once it stuck on flat kitchen mat. Few times managed to pull the blanket from couch, get lost in the folds and drained battery to zero, trying to free itself. My parrots managed to accidentally switch it on few times too. Will pick up all trash and will get it stuck in a station. But cleans well. 1 hours is enough to go over 1000 feet. Easy to fix if stuff stuck in wheels or inside. Station cleaning also easy.

I've owned several robot vacuums the last few years, and had really high hopes for this super expensive Samsung one that would tie into my existing Smartthings system, but was incredibly disappointed by lack of software features and settings. The good: This is a well-made vacuum that has decent suction and a nice self-emptying dock. The bad: The integration with SmartThings is horrible, and the software and settings are extremely limited. For example, once you create a map of your floorplan, you can manually run it, but if you only want to clean one room, you can't just check that room, instead you have to uncheck every other room. Well I happen to be using this in a large space with many rooms, so it takes a while to uncheck every other room, and half the time the app "refreshes" and checks them all again and I have to start over. Minor inconvenience but not a dealbreaker. What IS a dealbreaker for me is the poor scheduling options. Unlike every other vacuum I've owned, Samsung doesn't let you schedule it to clean a particular room or set of rooms, you can only schedule it to do the entire map or not. So if you want it clean your kitchen every day but your bedroom only on certain days, you're out of luck. It makes the scheduling component completely useless. The other issue is if it gets stuck somewhere (as these vacuums tend to do), it won't try to free itself more than once, and it will go to sleep mode and offline, and you can no longer control it or see where it is on the map, so you have to then go searching all over for it and physically bring it back to the dock to charge. Other vacuums will stay online so you can still see it on the map. And despite the Samsung going offline, it still continues to use up the battery, so by the time you find it, it has no battery life and has to be charged. They really need to allow you to continue to connect with the vacuum even if it gets stuck. There's also questionable availability for replacement parts. I can find third-party replacement bags, but you can't order replacement brushes or rollers anywhere. And it came with 2 spinning edge brushes, and within a few uses, the brush lost one of the 3 ends, so I put on the replacement it came with, but if it happens again I'm left with a $600 vacuum with no side brush and no way to order another one? Every other vacuum I've owned I can always find replacement parts, as these side brushes don't last long. It's appalling that Samsung doesn't offer any of these for such an expensive vacuum. Based on it missing so many features, I would strongly recommend passing on this model, and stick with a trusted brand with better mapping and scheduling.

I’ve owned two robot vacuums now, this being the second. The first one I bought was from a no-name Chinese brand, which no longer sells the vacuum on Amazon or their site. I didn’t break the bank with that vacuum - it was like less than $100 I believe. The issue with that one is that it was just bumper car style - bouncing off of the walls. Also, there was no “smart” features connected to it at all and it was handled with a simple remote. Eventually, the battery just wouldn’t hold. After vacuuming for 5 minutes it would return to the charger. Anyways, with my second vacuum, I wanted to have it more future-proof than my last one. I looked around at the more expensive models, like the ones around $1000 from the more popular robot vacuum brands, and they justified the cost because of room/zone mapping, self-cleaning, LIDAR, etc. So, I was down, but I didn’t want to spend $1000+. This Samsung Jet Bot, which I named Cleonardo DiCaprio, so far is ticking off all the boxes I had for a robot vacuum for the next few years. First, setup was kind of an interesting experience. It’s not as simple as an Apple device, definitely not. Though it’s what you’d expect from a non-Apple device, I guess. You have to sync your vacuum with the Samsung SmartThings app, which isn’t the easiest to use. At first, the vacuum wouldn’t sync to my wifi, requiring me to reboot the vacuum and my phone to ultimately get it working. Once it connected, everything was pretty seamless. Once it charged up, it did a zone/room mapping of my loft. The feature is cool I guess, but after having it for a week I honestly just let the thing go on auto and it cleans my whole place. It is cool how it can differentiate “no go zones” without me having to Cleonardo, but to say that it requires little supervision would be a mistake. At times it would still get stuck under chair legs, or under my fridge, which I’d have to then adjust. I don’t think we’re at a “set it and forget it” world yet for robot vacuums. There have also been times where it would miss a giant piece of dust or lint, so it ain’t flawless. However, the whole LIDAR camera thing is pretty dope. There’s no more bumping off of random objects like a bumper car - its movements genuinely look like it’s looking for all the dirt. There was one time where I was watching it zoom past a piece of dust, thinking if it would catch it. Right after I had that thought it ate it up like the Tasmanian devil. Also, the cleaning of the vacuum is pretty neat as the compartment comes out from the top and it’s pretty easy to access. The self-cleaning models seems like a good idea, but in the case of Samsung the bags needed for changing are few and far between, and actually pretty costly. I wouldn’t recommend going for the self-cleaning versions. Anyways, the last dope feature is the voice activation and the ability to tie it to Google Home. Again, it’s not necessarily plug and play. You’d need to create “scenes” in SmartThings and then add the device to Google Home. But once you get it sorted, asking it to “activate ‘room service’” sends Cleonardo into a cleaning frenzy. Then finally, the voice from the actual vacuum is a nice touch - it actually feels futuristic. I would definitely recommend this Jet Bot to someone looking for more futuristic features from their robot vacuum without breaking the bank. I was lucky enough to get this on discount from Amazon, which made it a no brainer. But I think I’d still get it without the discount - it’s a sweet middle spot for people looking for a robot vacuum to last them a few years (i hope!). Plus it’s sexy AF.

The vacuum works very well, cleaning where it can, adapting to new areas and fitting into new spots as things move around, reversing when it gets stuck, and ensuring that it goes back to clean spots it knows it missed from its map. It cleans most spots exactly twice in a normal cycle. My only complaints are that the actual map doesn't seem to update after the first run, it did a bad job mapping on its very first run (since fixed), and the fact splitting of rooms in the app doesn't work.

Bought this vacuum at a ridiculous price - labeled 'used' but the description just said box was damaged. The box did indeed look terrible but the robot was brand new and in perfect condition. First off it talks and I didn't love that part. Faced with learning a new app and the annoying voice, I let it sit in the corner for a couple of days. (You can turn off the voice, or do what I did and change to a different language so it sounds like robotic nonsense - kind of charming) The app however turned out to be very easy to use. The robot drives around and makes a map, which you then edit with some simple tools. Name the rooms and make divided / combined areas so you can clean whichever room(s) you want with a couple of clicks once the map is all dialed in. You will need to get cords, socks, small rugs off the floor because otherwise it will get stuck - but it has no trouble getting around furniture, under the couch, the bed, normal carpeting, wherever. This vac does a better and more thorough job than anyone else in my house and it speaks 20 different languages.

UPDATE: The LIDAR unit failed on my machine. Samsung took care of the repair and I was back up and running within a week. When it came back, I did get a little note to be more cautious with the LIDAR?! I only used it to clean! Anyway, I got it all set back up (couldn't just turn it on and use, had to remap, etc.) Ever since it came back, the cleaning has been spotty. Even though it claims to have cleaned an entire room, it only cleaned a small portion of it. It never did this prior to the repair. I also had to create a nogo zone under my table because all but the LIDAR fit underneath and it would get stuck. I miss the way it worked when I first got it. Hopefully I can figure out how to make it finish the job! ORIGINAL REVIEW: 4 STARS I have never owned a robot vacuum before. I was looking at reviews and saw that the price on this unit had a significant price drop so I pulled the trigger. I had been looking at units with an upload station but ended up getting this. It is now just a part of my morning routine and the clean station uses a paper bag so I don't have that expense. The LIDAR mapping works well. And it has no problem getting over or around most obstacles. I have never killed the battery completely after doing a sweep of my entire main floor. So let me outline my pluses and minuses... +Requires minimal human intervention while cleaning +Works fairly quickly +It isn't excessively loud +Battery life is good +It works with my Smart Things system +Affordable price for premium machine +Minimal dog hair on rollers + Same unit as the one that comes with clean station but $450 less! -No full bin warning (at least not one that I have heard) -Most functions require app. -Can't save multiple maps -Support is difficult to access. Parts may be difficult to find. Overall, very satisfied with the unit. It cleans well and requires little assistance.

First of all if you have an Apple device you'll have one of the worst experience because smartthings does not play well with Apple. I'm a huge samsung fan but I did try other competitors as well. First and least expensive robot vacuum I used was Shark AI2511 ($300 during 50% off deal on Amazon). Shark should stick with $300 price tag because the value is just not there. Shark app is horrible. Mapping is not accurate and does not adjust well to changes. Second vac I tried was roomba j7+, most expensive at $579. Everything was good about it, except for the price and the lack of lidar for mapping. Suction was great. Louder than samsung. Comparable build quality to samsung. Third one was the Samsung (paid $400 during cyber monday deal). SmartThings quickly found the vacuum and started mapping the house (quick mapping feature). It mapped the first floor (1400sq.ft.) in roughly 15 min. Quick mapping was not very accurate though. That night I ran complete cleaning cycle and the map greatly improved. It had to self empty twice during the max power cleaning cycle. This vacuum talks a lot, it tells you everything that it does. It has very good build quality. Been using it for a month now with no complains.