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IROBOT ROOMBA J7+


PEACE OF MIND FOR PEOPLE WITH ACCIDENT-PRONE PETS

 * PROS
   
   * Pet waste-avoidance guarantee
   * Auto-empty base
   * Intelligently suggests Keep-Out Zones
   * Supports Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant voice commands
   * Allows for scheduled area cleanings
   * Rarely gets stuck
   * User-friendly companion app

 * CONS
   
   * Expensive
   * Unimpressive battery life

IROBOT ROOMBA J7+ PET OBSTACLE AVOIDING SELF-EMPTY ROBOT VACUUM SPECS

Battery Life (Tested)86 minutesDimensions13.3 by 13.3 by 3.4 inchesPhone
Control Scheduling Virtual Walls 

 

Here’s a five-word horror story: Robot vacuum meets dog poop. I’ve never
experienced this disaster firsthand, but imagine it would be traumatizing enough
to swear off floor-cleaning robots for life. The $849.99 iRobot Roomba j7+
promises to solve this problem by using a built-in camera and machine learning
technology to detect and automatically avoid common obstacles, namely pet waste
and cords. It’s smart in other ways, too. For example, it can detect (and then
bypass) potential obstacles based on your feedback. When it docks after a
cleaning run, the robot automatically empties its dustbin into an
allergen-sealed bag. And while its battery life doesn’t blow us away, the robot
will navigate back to its base to recharge and then pick up where it left off
when it runs low on power. So despite its premium price, the j7+ earns our
Editors’ Choice award for high-end robotic vacuums, especially if you have a
cluttered home or accident-prone pets.

 

If you want to have a totally hands-free approach to vacuum cleaning then team
the J7+ with your smart assistant to use voice assistant for controlling its
functions and command it to clean a certain room when you need. With its unique
ability to detect and avoid pet waste – a bit of an issue until now – as well as
pick up particles as small as .7 microns, we think this is a particularly good
buy for anyone with a cat or dog.    

 

At $799.99 / £899.99, the Roomba J7+ is one of the more expensive robot vacuums
on the market, especially when you consider that it doesn’t offer mopping
functionality alongside vacuuming. However, for those looking for the most
hands-off route to cleaning, not having to spend time clearing the floor before
the vacuum gets to work, it’s worth the investment. Plus, it’s also massively
discounted right now, thanks to the Roomba Black Friday deals that are live now.


IROBOT ROOMBA J7+ PRICE AND AVAILABILITY

 * List price: $799.99 / £899.99 / AUS $1,799

You can currently buy the Wi-Fi Connected iRobot Roomba j7+ Self-Emptying Robot
Vacuum online directly on the iRobot website and at Amazon for $799.99 / £899.99
/ AUS $1,799. At the time of writing it comes with two AllergenLock bags, a
spare edge-sweeping brush and filter as part of the package. 

While this price tag may feel a little steep for a robot cleaner that can’t
clean stairs, it comes with a convenient smart app to control it remotely and
notable features designed to make household chores a breeze. It can avoid pet
waste, charging cords and items left on the floor such as shoes and socks when
cleaning, and has the ability to automatically empty its bin on its own using
the enclosed bag system. The J7+ has a 10 x Power Lifting Suction compared to it
standard 600 series. Pay a bit more for the brand’s Wi-Fi Connected Roomba s9+
Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum, priced at $1,217/ £999 / AUS $2,899, and you can
benefit from 40 x Power Lifting Suction. You won’t, however, benefit from as
many smart features as the J7+ such as the ability to avoid pet mess on purpose.
 

The robot vacuum is also available without the self-emptying base. Known as the
iRobot Roomba J7, it’s priced at $599.99 / £699.99. 



(Image credit: TechRadar / Carrie-Ann Skinner)


DESIGN

 * 14oz / 0.4-liter dust box
 * Steers clear of pet mess with its P.O.O.P offering 
 * Floor and cliff sensors, and built-in camera 

Unlike the Roomba S9 Plus, which sports a D-shaped design, the Roomba J7+ is
circular in shape. Measuring 13.3 x 13.3 x 3.4 inches / 33.8 x 33.8 x 8.6cm, the
Roomba J7 is sleek, fusing matte black plastic with gunmetal accents. The top of
the robovac is completely flush, home to only one button to start and pause
cleaning, or held down for five seconds to send the robot vacuum back to its
base.  

A plastic bumper surrounds the top half of the robot vacuum, while on the
underside sit two wheels and a swivel wheel to help the robot vacuum work its
way around your home. Dual rubber brush bars flex to accommodate different floor
types, says iRobot, and ensure hair – whether human or pet – doesn’t become
tangled around them. There’s also a three-arm side brush for cleaning edges and
any crevices in a room. 

The J7+ comes with a 14oz / 0.4-liter dust box, and benefits from floor tracking
and cliff sensors, alongside a built-in camera, to enable it to take a
methodical route around your home – and to stop it from plunging to the bottom
of a flight of stairs. Unlike many robot vacuums on the market, you can’t
manually adjust the suction level here; but the J7 Plus will automatically
increase the power if it detects a particularly dirty area of the floor.



(Image credit: TechRadar / Carrie-Ann Skinner)

As mentioned, the J7+is self-emptying and comes with iRobot’s Clean Base.
Measuring 12.55 x 13.39 x 15.35 inches / 31.9 x 34 x 39cm (h x w x d), it’s
compact and features a textured design, giving it a more stylish look over most
charging and self-emptying docks. There’s even a brown leather tag on the lid,
to make opening it easier.  The Clean Base comes with two dirt disposal bags,
one fitted into the Clean Base and a spare. iRobot says the bags can hold up to
60 days worth of dirt before they need to be replaced and once the bin is full
you’ll be notified via the LED indicator light that will turn solid red.

The vacuum comes equipped with both sensors and a camera. It will activate its
own Dirt Detect Technology when it comes across an area that needs more
attention and clean that area until it detects fewer particles. Meanwhile, the
built-in camera helps the robot navigate and avoid mess. Having the ability to
detect pet mess is a particular bonus for this model. We also love the fact that
you can use it when you leave the house – even if you have your burglar alarm on
– as it is designed to be lower than the alarm line’s threshold.

 * Design: 4/5


PERFORMANCE

 * Excellent pick-up on carpet and hard floors
 * Can identify and avoid an array of obstacles
 * Gentle on Persian carpet tassels  

When it came to pick-up, the J7+ made light work of collecting fine dust, cookie
crumbs and larger debris – including cereal – from hard floors. However, on hard
floors we did find that the side brush had a tendency to push larger debris
further around the room, which made the vacuuming process slightly longer than
we’d hoped.  

Unlike many robot vacuums on the market, it isn’t possible to manually adjust
the suction level of the J7+. However, the robot vacuum can sense if areas of
the floor are particularly dirty, and it will increase the suction to
accommodate. This was evident through testing, as our decibel meter registered
noise climbing by around 5db. As we’ve already mentioned, the J7+ can create
maps of your home, and it’s possible to save maps of different levels. This
meant we were able to clean both the ground and first floor of our home
successfully. 

The robot vacuum took a methodical route around our home when vacuuming, and
thanks to the on-board camera, it only occasionally bumped into furniture. We
were also impressed that the J7+ was able to identify and avoid obstacles,
including a charging cable and a sock, which we deliberately placed in its path.
We also wanted to know if it would be powerful enough to accidentally pick up a
small plastic toys the kids had left laying around the house and get jammed in
the cleaner. Luckily, we found it trying to move toy obstacles out of the way by
pushing through them rather than sucking them up. 



(Image credit: TechRadar / Emily Peck)

We were also concerned about the floor-trailing curtains in the living room, but
this didn’t seem to cause any problems as the vacuum stopped before touching
them and turned away. If your curtains do touch the floor, this will mean you’ll
have to manually lift them out of the way to get a more thorough clean, however.

A big bonus of this cleaner is that it will avoid pet mess, so we reluctantly
left some cat mess in the middle of the room to see if the vacuum would steer
clear. We’re pleased to say that it did.

To see how well the robot did at picking up fine dust, we created our own mess
with 10g of crushed digestives and 10g of flour and sprinkled the mixture on
both the hard floor and carpet. We did the same with 10g of oats, to see how
well it did at picking up larger debris. We then used the app to create a ‘clean
zone’ so we could pinpoint where we wanted the iRobot to go. If you team it with
voice assistant you can then also say something such as “Alexa, tell Roomba to
clean in front of the kitchen counter”. 



(Image credit: TechRadar / Emily Peck)

Unfortunately, the vacuum didn’t do as well as we’d liked. While it did identify
the mess and is meant to clean systematically, its brush threw the digestive and
flour mix and oats away from it before going back to attempt to pick it all up.
It then found it all a little too much and spewed out the oats on its way back
to the charging station. In contrast, the vacuum did very well giving the home a
general clean with day to day dust, hair and dirt already scattered around the
floor. We set it to do a general clean everywhere and were pleased to find how
well it did an overall clean and found the iRobot sitting contently back in its
dock after cleaning.



(Image credit: TechRadar / Emily Peck)

The J7+ robot vacuum proved pleasingly quiet in operation, whether cleaning hard
or carpeted floors, registering a maximum of 64db on our decibel meter during
use. This is similar to the sound of general chatter in an office. 

Even better, if you interrupt a clean to ask the robot vacuum to tackle a
specific area, it will shut down the vacuuming components of the device, so it’s
as quiet as possible while moving between jobs. 

Low noise doesn’t extend to those times the robovac docks and empties its dust
canister – in this instance our decibel meter hit 90.6db, which is the sound
you’d experience standing 20ft from an automatic car wash. This makes the J7+
one of the noisiest robot vacuums we’ve tested. 

We were impressed with the J7 Plus’s geofencing feature, however, which started
the robot vacuuming once we’d left the house, so it didn’t get under our feet.
Even better, we were able to set the robot vacuum to stop cleaning and return to
its base station if it hadn’t completed vacuuming by the time we’d returned
home. Alternatively, the robot vacuum will pause cleaning if you return home
before it’s finished, sending you a notification to ask whether it should
continue. Note that this geofencing feature does require an IFTTT account, which
is free to set up. 



(Image credit: TechRadar / Carrie-Ann Skinner)
 * Performance: 4/5


APP

 * Stores photos of obstacles 
 * Integration with Alexa and Google Assistant
 * Access your favorite rooms easily

Connecting to the iRobot Home App was straightforward enough. We simply
downloaded the app, created an account then connected to Wi-Fi and paired the
vacuum with our smartphone. We also found it very easy to link to our Alexa
voice assistant.  

It would have been nice to have more cleaning controls on the actual iRobot so
you can clean without using the app, but for a smart vacuum like this we found
the app played a major role.

The iRobot app is simple to use. It’s clearly laid out, with an easy way to name
the j7+ and then ‘vacuum everywhere’. You can even name your vacuum, so we
called it ‘Bruce’ – just because we’re Springsteen fans. It also gives you the
option to easily create a schedule so you can set it to come on at a certain
time or vacuum while you’re out. There’s also a messages box that gives you
reminders about how to keep your robot ‘happy’, which we felt was a nice touch. 

Sending the J7+ out on its maiden voyage via the app it will map your home as it
cleans, including creating room boundaries and highlighting rooms with carpets.
It’s then possible to edit the map, adjust the boundaries and assign names to
the individual rooms. This will enable the J7+ to clean individual rooms, as
well as the whole floor. 

Once vacuuming is complete, the app provides an overview of the session, which
covers the area cleaned, the time spent vacuuming, and the number of dirt events
– or areas where the robovac noticed more dirt than usual. If the Roomba J7+ has
encountered any obstacles, it will store pictures of these in the app, which can
be reviewed and confirmed as a temporary obstacle, an area the robot vacuum
should avoid, or a false positive. Even better, the Roomba can be sent back to
clean up the areas it missed as a result of suspected obstacles in just one
tap. 

From the app, you can also create a schedule for times the robot vacuum should
clean, and to adjust what the robot vacuum does when its dust canister is full.
A feature that automatically brings up a feedback form when you take a screen
grab proved extremely handy, making it easy to report any issues with the robot
vacuum, and to get them resolved. 

The J7+ is compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant, so you can use your
voice, rather than the app, to start the robot vacuum cleaning your floors.



(Image credit: TechRadar / Emily Peck)
 * App: 5/5


BATTERY LIFE

 * Will ‘intelligently recharge’ for the amount of time required to continue
   cleaning
 * Battery takes around two hours to fully recharge from flat
 * Indicator level doesn’t show a percentage

iRobot doesn’t make claims about how long the Roomba J7 Plus’s battery lasts
between charges. However, the robot vacuum will automatically return to its
charging station if it doesn’t have sufficient battery remaining to complete a
clean. In these instances it will recharge just enough to finish the job. 

We were able to clean both floors of a three-bedroom house on one full charge –
but, annoyingly, the battery level doesn’t offer a percentage of time remaining,
so we had to take a guess over how much charge was left. It took two hours to
fully recharge the J7+. 



(Image credit: TechRadar / Carrie-Ann Skinner)

You’ll need to leave Roomba docked in its charging station to ensure it’s always
ready to perform and connected to Wi-Fi. iRobot told us that it only uses a
‘very small amount of energy’ when docked, and it is possible to put it in a
reduced power state via the app when it is not in use. 

 * Battery: 5/5

iRobot Roomba j7+ Self-Emptying Robot VacuumAttributesNotesRatingDesignCompact
and with an excellent self-emptying feature and app controls, but could do with
more controls on the actual body of the vacuum.4/5PerformancePicked up most day
to day mess well, but struggled a little when presented with densely packed mess
such as the sprinkling of oats and flour we set out.4/5AppIncludes lots of
useful features to stop and start the machine and tailor your vacuum to the
exact area you would like cleaned using the smart map.5/5Battery lifeRather
impressive run time and ability to find its way back to base when it needs to
recharge.5/5


BUY IT IF…

You don’t want to clean up before vacuuming
For those who don’t want to have to pick up items such as stray charging cables,
or the odd sock, off the floor before setting the robovac to clean, the J7+ is
ideal. It will identify such items and avoid them. 

 

You have pets
While some pets may be a bit scared of how loud the j7+ can get, it does a good
job at avoiding humans and pets and cleaning pet dander and dust. And the best
feature is that it will actively avoid pet mess.  

 

You want a hands-off approach to vacuuming
This robot vacuum is self-emptying and can deposit the contents of its dust
canister into the Clean Station itself. This means you only need to remove and
replace the dirt disposal bag from the base station around once every 60 days,
depending upon how often the robot vacuum cleans. 

 


DON’T BUY IT IF…

You’re on a budget
While this isn’t the most expensive Roomba model on the market (that honor goes
to the S9 Plus, which comes in at an eye-watering $1099.99 / £1499.99), it’s
still one of the more expensive robovacs on the market. If you’re on a budget,
consider the Roomba i3 or models from Eufy instead. 

 

You don’t want on-going costs
The Roomba J7 Plus’s replacement dirt disposal bags cost $19.99 / £21.95 for
three. If you don’t want to fork out for these, this is a robot vacuum to
avoid. 

 

You can’t bear noise
While the Roomba J7 Plus is pleasingly quiet while its working its way around
carpets and hard floors, it’s excruciatingly noisy when emptying its dust
canister – our decibel meter registered 90.6db, making it one of the loudest
self-emptying models we’ve tested. 


KEY FEATURES

 

 *  TypeThis is a vacuum-only robot cleaner, with no mopping mode. It does have
   a camera, which helps the robot navigate and avoid mess, even pet mess.
 *  Battery lifeQuoted battery life is up to 75 minutes, although the robot can
   return to its dock and recharge in the middle of a clean.


INTRODUCTION

If you ever feel a little like you have to do a lot of tidying up before your
robot vacuum cleaner can get to work, then the iRobot Roomba J7+ could be for
you. With a camera on the front, it can spot and avoid problem areas
automatically, and even comes with a guarantee against it running over pet mess.

It’s the flexible app and powerful cleaning that really matter for this robot
vacuum cleaner, making it a pleasure to use and able to fit in around your
schedule. Here, I’m reviewing the ‘+’ model, which has a self-emptying dock, but
you can buy the standard iRobot Roomba J7 without the dock for less.


DESIGN AND FEATURES

 * Excellent app and controls
 * Camera aids navigation
 * Empties the bin automatically

The iRobot Roomba J7+ doesn’t stray too far from the design of other iRobot
vacuums, such as the recent Roomba i7+. Here, iRobot has made an effort to
streamline the robot, with just a single button on top and nothing else to get
in the way.


 
 

This button can be tapped once to start the cleaner, once to stop it and you can
press and hold to have it scuttle back to its dock. That’s all the control that
I use on a daily basis, and I often find that hitting the button saves having to
fish my phone out.

Flip the iRobot Roomba J7+ over and it’s business as usual. There’s a single
side brush, which sweeps debris from the edge of the room into the main suction
path. In the middle, there are two rubber rollers that move in opposite
directions. They’re designed so that hair won’t wrap around them.

 
 

You’ll see the camera at the front. Much like the camera on the Roborock S6
MaxV, this is used for navigation and object recognition, avoiding mess
automatically.

 
 

At the back of the robot is the 0.4-litre bin. This just pulls out for manual
emptying, plus you can reach the filter at the front of it for cleaning. If you
buy the standard J7, you’ll need to pull this out a lot; the J7+ just returns to
its Clean Base dock where its bin is emptied automatically.

 
 

Unlike the older Clean Base, the one here isn’t quite as tall; that said, you’ll
still need an open space to put it in, as you can’t fit this dock under
furniture. Flip open the Clean Base’s lid and you can see the disposable bags:
there’s space for the current one, plus a spare. 

 
 

According to iRobot, bags should last 60 days each, with replacements costing
£21.95 for a pack of three. That’ll cost you just shy of £44 a year in bags, so
consider this before buying; the standard J7 just has a reusable bin, so is much
cheaper to run.

Once the robot is set up, you can connect it to the iRobot app. When you first
use the app, you’ll see that it’s a little bare. That’s because the iRobot
Roomba J7+ hasn’t managed to map its environment yet. To do this, you can either
send the J7+ out on a mapping run, where it doesn’t vacuum or let it discover
its surroundings naturally during a clean.

In either case, it takes a few runs before the system is happy enough to
generate a map – that’s quite a bit slower than the competition.

Still, once the J7+ has got its map (or maps if you have multiple floors), you
can start to customise the space. Primarily, this means customising the map into
rooms and sub-zones. That lets you customise where the robot cleans, say just
cleaning the kitchen or even tackling a smaller area, such as the prep area
where you make food.


 
 

You can also set boundaries and no-go zones. These are helpful if you find that
the robot gets stuck in one area all of the time.

Where the iRobot Roomba J7+ comes into its own is with the way that it runs.
Rather than having a clean button, you can create jobs. These tell the J7+ where
to clean (or to clean everywhere), and appear as shortcuts on the screen. At the
tap of a button, then, you can clean your whole house or just a room.

 
 

You can schedule cleans to happen at specific times, although the J7+ can also
use your location, turning on when you go out. That’s brilliant, as it lets the
robot fit around your life. The more you use the J7+, the smarter it gets, and
it will start to suggest cleaning routines for you.


 
 

There are no power settings for this robot, and it runs on one setting. Instead,
you can customise the level of cleaning. Room-size clean will let the J7+ tackle
large rooms once, and smaller rooms two-to-three times; Daily clean just covers
the area once; Extra clean covers the entire space twice. These settings make
more sense than power settings, as it’s clearer what the vacuum cleaner will
actually do.

Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant Skills are available and the J7+ goes beyond
the simple start/stop commands: you can tell it to clean a specific room or
area, too. There’s also an IFTTT Channel, so you can start a clean when your
smart alarm goes on, or you can flash your Hue lights if the J7+ gets stuck.


PERFORMANCE

 * Powerful suction
 * Edge performance could be better
 * Neatly avoids clutter

As with the Roborock S6 MaxV, the iRobot Roomba J7+ uses its camera to detect
and avoid problems. Currently, the camera can spot shoes, socks, cables, and pet
mess; as training improves, new objects will be added to the list. Testing it
with some strategically placed items, including fake pet poop, and the J7+
neatly moved around everything giving it a wide berth.

As iRobot has its Pet Owner Official Promise, which states that you’ll get a
free replacement robot if the J7+ runs over any solid pet mess within your first
year of ownership, I tried to catch the robot out. No matter where I placed the
fake poop around the test lab, the J7+ avoided it. In fact, there was only one
scenario where the robot didn’t: placing the poop behind the dock fooled the
J7+, and it reversed into the mess.

This is because the camera is at the front, so the J7+ couldn’t see the mess
until it reversed and then turned around. Even so, the system should catch the
vast majority of potentially messy incidents.

Navigation otherwise is generally very good, with just the occasional issue:
once the J7+ managed to get between the wheels of an office chair and couldnt
work out how to escape. I’ve yet to review a robot vacuum cleaner that is
completely immune to getting trapped.

Testing the iRobot J7+ out on real-world mess, I first of all set it to the
Extra Clean setting. I then sprinkled test dirt (flour) around the room.

Testing on carpets, the J7+ did a very good job of dirt removal. There’s a small
trace of mess behind, but that’s it: nothing major and a regular vacuum cleaner
would easily deal with what’s left.

 

Next, I put flour into the middle of the hard floor. Here, the J7+ managed to
pick up everything without leaving any mess behind.

 
 
 
 

Finally, I spilt flour right up to the kitchen plinth. Here, performance wasn’t
so good. As the J7+ has only one side brush, it needs to come at this mess from
the right angle. The robot picked up the mess towards the middle of the floor,
but didn’t get into the edge that well; the Dyson 360 Heurist does better in
this test.

Still, overall performance is good. My test spills are more dirt than a regular
robot would be expected to deal with, and the iRobot J7+ is a good maintenance
cleaner so that when you do have to get a regular vacuum cleaner out, you won’t
have to spend long cleaning.

Battery life is quoted at 75-minutes, which might seem a little off the pace of
the competition, but that’s because the iRobot Roomba J7+ runs at one power
level. Other robots have maximum battery life quoted at the less effective lower
power settings.

Overall, this robot has more than enough power to cope with one or two levels of
a regular house, when set to Extra Clean. If the robot needs more juice, it can
top up its battery mid-clean.

I measured the robot at a reasonable 59.6dB: loud enough to hear, but quiet
enough that you can talk over it. The dock is louder, however: as loud as a
cordless cleaner on its turbo setting. Fortunately, the dock only turns on its
suction for a short period to empty the J7+’s bin effectively.


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