iRobot Roomba Combo i5+ Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum and Mop, Clean by Room with Smart Mapping, Empties Itself for Up to 60 Days, Works with Alexa, Personalized Cleaning OS


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Brand iRobot
Model Name Roomba Combo i5+
Special Feature Smart Mapping, Clean by room, Cleans in neat rows, Self-Emptying
Color Black
Product Dimensions 13.4"L x 13.5"W x 3.6"H
Surface Recommendation
Hardwood, Hardfloor, Carpet
Controller Type
Amazon Alexa, Siri, Voice Control
Battery Cell Composition
Lithium Ion
Item Weight
7 Pounds

About this item

  • POWERFUL PERFORMANCE. POWERFUL PICKUP. Pulls in the everyday dirt and debris with a 4-Stage Cleaning System, featuring unique Dual Multi-Surface Rubber Brushes that adjust to different floor types and avoid getting tangled with pet hair.
  • AUTOMATICALLY EMPTIES ITS BIN ON ITS OWN FOR UP TO 60 DAYS. Cleans up after itself, emptying its Vacuum Bin into an enclosed bag that holds up to 60 days of debris, which means two whole months of not thinking about vacuuming.
  • CLEANS THE ROOMS YOU WANT WHEN YOU WANT. Learns your home and creates an Imprint Smart Map so you can direct it to clean any room you want, any time you want—either on a set schedule or in the moment.
  • FOCUSES ON DIRT. Patented Dirt Detect Technology allows the Roomba Combo i5 plus robot to detect dirtier areas of your home and clean them more thoroughly when the Vacuum Bin is installed.
  • DOUBLE THE CLEAN WITH ONE MACHINE. The Roomba Combo i5 plus robot vacuum and mop is designed for both wet and dry floor cleaning—converting from an all-floor vacuum to a vacuum and mop, with the simple switch of a bin.
  • A MOP PAD DESIGNED FOR PERFORMANCE. Designed for wet floor mopping performance, the specialized microfiber pad tackles footprints, dirt and dust.
  • CLEAN YOUR WAY MORE EFFICIENTLY. Fill the Roomba Combo Bin’s tank with a compatible cleaning solution* of your choice or just water and instantly transform your robot into a vacuuming and wet mopping robot that leaves your home fresh and clean. *See iRobot website for list of compatible cleaning solutions.

Customer ratings by feature

Battery life
3.4 3.4
For cleaning up hair
3.1 3.1
Suction power
2.9 2.9
For deep cleaning
2.5 2.5

From the manufacturer

Roomba Combo i5+ Features

Neat rows

Efficient - and Smart

Cleans in straight lines back and forth, navigating around furniture and obstacles.

Smart recharge and resume

Knows where it left off

When its running low on battery, Roomba Combo i5+ robot vacuum and mop recharges and resumes right where it left off, ensuring a complete clean.

Prevent accidental starts with Child & Pet Lock.

Prevent accidental starts

Prevent playtime from becoming clean time with Child & Pet Lock. Enable this feature using the iRobot Home App to lock your robots Clean button.

Clean Base

Automatically empties its bin

Forget about vacuuming for months with the Clean Base Automatic Dirt Disposal, allowing the Vacuum Bin to self-empty for up to 60 days.

We Care About You

Easy to use app

Easy to use App

The iRobot Home App provides control of your clean with enhanced maps, custom routines, seasonal suggestions, and intuitive smart home integration.

Made with you in mind

Made with you in mind​

iRobot OS does more than just clean. It learns and adapts to your space, habits, and preferences to customize a cleaning plan tailor-made for you.

Privacy

Your privacy is our priority​

We use only the highest standards of data encryption and only use your information to improve your experience and your robots performance.

30 years

30 years of experience​

The iRobot promise is backed by 30 years expertise, innovation, and responsive service. If you ever need help, we're just a phone call or email away.

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1,345
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Mop type
Interchangeable Bin Interchangeable Bin Interchangeable Bin Interchangeable Bin Retractable mop arm
Cleaning Power
50% more suction power Standard 50% more suction power 50% more suction power 50% more suction power 100% more suction power 50% more suction power
Edge and corner cleaning
Clean with voice assistant
Automatic dirt disposal
Compatible Compatible
Clean by room
Clean by zone or object
Set No Mop Zones
Recognizes & avoids obstacles
Auto avoids mopping carpet
Cleans dirtiest rooms first

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Product Description

Whether your mess is wet or dry, the Roomba Combo i5 plus robot vacuum and mop can double up on cleaning tasks with one machine. From spilled crackers to everyday shoe prints—this robot can handle it. Set it to vacuum only or vacuum and mop your hard floors by swapping in the Roomba Combo Bin.​ ​.

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Customer Ratings
Suction power
2.9
4.0
4.2
4.2
4.0
4.0
Battery life
3.4
4.4
4.0
4.2
4.5
For deep cleaning
2.5
3.7
3.8
3.6
3.7
Value for money
2.3
4.0
4.2
2.4
3.7
For cleaning up hair
3.1
4.0
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Amazon.com
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surface suggestion
Hardwood, Hardfloor, Carpet
Hard Floor, Carpet, Wood, Tile
Hard Floor & Tile & Medium carpet
Carpet, Hard floor
Carpet, wood floor
Hard Floor, Tile, Marble, Stone, Carpet, Wood
runtime
180 minutes
120 minutes
180 minutes
batteries included
battery average life
180 minutes
180 minutes
120 minutes
180 minutes
150 minutes
210 minutes
compatible devices
Amazon Echo
Amazon Echo, Google Home, Smartphones
Amazon Echo, Smartphones
Amazon Echo
Amazon Echo, Google Home, Smartphones
Amazon Echo
weight
7 pounds
15.43 pounds
11.68 pounds
23.6 pounds
14 kilograms
38.2 pounds

Customer reviews

3.6 out of 5 stars
3.6 out of 5
1,345 global ratings

Customers say

Customers have expressed negative opinions about the stickiness, mapping, and noise of the robotic vacuum cleaner. For example, they mention it gets stuck everywhere, the mapping is horrible, and the noise is too loud. Customers also have issues with connectivity. Opinions are mixed on quality, water control, ease of use, and performance.

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262 customers mention "Quality"91 positive171 negative

Customers are mixed about the quality of the robotic vacuum cleaner. Some mention that it does a great job keeping their carpets clean, while others say that it never finished cleaning the kitchen and that it has to constantly clean the vacuum.

"...A few points to consider:Cannot vacuum your stairs, alas..." Read more

"...But this vacuum mop combo is amazing. It's primarily a vacuum. You can swap bins when you want to mop...." Read more

"Some features on this are just not worth my effort to make work...." Read more

"...It’s programmed to do a once over and it vacuums the same room several times when it runs. Not as pleased with this one as I was with the..." Read more

172 customers mention "Performance"70 positive102 negative

Customers are mixed about the performance of the robotic vacuum cleaner. Some mention that it works perfectly, is very good at what it does, and works great going over thresholds. However, others say that it doesn't want to work, makes it nearly impossible for it to continue its job if it receives an error, and the setup didn't work.

"...Had an initial problem with the base not working and the company immediately replaced it with very little question." Read more

"...Also, the self-emptying worked great -- even without a successful mapping run, the Roomba was able to find its way back to base and charge and..." Read more

"...No matter what I program in, it seems to do its own thing. It takes entire day (sometimes over 8 hrs) to vacuum my 2800 sq ft house...." Read more

"...The mopping feature works well depending on size of the area. So far I have no complaints. Love being able to name it...." Read more

89 customers mention "Ease of use"29 positive60 negative

Customers are mixed about the ease of use of the robotic vacuum cleaner. Some mention that the app is great, very user friendly, and easy to program. They say it has no issues navigating around pets and navigates over them. However, others say that it's too complicated, confusing, and frustrating to set up.

"Bottom Line Up Front: The vacuum cleans well, but the software is ROUGH. I would not recommend for large or complicated floor plans...." Read more

"...Easy set up, pull out of box and plug in- App is great, very user friendly, love being able to set schedules and send it to certain rooms..." Read more

"...The mop is also extremely rudimentary and requires that you both fill the water and empty the bin...." Read more

"...I had a hard time defaulting the product for my set up. It was not even cleaned. I had to replace the filter, edge-sweeper, and rubber brushes...." Read more

34 customers mention "Water control"14 positive20 negative

Customers are mixed about the water control of the robotic vacuum cleaner. Some mention that it's great that it empty the container on its own, and that it can empty itself for up to 60 days. However, others say that it stopped successfully emptying its bin automatically and that the bin bag cause it to want to empty the bin.

"...(I do have to shake out the filter once a week or the self-emptying seems to fail, but still better than pulling out the vacuum cleaner every night)..." Read more

"...cleaning certain rooms that I tell it to on the app, and I love the self emptying feature...." Read more

"...It will soake the base with water and every time you use later the vacuum and empty the dust bin you will get the water all the way up to the dust..." Read more

"...The fact that it can empty itself for up to 60 days makes it a trouble and low maintenance appliance." Read more

51 customers mention "Mapping"11 positive40 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the mapping feature of the robotic vacuum cleaner. They say it fails to map the room properly, missing 50% of the space every time. They also say the vacuum can't find its map, and that the map learning feature does not work. Customers also mention that the vacuum gets lost in the map and constantly has issues with it.

"...The suction & vacuuming features work great. The mapping is horrible. No matter what I program in, it seems to do its own thing...." Read more

"...this version does not have the map learning so it maps once and that's what you're set with unless you delete it and rerun, does not learn or update..." Read more

"...It went into areas not on the map. It skipped whole parts of the mapped area despite them being included in the job...." Read more

"I gave this to my mom for Christmas and she loves it. The mapping function was perfect" Read more

39 customers mention "Connectivity"0 positive39 negative

Customers have issues with the connectivity of the robotic vacuum cleaner. They say it loses connection and gets lost. Some customers also mention that the device is unresponsive or not capable of being connected to the app on phone. They also say it has trouble connecting with the cloud and that it's defective.

"...it is correctly connected to a 2.4 wifi and still constantly losing connection and getting lost, see video...." Read more

"I just unboxed my Irobot and had trouble connecting with the cloud. cannot just plug and go...AI technology sucks...." Read more

"...Suction issue, connection issue, clean base issue...." Read more

"...Update - I hate this vacuum ! Lost WiFi in a storm and seems dead now." Read more

36 customers mention "Noise"7 positive29 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the noise produced by the robotic vacuum cleaner. They mention that it makes too much noise and makes the cat freak out. Some say that the self-emptying feature is noisy, but convenient.

"...and then test it a few more times to see if it's a solid obstacle, very loud as it bumps around the house and furniture...." Read more

"The vacuum cleaner is very loud, a filter is located and the dust bin and has to be replaced very very often it has no protection over it like a..." Read more

"...The build for this i5+ has cheap parts loosening sound after a few use.-..." Read more

"Does a good job of cleaning and is way more quiet than my old one." Read more

34 customers mention "Stickiness"0 positive34 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the stickiness of the robotic vacuum cleaner. They mention that it gets stuck everywhere, under furniture, and on air. Some say that it slips on wet surfaces and runs into furniture and walls.

"...Fair, good size it does get stuck under on things quite often but it’s easily resolvable...." Read more

"...it finds the most complicated place on the map and gets stuck requiring me to move furniture around to access it...." Read more

"...-Quirky. Needs to reboot often.-Slips on wet surface, so expect to be rescuing your vac all the time...." Read more

"...It gets stuck and has errors constantly and the way it is set up makes it nearly impossible for it to continue its job if it receives an error...." Read more

Edit: $400 order +Maitenance just to collect dust with my floors.
1 Star
Edit: $400 order +Maitenance just to collect dust with my floors.
——Edit: I reached out for support on this because the whole base stopped working. I haven’t even had it a full year. No refund. No replacement no real help. So I have an almost $400 device collecting dust along with my floors. I do not recommend unless you have the money for constant maintenance on it just to have it end up in the recycle. Then buy another. ———I loved this vacuum. It was the perfect thing for my home. We do have pets. Though it doesn’t get the edges, It is quite simple to just sweep around the edges and under furniture and then send this off to go and collect the rest being that usually when you sweep up into a dustpan, you have a lot of leftover. I wouldn’t necessarily say that it saves time but it is so convenient. I go to bed and I can set it off about lunchtime. We can set it off when we go outside. We can turn it on. It’s amazing. It has no issues navigating around the pets even when they’re laying down, they have learned to just stay there in the vacuum go around them .Fair, good size it does get stuck under on things quite often but it’s easily resolvable. It has stopped getting stuck as much the more that we have ran it. As far as the app goes, I don’t really prefer it. I did try the Smart mapping, but it didn’t match the layout of my home so it was very difficult for me to label where it was supposed to go. The smart mapping feature just wasn’t for us.However, we are having issues with charging, and I can’t get it to stay charging. We can get it to charge long enough to do one looper on the house and then it says that it can’t charge we have cleaned the entire unit as well as the vacuum we have replaced and done the maintenance Prematurely because we do have pets. I’m not sure how to fix this and it hasn’t been that long since we purchased. I’m not sure if the company has recommendations!
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Top reviews from the United States

Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2024
Model name: Roomba Combo i5+Verified Purchase
This is my third robot vacuum cleaner. My first was a generic Chinese brand, the second was a Shark with the self emptying feature which was a bonus. But this vacuum mop combo is amazing. It's primarily a vacuum. You can swap bins when you want to mop. Of course, with any robot, you must train it. Once trained properly, you can let it do it's thing autonomously. This is the not the highest end model but it does everything I need it to do. I was especially impressed by the mopping which I was a bit skeptical of at first.
When purchasing, you should get all of the additional replacement parts such as the brushes, filters and bags as well. I found that I've always had to replace all of those for all of the brands I've used.
I have multiple pets (casts and dots) which, of course, bring their own mess such as pet hair and food crumbs(Milk Bones to be exact). So having a robot vacuum and mop through out the week helps keep the place nice and tidy.
Maybe I'll get the Brava which just mops later at some point.
I highly recommend this product. I could have saved myself a considerable amount of money but just choosing Rumba to begin with.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2024
Model name: Roomba Combo i5+Verified Purchase
Bottom Line Up Front: The vacuum cleans well, but the software is ROUGH. I would not recommend for large or complicated floor plans. If you keep it confined to one room (with physical barriers) it would probably work okay.

This is not the first robotic vacuum that I've had and not the first Roomba. My experience with the other vacuums led me to believe that any vacuum would have trouble with a complicated floor plan, but after reading about the Smart Mapping feature of this robot (and the ability to name rooms and send the robot to a specific room), I decided to give the Roomba i5+ a try.

Assembling the robot was relatively easy. The base is pretty large (and not very pretty) and we had a little trouble finding a good place to set it, but we settled on an interior room in the center of our house. After letting the battery fully charge, we sent the robot out on a mapping run. 9 hours later, the mapping run failed.

The next day, we sent it on another mapping run. This time the run failed after 7 hours. At this point, we gave up on mapping and just said "clean everything". This run was mostly successful, but still took about 7 hours to complete. (I should state that our house is an old farm house. The ground floor is about 1800 square feet and there are a few rooms with multiple doorways). The floors were noticeably cleaner after running, so the cleaning power is good. Also, the self-emptying worked great -- even without a successful mapping run, the Roomba was able to find its way back to base and charge and empty.

A few days later, we tried another mapping run and this time after about 4 hours, the run was successful. We finally had a Smart Map. We went through and named rooms, then sent the robot to clean a particular room. From this point on, there were zero runs in the "History" section of the app that were successful. In many cases, the robot completed a run, but did not log anything in the history section, so I can't see what it really did. In other cases, the robot failed its run.

Overall, I like the concept, and the cleaning power is good. But I feel like I'm doing way too much work to get this thing working -- this was supposed to save me time, but it would have been faster and better to vacuum by hand.

UPDATE:

Lowering the rating to 1 star. I have owned this robot now for 3 full months and it has only ever successfully ran a scheduled "mission" twice. I spend more time troubleshooting this robot than it would take to vacuum my house in a given week.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2024
Model name: Roomba Combo i5+Verified Purchase
Best purchase I have made in some time. My house is now vacuumed 3 times a week with very little effort on my part. A few points to consider:
Cannot vacuum your stairs, alas
Isn't able to vacuum the tiny areas blocked by furniture, under the refrigerator etc.
Does need some maintenance like clearing out hair wrapped around the rollers, or vacuuming clean the filter periodically between replacements.
Is perfectly capable of being set down in an unknown room or second floor and told to clean. You just need to carry it and once done set it near the base and tell it to go home.
It can only have one map of your main floor but that doesn't appear to cause any challenges when you have it clean another floor, it does show you in history what it cleaned.

It is really nice to have dinner while Reba (our Roomba) is upstairs vacuuming or to come home to a clean floor.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2024
Model name: Roomba Combo i5+Verified Purchase
Some features on this are just not worth my effort to make work. I went simple - set to vacuum everywhere once a day and make sure everything is off the floor, recliners up, and doors shut and it does its thing every morning while the coffee brews. When once I Swiffered now I Rumba! Well, actually I don't do a thing and that's what I wanted.

Sure, it misses things. But then it's not a $100 an hour paid person either and I'm not a Rockefeller—just someone who doesn't wish to spend time sweeping up after a shedding dog every day.

Had an initial problem with the base not working and the company immediately replaced it with very little question.
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2024
Model name: Roomba Combo i5+Verified Purchase
I have been using mine for about 3 weeks. Vacuum is great just hit the corners and edges every once in awhile and it does the rest. The mopping feature works well depending on size of the area. So far I have no complaints. Love being able to name it. It is named after a coworker I give a lot of crap too, even put his picture on it. I yell at him to get to work and makes my day. Definitely recommend this model.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2024
Model name: Roomba Combo i5+Verified Purchase
This is my second Romba and probably my last. The suction & vacuuming features work great. The mapping is horrible. No matter what I program in, it seems to do its own thing. It takes entire day (sometimes over 8 hrs) to vacuum my 2800 sq ft house. Many times it just dies in the middle of a room. It’s programmed to do a once over and it vacuums the same room several times when it runs.
Not as pleased with this one as I was with the first one. And sadly, I haven’t had this one a year yet.
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Sweeping part is fine the mop part is not good disappointed
5.0 out of 5 stars I robot
Reviewed in Canada on May 30, 2024
Model name: Roomba Combo i5+Verified Purchase
It doesnt mop properly
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Jessarie
1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed
Reviewed in Canada on March 5, 2024
Model name: Roomba Combo i5+Verified Purchase
Doesn't work well at all! It leaves rolled up hair on the floor, doesn't suck it up just balls it up running over it. It doesn't empty itself out, says bin is full and there is nothing in it, then doesn't go back to the base and empty out. Gets "Stuck" a lot when there is clear space for it to continue running. Near the stairs it gets stuck saying "close to a cliff". When started it will go out for a couple minutes then go back to the base and say "Job Completed" when it didn't do anything at all. The mop feature is a joke. I could probably go on and on about my complaints about this Robot. It is horrible. Roomba keeps telling us they don't have any in stock and we've been waiting and waiting for an exchange. We bought is early for Christmas and we missed the Amazon return date. They won't give us a refund because we bought it off Amazon. Which is too bad because we would honestly prefer to try a different brand with how bad this Vacuum has done.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very good suction power
Reviewed in Canada on December 26, 2023
Model name: Roomba Combo i5+Verified Purchase
Very nice little robot. This is my first robot vacuum cleaner and so far I love the little machine. Works well as a vacuum. Haven't really used the mop feature yet. Absolutely love that it self empties itself into the base. Set up was a breeze and once I sent it out on a mapping run now it returns to it base without any issues. Can't beat it for helping keep the house clean. 3 cats 2 dogs and 3 toddlers. Really has its work cut out for it
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Henry
4.0 out of 5 stars there was no owners manual or anything how to operate it.product is good , very frustrating.
Reviewed in Canada on February 29, 2024
Model name: Roomba Combo i5+Verified Purchase
we like the machine but no instrucion how to operate it .
Georgie
5.0 out of 5 stars Great so far
Reviewed in Canada on April 9, 2024
Model name: Roomba Combo i5+Verified Purchase
I'm wheelchair bound, and have limited use of my right arm. I have been using a stick vac. with my left arm and that is not fun so decided on a roomba. So far, I love it. Getting it set up was interesting. It took longer to set up than it takes to vacuum my whole appartment. I must say it does a fantastic job, mapped all the rooms then went to work, doing a better job than I was. I had it set for 3 days a week and found that wasn't necessary so it's just working once a week. I find it facinating how it stops and thinks about its next move then goes on,and it finds its way had home to empty itself. So far, I love it.