Samsung POWERbot Wi-Fi Robot Vacuum

i love my powerbot-it doesn't get stuck under furniture and has a larger catch bin than other brands. it gets the kitty fur from my 2 cats and is efficient

This is a great little vacuum. It ran flawlessly for the first 30 days. After routine cleaning and such, it started making a horrible noise. Also, it seemed to be doing a poor job of vacuuming. I took out the brush and cleaned it several times and checked it over dozens of times. The robot still made noise, but the brush seemed fully intact. I finally gave up and just took the brush out. Lo and behold, this eliminated the horrible rattling. Something was obviously wrong here. I opened a ticket with Samsung and they promptly sent a replacement. Don't bother with email, just call them. They don't respond to chat and email well at all. I received the replacement and put the new brush in and the noise is 100% gone. Silent and powerful again! I will try to post an update after another 30 days, but based on the forums and my research, I think it is likely these robots have a flaw in the brush system and eventually they give out. I have read several posts with users with the exact same issues. Even with this flaw, it is a fantastic vacuum and if you let it run daily, it does a super job of keeping the floors clean...IF you have a brush in it. So, by all means, buy one of these, but keep an eye out and let Samsung know if you get rattling and your brush is the cause. Good Luck!

We are really satisfied with this little bot. We call him Alfred cause he is kind of like our butler. We have him on WiFi, so we can get him going even when we aren't home, or we can schedule him. I was eager to test him out since we had a Roomba several years ago which couldn't even finish a room without running out of battery charge. Neither was it very thorough, it would make random passes in the one room never really going over the entire floor. The Samsung on the other hand works just as it shows in the infomercial and videos. It goes wall to wall, back and forth, only deviating from that pattern if furniture is in the way. When furniture is in the way, it does a tight circle around the base or legs and continues on course. I have stood and watched it work its way through a tight maze of furniture in our living room. It managed to clean every available inch of open flr that had a telescope, end table, sofa and media table. I was expecting it to get stuck or push something. NOT ONCE! .it moved back and forth, did circles and covered every inch that did not have a leg on it. Then moved on without any navigational issue. Alfred does the entire house and returns home to his charging station in our guest bedroom. We got him cause we had just gotten our yellow lab and that's a breed that sheds a lot. Alfred cleans that up without any trouble. The canister seems like the perfect size for our 1800 sqft home, though we do have to empty it each time he finishes...which is a small price to pay for a clean flr . My only issue has been that it builds a lot of static. So it tends to have dog hair clinging to it. Oh and that our very affectionate Lab likes to lick the camera that scans the ceiling for the room floor plan. Which means I have to use that very soft cloth to clean sunglasses with to clean the streaks that are left on the camera lens so Alfred can see clearly again. Worth the price if you want your floors to be cleaned every day, without having to break a sweat.

Has good suction. Cleans well but you have to watch it as it can get stuck or trapped. We call it our drunk monkey. I thought it had room mapping but that option did not show on the Samsung app. After much research, I found, in a Samsung user forum, that Samsung replied to this issue as "No. This feature is not available on the 9040".

After being a faithful user of another brand for the past 10 years or so, I've found this product to be far superior due to it operating like a real vacuum. This thing really sucks up dirt, dust, dog hair, tiny sharp plastic pieces (that I can't call by name, but you know them by stepping on them and screaming). With the other product, it seemed to get stuck in corners, leave zig-zag patterns in the rugs and carpets, and never find the charging station before the battery went dead. This one will shut the vacuum motor down so that it can conserve energy to get back to the home base and charge. The main reason I wouldn't give this 5 stars on design is because it doesn't get under some of the places the other unit did due to the height of the suction canister. The app also needs help... it has a really nice UI, however it crashes all the time.