The Roomba 600 series robot vacuum is a great way to begin cleaning your home smarter. It learns your cleaning habits and then offers up custom cleaning schedules—taking on daily dirt, dust, and debris from carpets and hard floors. It even has an edge-sweeping brush to get into corners and along edges. Google Assistant and Alexa compatibility let you start a cleaning session with just your voice, or simply use the iRobot Home App. When your area’s pollen count is high or during pet shedding season, the Roomba 600 series robot vacuum can even suggest extra cleanings —to help keep your floors clean every day of the year.
From the manufacturer
iRobot Roomba 694 Features
Clean smarter
The 600 series is a great way to begin cleaning your home smarter. Schedule it to clean up daily dirt, dust, & debris with the app or voice assistant.
Loosens, Lifts, & Suctions
3 Stage Cleaning system & Dual Multi-Surface brushes grab dirt from carpets & hard floors, an Edge-Sweeping brush takes care of corners & edges.
Adaptive Navigation
A full suite of advanced sensors allow Roomba to navigate under & around furniture, & along edges. Cliff Detect keeps it from falling down stairs.
Powered by iRobot OS
iRobot OS raises the bar – delivering an intuitive cleaning experience tailored to your needs and preferences.
Cleans around your life
Learns from your cleaning habits to offer up customized schedules. Suggests extra cleanings when pollen count is high or during pet shedding season.
Senses & eliminates dirt
Patented Dirt Detect Technology helps your robot find the dirtier areas in your home, like high-traffic spots, & cleans them more thoroughly.
Cleans carpets & hard floors
Auto-Adjust cleaning head automatically adapts its height to effectively clean both carpets & hard floors.
Automatically Recharges
Runs for up to 90 minutes before automatically docking & recharging.
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Aaron –
The actual Roomba itself is a solid product. I had forgotten that iRobot started as more of a robotics company rather than focusing on appliances. The wheels on the Roomba are designed in a way that makes them resistant to pet hair, or incredibly easy to clean in the case of the front caster. Our dog is a rather large mix with Great Pyrenees, so the hair burden for the little Roomba is rather high. I generally open the roller unit and remove most of the hair after the Roomba has run, just to keep it maintained. For a 900 sq ft house, even just 15 minutes a day will keep hair largely under control, where the Roomba is able to reach. Additionally, Roomba designs the devices in a way that components that do fail are fairly easy to replace after removing 4 Phillips screws.The cons arrive when we examine the app, and how the Roomba interacts with it. Getting the Roomba to connect to the internet and stay connected to the internet was an hour long chore, even though the router was across the room from it. Additionally, instructions are often “creatively reinterpreted;” that is to say, completely ignored. I’ll request clean with no time limit, and the Roomba will get to exactly the minimum 15 minute time limit, announce that it is finished, and put itself away. I’ll request a 30 minute cleaning, the app will acknowledge that yes, it has been over 45 minutes, and the Roomba still has not even acknowledged that the time limit has arrived and passed, let alone entered “finishing up” mode or attempting to put itself away. Sometimes I’ll have to start a “New Job” two or three times before the Roomba acknowledges it without timing back out to “Ready to clean.”Basically, the appliance itself does pretty solid work, and ownership should actually be pleasant compared to today’s standards. The app has timers to track when you should be replacing consumables which I haven’t encountered yet, but I imagine the nagging will be an experience to remember. As for using that app to interact with the Roomba… be prepared to exercise patience and do a lot of thinking and supervising that you honestly shouldn’t have to.
Angel Kinsey –
I named my little buddy kyle, everyone knows kyles to be not the best cleaner but he def saves me time with my 2 dogs and cat constantly shedding. He gets stuck on “cliffs” quite often (floor vents in my home) but my house has definetly been a heck of a lot cleaner with him around. I wish he came with a tool that would make cleaning the beater brushes easier, but luckily scissors and a comb do the trick, he even goes under my bed (theres lots of junk stored under them) and makes his way bumping around and cleans in the areas who havent seen the light of day in years. i thought he would definitely get stuck on my area rugs in the kitchen, but he does well manuevering around them. i love seeing the freshly vacuumed tracks all over the carpet, means hes doing his job, kind of wish i went with a step above him so he did the mapping, but im pretty happy with my purchase. this fur momma cleans houses for a living so coming home and seeing all of the shedded hair already vacuumed makes me happy.
Cara Shanygin –
I hate vacuuming. It’s a loud task that takes a while. The roomba solves one of these problems halfway, and the other entirely. It’s not silent, but it’s much quieter than a normal vacuum. You don’t have to yell over it. It’s also completely hassle free. I have it scheduled to clean my whole apartment automatically every few days and now I never look at the app again. It doesn’t quite pick up everything, but it might as well. It’s much closer to perfect than I thought a roomba could be. I had buyer’s regret before it got delivered, but have no regrets now that I actually have it. If it broke, I’d buy another in an instant. I have no pets, but I do have long hair and it doesn’t really struggle with it at all.
Ashley A. Aliff –
I really like this roomba but don’t expect miracles. you still have to clean up your floor so it doesn’t get tangled with cords, socks, strings, craft materials and anything that is cloth.My only issue is the brushes! I fell in love with robot vacuums but I just wish the brushes were made slightly more high quality. I do not have a problem otherwise. It runs great and sucks great. It collects significantly more junk than my previous coredy one which was just a giant hole no brushes. I do believe the name brand does make a difference.But – be prepared to get replacement Parts before Less than a year both my spinning brush, foam brush and bristle brush are absolutely destroyed. I understand maintenance but I hope in the future they are of slightly more higher quality than this. The rest of the vacuum is amazing! I love the scheduling app – I set mine up automatically M-F give it vacations on the weekend lol. I have a cat and it does wonders with kids, going around objects, toys, kids messes and cat hair.
beginnerbutquicklearner –
I love this roomba but I don’t like 2 things they changed about the new design. This one doesn’t have a handle to pick it up from the floor like previous models. You have to use both hands to pick it up . The 2nd thing I don’t like is I can’t tell when it is charging or fully charged. When you dock it the charging light comes on to let you know it is lined up but then goes off. When you go back to check it, there are no lights lit up. I do not know when it is fully charged.
DP –
I have a 694 and a J7+. The 694 is manual empty bin and the j7+ automatic empty. The j7 is quieter, and of course more intelligent once it builds an accurate map, but the 694 works very well for a bump unit and is a much faster vacuum overall, finishing my house in half the time the j7 takes. Both work excellent and if you don’t mind picking up cords, etc., and emptying the bin, the 694 is the better value.
Roger L –
Great product and does a great job, but has trouble finding the charging base and we have almost no furniture in the house since we remodeled. Cleans the dog hair off the floor, but I would recommend that you clean the filter and collection bin every day after each use to help prolong the life of the unit.
Mikaela –
Great little vacuumIt picks up a lot more stuff than I thought it would, it doesn’t map rooms so it’s movements are pretty sporadic and can’t get into the corners so I still need to sweep a bit. I find I have to dump it out about halfway through cleaning but it picks up a lot of stuff, for the amount I paid for it it works great.
Blade’s Mom –
Love it….but…This thing is powerful, compact, charges fast , larger capacity for holding dirt and lasts a long time. This is the positive.The small turn wheel takes a half an hour to clean the edges out with tiny scissors each time I use it.As well there’s no lift handle.The reason I bought this was so that it could save me and my back from bending for the dustpan and the broom, or using the vacuum. The fact that it has to charge at floor level I have to put it down to charge it and bend to pick it up to clean it and then Bend to put it back on the charger if it doesn’t sit properly or if it gets bustled off the charger by a cat or a dog a toy or someone walking or a chair.I had one of the original roombas 15 years ago and it was fantastic. I was hoping this would be comparable. And in some ways it’s better but I just don’t know why they would take a carrying handle off and put that crappy Little guide/turn Wheel on.If you can find a model that fixes both these items I would grab that. It looks like my return window has closed. I didn’t even use this for 2 weeks due to being away on vacation and after a few runs this is quite aggravating. It takes a half an hour to clean after each use
Jennifer Cormier –
Pretty CoolThis little guy (we call him Dusty), has his pros and cons. It is easy to clean and does pick up a good amount of hair and dirt on his excursions. However, it does travel about very haphazardly and often does the same room/area several times. It doesn’t do a great job of corners so I do still vacuum manually on occasion, however on a daily basis this thing does help my chore list be just a little shorter each day.