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iRobot Roomba 580 Vacuuming Robot | 
| Brand: iRobot
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $499.99
Buy New: $385.00
You Save: $114.99 (23%)
Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 218
Color: Black
Shipping Weight (lbs): 13
Dimensions (in): 20.8 x 18.9 x 5.6
Model: 58001
UPC: 853816580019
EAN: 0853816580019
ASIN: B0011MITWM
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| Features:
| • | Vacuuming robot with spinning brushes cleans floors at the touch of a button | | • | Bagless dustbin; filtration system traps allergens; anti-tangle technology | | • | Built-in cliff sensors; on-board scheduling; wireless command center | | • | Self-charging home base; 2 Virtual Walls, brushes, and filters included | | • | Measures 16-3/4 by 21 by 5 inches; 1-year limited warranty |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
 Hairy problem August 22, 2008
Used our 580 for approx 2 weeks and very, very satisfied except for major hair buildup on sides of both beater and brush. (Two shorthair cats and a longhaired doxie allow us to live with them, in case you wonder.) Ran unit everyday most of time and it worked perfectly - much improved pickup over our old Discovery unit including better obstacle avoidance and, especially, its ability to maneuver over throw rugs, etc.
BUT even though there would be very little hair on the brush itself, it would stop at least once during each cleaning and ask to have ts "brushes cleaned." I soon realized this only meant hair had wound tightly around both sides of the beater/brush assemblies. This continued for the entire two weeks and was a problem for which iRobot customer service offered no advice nor the possibility of a fix in the near future.
Anyway, if you have NO pets (with hair) you'll probably love this thing. I would have gladly kept ours but returned it simply because of what I feel is a show stopping design problem. (FYI, our Discovery "Pet Edition" ran fine for well over two years without this problem.) I would gladly purchase again if they fix this "kink" maybe with another pet edition? For now the old Discovery comes back downstairs. Let me know iRobot...
 Pricing wrong??? August 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't know why Amazon is charging so much more for a product that you can get WITH all the accessories actually SHIPPED WITH the unit, directly from the manufacturer. Amazon had better check their pricing.
 Needs better hair guard for spokes July 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My roomba worked great for about three months; however, despite cleaning the brushes after every use, dog hair still manages to find it's way into the inner drive and jam the gears. I have to unscrew the panel to get at the gears with tweezers to clean out clogged/impacted hair that tangles into all spinning parts.
This unit is great for the average home but anyone with long haired pets should avoid this product until they invent better spoke guards (I own one small shaggy dog).
 Wally, my busy little bot... July 19, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I received my Roomba through iRobot rather than Amazon due to the misconceptions of the accessory kit to be involved.
When I received it I wanted to try it out right away but thought it might be too loud (there's a rule that at my apt complex you may not vacuum past 10pm). Well I ran it anyway a bit just because I was curious and was surprised. It is not loud at all and no one can tell its vacuuming!
It has picked up so much of my hair from the carpet that I've had to cut it off the rollers. However, the more you clean routinely with this vacuum the less I've had to take it apart to get my hair out (I've got 15in plus hair in length). It even has picked up unseen gravel from the title floors which my regular sweeping has missed.
Pros:
Wireless scheduling and remote to push it on, off, and dock. Picks up the smallest amount of dust you can see in the filter, but not in your carpet. Picks up hair well, but remember clean regularly. It doesn't ruin furniture, walls, etc when it "bumps" off of them. Very quiet and efficient!
Cons:
Just like with the regular vacuums, make sure you pick up any cords or rugs with fringes as it gets tangled on them. Otherwise it goes all around, even under furniture. Another con is the side brush has come off at least once every three vacuuming times because it drives onto the bottom of my lamp stands and when it gets around them, the turning motion with the help of the stand has unscrew itself. To get by with it, before vacuuming take your Philips screw driver and tighten it up and it won't fall off. The battery life does proved to last as they say for only a max of 4 rooms and then it must charge again which takes times. It will only dock by itself if it can find the sensor on the charger, so you need your fourth room to be your final room with the docking station in.
I highly recommend this for those with busy schedules!
These break in one year July 19, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
We've had two Roombas now - first one of the grey-white models, which we purchased in January 2006, which broke within 13 months. Instead of being able to repair the model, iRobot encouraged us to buy another vacuum, which was red for Valentine's Day 2007. It broke in January of this year. Because iRobot refuses to repair these models, and no one in the Austin, TX area seems to be able to do so, we've gone back to our old stand-up vacuum - not as neat, but definitely less wasteful.
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