iRobot Roomba E5 Review

Review of iRobot Roomba e5

This section provides a review of the iRobot Roomba e5, focusing on its performance, features, and specifications.

Performance and Features

• The iRobot Roomba e5 has two brush rolls instead of one, which increases carpet agitation but also reduces airflow and suction through the compartment.

• Despite its low airflow and suction, the e5 performed well in carpet stress tests, effectively picking up various debris types.

• In the carpet deep clean test, the e5 picked up six grams of debris after three passes over an area embedded with 30 grams of fine debris.

• The e5 performed well in hard floor stress tests and cleaning edges due to its unique circular movement against edges. It also had no trouble picking up different debris types.

• However, over time, the e5 did not perform well in crevice tests and struggled to pull most debris out of crevices.

• In human hair pickup tests, while it picked up all the hair, a significant amount got tangled around its side brush and brush rolls.

• The e5 performed well in pet hair pickup tests but had some difficulty pulling certain types of hair underneath it.

Cleaning Efficiency and Coverage

• The e5 demonstrated good coverage in both empty room testing and cluttered room testing due to its random cleaning pattern. It especially excelled at cleaning underneath chair frames in cluttered environments.

Specifications

• Notable specifications include the absence of boundary accessories, the option to purchase iRobot virtual wall barriers separately, and average dimensions for a robot vacuum.

Pros and Cons

• Pros of the e5 include its ability to pick up most debris types on carpets and hard floors, effective edge cleaning, and easy detangling of brush rolls. It also provides excellent coverage in cluttered environments.

• Cons of the e5 include struggling with pet hair pickup compared to other robot vacuums, higher noise output than average, and being relatively expensive compared to budget random pathing robots.

Recommendations

• The main obstacle for recommending the e5 is its price, as it is considerably more expensive than budget random pathing robots without significant advantages in performance.