Review of the robot vacuum cleaner "Rumba J7+", you don't need to clean up floor obstacles in advance?
The new model "Rumba J7+" and "Rumba J7" have appeared from the I robot robot vacuum cleaner "Rumba" series.The new Rumba is even more faint, and it is said that the cords on the floor of the room, the socks, and the pet excrement (only solid feces) will be distinguished, and it will be cleaned while avoiding it.I tried using it immediately.
What I used this time is Rumba J7+(hereinafter J7+) with a clean base.The official online store price is 129,800 yen.Rumba J7 (hereinafter J7) without a clean base costs 99,800 yen.The clean base is a device that sucks the garbage collected by Rumba further and accumulates in the internal replacement paper pack.We also charge Rumba.J7 comes with a home base only for charging.
Compared to the existing model, unlike the Fabric -style "Rumba I3" series, the "S9" series, which is a metallic design, a Copper Gold, the Rumba J7 series has a calm design in black and graphite style.In addition, the clean base has been long from the conventional vertical type.As will be described later, this is one of the major points.
The following four major differences between the Rumba J7 series and the conventional Rumba are as follows.
The J7 series is equipped with a camera on the front of the robot vacuum cleaner.This allows you to recognize obstacles in a wider area.Check out obstacles near the floor and the floor.In particular, recognize and avoid cables (headphones cables, power cables), pets excrement, shoes (slippers), socks, and charging stations.The recognized object will be more accurate and more species of objects in future updates.
In general, there is a worry that the room will be cleaning up before moving the robot vacuum cleaner and it will get stuck if you do not put together cables, etc., but J7+J7 is automatically recognized and cleaned while avoiding the cable.It doesn't get caught.
In the case of my home, when my child was young, I was told, "I'll clean up for Rumba!", But when I was in elementary school, I left my socks off without cleaning up ...In addition, since the code of the computer and the desk stand are often hanging, I checked the child room once before moving the robot vacuum cleaner, and cleared up the house.If this is no longer troublesome, I'm very happy.Immediately, I checked how much J7+moves around.
To use the J7+ / J7 obstacle recognition function, it is necessary to link with the smartphone dedicated application "IROBOT HOME" (Android, iOS, iPados).After cooperation, first clean the house with J7+ / J7 and make a map.In my home, I cleaned it about four times and the whole map was completed.
After that, edit the map to name the room, or specify the border.If you do this, you can specify the room and order, such as "only children's room", "kitchen and study only", "after the kitchen, cleaning the children's room, and finally the living room".
Now, let's specify "Play Room (Children's Room)" and clean with J7+.I moved it with my personal computer cable, socks, etc. placed.J7+and J7 also recognizes pet excrement, so clay that looks like excrement is also placed on the floor of the room.
[Video] I am moving to avoid computer cables and clay (intention to excrement of pet)
While J7+is cleaning the children's room, recognizing obstacles such as cords becomes a little slow, and avoids obstacles at a distance.After that, clean up places other than obstacles, and when cleaning is completed, the application will receive a report on the cleaning result.
In addition to displaying the place where the obstacle was, it is possible to confirm whether the obstacle is always there or whether it is a temporary obstacle.The place where there was an obstacle can be redeemed later, so if you move (clear) the power cord etc., start J7+ / J7 again to clean it.
The learning information of the J7+J7 that has been moved at the user house can feed back to the cloud of the eyelobot (information to identify individuals is not sent and not feedback).Information on obstacles that users feedback will be managed on the cloud, along with the information of other rumba users, and will be reflected in future functions.
At the time of the release of J7+J7, cables (headphones cords, power cables), pet excrement (solid feces only), shoes (slippers), socks, and charging stations.
This time, when I tried other obstacles other than the above, I cleaned it while avoiding stuffed animals and large cushions.Don't recognize pens and pencils, and drag them.In addition, the slippers that should be avoided sometimes hit them at first, but they seemed to have learned it several times, so they could not hit.
The point of this function is where you learn.A huge amount of information gathers in the cloud, and learning and analyzing it will increase the recognition accuracy of obstacles, and the number of obstacles that can be recognized will increase.I personally want to be able to recognize blocks and stationery for children as soon as possible.
J7+and J7 have a camera on the front of the main unit, improving recognition accuracy such as furniture.Specifically, how to hit the furniture has become softer.For example, when there is a curtain, the window is gently reduced while approaching the curtain little by little and cleaning the window.In addition, the tables and the legs of the chair are slowly touching.The previous rumba was the image of hitting furniture and furniture, but I felt that the furniture was hard to scratch.
The hit is soft, but the brushes are applied to the legs of the furniture and the brushes are applied many times from various directions.When I checked it after cleaning, I felt that I was cleaning the legs and walls.
[Video] Gently touch when cleaning around furniture such as chairs (audio flows. Please note)
However, in this trial, J7+moves too much and gets stuck in the sun in the sweeping window with curtains, which requires help.The place that fits many times has been specified as an application area in the application.It depends on the environment of the residence, so it cannot be said unconditionally, but it is convenient to be able to easily specify a prohibited area from the app in such a case.By the way, in my home, J7+ / J7 does not fit into all steps, but I can clean the entrance of the entrance firmly.
J7+・ J7 is good at flooring and hard rugs, but cleaning a soft rug that sinks with low rebound may be a little weak at once.The baking soda (assuming fine garbage) and the cat sand (assuming a little big garbage) were scattered on the lag, but after the cleaning was completed, there was still some trash left.
On the other hand, floors, such as flooring, are easy to absorb garbage, and even in one cleaning, there is almost no leftovers of garbage.It's a good place for a robot vacuum cleaner, and it's not a cleaning, so it's a good idea to clean up a place where garbage is difficult to remove.
If you are still worried, specify the location with the app and clean it.The app allows you to check the "time required for cleaning", so you could definitely clean it when you went out and was saved.Alternatively, it is recommended to use a cordless stick vacuum cleaner for soft rugs and use it together with Rumba.
In J7+, the clean base has become horizontally long from the conventional vertical type, and the feeling of pressure when placed is much less.The clean base is automatically inhaled the garbage accumulated in the dust container of the rumba body and transferred it to the sealed paper pack in the clean base.
One paper pack accumulates 30 garbage, so if you clean it once a day, you can throw away trash once a month.It's very easy because you don't have to throw away the trash every time.In addition, the new clean base allows you to stock one spare paper pack in the clean base.In this case, the replacement work is smooth.
Personally, when I replace it occasionally, I will search for, "Where did you put a spare paper pack?")
If you look closely at the clean base, there is a sticker on the front.J7+reads the pattern of this seal (like a QR code) to grasp the clean -based location.It is a mechanism that can return smoothly without waste.
[Video] From the movement to return to the clean base to suction.The operation sound is loud (sound flows. Please note)
When you return to the clean base, you will absorb the trash from the dust box of the rumba body.I am surprised at first because the sound at this time is loud.There is no setting to turn off the sucking into the clean base.This time, I was moving J7+when my family was not at home and everyone was out.By the way, in the app, it is possible to set the location information of the smartphone to set up "Rumba starts cleaning when you go out".
In addition, rubber dual action brushes and washable dust containers that are difficult to entangle hair are continued from conventional models.It is a big point that it is easy to clean.
Personally, after cleaning the robot vacuum cleaner, it is troublesome to discard trash from the dust box of the main unit every time, so a clean base is essential.However, in the case of my home, robot vacuum cleaners are often placed in the most prominent place in the living room, so the installation and design are also important.I think that the clean base of J7+has become horizontally long, so I think the appearance when thinking as an interior is much better than the previous clean base.
After trying J7+, the cleaning performance is satisfactory.You can easily specify the room to clean and specify a place you want to clean with an app, so you can move it as soon as you think that there is not enough cleaning.The application is easy to understand the screen and operation.
The automatic avoidance function of obstacles, which is the Uri of J7+J7, is expected to be in the future learning status.It is a big point to avoid pets excrement, but I think that there are many families without pets, so it is nice to grow up to avoid various things.By the way, there were times when a large spill of sweets and bread was recognized and avoided as an obstacle, and sometimes it was pushed.If you spread the wet spills, the end will be difficult, so it will be more convenient if you recognize pet excrement in the same way.