Hi all , I bought this robot from Kimsim almost a year below is my review.

Far more useful than I expected, though far from perfect.

When I ordered the Roomba 560, I honestly didn't think it was going to work very well. As a gadget and especially robot lover, I simply had to try it.

Fast forward a couple weeks and my Roomba has been faithfully cleaning my 1,200 sq ft house with few problems. My floors are MUCH cleaner, and it does a better job cleaning than I expected.

The vacuum is powerful enough to leave "vacuum marks", giving you that freshly vacuumed look basically every day. It does a great job at picking up just about anything. Mine easily sucked up push-pins, cat hair, lint, cat litter, even metal nails. It has two types of brushes, that counter spin and create their own cleaning force, to augment the somewhat low powered vacuum motor. As a result, it's efficient but also fairly quiet, and has a surprisingly good battery life per charge (3 to 4 rooms at almost a half hour each). My only cleaning gripe is that I wish the bin was bigger. I have to empty and clean Roomba after every use (which just takes a second, admittedly).

The design is almost Apple-like in that the unit is very clean, well thought out, and easy to use. The buttons are large and durable, the center and most frequently used one being big enough to push with your toe, even if you're wearing shoes. Nice touch. It also has a nice handle to pick it up by, and is overall much heavier than I expected. From the pictures it looks like a cheap plastic toy, but in reality it's a bit larger and heavy enough that a toddler likely couldn't lift it. The unit feels very durable and is made of modular parts that are user serviceable with little to no tools necessary. The design is such that the Roomba is clearly a long term investment, meant to be repaired as necessary, rather than just thrown away for a new one. Good job iRobot!

When the Roomba encounters errors, it flashes various lights and makes obvious "sad" tones. Should you not be able to decipher these beeps, simply pushing the Clean button once more causes the Roomba to begin talking to you in a pleasant female voice, instructing you as to the problem and how to remedy it. In two weeks of usage the Roomba has done this about 3 times, indicating that its cliff sensors were dirty, or that I needed to clean the bin or wheels.

The clock and scheduling system is super easy to use and works great. The Roomba does however need a few software tweaks at this point. For instance as of right now my Roomba has been trying to find its dock for nearly a half hour, despite being in the same room as the dock, already. I'll likely have to go and dock it myself shortly. It has issues with the lighthouse units, as they have repeatedly prevented Roomba from returning to its charging station, even when it was VERY low on power. This happens in Lighthouse and Wall mode both. It'd say roughly half the time, the Roomba never makes it back home on its own, thanks to these lighthouses messing up the works. That said, the lighthouses DO work great for keeping Roomba to cleaning certain rooms efficiently, before moving onto the next.

Overall I am pleased with Roomba and will likely never be without one again. It truly does clean better than expected and is a great and fun little unit to have around. Friends are impressed by it, and impressed by how clean my floors are now.