@@heinuchung8680 Wouldn't this just blow dust around like the Sahara desert to sand? I use a cordless dust buster with hose and brush and it works great.It's the Black and Decker Flex. Lasts 15-20 min with surprising suction for it's size, easy empty bin, and comes with charger dock, crevice tools, and upright floor vacuum attachment.
Again- I love these videos. I usually watch beauty content, but these videos are so detailed, concise, and properly informative. Thank you for all of your hard work!
Excellent video! I own a 380t braava and have been using and abusing it in this coronavirus quarantine. I bought this little robot 3 years ago, and just a few days ago I discovered that I don't need the cube to use it. In fact, it seems that without the cube it works better and has a greater reach. That hub devours batteries and has no button to turn it off. Like everything about iRobot, by the way. The batteries will completely discharge in a matter of days if the robots are removed from their bases. Since you don't like to read instructions, you may not have read the 380t's navigation modes. If you hold down the sweeping or cleaning button for a few seconds, the 380t enters a less precise navigation mode. Well, that's what the manual says, but in practice I didn't notice any difference. Yes, useless information eheheh. But here's a very useful piece of information. The 380t has a USB port. And no, you can not update your firmware, as you will transform it into paper weight if you connect it to a PC. There is a bug that burns (yes, it actually catch fire) the LED circuits if the 380t is connected to a PC via USB and two buttons on the robot are pressed at the same time. So, be warned. No connection to a PC.
I'm less sure about braava (but I imagine it'd be the same), but all Roombas come with a serial port, and iRobot publishes documentation about how to interface with it. Obviously, don't try this if you don't know what you're doing. But you can remote control it, get sensor data, set cleanign schedules, basically everything. I got mine to play the Mario theme in beeps and boops. I'm pretty sure this is what the usb is for: for iRobot themselves to use it, or for developers interesting in "hacking" their roomba.
I have a Evolution Robotics MINT 4200 in white and grey, and it runs like a champ as if it just rolled off the assembly line in 2010. It was built in 2010, two years before Irobot bought out Evolution Robotics and rebranded the MINT to Braava. I am proud to own a piece of IRobot history, as Evolution Robotics started the "Braava" family with the cutest floor cleaner ever: MINT.
What I'd love to see is some sort of streak detection. I set my mop to 'go clean' and came back to a streaky mess. I had to start all over with a new pad because the other was just too dirty to do the job. I'd rather have the mop ask for a new pad than start all over.
This was the most helpful video, ever. Thank you so much, I am going purchase the 240t, I'm very happy that the less expensive model is your recommendation.
Just bought the 240 for my apartment. Mostly need it for my kitchen and bathroom but since I have a lot of area rugs should be able to use it in my other rooms. Bought knock off reusable pads from Amazon and cleaning solution. Will be getting it this week.
I just got the Braava Jet 240 on Tuesday and I already cleaned my bathroom, hall and kitchen and I love it. It done a great job. I send my vacuum to clean first, then for extra measure I set my Braava on dust first to get up any loose doggie hair then I have it mop. It takes longer, but I am not in any big hurry so it is all good.
I really liked this review. I think robot mops can be nice little helpers, especially for keeping the house clean in between more intense cleanings, but I also think it is not worth to invest a lot of money in them. M6 is in my opinion too pricey for what it's worth, especially because those mops can help to make the house look more fresh, but they are not enough to actually clean it in the long term. For older people or injured people they are great though.
The Braava M6 has a “threshold” beta feature now where you add thresholds on the smart map that you want it to cross. Also, I agree about the dirty mop head but if you run a whole home clean 2-3x per week (I have two dogs), the maps get less and less dirty with each clean. It’s def better at maintaining a clean floor. Also, the detailed clean option is intense and I’m sure cleans better than the 240. Finally, the reusable mop heads clean better than the disposable.
I think trend is getting rid of carpet and change it to hard floor for many reasons, no? I wonder if they will invest creating something that could be the possible future "past".
Sometimes the lower tech option is the best. I have a split level 1100 sqft townhouse. The downstairs is full tile, while upstairs, the only tile floor is in the bathroom. I suggest getting a second battery. This will allow you to continue to mop using one battery while the other recharges. This allows you to tackle larger floor plans by simply swapping out the battery and pad and moving to the next room or section of a larger room. I currently use the the mopping pad to do the entryway/kitchen and use the damp sweep pads to "damp sweep" the dining room/living room area. You can use the "built in virtual wall mode" and it's suggested "left side placement rule" to split larger rooms up into smaller chunks. Doing this will pretty much ensure you wont run into issues with oversaturated pads causing streaks. I do this when I want to "mop" the dining room/living room area instead of just "damp sweeping". Using reusable mop heads saves on consumable cost, and the Jet 240 is so quiet. Although not mentioned in the video, the 240's water usage CAN also be adjusted through the iRobot app, which is especially useful for wooden floors. It's just that you need to use Bluetooth to connect to the 240 instead of WiFi, which is pretty much the only real complaint. I love the m240's size because it can get back in and around the toilet. This is where it's diminutive size is a real advantage. Overall, I love my m240. It get's into places where the m6 can't. It's easy to move from room to room. And it cleans as well as an M6 for a fraction of the price.
Very good review. I will say however; what good is automated cleaning if you have to attend to the bots every day? "They" need to come up with a substantial dock that will refill the water tank and either clean the mop head or swap it out automatically.
Thanks for this video. I was frustrated with my current mopping routine and found this channel. I’ve been on the fence with this product for a while. I can honestly say you helped make my decision easier.
I agree with your conclusion. I have a 240 and love it. My house is mostly carpet with my kitchen and two bathrooms the only hard floor rooms in the house. I put the 240 in a room, press clean, close the door on it, and let it run. I just don’t see what the m6 would add for my particular home. I couldn’t realistically use the m6 room navigation to have it clean the kitchen and then go on to the bathrooms because after it’s cleaned the kitchen it would then be dragging a damp dirty mop across my carpets on its way to the first bathroom - yuk! The only advantage I see for the m6 would be if my biggest hard floor (the kitchen) was bigger than 150 sq feet but it’s not so it’s the 240 for me all the way. [ Edit: Corrected 150 sqm to 150 sq ft. The little 240 might be good, but not quite that good! ]
08:05 I can confirm this issue. I have the m6 an its mapping feature is next to the useless because it can't transition the rounded 4mm thresholds between my rooms. They could fix this by letting us set the threshold sensitivity manually in the settings, but nope
Braavas are perfect choice for parquet and vinyl floors, but tiles with grouts is where Scooba was supposed to work...at least until they discontinued it.
The Braava 380t was actually released in Jan 2010 as the Mint from Evolution Robotics. On September 17, 2012, iRobot acquired Evolution Robotics for $74M and renamed it as the Braava
I have the 240 and I'm very happy with it for my 700sq foot apartment with all hard floors. I also have a scooba style mopping robot the "W400". But the little 240 gets the most use. Its quicker and easier to set up and seems just as effective. Also because of its small size it can get in behind the toilet pan, which no other mopping or vacuuming robot can.
Excellent video! I have the 380 for about 3 years and love it,. I just got the Jet240 and was disappointed because doesn't have wifi connection. But I LOVE the reusable pads, and I even can make my own, that's is big score. and it is QUIET!!! =) I was contemplating changing the J240 for the M6 especially now that I got the roomba S9 and they can connect but the fact that I have to change the pad before going to its dock sucks! and I have to buy the pads. So no matter which robot mop they all 3 need human help.
Me gusta que si explica bien lo que uno quiere saber acerca de estos robots - I like that the fact that he actually explains what you need to know about these robots. Thanks for sharing
i'd love it if you could review the irobot roomba scooba lines from back in the day. you could also compare how they do with the braava. that'd be interesting.
I've had both..scooba was way way better but took more work after/before to set it up, like a carpet cleaner if you know what I mean. Filling the tank of water and cleaner, emptying the dirty tank. In comparison, the brava is so easy to set up and replace the pad, no emptying dirty tank, etc. BUT the brava is not really heavy duty cleaning like the scooba. The scooba cleaned like a legit mopping. Th brava cleans like a swifer wet (the sheets, not the pads). The Scooba was built like the roomba, hefty and weighty, the brava is imho too light. The weight puts some heft to scrubbing/mopping like when you push harder on a swifer, the brava can't do that it's too light. So imho, brava is great for bathrooms or general areas but was really lacking in the kitchen/high traffic dirty areas. It's better than nothing but every time I used it, I thought to myself, I miss the scooba. (I had the cheapest brava the 240, the scooba got lost in a move, it still worked years later). If the brava was as heavy as the roomba it might alter my opinion. If it let you choose between disposable pads/scooba tank option it would be a winner, you could choose the best option for the job..
You know since the m6 has a recharge and resume option they should also have an reservoir refill option ... Like maybe a docking station like the s9 that has a prefilled tank that fills the m6 if it needs to
Send the feedback to them. If enough people ask for it they might try it. I will say the 1 litter reservoir is enough for my 1st and second floor when I pick regular spray amout
@@free.president looks interesting but no way in hell am I buying something off kickstarter or indiegogo. I'll wait until it's at a normal retailer where I have buyer protection
You don’t need it. The reservoir is big enough and lasts a long tome. It cleans my entire first floor with max spray volume selected and has about 1/3rd of the tank left.
That's disappointing - I expected the m6 to be able to be told via software 'hey, there's a bump transition here, but it's OK, proceed over it' and for locations that I don't explicitly say 'OK to cross', act as normal and don't proceed in those areas. I was thinking of grabbing the m6 at some point up until you mentioned that - I've got wood to tile transitions that I would have expected it to traverse (and wood/tile to carpet that I expect it to not), because that's 6 rooms, but because it won't dare cross transitions, that number becomes 2. Ouch. Hard pass for me unless they address that, be it software or a new bot (if the m6 can't physically cross a transition point). My little 240 will keep on chugging!
Indeed. for a bot that has a camera on it & at such a price point, you'd goddamn expect it to be able to tell bumps from actual carpets. not being able to do so is indeed a let-down.
My experience with Braava jet m6 after 3 months: very good construction, good cleaning results but software running it just sucks: - can't mop in a schedule after i7 (you have to create schedules in each robot separately). It has an option "mop after vaccum" but it works only for manual starting not scheduled - it can't return to the base station if was incidentally lifted durning cleaning (if get stuck). When get lost starts clean whole area not only scheduled - can't return if taked manually to a spot clean - can't set to mop the floor paraller to floor panel layout (as showed in the video), braava choose moping way depend on surface dimensions, and often is against the panel layout. You can't choose the proper way for each room/floor. Smudges are visible when it mops against the layout. - base station dock plate gets slippery after wet mopping and often braava can't leave the base, need glue some stickers to get better friction - can't use the proximity sensors in proper way,, often hard bumps obstacles like a crazy blind - sometime can't find the way to selected room (no obstacles at all), it seems that for each start it calculates differ way, don't know why - is much dumber than i7, often get lost, can't find the room or just mop differ rooms that scheduled - when get stuck and wait for a help battery is drained fast, when you came back home and find lost Braava battery is so low that it can't finish the job - app can't show on the map where is the robot now, it shows only name of the room - creating a "smart map" takes a lot of time if you have a big house (need minium 3 training runs), can't copy map to another robot, if you have i7 first and it already has the map it can't transfer it to a new robot for avoid training runs. - "smart map" are not so smart, somtiemes show non existent doors between rooms, which need manuall edit and separation (which is a bit tricky) - can't edit/correct walls on the map, you can only divide area for separately rooms and name it - can't mop rooms in an order selected in scheduler (e.g. 1. Kitchen 2. Living room etc), the order is random. There are rumors that this bug will be removed in a new update.
I wish the m6 also had a bucket at its base station that you could fill with water so it could refill itself. Also maybe with some clever engineering it could change its own pad so when it docks it somehow attaches a new pad. Of course it needs a way to get over those room splitters that’s a big deal breaker. These 3 changes would make it a guarantee but for me but as of right now it’s not quite good enough.
I have the 240 and whilst it does the job it is rather bad at navigation. Maybe I had a dud but after a period of time it seems to go in random directions, or repeatedly cleaning the same edge of the room. In the end I bought a deebot which is much better navigation wise. I keep the 240 for the bathroom.
Thank you for the great review! I still waiting for when they improve mop robots. My friend has 3 kids and a dog and a cat and she said mopping robot makes just a mess in her house. If a person lives alone or not many people and pets at the house, maybe a mopping robot is a good choice. I stick to my Bussel water vacuum for now.
I found the 240 on Amazon Warehouse as I looking for an inexpensive moping robot to clean lab floors (tile). It's been great for that. Floors definitely feel clean and look clean after it's done. It also works on hardwood floors, even though it's not recommended. Just make sure your hardwood floors are sealed. I would not recommend it on rough surfaces. My basement floor is concrete and the pad gets turn up on the imperfections of an older concrete floor.
You really need to stop saying the m6 only works with s9 and i7. In the app I can have it mop after my 980. Also, I have mine set to mop twice a week. The reusable pad and tank last both trips so I only have to do maintenance on the mop once a week. Much like my 980.
The 380t is an upgraded version of the 320 that I had back in 2010. It had a cube that would sit on the counter. Edit: I figured out that the 320 wasn't out in 2013, and that the original model from 2010 was called the Mint, and was rebranded by iRobot
So iRobot doesn't really advertise this but my m6 can start mopping automatically after my 980. I've set it up in the app. Another thing m6 can go over some thresholds, you have to mark them on the map in the app.
I have a 380T and I use it to clean my bathroom it's great because of its reusable pads which you can buy from 3rd parties in bulk and no proprietary products.
i have an arsenal of the 380. i like the washable rags. you would get a lot better results if you roomba-fied the room by picking up the chairs, floor lamp, and other obstacles. swiffer cloths work great too for crud and cat hair.
I have a Mint 4200(Roomba 380t). Purchased a year or two before Roomba bought that company(Evolution Robotics) out. It still works to this day, battery life is way down from years ago though. Never really used it’s wet mopping feature just used it primarily for dry dusting. Was good at getting animal hair and small particles. Good for two large rooms and it’s Nav is/was very systematic, especially for year it was designed(2010).
i use a 3rd party reusable mopping pad on my 240 and it works great although it is slightly too tall so the mop is louder for some reason. They even stay blue when i use bleach to clean the pads
Wow GREAT review on all them! I'm with you on the Jet 240...just grab a couple and then you'll be fine with doing multiple rooms where there's transitions! I mean yea you have to do a slight bit of work to start the mopping job but really not that much. Regardless I own the Braava 380t and had if for a 3 years now and it's totally worth it. I bought an extra mapping cube for the living room and now when I send it out to clean it goes from the kitchen to the living room. What I do randomly is I take a small bit of water in a cup and while it's cleaning and spill a small amount in front of it to saturate the mop pad as it's working. Remember to fully soak the pad under the tap at the start of the job then let it clean and when it starts throwing error codes it's likely the rubber on the wheel has loosened and it's spinning out. You have to remove the rubber on the wheels and reapply it with crazy glue to fix it!
We are probably responsible for at least 10k of your views because my 2 year old is OBSESSED with "robot vacs". We have seen each video several times and would LOVE it if you could review a Kirby! We have one and he is also obsessed with it. It was over $1k and would love to see it compared to Dyson and other high-end brands!
my favorite brava was the brava jet 240 it cleans well and also its cute. but cons are strekes dosnt work with imprint link and you recmonded 240 i liked it.
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They have a threshold option like the keep our zone to mark the map and it will ignore it's rug sensing tech and just climb over it unless it's a big transition. Also the m6 is t the best at mapping since you can't mark the thresholds until you've let it built a map. But they have another secret up their sleeve. As long as the m6 base is next to the compatible Roomba, you use the Roomba to map the house 2 times then run a couple cleaning runs to get a solid map. Then connect the m6 to the app with no maps and under new map there's an option to import your Roomba map to the m6. Then you can mark the thresholds for a better experience. I tried following my m6 around and "helping" it over thresholds to get the mapping done but took forever. Wiping the m6 from the app and unchecking the save to cloud box when factory resetting/removing means when you reconnect it it's blank like when new. Then click map icon and there is a second option to import either an old m6 map or from compatible Roomba. Voila, perfect house map can edit and put in all your zones and thresholds. My S9 is great at mapping and can have whole house and all rugs mapped in 2 mapping runs. I don't think the m6 recognizes the rug areas that are imported but I just use keep out zones for that just in case. For a few that it likes to climb on and freak out.
Seems to me that your choice should either be the 240 or M6 depending on your situation. 240 for the obvious reasons laid out at the end of the video, but if you’re deciding on one for larger spaces, in my opinion you need to either go big or go home. 380 seems to be obsolete especially with that soaking water reservoir as opposed to the spray jet. Seems to me that you can look at the M6 as the “380 v2” and think about it as if the M6 is supposed to be the refined mop that they envisioned when creating the 380. That may seem like an obvious statement but I think about it this way: If I don’t want to dish out for the price of the m6, I should choose the refined budget version that iRobot has created for us.
Do you have any feedback? I want to use after my ilife v5s with some smart switch so I can punt some schedule to this cheap model. The only fear is how dirty the mop is after a run, I have two pet and no matter what I do but after I do a clean with my bissel, water is always dark so I'm searching something to help me to do the job everyday on my first hard floor
@@memento316 I'm not sure if the tiny robot is able to clean the floor properly when having two pets. It does a reasonable job in cleaning, but it is very slow and the mop does get dirty indeed and I don't have any pets! Being able to set a virtual wall which can divide a room in two might solve the problem of the mop getting too dirty, but then you have to set up the robot twice and then you might as well mop the floor yourself which is way faster! I love robots and I think this robot is cute and it does a decent cleaning job, but it has it's limitations, afterall it is only a (slightly intelligent) mop on wheels.
Pogokoala, wait and make your own opinion after you get it. I got an S5 a year ago and it’s a fantastic vacuum and it does a decent job mopping. On the mopping side, just be prepared to follow up after it to manually get tough stains, and dirt in awkward places. As for the S5 itself you made a great choice! I love mine even though it came defective and doesn’t charge properly. I finally gave up trying to get a fix or replacement after hitting brick walls. I just take solace in the huge discount I had gotten.
@@robertkiefer8967 lol I've been following up a lot on S5 but it never slip my mind about a robot does that all mopping. So after I order it two days ago I'm like yes! I can't wait ^.^ then I saw this video got uploaded and jay drop lol that how it went chronologically order haha. But now that I saw you have an S5 I feel no regret about it. My question to you is how often did you use your robot and did it went around your whole house or just a room?
My S5 is set to automatically start vacuuming every morning at 8am. It does the whole apartment, which is small since I live alone. It covers 27 square meters at approximately 1 square meter per minute. That takes around 15% battery power. I empty the collection bin every 2 or 3 days and it will be full of dog hair. If I didn’t have a dog it would only need emptying every two weeks. Mopping I do about once a week but I set it to make three passes of the living room, kitchen and hallway. Then I follow up with a sponge mop on spots that it didn’t clean. Ohh and as for the measurements I listed above, it tells you all that in the app. It lists square meters covered and cleaning duration.
@@robertkiefer8967 damn that incredible!! I just used mines today and I was totally blown away by the progress. Even cleaned up under my bed and furniture lol found some coin and almond. But sometimes very terrible happen that upset me because I failed the S5. A freaking gooey rat trip that filled with dead roaches. Someone kill me. I stop the machine. Had to unscrew the 3 windmill brush (sorry dont know the name of it I call it the arm) and then. .. i dispose of it and bought new one right away. I am very sad. But still used it and i was still blown away by the full effect of this work. Any hair dog fur and dirt it did the job. I used it on my folks room which the floor are very filthy and their enjoying their retirement with going out all the time. But I was surprised how far this machine went and not a single recharged taken. Now I gotta learn how to add more room anyway we can make this machine to save the map to the rooms?
Glad to hear your liking it, it has served me well. To save the map you have to enable the save map function. It’s in settings, vacuum settings, map save mode.
I use a Samsung PowerBot as vacum, than the 240 to do a second wet stage. Only one thing... 240 you can also select how much water to use for each kind of wet clean, and each kind of pad. I have also an extra battery with 3x more power, than it can clean all my 100m2 apartment.
Remember the braava jet has cleaning solution in the pad so just using water in 380t wasn't fair. i fill the reservoir with bona but have started to use swifter wet pads since it come with scrubbing pad, trick is to put scrubbing pad that its on back not front on plate. i own model before 380t which takes 12 hours to charge but still is a excellent robot.
Other reason 300 series braava was better design than newer ones, the pad plate is lower and sticks out from braava so the machine might not be able to fit under something but mopping pad can.
I have the braava before 380t, the whire one. it does a amazing job but takes 12 hours to charge. it can use any cleaning solution i pick including wet swifter pads
I just ordered the m6. Very excited to try it out. I have three long hair cats and live in a condo that is 40% area rug 60% hard floor. I plan to use the machine to dust and mop the hard floors. I will continue hand vacuuming the area rugs as my cats shed like crazy and I don’t think a robot vac like the 9 series would work for me especially with the dust bags. I use a Dyson animal and I have to empty the canister every 5 days! But the hard floor dusting and mopping? I really hope the m6 will help me out!
I would not buy this unit, I purchased this unit last year and also the vacuum unit, the mop stopped working after using it for about 4 months, The top door opened every time it hits a wall of future, a small piece of plastic was broken off, and a piece op plastic that holds the water bottle. I called to see if the have a repair location, but no,they don’t their service stinks, do your self a favor and save your money, it is junk
it needs a way to determine the pad dirtiness.but the flaw with the M6 that will be best addressed in future is 2 fold.it needs a better dock, that can 1. swap the pads by itself, i.e. drops them/moves them into a waste bin area on cleanbase and then install a replacement from a reserve in the cleanbase..2. can empty dirty water and supply clean water, either to a larger tank in the cleanbase form or/and connected to drain and mains.they are almost there really, they just need to reduce that final lack of automation.
Would you be willing to do a comparison between Brava M6 vs iLife Shinebot W450 vs iLife Shinebot W400S? The shinebots look sort of promising, due to the liquid pickup.
I hope the Xiaomi Viomi V2 Pro is going to be included in that test. The Viomi V2 pro has the same 240-like like back and forward y-shaped cleaning pattern and I saw one review on it where the mopping performance did look pretty good so I would be interested to see how it stacks up against the 240 and m6 levels of mopping and also the Roborock S5 Max. One thing that concerns me a bit on the s5 max is that the active/fluffy bit of the mopping pad doesn’t go all the way to the edges of the robot so I don’t see how it can mop right to the edges of a room.
When you see the moping ability of Narwal robot with it self-cleaning technology, you will forgot the Braava forever. It’s like day and night. Hope you will able to test it someday on your channel.
Would reeeally love to have the 240 but am holding off because the cleaning pads are disposable rather than reusable, i.e. a waste of money and pretty crap for the environment😕 Has anybody had success with the non proprietary cloths, the ones from a different model, or just tried rewashing the 240 ones a few times instead of throwing them out after one use?
Wow this was an awesome comparison can you try the narwal it's a vacuum with a floor washer mop with a base station like the roomba s9 but it save clean and dirt water