iRobot Braava 380t Advanced Robot Mop- Wet Mopping and Dry Sweeping Cleaning Modes, Large Spaces , Black

I was quite skeptical at how useful this would actually be. After reading lots of feedback I decided to take a chance and find out for myself. Maybe because I had quite low expectations to begin with this review might put this on a pedestal, but I'll try to keep it realistic.I have 2 young children so our kitchen floor pretty much has to be swiftered every couple of days or it gets noticeably dirty. Our kitchen is tiled and has a center island. There is quite a bit of floor space between our kitchen and living room with the dining table in the middle. I purchased the 380t hoping it would do what others have claimed in their reviews. I have been quite surprised how well it actually works.At the time of this review I have had the 380t clean the floor a total of 7 times so far. I'll update this review should any of my experience change in the future.EXPECTATIONS: First let me say that if you are buying this and expecting your floors to be scrubbed then look elsewhere. This isn't what this device does.WHAT IT DOES: It will push around a dusting cloth or it will push around a web fiber cloth. I can't see myself ever using the dry mode, but if you had hardwood floors that got dusty this would do the trick. The 'wet' mode is the real benefit of the 380t. The best way I can compare what it does is this. Take a dish cloth, get it wet and wring it out, then wipe your floor with it, notice how clean the floor is after you do that. This is essentially what the 380t will do and how clean it will make your floor. Image it taking that wet dish cloth and wiping down your entire kitchen floor with it, that's what you can expect out of the 380t.It won't get anything off the floor that requires a little elbow grease. Like say a small bit of jam that has dried on the floor. It will mop up a dried apple juice stain without problem though.HOW IT WORKS: It comes with a micro fiber cloth that you attach to a water tank and snap onto the bottom of the unit. If you know how to put a swifter pad on a mop then you know how to use this. Set up to use the 380t takes about 3-4 mins total. You simply fill the tank with water, wrap the cloth around the bottom of the tank then attach it to the main unit. Set it on the floor then hit the power button (which will automatically turn on the nav cube as well), then you just hit the mop button and away it goes.It finds it's away around by using the nav cube as a point of reference and creates a digital map in it's memory of what the floor plan looks like. Because the cloth is slightly larger than the base of the unit it will have no problems cleaning the floor right up the edge of the base boards. In fact, once the unit figures out where any straight walls are it will make a pass along the wall with the cloth pushed right up against the wall.It has absolutely no problems getting around a dining room table and chairs either. If your chairs don't have decorative bottoms between the legs of the chairs then the 380t will get under the chairs as well. Personally I prefer to move my chairs just like I would do if I was going to mop the floor myself but I have ran the 380th with the chairs at my dining table and it had no problems getting around them and still getting under the table itself. I move the chairs as it speeds up the amount of time it takes the 380t to get that area, if you don't move your chairs it has to figure out how to move around all the legs on the floor which takes more time.My tile area goes right into a carpeted living room and the 380t can tell when it hits the carpeted area, It stops moving forward when it senses it's on carpet and then moves back, it doesn't take it long to figure out where the edge of the tile is and adjusts it's paths pretty quickly.HOW WELL DOES IT CLEAN: As I said above this doesn't scrub your floors, it does however clean up the floors quite nicely using just water. It also doesn't use very much water, in fact the floor where the 380t has been will be completely dry within a couple of minutes. My kitchen floor never takes long to get messy, I live in Florida and 99% of the time everyone in the house in their bare feet, meaning that the tile quickly has a smudged look to it. After the 380t cleans the floor it looks like I've manually mopped it. It doesn't leave any streaks or track marks.Some random bits of advice:- wet the cloth and wring it out before you attach it to the tank, it needs to start with a damp cloth- don't wrap the cloth too tightly around the tank, doing so will prevent it from attaching correctly to the robot even though you think it's attached, the robot will either give you an error or will behave very strangely when it begins.- you'll be surprised at how dirty the cloth is when it finishes, I know from past experience that it's best to just wash the cloth out with warm water under the tap as opposed to putting it in the washer, also just it air dry.- don't freak out if you don't see the robot connect to the cube the moment you tell it to mop the floor. It sometimes will take it as long as 30 seconds to make a connection. Just let it carry on, if it goes past a minute then there's probably something interfering.So far I am pretty impressed at how well this little robot works, it certainly surpassed the expectations I had. I'm glad that I don't have to wet swifter the floor every second day now, that's a job this takes care of. I'll still have to give the floors the occasional manual scrub down but the 380t has no problems keeping the kitchen floor quite clean, all I have to do is vacuum the crumbs up first and let it do it's job.If you're on the edge of getting one I'd say the plunge is worth it. I'm so impressed that I'm certain that I will be picking up a vacuum robot as well in the near future.

Initially I was disappointed with the results. It doesn't get in there and mop as well as I can being an actual human with an entire bucket of water or more if I want and being able to see spots that need more attention. I almost returned it. I had to change the way I think about cleaning. I was mopping on weekends and I hated it. Then I realized the best way to use the Braava is every night or on a daily basis. It can't clean as good as I can once a week, but it can clean every night while I'm sleeping. This approach helped me appreciate the Braava a lot more. I have some dogness and my weekly clean wasn't exactly staying clean all week. Now it's always cleaned. I still have to spot clean some stuff but my weekends of ripping the house apart and sweeping and mopping everything are over. It's like I have a reset button on the condition of my house that I can just press every night. Anyway that's how you need to look at this device to get the most out of it. It even changes the way I think about cleaning other stuff. I can just dust whenever now because I don't care if i get dust on the floor because the robot will just get it later. I don't have to procedurally clean my house in a marathon from top to bottom in the optimal order anymore. My allergies have improved a lot because my house is always clean instead of clean for a few days. It's also helped my attitude a bit. I don't have to work at it and my house is always clean so It doesn't upset me when dogs or people mess up my floors anymore. It's just worth every penny.The device itself is very quiet. Sometimes it will bump a door or something that will make a little noise but that's it.It gets under pretty much everything. Frankly, it gets under more stuff than I ever did.It charges fast. In about 2 hours it's ready to go again.You need more than just the one pad it comes with. I would recommend at least one pad for every room for every day of the week. A fresh pad is like a new mop. If you only have one pad you'd have to wash it by hand or wait for it in the washer between uses and that is just more work than just mopping stuff yourself. You can't really use it the way it needs to be used with just the single pad it comes with.Also get some dry swiffer pads and wet swiffer pads. The dry pads are quilted and seem like they do a better job than the cloth pads. the wet pads are handy for super quick cleans or stuff you really, really don't want to touch.My one of my rooms is slightly larger than what it states the max range of the mop is but furniture (that it doesn't fit under), cabinets and stuff like that cuts down on the area. I can actually run it twice in that room on a single charge (it will run out of water though).It occasionally gets stuck. it has a slight wedge shape to it. It's not hard to make it avoid problem areas though. place an obstacle in its way or hold down the mop or sweep button to get it into fast mode where it avoids stuff. I think if it was not at all wedge shaped it would avoid a lot of where it gets stuck.It doesn't bother my dogs. It's quiet and they're used to it. Sometimes it will sneak up on them even, bumping them with humorous results.Anyway I really like it. It's probably my favorite thing ever. It gives me a clean floor every night and gave me back a large portion of my weekends. I waited a long time for one with more range and eventually just settled for this one. I didn't need to. When I think back to all the moping I did myself and all the dirt I put up with waiting for the weekend to mop I feel like I wasted a lot of time. I would love an improved model but I'm very happy with this one.Update: I had to replace the battery a couple months ago because mine wasn't charging. I opted for a Powerextra High Capacity one. It was pretty cheap and really increased the range. I'm actually happy that It stopped working because the extra range really speeds stuff up.Also, I tried putting Nature's Miracle Dog Stain and Odor Remover in the mop reservoir because it's enzymatic like the iRobot scuba solution. So far that's working pretty well. I've been doing it for several months and I haven't noticed any of the damage to the tires like people mentioned with Lysol or other products.