One downside–if you have animals that are in the house/in rooms when you are not, don’t put the robot vacuum on a set schedule. If the animal poos/vomits/etc. the robot vacuum will streak it all across the room because it won’t detect it and stop.
Source: I had a robot vacuum, a roomie with cats, and the roomie’s cat crapped on my rug when I was at work. I came home to robot-created cat-poo skidmarks all across the carpet.
Robot vacuums are great.
One downside–if you have animals that are in the house/in rooms when you are not, don’t put the robot vacuum on a set schedule. If the animal poos/vomits/etc. the robot vacuum will streak it all across the room because it won’t detect it and stop.
Source: I had a robot vacuum, a roomie with cats, and the roomie’s cat crapped on my rug when I was at work. I came home to robot-created cat-poo skidmarks all across the carpet.