Robot Vacuum Cleaner, Floor Cleaner, Laser Navigation, with App, Black, VG RVC 3002 BK

We are super happy with this little machine - very affordable and easy to assemble and use.We've got a lot of floor space downstairs with multiple obstacles, which it almost always conquered! If it can't climb an obstacle, it will try again and again or will go back to find another way (which it always did).The hoover function works really well, but I wouldn't say it works better than a human, I think a human could get the job done quicker and pick up more stuff. So we'll be using it every day as we have 3 dogs and walk in our shoes downstairs, but we'll still be using our Dyson every week for a more thorough clean. It did pick up a lot of dust, and one of the advantages of it is being able to go under the sofa.The mopping function is very nice as well, we have linoleum in one of the rooms and it's just perfect for it. It won't clean the room like you would with an actual mop, as it doesn't change the water, but it will make it look and feel fresher. However with tougher stains, like wet dog food, it's not 100% efficient, even if you use the stain remover function. I'd say it cleans about 90% of all the crap and makes the floor look clean and fresh, but if you'd like it spotless, you have to wash it yourself.We don't really miss the app for the phone, the remote is more than sufficient. You can set it to start automatically at some point in time, but in order to switch from hoovering to mopping, you'd have to physically switch containers (which is a 1 min job).Overall, we are very happy and will be keeping this item, as it will make the house look tidier throughout the week without much work involved.

Not going to write a long review as all of the 4*> reviews sum up this little machine well. Just wanted to let know that 2 years on this machine is still working as well as the day I bought it.In summary, great machine that has basically given me part of my life back as I set it running when working or even when I’m out. I don’t endlessly clean the house hours at a time now as this does it all for you. Hoovers well and is accessible to all areas. The virtual wall and no cleaning zone is a particularly good feature and it enables the robot to clean around cat bowls and wires etc.Suction power is good, although after 2 years is slightly reduced, despite installing new filters etc.Mop feature is also great and easy to use. I spray floor cleaner onto the mop head and on more heavily stained areas direct on the floor before setting the robot going. Works a treat. Don’t put cleaners in the tank though as it’ll clog it up and block the water holes. Water only in the tank, nothing else.The robot is great for every day cleans and usage but every so often you’ll need to do a deep clean using an every day vacuum cleaner and steam mop etc so don’t get rid of these at the expense of your new robot !Great value machine that works well even 2 years on

I used it every day, and it did the job well and kept the floors clean, did not use the mop function, so can't comment on that. It once got a string of some kind stuck on the roller brush and I removed it. I cleaned the roller brush and side brushes and put Venga to work. Now after about 5 minutes it just stops dead, I put it back to the charging unit and start it up and then it beeps 4 times and flashes red signifying that the roller brush is stuck. I check the roller brush and it is clean and nothing is stopping it. Then start it up and 5 minutes later same issue, dead, just stops. Only had it 12 months!!! It is doing this all the time and Venga manufacturers ignore my email about advice!!! Not buying this brand ever again.

This robot vacuum is great and it does a decent job. So first of all, be aware that this is not a high end maximum power monster that will rip out embedded or tangled pieces of crud from you carpet - no vacuum will. It cleans the surface and picks up dust and small debris - and I didn't realise just how much dust was in my house until I had this robot.So it has a standard and max suction - it doesn't always switch to max mode (or I can't tell), but the standard suction is fine for me (mainly thick carpet + some floors).I set it to auto and off it goes. The pattern seems random and it goes over the same spots several times over, and runs for 1-2 hours. Overall, it covers everywhere. After it's done, you can see the track marks on the carpet which looks nice. It works even in complete darkness.Sometimes it gets stuck. It climbs onto ledges up to an inch tall - like my fireplace surround, and I have to put some objects there to block the edge. It also climbs onto the base of my barstool and gets stuck sometimes. Make sure your doors are properly open - if it's half open, then venga will push the door closed and get trapped in that room. So each night, I tidy up the mess that my kids made, block the fireplace and barstool, and then let the venga clean up the rest! Timer works well too. For upstairs, it has a good cliff detection system but my heart stops when it goes half off the top step so I prefer to block it in any case.After it's done, you have to empty and clean the machine. You empty out the dust collecting chamber into the bin which is easy to do. Then you pop open the dust catcher and empty/brush that clean too (it catches a lot of dust). And lastly, you use the cutter (provided) to cut all the hair and threads trapped in the brush roller on the underside of the robot - very important, I can't believe how much hair it picks up!First few times I used it, the chamber got completely full up and it left streaks of dust/fluff on my carpets - that's because my carpets and house were so dusty! Now I use it daily (I alternate between upstairs and downstairs) and it only fill up half each day, and there are no streaks. I am amazed every day that it picks up a load of dust even when I think the carpet is clean. Sometimes I have it fo the carpet twice in a day.It works better on floors in my opinion.It is noisy, but not as noisy as a regular vacuum. If I shut my bedroom door at night, I can barely hear it in the background downstairs, but it's nice hearing it do all the work and knowing you'll come down to a clean floor. It has a bumper at the front and when it hits an object or wall, the bumper clicks and this is how it knows to change direction (in conjunction with the infrared sensor of course), but it can be a bit noisy when it clicks.A couple of times, it randomly got stuck or one of the spinning brushes came off, and I don't know why, but that's pretty much just a couple of times in 6 months. Once, my kid messed with the robot and the robot went a bit mad, doing the same spot repeatedly. I cleaned the sensors, let the battery drain, recharged it, and it was fine.Make sure all your cables are well out of the way. Sometimes I've found it stuck next to my phone charger - it really does suck up the wires tightly and get jammed, so you have to tidy them before switching venga on.Now, it does an reasonable jobs of the edges but I still find it necessary to use my regular vacuum with a pipe attachment to clean the edges everywhere, but only now and again. No vacuum can get into those edges anyway. And if you have a bit of fluff or something tangled into the carpet, you have to get those out manually.It can also get stuck under some furniture if the gap is really tight. After 3 months, I found it stuck under the fridge which had never happened before and I had to lower the height of the fridge (it was on a tilt to make sure the door swings shut after use).The mop function is mediocre at best. It just wipes water across the floor. It definitely makes the floor cleaner but it doesn't replace a good scrub, and it leaves a bit too much water for my liking (the floor is too wet to walk ok) - it would be ideal for a hot country in which the floor dried quickly, but not in the UK, so I don't use the mop function. Also, you need to shut the doors to carpeted rooms - otherwise it will drag the mop over your carpet!It keeps cleaning until it runs out of battery, and then it slowly finds its way back to the charger. A couple of times it died en route and I found it in some random place.It takes about two hours to charge. I wish it came with two chargers so I could leave one charging base upstairs and one downstairs.For me, I'm very happy with the robot. After making the necessary adjustments before switching it on, and getting wires and things out of the way, it's very reliable - even though I mentioned several times that I found it stuck or whatever, it works more than 9 times out of 10. It encourages me to tidy up every day, and saves me from vacuuming all the time. It does an excellent job of cleaning dust and hair and my carpets are visibly cleaner and the house is less dusty. For the price, you can't go wrong. It's an excellent budget robot vacuum!