I’ve been lurking here for a while while researching the S1 before pulling the trigger on Black Friday. First, thanks to all of you who really helped me get a good sense of the pros and cons of this little guy.

Well, it’s been a couple of weeks now, and I have to tell you that this robot exceeds expectations. I’m coming from a Roomba i7 (she lives upstairs now), so never had a mop feature before. We only have one small carpet on our main floor, so we were really looking for something that would excel in the mopping department.

Watching this thing do its thing is better than TV (ok, not really. Well, kinda.). It’s way smarter than the Roomba and our floors have never looked better. Our floors have a beautiful shine on them that our once a week mopping never could achieve. I love that the vacuum brushes rotate slower than on other robots I’ve seen, so the crumbs don’t fly into the next room but quickly make their way into the robot.

Positives: see above. I’m 99.9% happy with the S1.

Room for improvement:

• I’d like to see the mop come down sooner after being on carpet.
• I’d prefer if the robot did all other “housekeeping” tasks when it returns to base, even if it doesn’t need it (i.e. cleaning the water reserve and also empty dustbin before it takes off again).
• I had some issues with our baseboards in the kitchen at first, where it would be afraid to go under although it had plenty of clearance. Changing the settings in the app for that fixed it, but it also made the robot too cavalier in areas where it actually shouldn’t have been, like a section of our couch where a metal bar comes down quite low, which it attempted and has led to scratches.

For our main floor, this has been a great purchase that I hope lasts for at least a good few years. Cheers to you all, thanks again.