DEEBOT D77 The 3-D Vacuuming Robot by Ecovacs Robotics, Inc

It would get stuck going from hard floors to carpet.

How go about with the warranty? I'm bought last month and using in Malaysia.Currently the brushes stop spinning. Not sure why? Anyone has answer?Wonder where to send for repair & servicing incase it spoil? TQ > MK Chin www.BOSSingapore.com

Getting New flooring ,,so ready to use it.

I love it , makes my job easy and the quality is pretty good too. My wife and I are very happy with this items.

This vacuum has lots of cool factor, until you try living with it a few days. The canister in the base is really handy, as the vacuum can automatically empty itself whenever it goes home to recharge its batteries. And it's a robot. However, that's where the cool ends.This vacuum gets stuck everywhere. Every night at 9pm, Doofus (that's his name) wakes up and starts to clean. He gets about 3 feet and then gets stuck on the dining room rug. After 20 minutes of destroying the edge of the rug, the cat finally takes mercy on him and pushes him up onto the rug where he proceeds to wedge himself under a dining room chair. There, he sits and spins until he runs out of battery. We find him there in the morning and send him back to his timeout corner.If the vacuum came with virtual walls like the iRobot does, you could tell him: don't go in the living room, don't go in the dining room, don't go in the family room. Just wander the hallway. This would help with him constantly getting stuck.He doesn't clean. He goes right over debris (mostly just the tattered remains of the rugs he ruined) and leaves it on the floor. The floors are dirtier than when we relied on the teenage kids to run the vacuum. At least the kids had better things to do than destroy the rugs.It has a canister vacuum. Hahaha. Yeah right. Good luck figuring out how to attach the accessories and wielding a completely unbalanced vacuum that is tethered to the wall plug.Doofus is gone and no one here misses him but the cat.

My husband and I bought the Deebot after looking at a few kinds of robot vacuums. For the price, it's actually pretty great. It's easy enough to set up, our floors get clean and it's quite entertaining to watch it move around and dodge objects on the floor. It was so annoying to clean the floors in my dining room because table and all the chairs need to be moved which is such a hassle for our smallish apartment. One less thing for me to have to worry about, and I'm glad we didn't go for the $800 Roomba.

It is absolutely critical to wait for a few weeks before writing a review of a new product. I originally bought an iRobot Roomba 880 and was absolutely fascinated for the first three days - I estimate we saved 15 minutes of vacuuming over that time, but easily spent 3 hours watching the thing cruise around our house. My initial review would have read "This thing is a gift from the Almighty!". However, after 10 days, we returned it and purchased the Deebot D77.We have used our Deebot D77 for about 2 weeks or so, and I'm sorely dissapointed. All I can say is that Robots seem a lot smarter in the movies - I was expecting Wall E, and instead I got a couple Battle Droids from Star Wars Episode 1. Before I lament about my D77 experience, I'll just say that I do not believe either of these devices are worth their current price tags (~$700 USD as of this post). I think it's a toss-up between the devices honestly - I'm planning to keep the D77 primarily because A) our dark wood floors require daily vacuuming/sweeping, and B) I don't have the stomach to try another brand right now.A quick note on our environment: we decided to buy a robot vacuum as part of a remodel project - new hardwood floors in our living room and kitchen. We have 2 short hair labs, one short hair cat, two kids with hair of various lengths, two short hair parents, a guinea pig, and a constant flow of messy friends and neighbors enjoying our living space. The day after our new floors were finished it became apparent that we would either need to sweep 2x a day or get a robot to do the job. We weren't expecting it to replace our need to vacuum, but were hoping it would be able to remove the majority of the pet hair, specifically.I'll provide a comparison of each vacuum here, starting with the Deebot D77. What I like and what I don't:Likes:Base Canister: The D77's base vacuum canister is, hands down, the best feature this thing has - it's also the only feature I think it beats the Roomba 880 on. We'll need to empty it 1-2 times a week as a standard. This is much better than the every couple days or more bin emptying I was doing with the Roomba. I've also used the vacuum canister for our stairs a few times - while it's functional, it's not super convenient (why o why didn't they add a small battery so you don't need to plug in for short use????).Noise: I do believe the D77 is quieter on our hardwood floors. It's not super quiet, so don't think this is a dirt whisperer.. just quieter than the Roomba.Cleaning Algorithm Options: the D77 has a number of additional cleaning options above the Roomba - you can tell it to hug the walls, go super-clean, or go normal - each altering the robot's cleaning path. Note that I was not impressed with ANY of these - but options are nice, I suppose.Double spinners: while the Roomba only has a dirt spinner on one side of the robot, the Deebot has two - this makes 2x the sense of having 1. It did not result in a 2x better cleaning process, mind you.Dislikes:Inefficient Cleaning Path: I was seriously hoping this thing was smarter than it turned out to be. But, alas, it's as dumb, maybe dumber, than the Roomba. To be fair, the dirt sensor is a smart addition, and you can see it alter the D77's course when it encounters obvious dirt. But my gripes about the Roomba's inefficient, seemingly random cleaning pattern are the same with the Deebot. At $700, I expect these devices to have enough memory and processing power to A) do a great job at mapping their cleaning space, B) keeping track of where they are in that space, and C) figuring out what they have cleaned and what they haven't. Instead, both bounce around randomly until they don't have any more juice. This is about 2 hours for the D77. I'll add, while both robots run full-speed into chair legs, the Roomba does a better job at sensing when it's about to run into a wall and slows down accordingly. The Deebot, on the other hand, runs into walls full-speed consistently.Lack of scheduling options: the Deebot allows you to set a schedule - for the same time, every. stinking. day. That's not a typo. While the Roomba 880 lets you pick both day of the week, and specific time per day, the Deebot only allows you to select 1 time, and then runs every day. This sucks. Know that setting your schedule means you will have a loud vacuum running for 16 hours of your week.Easily stuck: the Deebot needs to be freed regularly. It gets stuck on very low profile, low pile carpets, generally on the corner. The Roomba did not get stuck once in the same places.Design: my wife likes the way the Deebot's shell looks while I prefer the look of the Roomba. However, the digital interface is awful. Simply awful. So awful I needed to type this fact 3 times and am not done explaining how awful it is. In 1982, my 8 year old brother had a pac man watch. The digital display used a series of static images that it turned off and on to create the illusion of animation. Similar to the TI calculator I owned at the same time. This display reminds me exactly of that watch and that calculator. I'm still looking for a way to generate this number sequence on my D77: 55378008.Lack of Virtual Walls: my appreciation for the Roomba 880s virtual wall solution was reinforced after using the Deebot - I missed the ability to block off a room or ring-fence the dog bowls.--------------------Here are my likes/dislikes of the Roomba 880:Likes:Virtual Walls: the 880 comes with a pair of infrared beacons that can be used to create virtual walls, or 'halos' around places you don't want it to bother, like dog bowls. These were very effective / easy to set up.Scheduling: I really liked the ability to set a daily schedule. Great concept. The entire point of a robotic vacuum is to reduce your interaction with the act of vacuuming - setting your schedule and interacting only when it needs you to empty its dustbin is a critical requirement in my book.Design: I'm a sucker for good looking tech, and would describe the Roomba as a good looking piece of hardware.What I did NOT like:Noise: know that this thing is loud, specifically on hardwood floors (much quieter on carpet). We have a TV in our kitchen, and we could not watch it while the little guy was running.Inefficient Cleaning Path: As I noted, I was fascinated watching this thing clean - I'd seriously crack a beer and just follow it around, trying to figure out its floor mapping algorithm. After literally hours of watching it go, I believe it is totally random. It would find and hug a wall, but then decide to veer off in a random direction. The random approach to cleaning meant it would re-clean the same spots often, and leave others untouched. I was hoping to see it learn over time, but it didn't - not over 10 days at least. The end result is that it would run around MUCH longer than it needed. Combine gripes one and two, and you had a noisy device running around your house for hours - and this meant scheduling became a challenge. I couldn't find 2 hours on any day that I could guarantee it wouldn't bother someone.Table and Chairs: The 880 was especially awful at figuring out our dining area - normal 4 legged table, 4 chairs and a bench. The robots sensor sees walls just fine, and slows down before impact - but not the case with skinny chair legs. The thing would head into our dining room with a head full of steam and smash full-on into our chairs, then proceed to bounce drunkenly around like a bull in a china shop - smashing into legs right and left. Yes, sometimes it pivots nicely around the leg - after its smashed into it full-speed in the first place.Random Stops: If we let the 880 run while we were gone, it seemed to invariably get stuck, stop, and ask for someone to move it - generally around our stairs. I suspect that it had vertigo and would freak out on occasion when it felt it was going to fall down the stairs.----------------------------I think these are the main +/-'s. The original Roomba was introduced in 2002, so I'm surprised at the lack of innovation over this time. The home automation industry is officially in full swing - my music system (Sonos), thermostat (Nest), lighting (Philips Hue) and doorbell (Skybell) are all connected to the Internets. Yet, my friggen robot vacuum is not, and just trundles happily along. This is crazy to me - providing a wifi connection would remove the need for a direct interface (who wants to touch a dusty vacuum to program it?). An internet connection would let you download updates - maybe some day they create a better cleaning algorithm! I'd love to get a status from my vacuum when I'm away from home - although, in both cases, it would likely read 'I'm stuck/confused/not doing my job'.Hopefully Apple will join the fray soon, and provide an open robot-vacuum platform that allows other developers to create special cleaning apps - maybe theirs will be a drone that can also clean stairs. One can only hope.