Product Description
The Roomba j9+ robot vacuum delivers 100% stronger suction* and adjustable cleaning power to lift even trapped pet hair from carpets. Equipped with the most thoughtful, pet-friendly features, this smart vacuum has dual rubber brushes to sweep up dust after the dog park, the know-how to steer around pet toys and food bowls, and our P.O.O.P. guarantee** to avoid accidental pet messes or you get a replacement. Dirt Detective, powered by iRobot OS, keeps track of cleaning settings and frequency to auto-customize where and how it cleans so your home is always at its freshest. Go ahead and love your pet–your Roomba robot will handle their mess. *Compared to Roomba i Series robots **See iRobot website for details
Dimension
Product Height : 13.3 inches
Product Width :13.3 inches
Product Depth :3.4 inches
Product Weight :7 pounds
Features
Our best pickup performance. The super-powered Roomba j9+ sucks up dust & debris better than any other robot vacuum plus has 100% stronger suction* so you can focus on...not cleaning. *Compared to Roomba Combo i Series robots
FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND DIRT DETECTIVE INTELLIGENCE Powered by iRobot OS, Roomba j9+ learns from cleaning history so your robot can automatically prioritize rooms, adjust suction, and the number of cleaning passes
Knows what to clean and what to avoid. Roomba Combo j9+ robot uses iRobot OS and PrecisionVision Navigation to recognize and avoid common objects in its way like cords, pet waste, socks and shoes.
Pet messes happen. P.O.O.P. (Pet Owner Official Promise)* means your Roomba j9+ robot vacuum will steer clear of your pet’s waste. If it doesn’t, we'll replace your robot for free. *Additional terms and conditions apply – see iRobot website for full details.
Empties its bin, so cleaning is off your mind. Cleans up after itself, emptying its Vacuum Bin into an advanced bag that holds up to 60 days of debris, which means two whole months of not thinking about vacuuming.
Start cleaning your way even faster. Straight out of the box, your Roomba robot vacuum will create a complete map of your home 7x faster than the previous mapping technology so you can clean wherever you want, whenever you want after just one run.
3-stage cleaning gets the job done. Proprietary 3-stage cleaning system deploys Dual Multi-Surface Rubber Brushes, an Edge-Sweeping Brush, and 100% stronger* Power-Lifting Suction.
Built with more pet features than any other robot vacuum. Cleans around clutter and steers clear of pet bowls and toys while picking up dirt and debris. So, you can spend time loving your pets, not cleaning up after them.
Neat rows for a more thorough clean. Advanced navigation and 2 cleaning passes allows Roomba robot to navigate your home in neat, efficient rows for a wall-to wall clean without missing a spot.
Understands more voice commands than any other robot. Pair it with Alexa, Siri, or Google Assistant-enabled devices* and say commands like “Tell Roomba Combo to clean the kitchen." Then it goes into cleaning action.
What's Included
Clean Base Automatic Dirt Disposal
1 Extra High-Efficiency Filter
1 Extra Corner Brush
2 Dirt Disposal Bags
Reviews
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Excellent Vacuum that self learns along the way.
The iRobot Roomba J9+ is an improvement over our past robot vacuums. It is self-learning and will report when there is a questionable item it deems in the way of its cleaning path. Sometimes it has a problem evacuating its internal bin to the docking station bin but that is usually caused by an enormous amount dog hair and carpet fuzz. We run our Roomba everyday throughout the entire house.
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Love it
This has saved our life with a getman shepherd in the house. We run it every day. Only complaint is that it sometimes disconnects from the app somehow and wont run on the scheduled time. All I have to do is reset it and then it works fine.
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Buy it!
This robot just makes my life very easy. I have two cats and a 11 month old baby that crawls everywhere... I run this robot once a day in average and it gets the job done! I can feel it on my bare feet that the floors are cleaner. It is not perfect, but it does get 90% of the dirt on our living area. Very happy with the purchase.
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Strongest Motor in a Roomba. Great for Pets!
To start off, I've used a handful of robot vacuums over the past few years and have a good technical perspective of what does "what" in this competitive space. The J9+ is interesting to me because it promises iRobots strongest motor while given the user the most advanced type of camera based VSLAM navigation. The general industrial design is based on the previously released J7 and as you've guessed, the J9 shares the newest possible object based navigation. This isn't my first iRobot.. I have long term experience with a last generation 2020 i3 which was more or less the entry "smart navigation" model using a standard optical floor tracker with gyroscope design. The i7 was similar, but added a top mounted camera to work with the optical floor tracker. In regards to vacuum performance, I can explain the IRobot hierarchy like this: The i3, i7, and J7 seem to all share the same motor and have the same general pickup performance with tolerance differences per unit. Possible subtle internal power adjustment too. There are outlier specialty Roomba made for certain vendors, but most robots are tied to a general "base" model. For example: i3 = i1/i2/i4/i5 (with specific changes) i7 = i6/i8 (with specific changes) The same is true for the J models with advanced navigation: j7 = j5/j8 (with specific changes) The j9+ one ups the base config with the stronger motor, possibly from the previous generation s9. Confusing? A little bit, but once you start piecing information together, everything starts making more sense. Current late 2023 lineup: i5+ COMBO = Better i3 with mop support (may have other possible changes). j5+ COMBO = J7+ with mop support. (may have other possible changes). J7/+ = Same as release from 2021. J7+ COMBO has auto retracting mop, older "standard" motor on both. J9/+ = Strongest motor, has same navigation as lower end J models. Removed rear cliff sensors. 4 instead of 6. (This robot) J9/+ Combo = Flagship robot offering everything. Since I got the technical background over with, we can generally start with what I think about the product at hand..That being the J9+ PICKUP PERFORMANCE: Given that I've used my Roomba i3 for a few years, I'm honestly VERY impressed with what this upgraded machine can do when it comes to embedded debris on carpet. This is indeed one of iRobots strongest products and certainly leaves the lower end models with the standard base motor in the dust.. Pun intended :) I can without a doubt say that the the J9+ is certainly among the best in the robot vacuum space. It defaults on medium suction and can variably shift for higher or lower power based on surface with its automated Powerboost. You can manually set the robot to lower or higher power which will extended or decrease battery life, but the default setting of medium is very well optimized that I don't really bother. Is the higher power needed for hard floors? Not at all, but it WILL help with pet oriented needs such as cat liter at least relative to a lower tier model with the standard Roomba motor. I've noticed the area around my cats liter box is much cleaner than other robots that I've used. NAVIGATION: It's no secret that the Roomba J series is much improved from previous i/s series models. While the i7 model was an improvement from something like an i3, it didn't have that much leverage to offer for a "WOW" factor. The pickup was similar, but offered no go zones due to camera. The J series navigation changes this as it can actually detect what is straight in front of it and go around or shift course. It's also a lot faster from what I can tell. Were competitor LIDAR robots better than the previous generation i7? I think so, but the J series from IRobot is actually competing neck and neck in its own way. Is my LIDAR Robot still faster for the entire house? Yeah it is, but the J9 has the trade off of simply cleaning better. I cannot understate this. DOCKING BASE: It works and functions like my Roomba i3. Just is a smaller and shorter package. I welcome this change as it looks much more mature. Has extra storage for a single bag and comes with two in the box. NOTICABLE CHANGES AND DOWNGRADES: Something I noticed looking at the previous J7 and even newer released J5+ Combo: For some reason, iRobot removed the rear cliff sensors from this specific J9+ model.. The j5 has them, the j7/+ has them, the J7+ COMBO has them, the J8/+ has them, and the J9+ COMBO has them, but this J9+ does not. An anomaly. The only thing I can think of is that the stronger motor takes too much space? Just seems weird since lower tier models have 6 instead of the 4 given on this "higher end" 9 series. Having only 4 cliff sensors is closer to the i3 base design. Another thing...The dust bin door hinge was also downgraded from previously released Roomba's and no longer has a release button. I know this J9+ only comes with an automated empty bin, but its a weird place to downgrade stuff. I feel like the newer design is more prone to breaking as it relies on a click hinge design.. previous model seems more durable. The i3 bin fits the J9+ and works without an issue. ACCESSORIES: Comes 2 side brushes, 2 filters, 2 bags. Pretty standard. Nothing else to really say here. I have extra replacement hardware from my older i3 and I'm glad everything is interchangeable. OVERALL: I'm very impressed with the general product. Is it perfect? No. Nothing is, but if you want one of the strongest Robot vacuums for pet pickup and deep cleaning carpet performance, I don't really think you can beat the Roomba j9 series. The J9+ is the only model in the current iRobot line up that doesn't have a mop. You will have to buy the J9+ COMBO if you want the same vacuum performance and a mop feature. Would a mop attachment work with this? It's possible that the assembly from the J5+ COMBO bin could fit, but there is no official support. Be warned. Solid 4/5. Better than I expected!
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Very Impressed soo far
I've been an owner of many robot vacs as well as from many different brands such as Neato, Shark & iRobot and the J9+ is to this point been a quantum leap. It's fun to watch as you see the learning process and how it avoids things like my dogs, power cords, furniture and other items in its path with much more ease than my previous units. The roller brush system stays very clean and its much more efficient than the old brush system. I find it easy to clean and maintain unlike the old units. It maps your home and allows you to draw room boundaries, name your rooms and choose what rooms you are going to clean. I have two Maine Coon cats that shed big time and again the improvement in technology is wonderful. No more hair! The self empty feature is wonderful and it's interesting that when the dirt container in the J9 fills, it scampers back quietly to its base and empties itself. Then amazingly it scampers right back to the spot it was cleaning and resumes finishing the cleaning. Same thing happens if the battery goes low. It scampers back to its dock and you get a message from the app that it is recharging with an estimate as to how long it will be before it resumes cleaning. Because it knows how much cleaning is left, you don't have to wait for a full charge too. I love that after it completes the map of your home shows the obstacles if any, that it encountered. Additionally you get pictures of obstacles and you can let the J9 know if those were temporary obstacles, or whether you want it to avoid that obstacle in the future. It's funny to see pictures of things in its path. I notice that now if it gets in the path of an animal it will stop before hitting them, and turn another direction. It's quiet too. Much quieter than my old robots. My cats pretty much ignore it as it moves along the floor where before they would haul butt into another part of the house. Also noticeable is that it will turn off the vacuum motor when it is traveling to specific rooms or when it is returning to its base. It also seems to have an extremely powerful motor on the base to suck the particles from the robot, the thing sounds like an old school Kirby so just beware because it may scare you the first few times. I am totally pleased soo far!
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A little quirky and loud at times but effective
The Roomba J9+ was simple to unbox and get up and running. Everything comes pre-assembled and merely required unpacking and room placement. Device activation and configuration was completed through the iRobot app which subsequently applied a “10 minute” update that actually ran for over 40 minutes. I was forced to abort and close the app due to other obligations, but when I returned later I noticed the vacuum software version number had jumped from 7.X to 9.9. Although it wasn’t exactly a smooth start, the issue apparently resolved on its own and the Roomba has been problem free since. Cleaning tasks are managed through the iRobot app, which also provides the capability to monitor and maintain the device. The Roomba can clean on demand, or as specified through custom cleaning schedules. The app is straightforward and intuitive to use, with all options logically arranged and easily accessible. One of the most useful features of the app is home mapping. The Roomba maps the layout of the home as it cleans, which is then saved in the app. Mapping allows more refined custom on-demand cleaning by allowing me to select specific rooms or the entire floor. Mapping can also be used with scheduling to clean individual rooms or areas on specified dates and times. This is good for automatically cleaning heavily trafficked or soiled areas more frequently and any less trafficked areas less frequently. Mapping isn’t perfect however, especially if there are a lot of random obstacles or oddly shaped or angled rooms. But it gets more accurate the more the machine runs and learns the home’s layout. I can also go in and edit the layout to make it more accurately represent my floorplan. Watching the Roomba run the first few times is like watching a baby deer learn to walk. It’s clumsy, unsure, frequently repeats areas, and seemingly puts too much emphasis on certain spots. Once the vacuum gets a good sampling of the house layout, it runs more efficiently, although it still occasionally runs in questionable patterns at times. The vacuum is moderately loud while cleaning but gets much louder when self-emptying due to the drastically increased suction used to empty the device. Both modes are loud enough to potentially frighten sensitive pets, but the noise from the emptying process is much more likely to do so. Cleaning results are pretty good. The J9+ does a thorough job and frequently doubles back to ensure cleanliness. It occasionally misses debris, just as my previous Roomba 981 did, but it seems a little more thorough than the 981 and usually does a good job overall. It’s adept at traveling onto and cleaning large low pile area rugs and good at avoiding stairs, obstructions, drops and other obstacles. It sometimes lightly bumps against walls and furniture rather than stopping before impact, but this became less frequent the more it learned the layout. Once it finishes all areas, it automatically returns to its home base where it self empties automatically. Dirt is sucked out of the Roomba and into a disposable vacuum bag inside the base. Once the bag is full, it gets removed and tossed like any other vacuum bag. The only areas I don’t like the J9+ traveling onto are floor vents and small rugs and mats. Small lightweight rugs and mats tend to get caught up in the roller and suction, and the grinding sounds the machine makes while traveling over floor vents makes me wince. Out of an abundance of caution, I usually remove small rugs/mats and cover floor vents before cleaning. The rollers and brushes are consumable user replaceable parts that I fear will may deteriorate prematurely from unfriendly surfaces like grated vent covers. The app monitors consumables and advises when it’s time for replacement, but it is time and use based. I suspect it may not accurately account for excessive wear caused by environmental factors. We’ve been pleased with the Roomba J9+ performance. It cleans the house reliably with few missed spots. We don’t have small children, pets, or a lot if foot traffic, so I’m sure that makes it easier to clean and likely plays a role in our results. The iRobot app scheduling, coupled with the self-emptying feature, makes the J9+ practically a set and forget appliance until it’s necessary to empty the base. The robot accurately cleans areas automatically for us on a daily schedule and returns to its home base afterward. Overall, it accomplishes the bulk of our vacuuming needs and even with our large area rugs, we’re seldom forced to use our uprights to supplement the Roomba.
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Good object detection, good suction
We already have a much older Roomba in a different floor in the house and also used a different brand. The advancement in how this works is really impressive. We also use a j7+ in a different place and differences are negligible. Initial setup was straightforward. Everything else came ready. It even came with dirt bag already installed in the charging base and a spare bag as well. App onboarding takes a few minutes. Already had the iRobot app installed because of the other vacuum. It detected the new vacuum and connected without issues. After finding a good spot for the charging base with a good outlet, it's ready to learn the floor plan. Keep in mind that the docking base draws a good amount of power when emptying the trash from the vacuum into the base, and it can easily trip a circuit. If there are lights on the same circuit it will flicker (This is on a new construction, 15 Amp circuit). The vacuum has to be trained first: The first or two times it runs, it will map the floor and rooms. It will first bump into a few things, although there is a setting in the app that applies additional logic to prevent of the unnecessary bumping. The second time we ran a mapping run, the floorplan started to take shape in the app. After a few cleaning jobs, the floorplan is more or less complete, and the phone app will eventually ask to start organizing the map into rooms. This takes a bit of effort as it might not be immediately intuitive, and in our case it got room divisions incorrectly. Note that I had previous experience setting a similar model on a different floor. Even though the maps will not be perfect it should be good enough to instruct it to clean specific rooms, and over time sections of each room. Once the rooms are divided, it will prompt to name the rooms, from a long list of pre-assigned names, or it can be customized. It will then move to the next training level and start taking pictures of what it think are obstacles. The vacuum has a front camera that has a narrow view of the floor level. It doesn't see much beyond a the height of shoes. With that the app will ask if the vacuum found a new obstacle, and if it's permanent, or temporary. If permanent, it will start adding exclusion zones to the map. Some of the examples are cables and power strips it finds on the floor. Temporary obstacles can be shopping bags or socks or shoes left on the floor. It's smart enough to not go over cables, which was an annoying problem with other vacuums we used before, but it might still ask you to confirm a loose cable almost every vacuuming room, via the app, which can be ignored though. It integrates very well with Alexa and also with Google Home. With Alexa it has a rich integration. I can tell it which of the two Roomba vacuums to use and which room. With Google Home the integration is quite basic, allowing one to start and stop vacuuming the whole floor. There is no integration with Apple HomeKit, and I don't think any robot vacuum works wit it yet, but it supports Siri shortcuts. From the app, one can customize the order on which rooms are cleaned with the option to save the routine as a favorite to reuse later. If using the vacuum on different places (or different floors), it can be done because the app can switch between multiple vacuums each with maps. Vacuuming: It picked everything and went under beds and cabinets without a problem. We have teenagers in the house so there is a good amount of hair to be cleaned on the floor. I was impressed that the main brushes did not get clogged with hair. In fact there was nothing else to clean from the rollers. However the first two times it ran it collected considerable amount of hair that made it fail the job. Cleaning the vacuum: The base does a great job of emptying the dustbin from the vacuum. As I mentioned, it's very powerful (And also very loud). Only takes a few seconds to complete though. However, debris that is larger than a grain of rice will have to be picked up manually from the vacuum's internal dustbin. The brushes are very easy to clean and as I said their design does not collect much hair at all. There is also a caster wheel to be cleaned but it pulls right out. Then the front-side brush will generally get some hair, and I had to unscrew it to pick all the hair from it. But things should be easier if using the vacuum consistently. The first time it will pick up a lot of dirt that the handheld vacuum missed (mostly under cabinets, sofas, etc.). It seems to stumble on legs and chairs more than necessary. With all its smarts it continuously gets stuck on the horizontal frame of an IKEA Poang armchair. I might have to exclude that area from its cleaning cycle. It does handle transitions between bare floors and carpets with ease. The app will show the rough area where it detected carpets. Overall I'm very impressed. Very well designed. Note that have to give it about a week to train it to each space. The docking base works well at emptying the dirt from the vacuum. The phone app is very well designed. iRobot has been making improvements for years, and I'm impressed how much smarter it got since their older vacuums. Integration with Alexa is very good. Compared to our j7 vacuum, the difference in smarts and vacuum power seems negligible in my experience. I also had issues with their support over time, for example waiting for a week to reply and then tell me that the warranty expired four days before submitting a request for a pre-existing issue, so an extended warranty might be worth with this. So it's great but If I had to choose again I'd choose the mid-level model instead.
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Great Suction, Features, and App. No LIDAR :(
The iRobot Roomba J9+ is one of iRobot’s latest iterations of the popular Roomba robot vacuum series. The J9+ offers the strongest suction motor that is currently offered from iRobot. This one is the vacuum only but if you would like the same vacuum performance with the addition of the mop, I would suggest the J9+ Combo. After testing several brands of robot vacuums over the years, including an older iRobot, there are certainly strengths and weaknesses to them. In the Box: -
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Love my Sweepy!
I wanted to write this review (instead of my Husband). I never write reviews, but, I felt others needed to know how this iRobot Roomba has freed us from our regular vacuum cleaner. We named it Sweepy, because you get to name it (so cute!). You see we have 3 labs (see photo) that shed 365 and we were vacuuming constantly! The Roomba was easy set up out of the box. Next came the mapping of the house (this made us look at each room and get stuff off the floor Sweepy couldn’t get under). We then were able to review the map, name each room and change room divides if needed. Set up the schedule and ready for the first run (daily for us on all floors except carpeted rooms - those are weekends only right now). I wasn’t expecting to be as thrilled as I was! Our floors look great! No dog hair in sight! We have hardwood floors with some area rugs, 2 carpeted rooms and luxury vinyl…Sweepy works great on all these surfaces! When done it docks and empties. I should have had one of these years ago…such a time saver! I love coming home to clean swept floors (no more dog hair tumbleweeds). Highly recommend this product !
