Enjoy our latest improvements to robot behavior and cleaning efficiency

Better Navigation, Coverage, and Mapping

• • Fixed a number of bugs that prevented the robot from cleaning where you told it to
  • Fixed bug where the robot would clean the wrong room during directed room clean
  • Improved navigation so the robot won't think it's stuck and end the cleaning job early
  • Improvements to navigation to prevent instances where robot was getting stuck
  • Improved responsiveness when making edits to your Smart Map
  • Improved carpet location representation in the Smart Map
  • Improved cleaning behavior when encountering pet waste
  • Improved navigation around Keep Out Zones
  • Fixed bug that caused the robot to stop in one spot and eventually end its job
  • Fixed a number of high frequency software crashes
  • Improved maping performance, specifically around wall coverage
  • Fixed an issue where the robot would vacuum when it was asked to mop
  • Removed a bug that would cause the robot to become unresponsive after being picked up
  • Improved accuracy of map updating after discovering new spaces
  • Faster mapping runs
  • Fixed a bug where Careful Drive was disabled after the robot was picked up

Mopping and Replenishment

• • Improved pad stowing behavior
  • Robot will now stow its pad in situations where it wouldn't have previously but could have
  • Fixed a bug that prevented auto replenish dock from refilling the robot's tank when it was empty
  • Removed some instances where the robot would incorrectly report tank leaking
  • Improved robot's ability to respect No Mop Zones
  • Robot will no longer empty its bin during mop-only jobs

Docks and Docking

• • Fixed a number of docking behavior bugs to improve successful charging, bin emptying, and tank refills
  • Improvements to docking where the robot will try harder to find the dock
  • Improved robot's ability to locate its dock when returning home

Enjoy our latest improvements to robot behavior and cleaning efficiency

Better Navigation, Coverage, and Mapping

• • Fixed a number of bugs that prevented the robot from cleaning where you told it to
  • Fixed bug where the robot would clean the wrong room during directed room clean
  • Improved navigation so the robot won't think it's stuck and end the cleaning job early
  • Improvements to navigation to prevent instances where robot was getting stuck
  • Improved responsiveness when making edits to your Smart Map
  • Improved carpet location representation in the Smart Map
  • Improved cleaning behavior when encountering pet waste
  • Improved navigation around Keep Out Zones
    
  • Fixed bug that caused the robot to stop in one spot and eventually end its job
  • Fixed a number of high frequency software crashes
  • Improved mapping performance, specifically around wall coverage
  • Removed a bug that would cause the robot to become unresponsive after being picked up
  • Improved accuracy of map updating after discovering new spaces
  • Faster mapping runs
  • Fixed a bug where Careful Drive was disabled after the robot was picked up

Docks and Docking 

• • Improvements to docking where the robot will try harder to find the dock
  • Improved robot's ability to locate its dock when returning home

• • When it’s time to mop, Roomba Combo® will try to make sure it has enough room to bring down its mop arm without bumping into anything. If it’s in a tight space, it will relocate. This means fewer mop arm errors and more mopping success!
  • Updated edge cleaning, so Roomba does a better job cleaning along walls and furniture edges
  • Fixed a bug where cleaning jobs were ending just after starting with “Path blocked” or “Cleaning complete!”
  • Improved pad wetting at the start of mopping jobs for more consistent mopping coverage
  • General bug fixes and improvements

Enjoy our latest improvements to robot behavior and cleaning efficiency

Better Navigation, Coverage, and Mapping

• • Optimized mapping and navigation for more thorough coverage through the cosmos of your home, so your robot is better at vacuuming or mopping where you ask it to
  • Your robot will be less likely to get blocked by your belongings (or space debris)
  • Upgraded obstacle avoidance using Precision Vision™ to steer clear of objects more reliably
  • Your robot can now tell the difference between shoes on people vs. shoes not on people and will adjust navigation accordingly
  • If your robot recognizes an obstacle it will try to reposition itself so its Edge Sweeping Brush doesn't sweep into it
  • Expanded automatic room labeling for key areas like bathrooms during mapping. This saves you time in setting up your map.
  • Fixed several bugs that prevented the map from being shown at the end of a job in History
  • Fixed an issue where your robot spins continuously in some places during mapping runs
  • Fixed a bug that makes Roomba j9 “twitch” while in Careful Drive mode
  • Streamlined docking navigation when your dock is near a wall or furniture

Mopping and Auto-Refilling

• • Improved tank monitoring to identify issues proactively, including when your robot is in sleep mode off the dock
  • Fixed bugs to improve the reliability of automatic water refilling and automatic bin emptying
  • Fixed a bug where your robot would continue to return to the dock to refill, even if refills had failed
  • Fixed a bug where your robot would start mopping while in a No Mop Zone

Connection and Setup

• • Enabled Wi-Fi setup when Child Lock is on for added convenience. You can now connect to Wi-Fi without off Child Lock.
  • Fixed multiple issues with setup when connecting your robot to Wi-Fi and the cloud
  • Fixed an issue where a robot language change via the app failed to save
  • Improved your robot's ability to stay connected to the cloud

New Feature

• • Double the scrub for tough stains! SmartScrub mops back and forth with consistent pressure & 2x deeper scrubbing* to eliminate stubborn messes like coffee and grime. Available for Roomba Combo® j9 and j7 with mobile app version 7.8+.
    *compared to standard vacuum & mop mode for coffee and grime

Feature Enhancement

• • Attention pet owners and anyone with pesky cords on the floor! PrecisionVision™  is now enabled for some objects during Imprint™ Smart Maps: Mapping Runs. During a mapping run, Roomba® will avoid pet waste and cords to help it complete mapping in a single run. It’s still a good idea to do a general pickup of other potential obstacles.

Sent some bugs on a one-way trip to the moon

Imprint™ Smart Maps

• • Improved room divider accuracy
  • Fixed an issue causing the iRobot HOME App to close during map editing
  • Ensured that obstacle pins for image review are within map boundaries
  • Decreased wait time for a Clean Map to be shown in the cleaning history report after a cleaning job is done
  • Fixed issues that delayed or prevented the Clean Map from appearing in the cleaning history report

Cleaning jobs

• • Improved accuracy of charge times for Smart Charge & Resume with updates to estimating space remaining, and estimating charge remaining as batteries age
  • Fixed a bug where robot immediately got "Error 48, path blocked" during Tidy-Up jobs
  • Fixed an issue where babies found a sneaky way to temporarily bypass Child & Pet Lock, even though it was technically still on
  • Fixed several causes of error 15, which causes the job to end early and robot to reboot
  • Made general improvements to docking
  • Fixed a bug where the robot became neurotic about emptying its bin frequently, cried wolf with an abundance of bin full errors, and sometimes even reported error 36
  • Fixed a bug where the robot thought it was having error 36, when it was actually having trouble communicating with the Dock

Roomba Combo® j7

• • Improved Roomba Combo® j7’s ability to move away from carpets and continue vacuuming + mopping at the same time
  • If the robot is having trouble determining floor type, it now switches to vacuuming only until it completes that room or zone, and then resets its carpet sensors to enable vacuuming & mopping as needed
  • Fixed a bug where the Roomba Combo® j7 was spraying liquid before the pad came down
  • Fixed a bug to ensure accurate clean time estimates for Vacuum + Mopping jobs

Roomba Combo® j7 Accurate tank level reporting

• • We’ve updated j7 Combo®’s software to do a more accurate job of detecting the water level in the tank. This will optimize messaging that lets you know when it’s time to fill up your tank so your robot can continue to vacuum and mop simultaneously. Run out of water anyways? Your robot will still switch to vacuuming only, like it did before.

Improved charging reliability

• • We improved your robot's ability to make a secure connection with its charging station to charge, even as debris build-up on the metal contacts is partially obstructing things. We still recommend periodically cleaning your charging contacts using our maintenance tips guidelines.

So long “phantom map space”

• • Have you ever noticed your robot added a long narrow mystery space to your map? We fixed that. Your robot will now do a better job of realizing when it has accidentally added phantom space to your map and will trim it off before you even see it.
  • This release prevents new phantom spaces from being added. If you have a map that already has a phantom space, and you want to remove it, you can delete that map and remap your space. We recommend doing this with a mapping run  (faster, does not clean), but you can also choose a Clean Everywhere job (slower, but cleans at the same time). Remapping is optional! If you are happy with your map, just keep cleaning as always.

Vanquished some bugs

Mapping

• • Fixed a bug where the robot had trouble adding new space to your Imprint™ Smart Map when the new space was located in the middle of your floor plan
  • Fixed a bug where auto room naming didn’t happen, instead labeling all rooms in new maps as “Unnamed room”
  • Fixed a bug that was making your room names disappear and be replaced with “Unnamed Room”
  • Fixed a map bug that could cause Roomba Combo® j7 to ignore No Mop Zones and accidentally mop where you didn’t want it to

Cleaning and navigation

• • Fixed a bug that would lead to the cleaning job ending immediately after starting
  • Manually placing the robot in a room to clean? We fixed a bug where the robot was disregarding your room choice and starting by roaming off to other rooms.
  • Fixed a bug in j7 Combo® jobs that were switching to vacuum only, even when there was enough liquid left in the tank to continue mopping and vacuuming
  • Fixed a bug where robots were cleaning rooms in a different order than you asked them to
  • Fixed a bug where robots were re-cleaning areas they had already cleaned
  • Fixed a bug where the robot was not doing mid-job recharge long enough to complete its job

Other

• • Fixed several causes of unexpected reboots (error 15)
  • Fixed a bug that delayed or prevented messages about a vacuum hardware failure (Errors 26 & 30)

Mapping Runs: More efficient than ever

• • Roomba will now pick up where it left off if a mapping run is interrupted. This might happen if it couldn’t reach part of your space because of a closed door or sandworm blocking its way or if you needed to stop the robot while you watch Dune. Instead of retracing its steps, it will search for unknown areas and add them to the existing map.

Stay charged up

• • We improved Roomba’s ability to stay charged on its charging station, so it’s always ready to go when you need it. Roomba has improved navigation when approaching and docking on the charging station and will give an extra little push to make sure it’s secure. It will also do a better job of redocking if it accidentally gets bumped off its charging station. To ensure optimal performance, we recommend following our basic care tips for the dock.

Mapping: overhauled for speed

• • We went back to the drawing board and created our fastest map-making algorithm ever
  • Need to take a call before mapping is complete? No problem. Roomba will pick up where it left off in the next mapping run.

Squashed some bugs

By squashed, we mean set them free outside

• • Fixed a bug that prevented Braava m6 from starting its part of a Linked Cleaning job
  • Resolved a problem that prevented the light ring from turning off in some Roomba i7s
  • Fixed a map bug that would lead Roomba to try (unsuccessfully) to get through a wall
  • If you do a Mapping Run to add to a map you already have, Roomba now stays out of any existing keep-out zones
  • Fixed a bug that could cause a Mapping Run to end before it was done
  • Fixed a bug which could cause Roomba to clean rooms in the wrong order during Directed Room Cleaning
  • Fixed bug where Roomba would return to a room after it was skipped
  • Fixed a bug where job History in the iRobot HOME App displays “Unable to empty the bin: communication problem”, when everything was actually fine

New sound when you place Roomba to charge

• • Next time you physically place Roomba onto its dock, it will play a sound to let you know it’s in the right place and ready to charge. If you’re still having trouble with this, make sure the silver charging contacts are lined up and there’s not too much residue build-up on them<.

Improved room detection with new maps

• • Next time Roomba creates a new Imprint™ Smart Map, the room dividers it creates will match up better to what you see in your home. J7 and J7 Combo® will get this improvement first.

Smarter navigation in crowded spaces

• • We’re continuing to improve Roomba’s iAdapt® 3.0 intelligent navigation technology. Roomba does a better job of skipping places it can’t reach and finding its way out of crowded spaces. Rearranging furniture? No problem.

Improved cleaning direction across rooms

• • When Roomba does one pass’ cleaning, it detects the shape of the room and cleans lengthwise rather than spend more time making lots of turns across the shorter width. Larger rooms get cleaned in sections. Roomba has always had this feature; it just does it a little better now. Let’s just say it does a better job of “reading the room”.

Better docking

• • Precise docking is critical to reliable charging. This release brings several improvements to Roomba i7’s docking that help it get and stay securely on the charging station. You may notice Roomba moving to find the best spot on the dock for charging. If you notice your robot still has trouble charging, it might just need a little care and maintenance.

Squashed some bugs

• • Fixed a bug that prevented Braava m6 from starting its part of a Linked Cleaning Job
  • Added a few spoken messages that were missing from the Dutch and Korean language packs
  • Fixed several causes of unexpected reboots
  • Fixed cases where Roomba would return to a skipped room
  • Fixed a case where the dock does not empty Roomba’s bin

• • Support for additional objects for clean by object and object avoidance
  • Improvements to mapping speed
  • Male voice pack support
  • Support for Skip Room
  • Bug fixes and usability improvements

• • Support for custom cleaning routines
  • Bug fixes and usability improvements

• • Charging/Docking new light ring patterns and app control
  • Improvement to ‘Bin Full’ detection algorithm
  • Child lock full feature
  • Bug fixes and usability improvement

• • Improvement to Evac performance

• • New Objects for ODOA - Shoes and Socks
  • Map Copy support
  • New Object for Zone Recommendation - Christmas Trees
  • Improve on "Failed to Evac" and missing "Empty Bin" button in app
  • Turkish Language Support
  • Incremental improvements for ODOA behavior
  • Quiet Travel - robot will turn off vacuum and rollers when traveling to a directed clean

• • Bug fixes and usability improvements

• • Bug fixes and usability improvements

• • Firmware stability improvement
  • Fixed bug related to "skip room" feature
  • Robustness improvement for carpet detection

• • Added "skip room" functionality
  • Added home monitoring beta on iOS
  • Added male voice pack
  • Additional Stability improvements
  • Decrease time required to generate smart map when using mapping runs
  • Reduction in mid-mission "pauses" during missions
  • Improved handling of transition to dry vacuum mode once tank depleted mid mission
  • Robot will more intelligently handle thresholds while mopping
  • Improvements to tank level sensing

• • General stability improvements
  • Perimeter wall cleaning enabled for both dry and combo cleaning
  • Tank fluid level accuracy improvements
  • Fix for mid-mission tank fluid level low notification
  • New ODOA objects supported
  • Home cleaning coverage improvements
  • Fix for Dirt Detection notifications
  • Reinforced learning added to reduce robot stuck failures
  • Default global cleaning pass setting changed to single pass
  • Added reverse pump prime to prevent water droplets on dock
  • Fixed issues related to mopping pad detection
  • Reduced number of unnecessary pad actuations
  • Reduced water usage in combo "Eco mode"