I was a little sceptical and my wife was very opposed to it on cost grounds however after looking at the reviews i decided to order we have a mix of wooden floors flotex big rugs some with tassles on the edges and deep soft rugs like many other people we are busy not in the house much and hoovering does not alway come high up the piority list when the sun came thru the other day it highlighted all the dust and bits that end up in the corners edges and the around the stuff i can not be bothered to move the roomba trundled around and cleaned everything the wisker rotating brushes get into all the edges corners and under stuff from a relativley clean front room it compleatly filled its hopper with hair cat hair it even found sweet wrappers and christmas tree pine needles from somewhere