The iRobot Roomba 105X Robot Vacuum & Mop Combo cleans your floors and empties itself into a bag that needs to be replaced every 2 months or so. You can start it from the app, via a voice command, or with the button on the robot. LiDAR mapping lets it drive in orderly rows instead of the random pattern of older Roombas. It mops hard floors and skips carpets automatically. When the bin fills up or the battery dies, it heads back to the AutoEmpty dock on its own.
A capable robot vacuump and mop combo that can keep your home ultra tidy
The Roomba Home App is the control panel for the 105X. Setup takes about ten minutes, most of which is the robot’s first mapping pass around the house. Once mapped, the app labels each room, and you can send the robot to clean specific rooms on demand or set them on a recurring schedule. Keep-out zones drawn on the map fence the robot off from areas you don’t want touched, such as a pet’s water dish or a pile of cords.
Cleaning begins with an edge-sweeping brush for corners and baseboards. In the center, a rubber multi-surface brush cleans carpets, hardwoods, and tiles, pulling debris up while avoiding tangles with hair. The vacuum has suction power 70 times that of the original Roomba 600 series, allowing the robot to remove pet hair from carpet fibers as it vacuums rather than gliding over them.
Mopping mode adds a microfiber pad that clips to the bottom of the robot before a run. Water is fed into a tank on top of the unit, and a small pump sprays it onto the pad as the robot drives across the floor. The pad stays evenly damp throughout the session, instead of drying out halfway through the kitchen. Carpet detection works while mopping, too, so the robot skips rugs on its route instead of dragging a wet pad across them.
A full battery gets you about 200 minutes of cleaning, or about 600 square feet on a single pass. Larger homes take multiple passes, and Recharge & Resume brings the robot back to the dock partway through, then sends it out again once the battery is topped off. The dock charges the robot, and an internal suction fan pulls debris from its bin into a sealed bag in the base whenever the robot returns. The bag holds around 75 days of dirt before you swap it.
Older Roombas without LiDAR bounce off walls to build a rough path, then bump the same spots twice, missing others. Mapping and self-emptying used to appear only on Roombas at roughly twice the 105X’s price. The current sale takes the 105X to $220, or $250 below the $470 list price. For a first robot vacuum or an upgrade from an older Roomba, the 105X offers mapping and self-emptying at a price below the usual bar.