Review of Milagrow Aquabot 5.0 with Wifi & Anion g...

Review of Milagrow Aquabot 5.0 with Wifi & Anion generator

# You can leave the Milagrow Aquabot 5.0 in a room and it does a good job of dry vacuuming the floor in Auto mode. However even after leaving it in a 170 sq. ft. room for around half hour there were certain areas that it missed and I had to physically direct the robot with the remote to those areas.

It went under beds and unreachable places in the floor and collected a lot of dust, hair etc., that maids tend to leave.
If one has time to monitor it, one can use remote to direct it to all areas of the room.

# The piece I had, wet mopping was leaving marks of wheel and brushes on tiles that looked ugly when the floor dried up. They replaced and repaired my machine and the problem reduced, as apparently in my piece enough water was not flowing into the mop, to clean the floor properly.

However, Wet mop does not have the pressure to remove footmarks and other dirt from the floor unless one physically uses the remote and spot cleans those areas with the robot in which it keeps cleaning the same place again and again, defeating the very purpose of the robot.

# The Battery is not lasting even an hour forget about 90 minutes as claimed in the site and in that much time, it can barely dry vacuum two large rooms. After it discharges, it takes almost 5 hours to fully recharge.

# The Wi-fi is a misnomer, as the machine does not connect to a wifi. A cellphone or laptop needs to connect to this machine through the wifi option and it gives a screen with a remote that can be used the same way as the physical remote serving no useful purpose whatsoever.

# Although the Milagrow site says 3 days return if not satisfied with the product, when I tried to return after day 1 because of the wet mopping problems, the engineer asked for time to rectify the issue. When he got it back & I was still not satisfied with the wet mopping, he refused to take it back. I wrote to the company founder Mr. Karwal, but even he declined to take it back and refund the money.

# This brings me to the last point of the product, its price. At Rs. 35,990/= this is quite overpriced and requires enough human intervention which does not justify such a high price.

# Suggestions for improvement This product needs to have software that can cover the whole room, by recognizing and not repeating the areas already covered. The battery life needs to go up and recharging time go down. Weight of machine if increased may make mopping more effective. Lastly, the software in the wi-fi option should be upgradeable and connectable to the Internet so that it can be controlled remotely.