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so the folks over at Robo rock reached out to me recently and they were like hey Kyle we'd love for you to check out our robot vacuum I was like robot deck Amy's like yeah it's our flagship Xiaomi s5 and I was like okay I don't know if we really review those and then wifey sauce reminded me that I once did a video on the litter box for cats and then I went back to Robo rock and I was like sure why not so the Xiaomi s5 is a robot vacuum it's automatic it does everything itself it's supposed to be sort of a hands-off set it and forget it type of deal it's a home appliance first and foremost which is also why we are shooting at home today because it makes most sense to test it out and get the full experience in the home environment this is also the first robot vacuum I've ever interacted with or used in any capacity so unfortunately I can't compare it to other robot vacuums on the market so consider this video a first-timers perspective on what it's like to use a robotic vacuum now I believe it does say in the users manual for this thing that you should pick up and tidy up your house before you use it so if there's like clothes on the floor or you just got like kids toys lying around you should pick those things up first you kind of have to have sort of a relatively tidy area before it goes to town otherwise it could get stuck on things it's just not going to be an optimal experience so in that sense it kind of trains you to be cleaner as a person that being said for this video I thought it would be kind of fun to say screw all that why don't we just leave this place a total wreck and see how the vacuum performs under pressure I kind of set up an obstacle course on the second floor of our two-story house and we've got a couple wires in different areas that are in the way a backpack strap that's just waiting to get choked on there's a pile of clothes just sitting in the middle of the floor I've also simulated some realistic food spills that I'm sure are not uncommon in most households and there's also several other hurdles to overcome here for the s5 now obviously these little sabotage points that I've laid out everywhere might make this area a bit Messier than the average household or not I've seen some pretty messy houses but at the end of the day this vacuum is $600 or close to $600 now I know that good-quality vacuums aren't cheap but 600 bucks is still 600 bucks so I really wanted to see where its limits are and see what made up so I feel like this little obstacle course that they've laid out will do exactly that when I was ready to boogie I simply whipped out my phone and opened up the me home app because the sucker is app and able it's actually really cool it's super easy and quick to pair and from there there's a bunch of cool features you can take advantage of which we'll touch on later but as far as actually starting a clean up you can either press the physical button on the vacuum which is super lame or you can just have run on your phone and you're off to the races so with that said let's see how the vacuum did now remember all those M&Ms that I casually dropped all over the place there was about one e of them I didn't really count but there was a lot of them and the vacuum picked up every single one but one there was one red one that was just kind of wedged in between the edge of the carpet and our entertainment center upstairs and it didn't get that one and I wasn't really expecting it to but it got every other one I was super impressed right off the bat but also kind of realizing that maybe this isn't a pull-on replacement for a full-size vacuum and that it's not gonna get literally everything the automation technology isn't quite there yet but let's continue no wifeís Austinite vacuum pretty regularly in our house but we have a very large couch that's relatively heavy and we don't vacuum underneath that couch maybe as often as we should and it didn't even occur to me until I started seeing the robot do its thing that this thing can go underneath the couch it can access certain areas of your house that a full-size vacuum can't so easily anyway and it just went under the couch and it was under there for a good three five minutes and I thought it was gonna get stuck I thought maybe I'm gonna have to fish it out or something like that it just kept going doing its thing and about five minutes later it popped out and it was like hey I'm here your couch is clean under there it's fine everything's cool this also left me pretty impressed while realizing that this vacuum simply has certain strengths and advantages that a full sized vacuum does not once I reach the legs of our coffee table though I got a little nervous because it started to kind of choking and get stuck on one of the legs but just when I was about to actually get up and help it out it managed to get over it and then I thought maybe it's gonna get stuck later on it went back and forth over these legs maybe like six or seven times during the full cleaning and not one time did it ever get stuck I was blown away and then you flip it upside down and you realize why it got to massive wheels one on either side with nice rubber grip and they're just relatively large to have a lot of traction and they're big enough to get over clearly obstacles like these and then it moved on to the Doritos it picked up every scrap of Dorito on the carpet that I could perceptibly see however it did leave sort of a smear it did sort of smear some of the cheese powder rest in peace' cheese powder we will be missed wasn't a huge deal to me I had to spend literally five seconds just manually wiping it up of course like I said guys it's not gonna get every little thing now I did catch the s5 nibbling on some of those cables and even the backpack strap that I put down it did look like he was gonna get stuck at a certain point but apparently the suction of the vacuum is just a little too weak for those larger objects and so after some gnawing it eventually spit it out and just kept on trucking similarly the vacuum thought about eating one of my shirts that was in the clothing pile but you know I think it was just too full off of candy and Doritos to go any further so it spit out the shirt and just made a full circle around the clothes pile didn't get snagged once from there I went into our upstairs bathroom which has laminate floors and we have a couple of rugs in there the vacuum actually shifted the first rug around the point where it was no longer laying flat so it prevented it from getting a good clean which was kind of unfortunate but fortunately it did not get stuck the the vacuum just kept going to get snagged on on either of those carpets which our full-size vacuum does every single time the s5 didn't clean the laminate floor in our bathroom as well as I had hoped it did get most of it but I'd say about 80 80 to 85 percent of it but there were quite a few hairs left behind and things like that which is also why total sidetrack right here but they have a mop attachment you can pop this in it's got a water a water port you fill some water in it and it's got this cleaning cloth on the bottom it's velcro you can you can wash it off or whatever when it gets dirty you can do a wet mop with this thing it's all included in the box I didn't test out the mopping feature at all so I have no idea how it works you guys can check out other reviews on that but let's continue with the vacuum story from the bathroom it got back onto the carpet no problem and then went down the hallway to the stairwell it did not fall down the stairs and shatter into a million pieces because it has a built-in cliff sensor that will detect where certain high edges are around it and it will prevent it from actually falling off after cleaning about 24 square meters of our designate upstairs area and 33 minutes later the device actually guided itself back home to its dock where it continued charging I'm pretty sure it still had more than half of its battery life remaining after that half hour run but this way it ensures that the next time we use it it'll be charged at 100% and ready to Robo rock apart from the one M&M mini and the bathroom rug this thing completely destroyed the obstacle course that I laid in front of it the fact that it just did the whole half-hour run without me ever needing to intervene was super impressive perhaps the most satisfying moment of this whole process though was emptying out the dustbin which had so much crap in it I mean you can see the Doritos and you can see the M&Ms with your eyes but how much else is it getting what other dirt dander and debris and sort of pet hair and things like that is it actually accumulating is it really doing anything or is just you know making these fancy straight lines in your carpet that makes it look clean actually there's there's it's just cleaned the crap out of our house there was so much stuff in there it was completely full this single dust bin and I was blown away by how much it had accumulated in just that half hour fortunately I don't think we're gonna have to empty out the dust bin with every single run because this was the first run and so it was the dirtiest and had the most filth to accumulate especially underneath the couches I think now that that's been taken care of the next run won't actually fill up the bin nearly as much and we won't have to empty out the bins quite as frequently I want to circle back to the app though and talk about some of those cool features that I mentioned earlier so when you do an initial run or cleaning of your house or room or whatever the vacuum will create a map of your house and predict it on your phone and from there you can do some cool things for starters you can actually mark off specific cleaning zones so let's say you drop Cheetos on one area of your floor you don't want to have to wait for the vacuum to clean the entire house just to get that one spot so you can create a cleaning zone set how many times you want the vacuum to go over that zone if it's a really effective area and then you just click run and the vacuum will go straight to that cleaning zone do its business and go straight back to the doc in a similar fashion you can create no-go zones on the map which tell the vacuum where not to go so if you don't want it to go under your bed or under the couch or in the kid's room or ever you can create those no-go zones as many as you want and prevent your vacuum from accessing certain parts of your house to further control your s5 you've got barrier tape which is kind of like a no-go zone but instead of an actual area it's just an invisible wall that you can draw anywhere in your house and as you'd expect the vacuum will not go past any of these walls so if you want to create more defined boundaries that's a great tool as well there's some other cool features within the app as well some of them are pretty obvious like being able to set schedules for regular cleanings and things like that but we won't get into much more at this point so what are my overall thoughts on this thing well I am super impressed with technology way more than I thought I would be it's incredibly smart the sensors are amazing and the fact that it can traverse really well is super cool the combination of those things being able to see everything in my house and also not getting stuck on anything it is fully autonomous in that sense even though it's not a perfect solution the vacuum mechanism has also proven itself to be pretty effective so I don't really have a huge laundry list of complaints with this product I think the only really big concern here is the price it makes me kind of reminisce about the litter box the $500 self-cleaning litter robot 3 that I reviewed a while back I kind of feel the same way about these two products it's this it's they're expensive it's a lot of money to spend on a single gadget or whatever you want to call it but if your 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