how does it handle carpets? And I mean THICC carpets

It depends on the carpet. I have one of those curly/stringy hair carpets in the bathroom and it struggles/gets stuck in those stringy hairs.

Yes, it did.. I can see the quality like other branded iroomba.. You can put schedule in the apps, also will draw live map when it moving around..
Initially my mom wanted to purchase philips robot vacuum with double price, she was not convinced with Xiaomi at first.. But after I purchased this one, she changed her mind now about Xiaomi.. 🙂

What about small drops in floor levels?

This one does that. https://www.vacuumsguide.com/xiaomi-robot-vacuum-2-new-version-upgraded/

I bought the 1st gen a month ago and am in love. We have flaying floorboards, tiles and a few rugs, and it’s done such a good job I haven’t pulled out the proper vacuum since. I originally bought it just to do token cleans during the week with two young kids to save us time. It can get under all the beds, couches and pick up all the crumbs and mess from my 4 year old quite impressively. And the way it maps your house is quite intelligent and methodical, only one clean out of 12 missed a room and I believe that was due to my son purposely blocking it and making it turn around. I do know it’s performance is mediocre on shaggy carpets, but I don’t have any so can’t comment. This thing has saved us so much time though, and the house has been it’s cleanest since having kids.

How much does it cost?We have a Xiaomi store here and I’ve seen only demo units.. haven’t heard when will they be available…also is the a first gen?is there a second one already?

Reddit will remember that.

I just bought my Xiaomi Roborock S5 ~1 month ago and I am in love with it. It works extremely well in all areas of my house. My downstairs is predominately hardwood with a few sections of carpet, with a drop off to a tile sun room. Its sensors prevent it from falling over the edge.

I have it vacuum my downstairs every other day and my upstairs, all carpet, once a week. I did have a few problems out of the box. One was the wheel that swivels was making a terrible squealing noise. That was fixed with a tiny bit of WD-40. The other problem was the LDS head on top repeatedly stopped moving. I got an alert on my phone to try and clear it to make sure it was moving freely. After this happening about 3-4 times a week ago, it hasn’t happened since. This robot has really changed my life haha.

Edit: I only paid $374 for this vacuum. I did research for days on the best one for the price, and this robot is not even close. It competes with the $1,000+ robots, and actually outperforms them in some aspects.

It’s so cute! I want to pat it and tell it that it’s doing a good job

Poop or pee can be hmm.. rough on these cleaning robots.

My dog is the main reason I got the cleaner. He loses so much fur around the house you would not believe. And no he doesn’t play with the cleaner, he actually slowly gets out of its way as it approaches.

I have the 2nd Gen vacuum and it is very heavy. A dog would have a hard time pushing thst thing around.

I have Xiaomi Roborock S50 (or Vacuum 2nd gen). It goes well with carpets, and it even has a mode where it can auto-detect carpets and automatically increase vacuum speed in order to suck even more. Only flaw is that you can’t tell it to avoid carpets completely, since Roborock has mopping feature which shouldn’t be used with carpets, so either don’t use mop or roll the carpets when mopping …

It looks so cute!
Sadly these vacuums aren’t enough for my place. I have to use an almost industrial-grade Alto Nilfisk to vacuum the mess that’s made when renovating the house.
~~Wish I had one.~~

Got the second generation some time ago, with washing support. It does its job perfectly! It’s our first one.
Now I want some robo for the kitchen, which takes care about cleaning surfaces and putting dishes into dishwasher. 🙂
Xiaomi how about such device?

Have you used the washing / mopping function? I haven’t bothered.

I think they speak Chinese but use Google translate or some other translate apps lol.

True haha.

It skip at first, but eventually it will go.. the mapping algo really does the good job

You can setup timer, and select the particular area that you want to clean from the app.. Not sure what kind of home-assistant you looking at?? Voice command??

Do you still have it? Is it still working?