Samsung SR8855 NaviBot Robotic Vacuum Cleaner: Amazon.co.uk: Kitchen & Home

Product Description

The Samsung SR8855 NaviBot Robotic Vacuum Cleaner offers an efficient, innovative way to clean your home. Its Visionnary Mapping technology uses an onboard camera to capture images of the area to form a virtual map of the cleaning zone, helping it plan the most efficient route. And while in progress, its 38 sensors ensure you won’t have to supervise it, instead working to prevent it from colliding, falling or getting tangled in wires. Programme it from entering certain areas with the Virtual Guard feature which creates an infra red barrier the NaviBot can’t cross and choose from its six cleaning modes to best suit your cleaning needs.

The Navibot's Visionnary Mapping function

Visionnary Mapping takes an image of the room to plan the best route

Visionnary Mapping designs the best cleaning route

The NaviBot is equipped with an onboard camera, which prior to cleaning, takes a picture of the room’s ceiling. The camera, capable of capturing up to 30 frames per second, creates an image which is then used by the vacuum cleaner to produce a virtual map of the cleaning zone. This map directs the NaviBot in its cleaning of the room maximising its efficiency with an approach that’s methodical and focused. This prevents it from missing any areas and as it remembers where it’s already cleaned, stops needless repeat cleanings saving time, energy and money.

Multi sensors for effective and safe cleaning

With 38 sensors directing its path, the NaviBot is constantly alert to its surroundings. This information helps direct its movements ensuring it makes a safe and effective path around your home, keeping your involvement to a minimum.

Clean into the corners with the Edge mode function

Sensory functions include:

Anti-collision. Protecting your furniture are the vacuum’s infra red anti-collision sensors which detect obstacles. If in edge mode, it will approach an obstacle and stop before impact.

The Navibot automatically re-charges and continues cleaning when charged

Create cleaning barriers with the Virtual Guard

Touch sensors. If you wish the NaviBot to clean up to the edges of your furniture, programme it to edge mode. When in edge mode, the robot’s sensors alert it to approaching obstacles and it slows down, bumping lightly into the obstruction with its soft rubber bumper. It will gently try to push the obstacle out of its path and then, if it’s unable to do so, will clean around the edges.

Anti-fall. Stairs aren’t a problem with the NaviBot. Its multi sensors detect when it’s about to fall and so it immediately stops and quickly shifts into reverse.

Anti-tangle. If it becomes entangled in wires, the NaviBot will stop and reverse its brush rotation to free itself. Helping it manoeuvre in tight spots, its wheels are also spring-loaded enabling it to travel over obstacles up to 15 millimetres (mm) in height, such as door sills, rugs and wires.

Keep areas out of bounds with the Virtual Guard

Want to clean around a pet or sleeping children? Simply select the NaviBot's Virtual Guard feature which ensures it doesn’t enter these out of bound areas. Once programmed, an infra red barrier is created which the robot cannot cross; limiting the areas it can clean. There are three distance settings, allowing you to choose the robot’s cleaning boundaries, or alternatively use the Virtual Guard function to prioritise the cleaning route. Using this feature, you can choose for one area to be fully cleaned before another is started to give you greater control over the robot’s cleaning pattern. The SR8855 model has two Virtual Guards.

Recharges automatically and resumes where it finished

Recharging items can be a nuisance that is all too often overlooked until the last moment. The NaviBot doesn’t require you to remember to recharge it as it does so automatically with no user intervention. When it runs low on battery, the robot returns to its charging dock where it re- energises for two hours. This provides the NaviBot with 90 minutes worth of charge and then it returns directly to the place where it finished avoiding repeated cleaning. The NaviBot has 99 per cent success in returning to its charging station, compared with a 50 per cent return rate for a leading competitor model.

Choose from seven cleaning modes to tackle your floors

Seven cleaning options to choose from

The NaviBot has seven different cleaning mode options to offering cleaning flexibility. These consist of:

Auto. Cleans the area and then returns to its charging station once complete.

Max. Cleans the area until it has almost depleted its battery and then returns to its charging dock.

Manual. Control the NaviBot manually using the remote control.

Spot. If a smaller area is particularly dirty, select the spot mode which instructs the NaviBot to clean a 1.5 metre (m) x 1.5 m section of the room.

Edge. Cleans right to the edges of a room.

Delay start. Programme the NaviBot to delaying starting by up to 23 hours. This delay start timer allows it to clean when you are out of the house or busy elsewhere.

Daily Schedule. Plan its cleaning schedule by the day, ensuring it cleans any day of the week while you’re not in the house.

Triple brush system improves dirt pick up

Automatically re-charges and resumes where it finished

The NaviBot uses a triple brush system to ensure the maximum pick up of dust, dirt and pet hair from wood and laminate floors to short and mid pile carpets. The two side brushes rotate to loosen the pile of the carpet and sweep any surface debris into the path of the main brush. These 'road sweeper'-type brushes enable it to clean right up to edges and in to corners with ease. The bristles of the main brush then help to propel pet hair and dirt into the suction path, aided by soft rubber teeth that also help to trap and collect hair and debris.

Removable and washable HEPA filter

Ensure maximum removal of dust and allergens from the air thanks to the NaviBot's HEPA high efficiency air filter. This filter is easy to change and its user friendly design makes it easy to operate, requiring the simple touch of a button to release. It's located within the 0.6 litre (l) capacity dust bin housing.

Sleek and easy to use

The SR8855 comes in a contemporary mirror blue finish and is easy to use with touch controls.

Product Description

Samsung SR8855 NaviBot Robotic Cleaner --- --- --- The Samsung NaviBot is the new age in robotic vacuum cleaning; offering a more intelligent and more efficient way to clean your home. It cleans your carpets and floors with its triple brush system at the push of a button, and can self navigate and recharge itself when needed. It can also adjust itself depending on the environment and is the perfect modern day cleaner...leaving you more time to enjoy yourself.----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charting a course for cleanliness.-- -- -- -- Under the coffee table, around the couch and through the hallway to the next room - with its Visionary MappingTMSystem, the NaviBot will chart the most efficient course around your house. Featuring an onboard camera that captures 30 frames per second, it documents your home's layout and memorizes the best possible cleaning path. And the NaviBot always knows exactly where it is, and where it's going. It's even sophisticated enough to pick up precisely where it left off should it need to return to its docking station for a quick recharge. That's because we designed it to be brilliant as well as leave your floors looking brilliant.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Takes on pet hair, tough fluff and other stuff. -- -- -- -- It may look like a pet, but the NaviBot was actually engineered to tackle pet hair. Not to mention dust, dirt, crumbs and other debris. With its innovative power brush and rotating side brushes that don't shy away from difficult pet hair, NaviBot leaves your floor in pristine condition. It also traps and holds up to 0.6L of dust - filtering the finer particles that can trigger allergy and asthma symptoms through a washable HEPA filter. But if you're a pet owner, it's Samsung's patented pet hair care system that will win you over.

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars great for wooden floors, 20 Jan 2011

By C. D. Turner

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If you have large wooden floors, this hoover is great, even goes were a normal hoover canot, for example under our large sofas, so saves having to move them. Goes from room to room, picking up the dust.

On the negative side, gets jammened up on cables, telephone, lights etc, and hates carpets/rugs with tassels.

If your rooms are small, or have thick carpets, then probally not worth the investment. With the right enviroment, grea.

Samsung has the user manuals online, which give you a good idea of what you are getting, so worth checking out befor you buy.

Had to drop the star rating to 2, from 5, as two Navibots in a row have delevoped the same problem of not recharging. If it happens to you, try and turning the navibot off and then back on, when it is the charging station. This worked for me, but the problem came back, and this fix no longer worked. From the internet, a few other users are having similar problems, so navibot sent back to Amazon for the last time.

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35 of 37 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Useful, but don't throw away your upright. 8 Feb 2011

By J. F. Hornby

As far as vaccuum cleaners go, this one is pretty weak in many areas. It can't cope with much more than loose surface dirt, and it can't clean into corners. On auto, it requires a pretty uncluttered room to operate in.

Having said all that, when it can be left to itself to operate daily it will certainly save a lot of time and effort, providing one remembers to do a deep clean periodically with a more powerful upright or cylinder model.

For someone like myself however, it's pretty much a godsend. Having been severly restricted in physical ability by lung disease, the ability to keep the house fairly clean without having to shove the upright around has been very welcome.

Overall; rather expensive when comparing it's cleaning abilities, but well worth the money if you don't have time to vaccuum regularly or are disabled.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars navibot 12 Jan 2012

By Ira Blackthorn

not perfect, but overall pretty decent investment. I just stick it on 2-3 times a week (dont want/need a daily run, cant use timer except to set for every day). As noted in other reviews, you'll need to do some manual vacuuming to get into corners/ skirting boards etc. My floors are a combination of wood and tiled areas, with a rug here or there, which it copes with without issue. Have 2 cats, so lots of hair for it to clean, which it does without any problems. Have to clean the 'roller' every few weeks otherwise it can drop fluff when moving between wood/tiles or wood/rug areas, which I either pick up myself or use the remote to manually send it back to pick them up again. Remote does interfere with my Windows Media Centre TV, so slight niggle on that front. No noisier than my Dyson. It can get stuck occasionally and it managed to knock over and get pinned down by my bicycle once.

pros
- does a decent clean on hard floors & short pile rug
- can leave it to do its own thing, so saves effort/ time
- good sized dust container
- easy to use and clear display panel
- looks good

cons
- edges/ corners/ hard to reach places still need manual cleaning
- having to clean roller
- lack of custom day option
- have to 'clear the decks' before using it (e.g put kitchen chairs on table etc)

31 of 34 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Samsung SR8855 NaviBot Robotic Vacuum Cleaner 19 Dec 2010

By Geoff T

Absolutely brilliant as long as one is not too reliant on total use.
If used daily this machine is truly super, due to capacity of dirt recepticle it is best used often but this does rely on the activity of the household in general.
The use of a conventional hoover is required on an "as is" usage due to inaccessability of robot to reach restricted areas (behind TVs,in corners and behind units close to walls).
This unit I find does all the advert suggests. Quite exeptional.

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Sad Little Robot 1 May 2011

By Johnk

A very disappointing purchase.
I bought the Samsung Navibot to replace my previous iRobot 555, which had, sadly, been drowned by a leaking radiator.
I expected the Samsung to be an improved, more up to date product - it wasn't !
Its cleaning performance was poor; it bumped into the furniture and it could not be pre-set to clean on selected days: Monday and Friday for instance.
Thanks to Amazon's excellent service, they collected the unloved Samsung and refunded all charges.
I am now planning to purchase a replacement iRobot.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars First problem since buying 16 Oct 2011

By Loyal to Amazon

Right from first day this has been fantastic. Ok is does not clean as good as a manual vacuum but as it does it daily after about three days it matches a manual. This mean I only bother to clean what it cannot reach: corners, and skirting boards. Very happy till this morning.

Problem: for the first time it will not recharge. I've dusted everything, switched off and on, but now its dead. Go to Samsung website and no troubleshooting help there at all. Bother.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply superb 26 Jun 2011

By R. PARKER

I finally decided to purchase this a few days ago and I am very happy that I did. I chose this, over the iRobot 'Roomba' because the Samsung appeared to have better navigation sense, i.e. this Navibot 'sees' by taking pictures of your ceiling to help it determine the layout of your rooms. Performance wise, it does exceptionally well at collecting surface fluff and dust - particularly hair from our two cats.

We don't have carpet in our apartment, and I imagine its performance on carpet would be pretty poor if attempting to pick up dirt or dust that is just below the surface of the pile. On hardwood flooring though, it does an admirable job, as evidenced by the amount of fur/dust in the container at the end of a cycle (which you'll want to clean simply by hoovering it out with your regular vacuum, or opening it up and emptying it into the bin - either of which are just a 1 minute job).

This particular model has a scheduling feature, so you can set it to wake up and go to work every day at a specific time. We've set ours for a 6am start, and in 20 minutes it has cleaned our two bed/two bath apartment, and done a pretty respectable job. On standard 'auto' mode, the unit won't get that close to the edges of your room, but you can run the 'edge' programme to have it go back around the perimiter to fix that if you deem it necessary.

It also has 'max' and 'spot' modes, too, to give you greater control options and even a 'manual' mode that lets you steer it with the remote.

In all, this device saves me 20 minutes per day; which is a full 5 days per year. You'll still need your other vacuum cleaner which you might bring out once or twice every fortnight to do your big cleans.... Read more ›