OKP Life K2 Robot Vacuum Cleaner 1800 mAh, Blue

Was skeptical because of the price point but this thing really works. I have twin 2y/o and a dog, plus a back injury so this was an important purchase.

Pros: It is compact. it is one of the smaller diameter and thickness ones Ive found. It has good drive power, plenty of suction, decent battery life The autodocking and charging works well Cleans very well on hard surfaces Cons: The app is not very intuitive. It has some interesting programming features that could make for some fun custom schedules and automation, but that comes at a cost of ease of use. Careful where you place the dock. It seems to create a no-go zone around the dock station in which the robot will not enter while cleaning. Not very good on thick carpet. This robot does not have a brush bar, and leaves debris behind on carpet that it easily picks up on hard surfaces. I paid ~$100 on sale for mine, and I think its a pretty good value for that price. If you have mostly hard surfaces, and you dont care about all the latest bells and whistles, this is a good choice.

I’ve had this about 2 years. Never could get it connected to wifi to use the app. Therefore, there’s been no mapping. I set it where I want it to start and the remote to select the grid pattern, sometimes the edges mode. It’s been good for keeping up with dog hair from two German Shepherds, on bare floors. It’s not so great on carpet as it doesn’t have enough suction power. At one point it beeped all the time, even on the charger, but shutting it down with the power switch fixed whatever it thought was wrong. What that may have been, I have no idea without the app, as this particular beeping pattern was not listed on the inside of the door. Sometimes it insists on going a direction I don’t want, and it takes some manipulation to get it to cooperate, up to and including an aggregated kick/slide across the room… but it keeps going. Also, it will not detect massive piles of German Shepherd poop and go around. It will plow right through, and then you not only have a mess tracked everywhere to clean up but a very nasty robot to disassemble and clean.

This worked great until it drove itself off the top of a staircase. I contacted the vendor, and they are standing by their product and sending me a new one, which is great. Would have been 5 stars, but only gets 4 since Ill have to block the stairs when using it moving forward.

Weve always had iRobot Roombas - i think i prefer this model! So much quieter and does a great job cleaning. They seem to go on sale often - so keep your eyes out for a deal!

I’ve had this since for about 8 months and I can’t imagine life without it. I have a husky German shepherd mix who wafts little puffs of fluff into the air as she walks. Anyone with a plush coated pup knows the struggle of keeping a floor free of pet hair. No matter when you last vacuumed, there will be more hair. I never expect it to do the job of a vacuum. It’s a sweeper. All carpets and nooks and crannies still need a real vacuum when it’s finished sweeping. That’s okay. We call it Marvin. The good: I bought Marvin for under 100 expecting it would be cheaply made and not as effective as the Shark I used to have. I was wrong. Marvin is my best friend. I am so impressed with it! It makes vacuuming a once per day job instead of an ongoing struggle. I am constantly surprised how much hair Marvin gets and how great my hard floors look. It came with replacements for each sweeping arm and the filter. Emptying it is simple, and cleaning the arms is as easy as pulling them off, removing whatever is caught, and snapping them back on. It has an optional app if you want to program the times it should run and a remote if you’d rather tell it to start without needing the app. Marvin has battery life is enough to thoroughly make its way through my living room, dining room, kitchen and hallway before needing to go home and recharge, which is perfect for us in our apartment where the rest of the rooms are carpeted and need a real vacuum. We love Marvin. The bad: Marvin is… stupid. We joke that it is time to play the lottery when Marvin actually finds its charging base and no one has intervened. Marvin also has no advanced AI learning like the expensive floor robots do. You will not be able to tell it *not* to go somewhere so if you have an area with cords it might eat, or an area it can get stuck… yeah, it’s going to unless you make a barricade it can’t get through. The app is only to program the times it turns on and the pattern of sweeping it does, not to program its path. When it does get stuck, it is obnoxiously loud trying to free itself before it gives up and sadly beeps for assistance. You’ll know it needs help before it does. For as inexpensive as it is, I’d recommend it to anyone who would like a sweeper bot but, like me, the 300-700 bots are way out of their price range. Marvin does a really good job and makes my life so much easier that I forgive its shortcomings without hesitation.

Overall, I really like this vacuum. The adjustable speed allows me to run it at a lower suction on my hardwood floors, increasing the length of cleaning cycles. It has a great battery life, cleaning for nearly 2 hours on a single charge! And it is far cheaper than most other robot vacuums I looked at. Additionally, the app is super responsive. If you click a button in the OKP Life app, the robot vacuum responds nearly instantaneously. (I have not noticed a difference in response times when using the app vs the remote.) My only complaint is that it is REALLY bad at docking (returning to home). At the end of a cleaning cycle, I have literally seen it wander around for 30+ minutes looking for its docking station. Just today, I watched it try to dock for about 20 minutes. (I was folding laundry and decided to just watch it try and fail to return to the charging base.) Seemingly it requires a direct line of sight to the base in order to dock. Thats already annoying, but worse yet, when approaching from the side, it tries to swing out before docking. Today, I was running it on my third floor/story, with the docking station directly across from the stairwell. It repeatedly rammed itself into the banister as it approached the docking station due to that swing-out behavior. If it wasnt for the fact that it takes forever for the vacuum to find its way home, I would give this a 5/5. Alas, that is super inconvenient, so I have to drop a star.

This little guy does a great job. He’s very quiet and actually found his home base. Replaced another expensive robo-vac that kept having issues.

My first robot vacuum that I bought because it came recommended on a deals blog. It picks up dust every single day. I have it programmed to run 5 days a week when I go to work. Im pretty impressed with the amount of dust it picks up each day! The machine is sturdy, and even came out unscathed after a half-story fall. But it is dumb. Really dumb. It uses mostly random patterns with some logic on what direction to focus on, and does a decent job of trying to get unstuck. It will even shut off the vacuum suction if it becomes stuck or theres a clog. I believe it uses IR to find its way back to base, but it uses the random logic to find that signal once the useful battery life for suction has ended. The app also only notifies me rarely when it gets stuck. And the setup isnt intuitive either as it relies upon a mashup of 3rd party unknown home automation apps. It gets stuck under my bed frame a lot, where it has decorative drops in the wood. It also gets tangled a lot on any type of loose clothing or cords and has even ripped up some long strands in my older looped carpet. The works with Google is a complete flop and I disabled it. It has been turning on at random times more and more lately, which is very annoying. I think the run IR signal is similar to something in my house, maybe the thermostat. I noticed that sometimes when I mark me home on my Nest app or adjust the thermostat, it will start to run right away. I would defer to purchasing a smarter-sensing robot vacuum. One that can plot a room better so that it doesnt take 15 minutes to find home, avoids clothing and maybe cords better, and doesnt get stuck in obvious trouble spots.

Ive had this vacuum for 16 months now, so its time for a review. TL;DR- it worked perfectly for the first year and it still works now I bought this in May 2021 when it was on sale for $100, but I had a gift card so I only spent $50 cash which was the perfect price point for something I wasnt sure I would use Im writing this now because in the last month (~15 months after purchase) my robot vacuum has started dying in random spots around the house. It used to die only if it got stuck somewhere tight and couldnt get out, but now I find it dead in the middle of the room. About 1 in 3 times it no longer makes it back to the base after cleaning It is still fantastic at cleaning up pet hair and getting into corners I would forget to sweep. If I run it every other day it still gets everything. But if I run it once a week or less I need to run it twice to get all the pet fur and litter up. I only use it downstairs, which is about 800sq ft and about the maximum space it can clean on a single charge It is useless on carpets that have been walked on. It will only suction things off the top and doesnt fluff up the carpet to get pet fur off. However, this seems to be because it doesnt have a rollerbrush like a regular vacuum so Ive also never had an issue with hair getting tangled and causing it to stop working, so Im happy to use it only on tile. Hair still gets tangled in the sidebrushes, but it doesnt impair function and thats easy to clean out All in all, it worked perfectly for the first year. It still cleans my house and I dont mind that it no longer reliably returns to base because putting the vacuum away is still WAY better than vacuuming myself