This vacuum is great in so many respects:> It has great suction power that rivals a standard upright vacuum> It's easy to connect to the app on your phone> You can schedule cleans every day when you're out the house> It's incredibly easy to empty> It's relatively quiet> It's so small that it easily fits under the sofa and beds to hoover the places I can't reach with my normal vacuum> It's sleek and takes up only a small spaceHowever, it also has a lot of downsides:> While easy to empty, it's also quite messy - dust gets everywhere when I empty it> If you want to schedule cleans then you need to have the vacuum out on the floor all the time. This isn't a huge problem but in my house means I always have to leave it plugged in in the hallway.> The integration with the app isn't great and there are a number of bugs. For example, despite the fact that I have notifications enabled, if the vacuum gets stuck the app doesn't notify me. So I can be sitting downstairs and the vacuum is upstairs, stuck, and it won't let me know so I can go sort it out. Similarly, I once accidentally 'paused' a clean. I didn't even realise I had done this and for the next 2 days thought the vacuum was still cleaning. It was only when I went into the app that I realised the vacuum had been paused for 2 days. In situations like this I feel like the app should send a reminder or notification.> The vacuum sucks up a lot of dirt but it simply can't get into corners and around the edge of furniture. This means that over time lots of dust can build up around the edges of the room.> The sensors seem a bit iffy. On some days, the vacuum cleans the whole upstairs. But on others, it only cleans the hallway and one bedroom. There is no obvious reason why it doesn't go into the 2nd bedroom, but a lot of the time it simply doesn't.> While going about and going it's thing the vacuum can occasionally really whack into things. There are a few white scratches on mine already from where it's driven into something.I do love this vacuum. It's great at keeping on

It's great family entertainment watching it find its way round the ground floor of the house, working out obstacles, confusing the dog, and taking itself home when it's tired. It does reasonably well on picking up the dog hair and it's great that you can operate it remotely.

 If you are reading this review then probably the one question you want answered is whether this expensive piece of tech is worth the money or not. Well to answer that question directly I’ll start my review with a summary, which after a full X2 days of testing is this…..whilst at some point in its evolution (RX10/11 possibly?) the RX9 has the potential to become a class leading robotic vacuum (it managed to impress in many areas) but as it is today there are just too many negatives that have resulted in a final score of just 3 stars. A closer look at the positives and negatives will hopefully provide some insight in respect of how I came to this conclusion.Positives.1st impressions count and to say the presentation of the RX9 impressed would be an understatement, I thought AEG had sent my a military grade drone instead of a vac such was the quality of the packaging where even the little side brushes came encased in sealed black envelopes. Setup could not be easier – plug in, connect to the RX wi-fi, then your own, download the controller app and she is ready to go. Simple, yes, too simple? Well wait for those negatives! And that’s it with the user having the option to enter X3 modes of cleaning, two of which can be operated manually from the vac (auto-cleaning & spot cleaning), or the app which has the added feature of programmed cleaning. In auto mode the RX9 uses camera and laser based technology to form an image of the cleaning area, it then “plans” it’s approach by dividing the total area into smaller zones and off she goes. With spot cleaning the vac will focus on an area of approx. 1sqm from where it is placed & will only clean that area. In programmable mode the user can schedule a cleaning routine by simply entering the day and time on the app. Won’t be at home? Not a problem for the RX9. In all 3 modes once the cleaning programme is complete the RX9 will head back to its station which also serves as its charging base. Have to confess that the first time I witnessed this in action I had to stop myself giv