ILIFE Shinebot W450 Vacuum Mop Robot Cleaner, Wet Mopping, Floor Washing and Scrubbing, Smart Mapping, Wi-Fi Connected, Works with Alexa，XL Water Tank, Zig-Zag Cleaning Path, for Hard Floors only

I have owned the Shinebot W450 for just over a year. It is a very cleverly designed product. I like that the mop has a clean water / dirty water tank and actually sprays water/detergent and sucks it back up.The bot can be programmed to make multiple passes and remembers where it starts so that it will mop only in front of the start position. I use this to clean without having to shut the door to trap the robot. I like to set the mop for "three times clean" and one drying pass. I enjoy emptying the dirty water out of the tank and seeing how much dirt came up off my floor. This mop works well. I use it on hard wood floors and on tile.The application which controls the mop has a nice map feature and extra programming. This is where you can add a drying pass after cleaning passes.I have two problems with my mop.First, the clean water tank sensor gets wet and the mop will stop with a water tank problem. The solution is to put a piece of plastic bag over the sensor contacts when installing the tank. This stops the mop from the false alarm and as long as you watch the water level, the mopping continues.Second, the black/white front wheel has fallen apart. The black rubber bits just crumbled and fell off. I've put black tape in place of the rubber but the mop stops from time to time with a wheel error. ILIFE is unresponsive. I e-mailed the support contact on August 1st of 2023 (almost 4 months ago) and have had no response. I can not find a replacement for the wheel. This makes my mop hard to depend on.Lastly, here are two things I learned.1. If you can not get the ILIFE cleaning solution. Bissel hard floor cleaner (Walmart) works well.2. If you leave the mop on charge for too long, it will turn off and lose its charge and not be ready when you need it. Press the power button the night before you use it and it'll have the charge needed the next day.UPDATE: The day I posted this review I also put in a support request on the Ilife web site about the wheel that failed. I had an e-mail response the same day and a replacement part arrived within a week. That was good service.

PROS:1)it cleans very lightly between 8-16 minutes, until it decides it's finished.CONS:1)It's very weak and does a terrible job of cleaning food spills that are easily removed by about three to four passes of damp cloth or a wet mop.2)It determines for itself when it's finished, meaning that if you want it to clean for longer than 8-16 minutes, you have to interrupt what you're doing to go start it up again.3)Lacks walls to limit the area it cleans. You have to set up physical barriers if you want it to stay within a set boundary.4)Difficult to understand feedback voice.I used to own an irobot scooba, which did an amazing job of deep-cleaning the floor. I didn't even have the last scooba model irobot released, I had an older one. The ILIFE Shinebot W450 doesn't hold a candle to what that scooba could do. Whereas the scooba was great at removing dried food spills, this does a terrible job, even after many passes. I have run it several times over the same small area to see just how much scrubbing power it has and have persistently been disappointed. The ILIFE Shinebot W450 is incapable of cleaning dried food spills that are easily removed with about three or four passes of a damp cloth or wet mop.The scooba used to run until the battery ran out. If you wanted an area to be thoroughly cleaned, you could just "set it and forget it." The ILIFE Shinebot W450 cleans until it determines it's done. That's right, it tells you when it's finished. It runs anywhere between 8-16 minutes before stopping and literally declares "cleaning finished." The ShenZhen ZhiYi Technology Company, makers of ILIFE Shinebot W450, did a better job of programming it with a lazy personality, rather than with a good work ethic.The scooba had walls that you could set to let the robot know to stay within the boundaries you established. The ILIFE Shinebot W450 does not have walls. If you want it to clean a specific area you have to physically set a wall of heavy obstacles in its way.The ILIFE Shinebot W450 speaks when you give it a command, but it is very difficult to understand.All in all, I would not recommend this to anyone. Either buy a used scooba or save a lot of money by buying a mop!