This is a floor polisher, not a vacuum cleaner with all the features that follow from this. Well suited for laminate, which the same Scooba is contraindicated. Some pros: -Quiet. -Does not hit furniture. -There is the possibility of wet cleaning. Has some cons: -Unlike Roomba, it does not know how to return to the base for charging: it is recharged only in manual mode. -No walls-limiters, ie. it will not be easy to predict exactly where the robot will crawl. -For daily cleaning, it is better to buy at least one more set of rags. -No remote control or scheduled operation.