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

Best mopping robot on the market by far. If you have a ton of hard flooring, this will be a lifesaver. (I have 1,720 sqft of mostly LVP and tile in my bathrooms/laundry). I love it so much that I now own two of them. For techies, the app itself is a bit rudimentary, but will allow you to do zone specific cleanings, specify how much water you want to use, how fast to turn the scrubbing brush, etc. And the basic functionality of just letting it do it's own thing works great, with it easily navigating around chair legs, etc. Pros: - The ability to control unit travel speed, amount of water used, speed of the cleaning roller, and number of cleaning passes means that you can actually get a deep clean on your floor. - You can also do just a drying pass to make sure your floors are extra dry (great for hardwoods) - The separate clean/dirty water tanks are PRICELESS, and the W450 is the only mopping robot that comes close to my beloved Hoover Floormate (which is exhausting to use). - The battery life was great, and the navigation was better than I expected. - The microfiber roller has scrubbing strips which traverse the entire width of the roller as it cleans. A fast roller speed + slow unit travel speed = more scrubbing action. - The clean water tank is relatively easy to fill, and the dirty water tank is easy to empty. Just drain the dirty water, add some clean and shake around to dislodge any debris picked up, and drain again. They do include a cleaning brush, but I don't see why you would even need it if you immediately clean the unit after using, and vacuum beforehand. - They generously include a 2nd cleaning roller, and replacements are only $13 for 3. A bottle of cleaner is also included, and is the ONLY cleaner that should be used in the W450. Replacements are $5/bottle. But you don't have to use detergent every time, nor do you have to use the full recommended 6mills. - The cleaner is AMAZING. My floors did not initially look as clean as I was expecting, and I quickly figured out that it was removing YEARS of film from my prior cleaning product. It took about 3 passes to remove it all, but my floors now look FABULOUS. FYI that it does have a fresh scent, but it does not bother my overly sensitive nose. - It has a remote, but I have never used it. Things to be aware of: - No notification if the brush is not installed. The end result is water being sprayed on your floor, which I actually found to be a great pre-clean soak for high traffic areas! - No notification when clean water is getting low - it sounds like a machine gun when air enters the water pump - No mapping of your room (nor saved map) - a zone clean is basically your best guesstimate of area size with the rectangle that you draw - Slight high pitched whine on occasion for those that are noise sensitive, but not to the degree that really bothered me. - The owner's manual does call out that the unit will not be able to do it's best work on tile with deep grout lines, which makes sense. NOTE: my video uses 100% water, 10% travel speed, and 100% brush roll speed If you are thinking about buying, DO IT. Your back and your floors will thank you!

Wow, this turned out to be a bit of a novel. Hope it helps... To paint this picture, I've had a few Roombas and a Scooba a while back before they gave up their ghosts and IRobot discontinued the best robot mopper made. I have a Roborock S6 MaxV (always makes me think of Daft Punk), and frankly didn't think it was close to Scooba's mopping capability. IMO, if your mopper doesn't pick up the dirty water, it's just a glorified paper towel distributing your dirtiness as evenly as possible over your whole floor surface. Hard pass, but the S6 is still really good as a vacuum. After getting two boarder collie mixes for a house with a back yard that's far too small for them, they reduced the grass to just dirt, and now my climate's wet winter has turned the hard floors to an awful tragedy of muddy paw prints. To dry my wife's tears over swiffering daily (I help by vacuuming manually first), I got this thing. I picked the W450 over the 400 because 3rd party reviews said the extra features were worth it. The feature that sold me was wifi connectability (meaning app) that exposed more controls to make it work better, like maps. More on that later, but spoiler, it was worth it. Now to the robot. Setup wasn't too bad. The paper manual was sort of informative, but contained less than 50% of the info I expected, which after using the robot a few times, I kind of know my expectations were a little high (there's more than a few signs this product could use more development time). It took me a few passes at getting the robot connected to my network, but that was on me, I didn't read the instructions very closely (only supports 2.4 GHz). The charger is not one the robot can drive to dock on. It's part charger, part drip pan. Ok, I guess. I got it for mopping, which with all the manual steps of filling and draining and cleaning, I can get passed picking it up to put in the rooms I want to clean. Watching it drive is a little painful to the eyes. It's like watching a drunken zamboni driver, except much more adorably miniature. Setting the thing to drive straight on it's zigzag mode is something I haven't mastered yet. Crooked to the room, it seems, is the default. It also does not drive in particularly parallel lines. I've noticed this simultaneously double covers and misses 2-3 ft lengths of the floor. Luckily with the app, you can set the robot to do up to 3 passes, provided your room isn't too big for the clean water tank, or the battery (as I've learned). The first cleaning was... underwhelming. Technically, the floor was cleaner. I did get full coverage in a non-rectangular room with a pool table, foosball table, and other things along the perimeter. I saw a lot of dry spots where no water was released, wheel scuffs, and a lot of dried diagonal pattern from the brush. Part of it I can blame on myself. The floor is LVP ("luxurious" vinyl plank) and it's particularly dark for a grey wood design. This shows the slightest bit of dirt and scratches. (Oof on that choice.) My first mistake was setting the zigzag perpendicular to the planks. All follow up tries have been in parallel, which has been far superior in showing less of the robot’s... artifacts. Things also got dramatically better once I monkeyed with the settings in the app. I've seen reviews that say those settings are available from the remote, but the app is FAR more intuitive and fine grained. With the app, you can control the robot's drive speed, amount of water... squirt, and brush rotation speed. With no documentation about how best to optimize the three, I'm still dialing in the performance. What I have learned is, slowing down the robot helps immensely. Setting it to its slowest speed means more water can be piddled out, curing dry spots, and the brush rotation per square inch can be maxed out, curing the dried brush pattern. This affects water to full room pass ratio (I had to dump and refill before the room was done), as well as battery usage (only got 2 passes on my biggest room where I did get 3 before). However, a higher quality room pass means fewer passes needed. I’ll figure out what settings can do the whole room in one tank, and leave it looking the least like a lazy robot did it in a hurry. Other notes, that room I mentioned is reported in the app as approx 425 SF of driven surface area. Because the zigzag only starts as a 12 foot length, then turns around, it has a little gap in coverage between the next 12 foot zigzag area it starts after. That room has 3 zigzag zones if started in the corner. To prevent "burn in" in the same parts of the floor, I set the robot in a different place, which produced 2 full zigzag zones and 2 partials, using more battery in driving around to do the same job. I finally noticed, after the first room pass, it appears the map borders have been defined and that 12 foot limitation seemed to go away. You can tell the LIDAR and edge finding algorithms of smarter robots really raises the quality of navigation in those devices. This robot isn’t as random and bumpy as the first gen IRobots, but it’s not as good as the other $300 robots either. I find it hard to believe the zone drawing capability works well if the app doesn’t save the maps. I’m lucky that I don’t have actual no go zones and my floor was installed to be completely one level flat. To contain the robot to the rooms I want cleaned, I use one inch thick curtain rods I can adjust to my doorways, or just use the items I have to move out of the room anyway to block the doorways. It’s a workaround that doesn’t diminish my experience with the robot, but doesn’t improve it either. When watching the robot turn when next to table legs makes me think the programming was borrowed from a different robot that was completely round. This robot has flared out sides so that the brush can be wider. I don’t mind that, but when it does its 3 point turn in reverse maneuver, the robot rubs the flared part of its body like a teenager trying to parallel park, scraping other parked cars. I suspect that deviates the robot’s perceived location in the map its always recreating. Last nit, you can’t see what percent the battery is. This bugs me. Seems like a table stakes feature for any 21tt century device that can recharge. Other reviews say this works better for small rooms. It certainly couldn’t do a whole house in one try, and do a very good job. This mopper robot shouldn’t be compared that way, its strength is in pulling up the dirty water and leaving a cleaner floor without you putting your back into it. If you can deal with the literal hand holding this mopping robot requires, can be bothered with fine tuning its behavior, and the lady’s voice with a Chinese accent doesn’t trigger you for whatever reason, this is a really good mopper robot. I believe if the next model can iron out the kinks and the user experience gets raised to what you can buy at Best Buy, it could be the next Scooba.

The first couple of runs were mediocre and I was debating on returning it, until I realized that the scrub brush is turned off by default i turned it on and slowed the movement speed down and it is like night and day. It will mop my entire 1600sqft house and still have battery left, it'll run out of water before it will battery. Speaking of which, you'll have to take the tank off and put electrical tape on the inside of the base over the metal prongs or it will constantly say the dirty tank is full even if it's not 7/23/23 update: while I wish it was the same maker as my roomba so it would have a saved floor mapping and automatically go after my vacuum does, that one just has a vibrating swiffer pad and this one has an actual spinning scrub brush. I bought a second brush so I can wash one and keep using the other. The mop is still running strong although it does like to get hung up on floor transitions so I put a barrier between different flooring and change the water between floorings 12/30/23 update: the seal around the back of the unit leaks, meaning if you hold it up to fill it it just runs out. You have to lay it on its back and fill it then quickly flip it over so the clean tank is lower than the back seal only letting you fill it half way. The charging port has become so picky that you have to wiggle it around for several minutes to get the charging pins to touch correctly. Even then it will say it's charging then unexpicably decide to stop, so you think it's fully charged after several hours but instead it is completely dead 1/20/24 The handle broke off when taking the tank off to clean it, so the tank doesn't sit correctly making no water come out. It's useless now.

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.

November 2023 update - I'm taking a star because, instead of improving app functionality, they've taken away features and made it slower and more glitchy. You can no longer see old maps or know square footage of previous cleanings. Watching the robot on the app while it cleans is super jerky and slow to update, which is the opposite of what it used to be. Also, if you let it run til the battery dies, it'll default back to using 0% water and 0% brush speed. So now I have to remember to double check that my settings haven't been erased before I use it. This didn't happen before the "update." I kept hoping they'd fix the app, but it's been since the end of September and it still has reduced functionality for no discernable reason. Still a great mop, but it sucks to lose functions out of nowhere. Original review - September I've had the 400 and 400S, which are pretty much the same thing, though the 400S was somehow dumber than the 400. Or maybe it was more of a free spirit? Either way, the 450 is so much better. I love the 450. I could compose sonnets about it. First, I'll mention something that I don't think many others have - the tires. The tires on the 400/S get gunked up and then won't grip the floor, and it'll sort of go back and forth, trying to get a grip. (Because it has to shimmy around, it also loses track of where it is, so if you have it set to not go past a forbidden zone, well, good luck. It'll go there.) My floors are cleanly swept, but still the tires end up gunked and I had to stand there with a toothpick and pick out the treads. Not fun. The 450 eliminates this by having a different type of tread, one more like the tires on your car and one that, if it ever does somehow manage to get gunked, will be a lot easier to clean out. Intelligence - the 450 is a smart cookie. If you get one, trust the process. My trial run, where I told myself that no matter what, I wasn't to touch it or alter its path, was nerve wracking because there appeared to be spots where it missed! 😬 I wanted so badly to use the remote control but held off. And it's good that I did hold off because it did eventually go back and hit places it missed. (Unlike the 400/S which zooms around like a toddler on sugar.) I could see the outlines of landmarks in my house, perfectly shaped, when looking at the map of what it cleaned. One thing I wish was made clear was if the water/speed/brush settings have an effect on battery life. I've been trying to figure out the best combo of both to clean the floor throughly but economically, battery wise. That said, it's been pretty reliable at hitting exactly 80 minutes of battery. So I think I'll likely move up the speed and see if that helps or hurts. So far, I haven't had any errors and things are running smoothly. With the old models, I got errors a lot and, at one point, I even switched the water tanks between them in the hope that I'd get one working robot out of the two. Some of the errors were easily fixed - clean the nose wheel when it manages to get dog hair wrapped around it - but others weren't easily remedied, like when the bumper on one was sticking. It'd bump against something and the bumper would stay pushed in and then give me an error. Another was when one robot just up and stopped squirting water. I did everything I could to fix that, but it never worked again. (When I tried to fix the bumper sticking, I ended up somehow getting condensation in the cliff sensors, which is when I decided to get the 450.) So far, so good on the 450. Something to note is that, if you have pets, there's absolutely no information on the safety of the included cleaning solution for them. I've been using less solution than directed and making sure I isolate my dogs until the floor is completely dry. If your animals can't be contained and/or are compulsive paw lickers, I wouldn't use the solution. Despite the fact that it would void my warranty, I'm seriously considering buying a solution made for another floor mopping robot (not the one with the tree oil, though) because at least that one says that it's safe for pets when dry. (I think it's the irobot solution that's safe and then the roborock is the one that has the tea tree oil, but I might have that backwards.) One thing that confuses me a little is the drying cycle. Usually, by the time it's mopped the whole floor and ready to do a drying cycle, most of my floor is already dry or nearly dry. But even when I turn off the drying cycle, I still get dirty water in the dirty water tank during normal mopping, like the old models. So maybe it just suctions MORE when it goes to the drying cycle? I really don't know. But I've turned it off, and I'm fine with whatever water it suctions up during normal cleaning. I want to conserve battery, and having a separate drying cycle definitely doesn't do that. It still is heads above other mopping robots that are more like a swiffer. This is more like a crosswave, (minus the dry vac capabilities). I really hope this robotmop continues to work as wonderfully as it has been so far. I didn't exactly have high hopes for it, considering my bad luck with the other two models, but I figured I'd try this out. To make myself feel better if it did die, I purchased a cheaper refurbished one on Amazon. So at least I didn't pay full price. That said, I WAS ready to pay full price for the 455, as it had really good reviews, but that's not available in the USA for some reason. I'm on Amazon way too much, and I'm using this mop twice a week, so I'll definitely update this review if anything changes. TL;DR He's a good mop. Way better than the 400/S. I named him Carl.

I just got this yesterday. I let it run with whatever battery charge it had from the factory and it ran for about 20 minutes, I was already impressed. Obviously the run was short but the water it picked up was very dirty. My apartment had been cleaned on Friday using a steam mop. On Sunday this thing picked up a lot of dirt! I let it charge during the night and let it run fully this Monday morning, see the attached picture. The-water-is-black! We're letting it charge up again and letting it clean later for a second time today. Fantastic! Please note that this requires a bit more work on your end than the usual robotic cleaners. It doesn't go back home by itself, and you'll need to empty the dirty water tank after each use. The good thing is that it does go back to its start point once the battery is depleted (no looking around the house to see where it is). But in the end, the results are more than worth it. It really cleans your floors! It also leaves the tiniest amount of water on the floor which quickly evaporates. Carpets are also avoided automatically which can be an issue with other robo-cleaners. Also, I accidentally bought the wifi model, I'm sure the regular cheaper model cleans just as well. The app doesn't really do much more than what the remote can do, so go ahead and get the cheaper one.

I've used this ILIFE Shinebot W450 for a little less than a year. Cleaning: The cleaning power is quite impressive on tiles floor. I always get the very dirty water out from the robot. I can choose the speed and the amount of water. Very customizable via the App. Built Quality: The handle section is very fragile, if you lift the robot too fast from the base, the handle part can break off. I had to put the super glue back one time. Sensor: My robot has been used lightly for about 11 months. Lightly means no more than once a week (which is less than 50 times) for about 600 sq ft (one round). It complained that the robot needed to be placed on the floor. So, I contacted the customer service which is very helpful and telling me that the robot will have to be sent back for a replacement. I got a replacement which was a refurbished one. The robot looks very new, but it does not dispense the water right from the first run. It just kept running without the water. I contacted the customer service again and she sent me the second one. The second one (refurbished one again) has the exact same issue on the first run again. I first thought that it's my problem, but I made sure to fill up the clean water from the tap as recommended and a cap of the cleaning solution. The robot this time ran very noise that sound like the pump does not have the water and it kept running without the water. I think can still use it to pick up the water from the floor. Now it's out of warrantee. End of the Story. So, if I calculate the cost of the cleaning: I paid around $350 and I use about 50 times. that means, I paid for the robot service about $7 each time. Oh btw, I still had to clean the dirty tank and the brush each time and buy new brushes. This is not that bad. It's just the two bad replacements I got made me felt bad.

I have found this mob very quirky. Below are some of the quirks and my review of things I don't like. 1. It requires a clean swept floor. Things like grass strands or toothpicks clog the vacuum vents and the thing stops putting out water. Clean the vent plugs and it start working again. 2. The app is really quirky in that it won’t work if the unit is on the charger and is not very explanatory. I could find no discussion anywhere the sliders for speed, water, etc. are explained. 3. I can find no rhyme or reason to it mopping. If I put it in the same place, it will run defiantly. 4. I wish it had the ability to block out areas. I end up putting up barriers to get it to run where I want it to. 5. The zone cleaning has no way to tell how big the zone is you have selected you have to just guess. 6. The voice statements such as start cleaning are intelligible. 7. The rubber stoppers for the tanks are a concern because you use the quite often. I believe the will wear out and I don't think they are replaceable 8. The wheels appear not to be replaceable either. I have had an iRobot mop (actually more of a Swiffer than a mop) and the wheels got grimy and had to be replaced. I suspect this mop will have that same issue in the future. 9. It takes a long time to charge. From dead stick to full charge is over 4 hours. 10. I have yet for it to tell me when the dirty water tank is full. Basically, when it stops putting out water then I know the tank is full. 11. The entire system seems slightly poor in design. Given these issues is it worth 350 bucks. I would say iffy. Will I return it, Maybe. I will probably keep it because it is easier to work with these quirks than lug around a mop and bucket and it does pull up a LOT of dirt from my floors. Im gonna give it a few days playing with it... Well... I decided to keep it. After the learning curve I have found that it works amazingly well. i updated it to 4 stars. The only problem i have right now is i cant find any replacement brushes. Everyplace is out of stock. I think they may be on a boat off the coast of california.....

After few days, the robot started to be very noisy. No assistance in UAE, still waiting for the spare parts from the manufacturer since 2 months and I have to fix by myself!

I was super excited about this little guy , it has a clean and dirty water tank. It does a fabulous job of cleaning up. I do have to warn you , its important to do maintenence on the robot, use the brush to clean out the dirty tank make sure its nice and clean, as well as the Clean water tank... if you get an error message to check clean water tank. Otherwise if you maintain the Robot and take good care of it , It will take good care of you.

I have viomi s9 with auto empty station since 2 years and i robot brava m6 since a week at home and recently purchased i life w450 for office use. The first difference that i noted is i life w450 does sweeping and mopping in one go and works best for kitchen spills great, it takes much sorter time when compared to others to complete the job, cleaning the machine is relatively easy, as other 2 machines need some cleaning after every use. This machine needs to address edge cleaning. Really happy for the purchase and strongly recommend for indian conditions, when compared to any other types of vaccum robots.

This was purchased to alleviate my wife from mopping the floors as it would hurt her back. I didn't really expect much, but it does a decent job. The fact that it's automated cleaning I love it. Really easy to clean as well. The only thing I'd say about it that's negative is that you can't block it from an area using the same magnetic strip we use for the Shark Robot vacuum. But ... that's minor. It does leave a little water behind but my experience is that it dries up really quickly. It is quiet and efficient. As much as a round Robot can be in a square condo. If it keeps the wife happy, then it's one less thing I have to worry about.

This passed the maid test. Cleaned substantially better than her mopping. Right after the mop, we let it run and it picked up a lot of dirtied water, leaving shine on marble flooring with the random trails from mop cleared. We use it every evening as maid does the mopping in morning, and turned to be very helpful when the maid took a week's leave. A lot of pros and some app limitations which need to be ironed out, because of which, some kind of babysitting needs to be done for this robo(wife calls it Ramu Kaka) Pros: Only robot which washes your floor. Has separate clean and dirty water Cons: lacking custom mapping feature, we need to put blockades to prevent it running away to a different room. Corners, you need to clean manually sometimes (this is applicable for any robot I believe, as none can reach corners) There is no way to clean the dirty water tank. You can bend the cleaning brush a bit in front to make it reach some more restricted areas, but, there are places where it can't reach, whatever you do. Tech demo was superb and the technician clarified some technical doubts, and some tips about where to start to avoid orientation issues when cleaning narrow paths, etc. They sent a complementary bottle of cleaning solution for hard floor on request. Tips: If you see some dirty water droplets after you lift it, before lifting, just drag it a few inches and then lift. If the brush is clogged with lot of lint, just wash it a bit under pressurized stream Always start from a corner and in an orientation that a lot of zigzag is avoided if you have a narrow path on the way. This will save a lot of time.