iRobot Roomba 105 Combo with AutoEmpty Dock

iRobot Roomba 105 Combo with AutoEmpty Dock

By iRobot · Robot Vacuums · Cleaning & Smart Home

  • AutoEmpty dock -- self-empties into a sealed bag for up to 75 days
  • LiDAR (iPath) navigation with smart mapping -- a first for iRobot's budget tier
  • Dual mop pads with about 2x deeper scrubbing

Lowest price seen
$299.99
from $299.99 at iRobot · Checked Sep 28, 2026

Prices are snapshots. Check the current price with the store.

Problems, parts and running costs

Summary

A budget LiDAR robot vacuum and mop bundled with a compact bagged auto-empty dock — real room maps, carpet-aware mopping and hands-off dust emptying. The tradeoffs: you wash the mop pad yourself, the pad cannot lift over carpet, and a recurring tail of owners runs into mapping, docking and connectivity glitches.

Strengths

  • Real LiDAR mapping with persistent maps, keep-out zones and room targeting, which is rare at this tier.
  • Measured pickup is respectable: about 89–90% on hard floors, 87% on low-pile carpet and 72% on high-pile carpet.
  • SmartScrub’s repeated scrubbing passes handled normal and lightly dried stains in independent testing.
  • The compact bagged dock empties into a sealed bag without the bulk of premium docks.
  • Carpet Detect keeps rugs dry by routing around them instead of lifting the pad.
  • Row-by-row LiDAR cleaning and room scheduling are a big upgrade over older budget Roombas.

Weaknesses

  • The dock is dry-only: it never washes, dries or refills the mop, so pad care is on you across its up-to-30-use life.
  • The pad does not lift, so carpet avoidance can wall off hard-floor areas behind rugs.
  • No camera-based obstacle avoidance — cords, socks and pet messes still require pre-tidying.
  • Auto-empty peaks at 80–85 dB at one meter, loud though brief.
  • Mapping, docking and connectivity complaints recur: lost maps, remapping, spinning in place, failed dockings.
  • The “70X” suction marketing compares against the old Roomba 600 series, not current rivals.

Verified specifications

NavigationClearView LiDAR with up to 3 stored maps, keep-out zones, room targeting, neat-row cleaning and dark-room navigation.
Modesvacuum, mop, vacuum+mop; Carpet Detect routes the robot around rugs while mopping — the pad does not lift.
Settingsfour suction levels, three liquid-output levels, SmartScrub repeated/Y-pattern scrubbing.
DockAutoEmpty bagged self-empty dock, claimed up to 75 days per bag; the bag claims 99% capture of allergens down to 0.7 micron (manufacturer claims, household-dependent).
Battery3000 mAh LFP with recharge-and-resume.
Connectivity2.4 GHz Wi-Fi; works with Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant.
Suction7,000 Pa published across exact-family retail and regional iRobot channels; the US page markets “70X versus Roomba 600” instead.
Dimensionsrobot 13.23 × 13.19 × 4.09 in, 6.45 lb; dock about 21.3 × 17.1 × 29.3 cm, roughly 2.07 kg.
Cleaning hardwaremulti-surface bristle main brush, edge brush, washable microfiber mop pad rated up to 30 uses; filter replacement every 3–6 months.
In the boxrobot, AutoEmpty dock, extra mop pad, hair-cutting tool.
Warrantyone-year limited US warranty, parts and labor.
Full research notes and sources

Mopping: the manual half

The fixed microfiber pad is washable and reusable, and SmartScrub drags it in repeated Y-shaped passes that testers found surprisingly effective on everyday and lightly dried stains. Very dry or greasy messes stay harder, and liquid spills can smear before a second pass. What the dock never does is the wet work: you rinse and dry the pad yourself, up to about 30 uses before replacement. iRobot permits water or compatible cleaning solution in the tank.

Cleaning fundamentals test well, but the complaint record concentrates on software. Owner threads and the exact-model retailer review taxonomy repeatedly describe lost position, remapping, spinning in place, failure to dock and poor multi-floor behavior, with two dozen navigation mentions among surfaced cons. Connectivity failures — including robots that cannot reconnect after a reset — appear too. One oddity: more than one owner reports a “dock pump issue” message despite this dock having no pump; one recovered after cleaning contacts and rebooting, so treat the label as possibly wrong rather than a literal pump fault. A single report describes the docked robot slowly wetting the floor. None of this establishes a failure rate, but cluttered multi-floor homes are the wrong fit.

Noise, battery and runtime

The robot runs around 70 dB at one meter, and each auto-empty evacuation spikes to 80–85 dB — brief enough to tolerate. Frandroid measured 147 minutes per run at medium power, against rated claims of 120 minutes or less in some regions. Recharge-and-resume means long jobs eventually finish, but battery and runtime gripes recur among owners, and nobody has published long-term battery failure rates for this young platform.

Which model this is

This page covers the US bundle with the AutoEmpty dock: iRobot item Y354020, UPC 885155046550, Amazon ASIN B0DWFZ8Q7M. The dockless Y314020 and the vacuum-only 105 Vac (Q352020, listed at 6.24 lb versus 6.45 lb for this robot) are different products — reviews routinely blur them. Regional listings disagree on dust-bin and water-tank capacities, so no single tank figure is settled, and some listings claiming “8000 Pa” describe other models entirely.

Is it worth it?

Buy it well below list. Best Buy listed the bundle around $269.99 in September 2026 against iRobot’s $469.99 list, and Best Buy snapshots have ranged about $269.99 to $369.99; below about $280 it is excellent value, $280 to $320 is strong, and above $400 it is weak. At its frequent sale prices it is one of the better budget auto-empty bundles for clear, single-floor homes; at the full list price, docks that also wash and dry the mop deserve comparison first. Check the store panel above for current prices.

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