We started out with one of these in the very early days of Roomba. We bought an extended warranty on the very first one we bought at Future Shop, which turned out to be a wise decision, because in the early days, we somehow managed to kill one about every 7-10 months.
We literally rode that extended warranty through about 5 roombas before they claimed some clause in the extended warranty and stopped the train, but we did get some amount of money back, I forget the exact details.
So we bought a new Samsung robot vacuum instead (for the brief time they were into those), and another extended warranty. And like every Samsung appliance ever, it sucked. And broke in about a year and a half. And they discontinued them, so Future Shop replaced it with, you guessed it...a Roomba.
Over the years the quality seems to have drastically improved, because our current model is going on probably 10 years old now and still mostly works. It seems to have had a stroke or something at one point with one of it's sensors as it does weird things, but it still cleans, kinda, but it doesn't return to it's dock anymore. We just don't use it much anymore as our house tends to be cluttered and I get frustrated playing the "Where's Roomba" game every day when I come home from work, or my personal favorite, "Roomba sucked up a sock I left on the living room floor last night and only vacuumed for 7 seconds before erroring out and stopping".
Now we have a Dyson stick. Game changer. I swear, I just turn it on in the front hall and it sucks the dirt from the entire main floor from there.
