jv-
It's excellent.
We have 900 sq/ft of floor space, and this is mostly wooden floors except the bedroom which has one of those natural fibre carpets (they look great, but are terrible for dust and fibres).
The Roomba I chose was one with soft rubber brushes (no scratches on the wood) and it uses vibration to make dust and dirt jump into the path of the vacuum.
The killer feature isn't really that it does the work for you, but that it reaches place you cannot get (deep under the bed... evidence from taking my old place apart is that we never did that as well as we thought we did) and that it can be scheduled (because it's always clean now... and there's something really nice about just knowing the floor is always clean).
The caveats that come with a Roomba don't apply to our flat, i.e. it cannot do stairs and therefore cannot do upstairs and downstairs without being manually moved. But our flat is all one level, so it's fine.
We have a handheld battery powered vacuum (a cheap Hoover as it was reviewed better than the Dyson and fuck buying anything from the pro-Brexit Dyson company) and can use that for the stairs to our floor, and spillage where we just want to do a small patch rather than whole floor. We've not yet needed this though.
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Velocio
I guess I should contribute to this as I've gone a bit crazy and need somewhere to document just what I'm doing to my new flat.
So this is still a work in progress but the plan is roughly:
Internet
Network / Wi-Fi
Power / Storage / Computer
IoT
Entertainment
Security
At present... we have:
Some of this is still to be wired up, and I'm just about to build a rack in the store room to hold all of this so that it becomes invisible.