1. Our curtains don't puddle but they're all the way to the ground in the family room. The roomba hasn't sucked them up but if I want it to get behind, I move the curtains up before I start it.
2. No issues with fringe
3. Hmm. It may have an issue. My biggest complaint is that it gets caught up on things that it "shouldn't". We have a scooba too and it's supposed to sense stairs/drop offs and just work around it but it routinely freaks out at the drop off to our sunken family room. When we had the baby swing in the family room, the roomba would attempt to climb over the legs and get stuck.
No pets, we have the roomba 770 and the scooba 390. I run the roomba in the family room almost every night after we go to bed. It, for the most part, gets up all the Cheerios etc so it's worth it for me. I still need to bust out the regular vacuum because it's not perfect, but it's better than nothing lol.
The scooba is more of a novelty. It's loud, gets tripped up, and doesn't scrub banana gunk off of my hardwood so I really think it's faster for me to just mop the floor myself right now. I have three gross little kids though lol. I think it would more than sufficient if I didn't regularly have chunk of food being tossed on the floor.
I want a scooba so bad. I HATE mopping. It doesn't sound like it will work that great though.
Yeah, I really want a scooba or other mopping robot too. We got a Roomba a few months ago and it does a way better job than we do (in the sense that we don't sweep very often otherwise, and it does a decent job). We've got tile throughout the whole house, and real mopping is a huge pain.