Other Robot Vacuums to Consider
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We are approaching the large robot vacuum convergence. At immoderate terms you privation to pay, you tin find a robot vacuum that volition look precise akin and person akin features. Here are a fewer that besides worked good for us.
Roborock Qrevo Curv for $1,099: This was Roborock's 2024 flagship vacuum, and it's inactive large (reviewer Ryan Waniata calls it the champion robot vacuum he's ever used). It has somewhat little suction powerfulness than this year's Saros 10R, but I did usage it to cleanable an full carpet afloat of baking powder.
Eufy Mach S1 Pro for $1,500: This astoundingly beauteous robot vacuum volition beryllium the centerpiece of your kitchen. The h2o enclosure is see-through and lights up, and an ozone generator purportedly removes up to 99.99 percent of bacteria. It besides has ultra-precise navigation and a self-cleaning roller mop that washes itself arsenic it cleans. However, it lone has 8,000 Pa suction, which is little than immoderate of our different picks, and astatine 26.4 inches high, the dock is precise gangly and makes retention difficult.
Eufy X10 Pro Omni for $550: Believe it oregon not, this is not a atrocious terms for a hybrid robot vacuum mop (9/10, WIRED Recommends) with specified fantastic navigational capabilities! (Sales person brought it adjacent lower.) However, the Yeedi supra is cheaper and offers the aforesaid functionality.
Dreame L40 Ultra for $600: Dreame’s robot vacuum-mop combo debuted astatine IFA 2024. It’s a small cheaper than the Dreame X30 Ultra (7/10, WIRED Review), but it can’t bash its coolest instrumentality of removing the mop pads. WIRED reviewer Nena Farrell recovered that portion it is cheaper, it is inactive not cheap, and it did bump into things a small much often than the X30. However, it is beauteous and has plentifulness of artillery beingness near aft some mopping and vacuuming.
Avoid These Robot Vacuums
Not each vacuum earns a spot connected our list. These are the ones I repacked straightaway.
Eufy E28 Combo Robot Vacuum for $1,000: I was ace disappointed by this, since I person 2 dogs and 2 kids and often request to usage a heavy carpet cleaner, successful addition to a mop and vacuum. This vacuum tin mop and has a detachable carpet cleaning station. Unfortunately, the h2o injection strategy is wonky. The robot vacuum has to beryllium perfectly positioned to get injected with h2o from the vessel (I often had to pat it into spot with my foot), and each clip I mopped, it leaked each implicit my room floor. At slightest the carpet cleaner was effective.
iRobot Combo J7+ for $499: iRobot makes beauteous robot vacuums that I've liked for years, but the bundle acquisition connected this 1 was mediocre erstwhile I tested it. Since then, the institution has undergone galore twists and turns and released a caller enactment nether a caller CEO. We volition update this roundup erstwhile we person tested the latest lineup.
Ecovacs Deebot T50 Max Pro Omni for $1,000: My tester could not marque it backmost to the docking station. I person asked Ecovacs for different reappraisal illustration and volition update this erstwhile I person tested it.
TP-Link Tapo RV30C for $229: I similar the simplicity of this robot vacuum, but you can't find replacement bags for it anymore.
Eureka J20 and Eureka J15 Pro Ultra for $830: Eureka is simply a highly respected sanction successful the vacuum field, and these robot vacuums are gorgeous and travel with galore bells and whistles. However, Eureka vacuums recovered the tiny articulator betwixt the hardwood level of my room to the carpet of the surviving country to beryllium wholly insurmountable, and the app besides forgot the representation each clip it deed a insignificant obstacle. It was truthful annoying.
Proscenic M9 for £439: Reviewer Simon Hill reported that this robot vacuum is terrible. It misses a batch of spots, the chute becomes instantly clogged with hair, and it makes changeless noises. Whenever it gets stuck, it tells you to telephone lawsuit service. The lone positive broadside is that it seems to beryllium retired of stock.
Narwal Freo X Ultra for $1,134: This is simply a beauteous vacuum with tons of features, including baseboard dusting. However, contempt moving it from country to country to find amended Wi-Fi, and switching from telephone to telephone to effort antithetic versions of the app, I was incapable to link it to the app and truthful could not usage it. (I reached retired to Narwal aggregate times but could not hole it; we volition update if I bash find a hole successful the future.)
Switchbot K10+ for $600: You tin present accessorize this tiny robot vacuum with further cleaning accessories, similar a instrumentality vacuum oregon aerial purifier. Unfortunately, the robot vacuum itself inactive is horrible. This is the lone vacuum wherever I've ever experienced a pooptastrophe—where it dragged a canine poop each implicit my house. Reviewer Simon Hill besides tried this robot vacuum and discovered that it's suicidal. The roller gets clogged easily, it can't find its mode backmost to the dock, and it often hurls itself down the stairs.
Shark PowerDetect 2-in-1 for $700: This vacuum cleaned amazingly good (5/10, WIRED Review). However, it doesn't auto-empty, DirtDetect doesn't work, and the app is wholly bonkers (maps aren't accurate, can't adhd aggregate floors, and cleaning times are off).