The Best Robot Vacuums, According to the Reviews

Going by the reviews, the best-rated robot vacuums listed here are Roborock’s Qrevo Curv, which averages 8.6 out of 10 across five outlets, and its Saros 20, at 8.5 across six. The highest average we found belongs to a machine not yet listed in full, the Dreame X50 Ultra Complete, at 9.3 from three outlets, and Dyson’s first robot mop scores lowest of the four, 7.0 across seven.

Update, 2 November 2026. All 21 scores were re-read on the outlets’ own pages and none has changed, so every average stands. We have added the makers’ own US list prices, read today, in a table below. TechRadar’s guide, updated 29 October, still names the Qrevo Curv (affiliate link to Amazon, opens in a new tab) its best overall, the Q7 M5 (affiliate link to Amazon, opens in a new tab) its budget pick and the Saros 20 (affiliate link to Amazon, opens in a new tab) its carpet pick; Tom’s Guide’s and Engadget’s guides have not changed since our last check.

Update, 12 October 2026. All 21 scores were re-read on the outlets’ own pages and none has changed, so every average stands. Two things have. Roborock’s US store no longer lists the Q7 M5, our budget pick: its old product page returns “404 Not Found”, and a search of the store finds only the Q7 M5+, which adds a self-emptying dock, plus a refurbished M5+. And Tom’s Guide has rebuilt its guide: its top pick is now the Dreame X60 Max Ultra Complete, its budget pick the Dreame D10 Plus Gen 2, and it still names the Saros 20 for pet hair and the Dyson for mopping. We have added a section for readers who mainly want a mop.

Update, 21 September 2026. Every score was re-read on the outlets’ own pages, and none of the twelve we had used had changed. We found nine more published scores, from PCMag, PCWorld, ZDNET, Tech Advisor, Wired and The Verge, and they are now included: the Qrevo Curv moves from 8.7 to 8.6, the Saros 20 from 9.0 to 8.5, and the Dyson from 7.3 to 7.0. We had also said iRobot was in Chapter 11 — it left in January 2026 under its manufacturer’s ownership — and that Roomba was in none of the roundups we checked, where Engadget names a Roomba its pick for first-time buyers. And we had called the Q7 M5 a hard-floor machine; Homes & Gardens found it consistently poor on hard floors. Corrected throughout.

Robot vacuum reviews compared

Machine	Outlet average	Outlets	Spread	What the outlets agree it is best for
Roborock Qrevo Curv (affiliate link to Amazon, opens in a new tab)	8.6 / 10	5	1.0	All-round cleaning, on every floor type
Roborock Saros 20 (affiliate link to Amazon, opens in a new tab)	8.5 / 10	6	2.0	Carpet and pet hair
Roborock Q7 M5 (affiliate link to Amazon, opens in a new tab)	7.7 / 10	3	1.0	A first robot, on a budget
Dyson Spot+Scrub Ai (affiliate link to Amazon, opens in a new tab)	7.0 / 10	7	2.0	Mopping hard floors
Dreame X50 Ultra Complete, below	9.3 / 10	3	1.0	A premium machine that climbs thresholds

How we compared the reviews. We took every published numeric score we could find on a named outlet’s own review page, converted each to a ten-point scale by doubling star ratings out of five, and averaged them; the spread is the gap between the highest and lowest. The last column comes from the outlets’ own labels and verdicts, and a machine needs three scores to appear — we have not used any of them.

Robot vacuum prices compared

Machine	Maker’s US list price	Shown on 2 November	Outlet average (outlets)
Roborock Saros 20	$1,599.99, Roborock US store	At list	8.5 / 10 (6)
Roborock Qrevo Curv	$1,599.99, Roborock US store	$849.99, marked sold out	8.6 / 10 (5)
Dyson Spot+Scrub Ai	$1,199.99, Dyson US store	$799.99	7.0 / 10 (7)
Roborock Q7 M5	Not listed by Roborock’s US store	Only the Q7 M5+, with a self-emptying dock: $429.99 list, $359.99 shown	7.7 / 10 (3)

All four prices were read on the makers’ own US stores on 2 November 2026; Amazon prices are not used. The list price is the store’s struck-through “was” figure where it showed a sale. The two top-scoring Roborocks share a list price and sit a tenth of a point apart on reviews, and the Dyson lists for less than either while averaging lowest of the four. On the day we looked the Qrevo Curv was marked down and sold out; these figures move often, so check the store before you buy. The Q7 M5+ is a different model from the Q7 M5 the outlets scored, so its price is not a price for the machine reviewed.

Where the reviewers disagree

The two Roborocks at the top are effectively level. A tenth of a point separates them, on scores given in half-stars, so the difference is smaller than one outlet changing its mind. What separates them is agreement: all five Qrevo Curv scores sit between 8 and 9, while the Saros 20 runs from Trusted Reviews’ full marks down to four out of five at four other outlets.

The Dyson splits its reviewers by job. On mopping the outlets mostly agree it is good — Tom’s Guide makes it its mopping pick and The Verge’s headline calls it a great mop. On everything else they split: The Verge says its vacuuming lets it down, TechRadar cites navigation trouble, app quirks and intermittent self-emptying, and PCMag found it missed spots and dropped dirt on bumps. Seven outlets scored it, and only Tom’s Guide went above seven out of ten.

The Q7 M5 is a carpet machine by its reviews. TechRadar and Tom’s Guide both praise its pickup on carpet, and all three outlets mark down its mopping. Homes & Gardens goes further and found it consistently poor on hard floors, which is why its score is the lowest of the three. It is also getting harder to buy new: Roborock’s US store now sells the Q7 M5+, which adds a self-emptying dock, and not the plain Q7 M5. What a dock adds at each price is set out in what robot vacuums get you at each price, and what Q7 M5 owners report covers the faults that show up after the reviews end.

If mopping is the point

The reviews rarely rate one robot best at both jobs, and the guides that pick a mop pick different machines. Tom’s Guide names the Dyson Spot+Scrub Ai (affiliate link to Amazon, opens in a new tab) its pick for mopping, the same machine that averages lowest here because of its vacuuming. The Verge’s robot vacuum-mop guide puts the Saros 20 forward for homes full of things a robot gets stuck on, and the Narwal Flow 2 for minimalist homes.

A dragged pad, spinning pads and a self-washing roller clean in different ways, and how robot mop types differ sets them out on the makers’ own figures. If you have rugs, check first whether the mop lifts or detaches; for Roborock, which sells robots with all four mop types, which Roborock is which lists that model by model, and Shark’s eight robots, sorted by mop and base does the same for Shark. eufy’s ten robots, by mop and obstacle sensor covers eufy.

The highest average is not in the list

The Dreame X50 Ultra Complete averages 9.3: Trusted Reviews gave it five out of five, and TechRadar and Tech Advisor four and a half each. TechRadar makes it its premium pick, and all three single out the legs that lift it over thresholds. It is described here rather than listed because it came up on this check and we have not yet read its current price and specifications at Dreame. Three scores is also the smallest sample on this page, and all three reviews date from 2025. Dreame’s current US range, from its own spec tables, is sorted in which Dreame robot is which.

Two more machines cleared the three-score bar on this check. The Ecovacs Deebot T30S Combo averages 8.0, from TechRadar’s four and a half, Tom’s Guide’s four and How-To Geek’s seven out of ten; it is not among the 11 Deebots on Ecovacs’s US lineup page today. The Narwal Flow 2 averages 7.7, from four out of five at TechRadar and Trusted Reviews and seven out of ten at How-To Geek. Tom’s Guide’s current top pick, the Dreame X60 Max Ultra Complete, got five out of five there, but we found a score from only one other named outlet.

What the scores cannot tell you, and it is a lot

Everything above comes from reviews that ran for days or a few weeks. The things that actually ruin a robot vacuum arrive over months — brushes that clog on long hair, mop pads that start to smell, a dock that jams, an app that gets worse in an update, a brand that stops issuing firmware. None of that is visible in a launch review, and none of it is in these numbers.

We do not currently gather owner reports in any systematic way, so this page cannot speak to reliability. That is a real limitation of the method and not a small one in this category. It is the next thing we intend to fix.

Roomba’s maker went through bankruptcy and came out owned by its manufacturer

Which brings us to the most-searched name in the category. roomba robot vacuum is a top-five search term here, and Roomba is not among TechRadar’s or Tom’s Guide’s main picks, though Engadget names the Roomba Vac its pick for first-time buyers. (Which Roomba is which sorts iRobot’s ten current robots.) There is a story here larger than test scores.

iRobot filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware on 14 December 2025, CNBC reported. It had warned in March 2025 of substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern, and in October 2025 said the search for a buyer had stalled. The reporting on its court filings describes about $682 million of revenue in 2024, roughly $190 million of debt from a 2023 refinancing, a thwarted $1.4 billion Amazon buyout, and a 46% US tariff on imports from Vietnam — where it makes the vacuums sold in America — which added $23 million to its costs in 2025.

It came out on 23 January 2026, wholly owned by Picea, which iRobot describes as its primary contract manufacturer and secured lender. According to iRobot’s announcement, Picea acquired 100% of the company, and US customers’ data now sits with a separate US subsidiary, iRobot Safe, governed by an independent board of US citizens.

Why this belongs on a buying page. A robot vacuum is not a kettle. It is a cloud service with brushes: the maps, the app, the scheduling and the firmware all depend on a company still being there to run them. iRobot’s restructuring is finished, but a change of owner is exactly the kind of long-run event no two-week review prices in.

One correction while we are here, because we went looking. A claim circulating in owner communities holds that the US government has banned Roombas. We found no evidence of any import ban on iRobot’s products. What we did find is a request in January 2026 by a bipartisan pair of US lawmakers for a national security review of the transfer of control to a Chinese supplier — a different thing, still worth knowing, and not a ban.

What actually decides it

• Carpet or hard floor? It is the first question and it splits the field. Suction matters on carpet; mopping and edge-cleaning matter on hard floors, and the reviews above rarely rate one machine best at both.
• Do you want a mop or a wet cloth dragged around? The searching says mopping is what people actually want. The machines that do it properly lift or extend the pad; the cheap ones do not, and the difference shows on a dried stain. How the robot mop types differ sets out pads, spinning mops and rollers on the makers’ own figures.
• Check the consumables before you buy, not after. Brushes, filters and pads are a running cost, and it is the part of the purchase nobody researches.
• Count your thresholds. A robot that strands itself on a door strip twice a week tends to get unplugged and forgotten, which wastes the whole purchase.

Our smart plug guide covers the other end of this category, and what to do when smart devices keep dropping off is the fix for the complaint that follows almost every robot vacuum purchase.

Questions people ask

Which robot vacuum is the best?

Going by published review scores, two Roborocks lead the four machines listed here: the Qrevo Curv averages 8.6 out of 10 across five outlets and the Saros 20 8.5 across six. The highest average we found is the Dreame X50 Ultra Complete’s 9.3, from three outlets. These are the outlets’ scores; we have not used any of these machines.

What brand of robot vacuum is best?

The reviews score machines, not brands. Three of the four machines listed here are Roborocks, and the highest average we found is a Dreame’s. Dyson’s first robot mop averages 7.0, the lowest here. Roomba is not among TechRadar’s or Tom’s Guide’s main picks, though Engadget names the Roomba Vac its pick for first-time buyers.

What is the best robot vacuum and mop?

By the review averages here, the Roborock Qrevo Curv, at 8.6 from five outlets, and the Saros 20, at 8.5 from six; both vacuum and mop. Tom’s Guide names the Dyson Spot+Scrub Ai its best robot vacuum and mop hybrid, though it averages 7.0 here, held down by reviews of its vacuuming.

How do robot vacuum prices compare?

At the makers’ own US stores on 2 November, the Saros 20 and the Qrevo Curv carried the same list price and the Dyson Spot+Scrub Ai a lower one. Roborock no longer lists the plain Q7 M5, only the Q7 M5+, which adds a dock and lists for under a third of the Saros 20. Three were shown below list that day; the table has the figures.

What is the best robot vacuum for the money?

Going by the reviews, the Roborock Q7 M5: TechRadar makes it its budget pick and Tom’s Guide calls it ideal for first timers. It averages 7.7 across three outlets. All three mark down its mopping, so it suits a home that mainly needs carpets vacuumed. Roborock’s US store now sells the Q7 M5+ instead, which adds a self-emptying dock.

What is the best robot mop?

The guides disagree. Tom’s Guide names the Dyson Spot+Scrub Ai its mopping pick, though it averages 7.0 here because of its vacuuming. The Verge’s robot mop guide picks the Saros 20 for cluttered homes and the Narwal Flow 2 for minimalist ones. Check how the mop lifts before you buy.

Are robot vacuum reviews reliable?

They are good evidence of how a machine cleans in its first weeks, and weak evidence of how it lasts. Outlets also disagree: the Saros 20 and the Dyson each span two points out of ten here. Brushes clogging, mop pads souring and app changes arrive over months, after most reviews end.

Is Roomba still in business?

Yes. iRobot filed for Chapter 11 in December 2025 and left it on 23 January 2026, when Picea, its main contract manufacturer, completed buying all of it. iRobot says US customers’ data is now handled by a separate US subsidiary, iRobot Safe, with an independent board of US citizens.