The Best Robot Vacuums (2027)

Best for: Large mixed-floor homes that want vacuuming and real mopping handled by one dock, with almost no daily maintenance.
Skip if: Your home is mostly high-pile carpet or you dislike a large dock; the station is the size of a small cabinet and the mop system is wasted on carpet-only floors.

Best for: Pet homes and mixed floors that want strong suction and mopping with self-emptying, but not a wash-and-dry dock.
Skip if: You want the dock to wash the mop for you; this dock empties dust only, so the mop pad still needs hand washing.

Best for: Pet homes and cluttered floors where avoiding what is on the ground matters more than raw suction numbers.
Skip if: You vacuum mostly in the dark; the camera-based avoidance wants light to see, and a LiDAR rival maps better with the lights off.

Best for: Allergy-conscious pet homes that want self-emptying without a bag subscription and like a grid-pattern deep clean.
Skip if: You need mopping; this is a vacuum-only robot, and the mop job still belongs to a separate machine or a combo model.

Best for: iRobot fans with hard floors who want one robot to vacuum and mop, with pet-mess avoidance built in.
Skip if: You want simultaneous vacuum and mop with automatic mop lifting; this robot mops only when the Combo Bin is fitted, and it cannot vacuum and mop at once in that mode.

Best for: Vacuum-first homes that want mapped, scheduled cleaning with self-emptying at the lowest Roborock dock price in this guide.
Skip if: Mopping matters to you at all; the Q5+ is a vacuum only, and adding a mop means stepping up to the Q8 Max+ or a combo rival.

Best for: Tidy, mostly uncluttered homes that want iRobot mapping and self-emptying at a mid-range price.
Skip if: Floors are strewn with cables, toys and pet messes; without camera avoidance this robot will bump and sometimes eat what it meets.

Best for: Pet homes with hard floors and edges that gather hair, who want vacuum plus mop and no bag purchases.
Skip if: You want a dock that washes mop pads; this base empties dust only, so pads are washed by hand after mopping runs.

Best for: Larger flats and houses where long runtime and quiet running matter, with mixed hard floors and low-pile carpet.
Skip if: You need camera obstacle avoidance; this robot maps with lasers and will still meet clutter it cannot recognise.

Best for: Pet homes that want Shark mapping and grid cleaning but have no space or budget for a self-empty station.
Skip if: Emptying a small dustbin by hand every run or two sounds like a chore you will skip; the self-empty RV2310AE sibling exists for that reason.

Best for: Buyers who want proven Shark self-emptying and room-select cleaning without paying for the newest LiDAR flagship.
Skip if: You want the newest Matrix grid or LiDAR system; this IQ generation navigates by mapping, not by the laser grid of the newer Sharks.

Best for: Single-level homes with hard floors and medium-pile carpet, and buyers who want a robot without an app account or a map to maintain.
Skip if: You want room-by-room control, scheduling by room or a map; this robot has none of those, and it will not learn your floor plan.