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Best robot vacuums 2025: My top 5 after testing over 20 at home

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The new Roborock Saros 10R is a worthwhile investment for people who are picky about their floors and are willing to pay for a robot vacuum that does the most in terms of cleaning and maintenance. Those folks would prioritize literal wall-to-wall cleaning (edges and corners included) and true barefoot-ready sanitation on floors that need to be mopped on a regular basis, and a full self-cleaning dock that deals with dust, mopping pads, and dirty water on its own.

The Saros 10R would particularly flourish in lived-in homes with complex furniture or hardwood-to-rug layouts, or heavy foot traffic or paw traffic. If your home is fully carpeted aside from the kitchen and a bathroom, it’s probably overkill.

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Hearing that the Roborock Saros 10R is one of the slimmest robot vacuums on the market probably wouldn’t have you thinking that it’s also one of the most powerful. But it is, and it’s the most well-rounded robot vacuum that I’ve tested. Its 20,000 Pa of suction power nears the strongest you can get in 2025, and doubles the 10,000 Pa that the Roborock Qrevo Master, my top pick from 2024, had. While it didn’t fully ace pulling pet hair off of every pile of rug in my home, it still overall had a great track record with debris from protein powder, to kitty litter, to long human hairs, to whole goldfish crackers. Even on Max mode, it’s not very loud, either.

But the Saros 10R really shone during mopping. I firmly back the dual spinning mopping pad setup like this one over the single flat pad design — I always feel like the double movement provides more opportunity to fully wipe up spills and scrub at stains. One of those mops is hinged and can swing out a few inches past the vac’s circular body, allowing the Saros 10R to get more detailed along wall edges and in corners than most hybrid robovacs can. Imagine the satisfaction of watching the Saros 10R squeeze into a low-clearance sticky spot, like under the fridge, and then diligently mop that crevice.

Finishing touches include small obstacle avoidance that was about 85 percent reliable around cords, laundry, and shoes in my home, as well as a livestream pet camera that I actually used a lot when I wasn’t home.

Read my full review of the Roborock Saros 10R.

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