The Best Robot Vacuum Tier List

10 years ago I was watching Super Smash Bros tier lists, now I'm watching Vacuum tier lists... getting old is rough

when I saw the length of the video, I was ready to leave, but it was actually really short and to the point. Thank you for not adding unnecessary details to drag the video! Great, informative video

Excellent video. No fluff or vague statements. Just the facts! Thank you for your time in making this!

Thank You! The Roborock S7 works really well! Run it on full power all the time, but miss the obstacle avoidance which actually hinders me from running it on a schedule and thus I need to "prepare" the home before starting it.

I had an Roomba I3+. A year later I upgraded to J7+ and very happy with it. I also purchased the Braava Jet to go with the J7. Though I'm happy with the J7, the Braava is just acceptable. Should Have waited to save a few more dollars and purchase the S7 MaxV. I have no carpet, all ceramic tiles. But I love the video, straight to the point. Great Job.

Terrific analyses! Comprehensive and objective; the best reviewer and reviews on the web by far. Your videos deserve 100's of thousands of more views. Bought my Q5+ based on your tests, and I'm extremely pleased. Thank you!!

You list the Roborock S& MaxV Ultra as top machine. After 5 month I can confirm that, when it's working as it should, it's a good machine. We paid $1600, incl. extra pads, vac bags etc. After 3 month its flaws began to show: very frequent 'water filter cleaning' became frequent in spite of us keeping a super clean household, no pets, no children, no street shoes. The second biggest problem is the 'bleeding' of the various room or zone colors into other rooms, resulting in RR S7 MaxV Ultra to frantically buzzing to other rooms to 'clean' areas or rooms it's not meant to go; and problem is pervasive with our machine. we have, at least, 9 areas where room colors seep from 1 room into another, or even outside our house walls(!) prompting the RR's frenetic attempts to 'roll there and clean'. Another big problem is its software, suddenly and on its own, changes the assigned docking station to another area in the house, resulting in utter confusion for the RR to find any room and perform any requested service, and only by tricking it and the software, can be, with much patience, reversed. This brings me to the # 1 problem with Roborock I experienced: The Roborock's Customer assistance and help line. Their simple response to the color bleeding or involuntary docking station removal is: "You have to redo your whole house mapping". This, for us, is a problem as we have a 2200 sq.ft. house and various objects get removed when cleaning. Cleaning 1 room at the time, doing this is OK; but not with 10 rooms plus various hallways. All that aside, the question occurs: How come the machine suddenly changes its mapped docking station, but the engineers who developed the software don't know how to undo that . . where does one turn to, to correct those flaws??

No.Dreme L10 L20? The onky vac that would actually compare to the S7 or S8

Man thanks so much for your work.

I didn't think I would watch the entire video, but I did! It was quite informative (and since I recently bought a Q7 Max I was curious as to where this robot would end on your list). The list is quite extensive and I have to praise you for that. Though I do miss one of the most popular robots from the past few years (like the Roborock S5, S5 Max, S6 and S6 Pure). Overall a great video without too much unnecessary details. Because of this you have gained a sub! :D

I just picked up a Wyze for $150 to replace our Roomba 692 and I can't believe how much I love this thing. I can only wonder how significant of a leap a vac that costs 10x as much is.

Cant believe ive never found this channel, thanks for your hard work man, you even made ranking roombas interesting by putting them in tiers lol

My wife got a problem with her leg and cant walk much.. so this video helped me to pick up Roborock S7 maxv and its the best choice ever.. worth the money i say.. it clean very well and we dont need to remove much obstacle.. so my wife can sit very freely.. thank you very much for the review..

I bought the Roborock s7 maxV because of you guys, and I couldn't be happier with it. Thank you!

Nice review. A little kinder to some of the shortcomings than I would have been. The more videos I watch, the more I'm convinced that moping and vacuum bots need to be separate. It's hard enough to get a bot to do one of these tasks at a high level. No need to make the job harder. If price was a consideration, I'd just get a vacuum bot, and mop myself. In fact, that's what I'm doing now while I plan on moving. I had a braava back before iRobot bought the company, and it was decent. I'll eventually get the m6. I also had an old iRobot Scuba that was great. It did a fantastic job keeping floors clean. If they ever brought that line back with a empty/fill station, I'd pick it up in a heartbeat. If they were smart, they'd design it to use a water line, and drain along with a cleaning solution reservoir.

Here's a real world comparison of Roomba j7 and Roborock S7 MaxV. The Roomba is a solid performer that vacuums well, maps well, self empties and is easy to clean and maintain. It also has stellar customer service - real people, easy to contact, who walk you through problem solving. I waited for the Roborock to release the MaxV because I thought mopping on our tile floors would be a big plus. I sent the Roomba to the second floor and splashed out for the Roborock on the main floor - at three times the cost of the Roomba! Right away, I quickly regretted my purchase. The Roborock mopping pad curls up and peels off in use. Worst of all, though, the Roborock can't handle throw rugs that are no problem for the Roomba. It curls up the edge and gets tangled up and stuck. For the past couple of months, it has not been emptying its dust bin, despite all my cleaning of the chute leading to the dust collecting bag. CONCLUSION: I'm waiting for the next Black Friday sale to get another Roomba to replace the Roborock, which I will give away just to get rid of it. I regret the $1500 I wasted on it.

I bought a Neato Robotics Botvac D85 in 2016 through Amazon; it was an expensive piece of kit in that era. It performed well in my big open space apartment with 2 resident cats for 13 months (one month past its warantee), the started acting funny with its charging and doing its rounds until it stopped working. Amazon sent me a replacement that had the same exact lifespan. Seemed that the device was designed to fail just after its warantee expiration.

We have had a D7 for 3-4 years and just bought another one for upstairs when they were on Black Friday sale this past November. The first one has always been problem free and we replaced the battery after 3 years and 700 something cycles. My wife runs it at least every other day, sometimes more often. The second one we bought was bad and had lots of problems. We returned it for another. The replacement has been trouble free. I respect the testing, but in our experience as long as you get a good Neato, the D7 is amazing. Does a great job cleaning and the navigation is great including the use of no go lines and zones. I wonder if you guys got a bad copy or something inherent to your test setup caused issues and errors. We simply do not see them with ours and they are well used. Heck we even had an old Botvac 85 or whatever that lasted us over 7 years with only batteries, a couple of bearings, and a few sensor deoxit treatments.

Although this ranking takes into account a lot of factors .. in reality.. I have found that mapping and navigation algorithm is THE MOST IMPORTANT factor for a robot vacuum.. more than suction power, and things like picking up edge debris and tangling on brushrolls. No home is as dirty as shown on tests.. and given the fact that we can run the vacuum daily.. efficiency is much more important.

Wow. Awesome comparison video. Best I've seen so far on YouTube. Short and precise without filler. Subscribed to your channel.