Latest robot vacuum recommendations for mid-2025?

My MIL just gifted us with a dirt devil robot vacuum... it does well for the shedding off my golden retriever. It is definitely kind of loud.

Thank you for sharing.

Roborock Q5+ with dock. Mine has been awesome.
Roborock

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Does it have a good cleaning pattern? I ask, because the last time I had one -- well over 12 years ago,

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You'll be impressed w/ a decade of improvement...I was after similar hiatus.

LIDAR mapping/cleaning & self empty dock are F'n outstanding and must have features.

We have Roborock Q5 MAX+ upstairs and Q35A downstairs. If either broke tmrw I'd have another on order immediately.

Don't sleep on the mopping feature, it's legit! We have an indoor/outdoor Golden Retriever... needless to say I was skeptical about Robot mop. Game changer 100%

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Roborock Q5+

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Just ordered the Q5 Max+.

for the recommendations! $279 + tax at Amazon. I compared against the eufy Auto-Empty C10 ($250.00 off or about the same price as the Q5 Max+).

Wyze has been solid for me for the last 7-8 years. Pretty hard to beat for the price.

I also have the roborock Q5+ and its honestly head and shoulders above anything I previously had. You made a good decision. For the price it is probably hard to beat.

Mine arrives today. Based on the recommendations here, and from what I also read on Reddit and Amazon, and for the price, it looks like we are getting a good robot vacuum only, which is exactly what I wanted.

frick irobot

we had a 400 series for the last month i got for 'half price' on prime day and let me tell you my experience

$599 Roomba Plus 405

* the house mapping went great, until it didnt. after carefully labelling everything and running the vac a couple of days it inexplicably 'lost' the map and remapped w/ all my merged areas, named rooms, etc. gone. here's the kicker..the old map w/ named rooms was still there..somewhere..the app was confused and it lost all my cleaning history 'cards'. a month later and its still not working right despite deleting and starting over

* the app is SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. if the vac has started and you try to hit 'cancel' or 'pause' you'll be waiting 5 minutes for it to respond and most of the time you have to hit the button more than once before it responds

* app is crap. like i mentioned it lost 'cards' of previous cleaning patterns and doesnt allow you to set up and name multiple cleaning types (vac only, just certain high-traffic rooms, etc).

* we have roughly 2500sf on the first floor..which we COMPLETELY replaced all flooring with LVP when we moved in a year ago and maybe a couple of thin 8x10 rugs. couldn't be any easier. yet on the 'default' mode of vac/mop, the vac is ALWAYS losing a mop head and just sits there not doing jackshit

* as a corollary of the above, i've disabled the mop feature entirely because wtf; i can't babysit this thing and fix it every time it throws a mop head out so i set it to 'vacuum only'. the vacuum only cleans a room and the dog hair and dirt fills up the bin on the vac immediately so by the time its done, its not vacumming JACK shite and just pushing dirt around the rooms.

HOW ABOUT A frickING SENSOR THAT ITS FULL and return to the base & empty it.

fricking worthless.

* the kicker, the base is unable to suck the jam out so i have to 'finger' it out of the vac because there is NO REMOVABLE BIN on the vac to clean it. i just have to reach in there and pull the shite out until its mostly gone or stick a screwdriver in there to help free stuff.

* there was NO frickING MANUAL included; just a fricking QR code and when i go online to look up how to take it apart the instructions are NEVER EVER for this model; this stupid fricking thing wont come apart at all to get in there and clean it. all you can do is remove the little roller thingie and finger it.

TL;DR; Mrs CAD is a neat-freak and keeps our house almost immaculate and yet this stupid robot breaks down every single time it cleans and the bin gets jammed w/ stuff EVERY SINGLE TIME and so its doing absolutely nothing.


TL;DR2 - i'm returning it to amazon after almost a MONTH of giving it every chance to work. they offered me $80 to keep it and i was like NOPE

TL;DR3 - I just ordered a roborok Q8 as a replacement so we'll see how it does.


very VERY disappointed in roomba.