Great video, I absolutely think the Roborock is better out of these two. Another difference is battery life, the Roborock has a much larger battery. Also, if you want to spend a little more you can get the ultra dock for the Roborock S7 Max which will empty the bin, and wash the mop pad, nothing like that is available for the Roomba. With the upcoming S8 models from Roborock, they will be using a dual roller system similar to what the Roombas have, combine that with Roborock's better navigation and more powerful vacuum motor and it should be better than any Roomba. Irobot really needs to come out with something new, they have already fallen behind and will continue to do so if they don't, companies such as Roborock, Ecovacs and Dreametech have already gotten ahead of them. Another bot I'm interested in checking out is the upcoming Robovac X9 from Eufy, I have their X8 model and it is excellent.

Great comparison! Can't wait for your S8 review lol.

Having ownd four iRobot vacuums and maintaining them on a weekly basis and keeping them clean, lubricated, and parts replaced when needed , plus modifying the robot so it does not mark up all of the baseboards with black streaks from the constant bumping, unless they make changes and keep up with the industry , I will not be replacing them with another iRobot. Your review was professional and fair and I thank you for sharing your tests with the rest of us.

Thank you for solid video, i have a question. In case, I want to combine vacuum robot with a mopping robot, what is the best combination? I loved obstacle avoidance system from iRobot but for the mopping robot, i've had any ideas yet.

Hi Jamie. Thanks for the video. I've preordered S7 MaxV standalone mostly for its object recognition functions and being "smarter", but I'm a bit worried about the water tank capacity. Does it make a big difference that it's only 200ml? Would it be OK to use it without the dust emptying dock (I'm considering to maybe buy it later, but it's not cheap...)... I was also considering Q7 Max+, but it seems to lack some features. Thanks in advance.

Awesome video I'm considering to get roborock s7maxv plus (the bagless one) but I'm wondering how much moping can be done on a single water tank?

It helped a lot. Thanks

Great comparison of these robots. I had my grandparents for a visit yesterday, and they were fascinated by my Roborock S5 Max, since it does a way better job at cleaning, than the robot they had back when I was a child. I suggested to them, that they could get a robot similar to mine, but since they are seniors, and mostly goes at home, and can clean their home on their own, it's not something they need right now. My robot cost 2.649 dkk, when I got it and that's about 355,66€ I think, if Google is right 😁

Could you review the Narwal Freo vs Roborock? I’ve saw videos showing the excellent mopping features for the Narwal, but there is not a comparison vs Roborock

Great video! I heard that roomba j7 has smart recharge, it can get back to docking for recharging and then start when left not requiring redoing all the path, S7 can do that?

I'd love to get a modern robovac as it seems the tech has come a long way, but man are they expensive

I have the RoboRock S7 ultra with the dock and this thing is amazing!!!

Fantastic review! It would definitely help me to make a decision. That said, I'd also like to see comparisons between tiers. I just bought an S7 Plus after doing much research. I bought on the tier though as I wasn't willing to pay the delta, at least with what I could tell. Was that a mistake and should I have looked at the Max? Hard to say without that tier up and down comparison.

Have you tested an Ecovacs T10 Plus? curious how it compares to the S7 MaxV Plus

Hi Jamie. Finally, if you were torn between Roborock s7 maxv and Combo J7, which would you choose? Consider the longevity as well. Will one last 5 years and the other 10 years?

Great Video Sir

I use roborock maxv ultra with the mop auto clean. Never regretted

I had the J7+ (not combo) and now the S7 Maxv with the auto emtpy doc (not the ultra dock). The J7 was better at cords, but I could not handle the horrible mapping without Lidar. It would constantly mess up the map with non-existant walls, navigation errors - going into an adjacent room then turning around to go back, missing spots and it's object avoidance gives way too much space around an object. Adding a room was time consuming. It took me days to get a halfway decent map. With the S7 it took one evening. I like having an actual voice over that of the chimes of the J7. Watching it vacuum through the S7's camera is also fun. If the J7 had lidar, I would have kept it. But The S7, to me, is the winner of the two.

I could care less that Roomba will take 20mins longer to clean with its VSLAM compared to Lidar, im not the one doing the cleaning. S7 MaxV on sale in Canada is $1500, the Roomba J7+ combo on sale is $1000. Roborock is not $500 better. Try dealing with Roborocks customer service when something goes wrong, good luck.

Does roborock share data with China?

I have the S7 maxv, I like it..But there are some areas where it has plenty of room for improvement. 1. It is terrible at detecting cords and wires. This is important for me and from what I understand the roomba j7 is much better here. 2. As of now, there is no way to dump the dustbin in the middle of a cleaning run. It’s baffling that they don’t have this feature. 3 the side brush gets completely tangled in high pile shag carpet. They should either redesign the side brush or allow for a way for it to turn off over high pile carpet.. I actually have an older roborock i7 and it’s sidebrush does not tangle in the same carpet 4..The single rubber roller I have noticed does not seem to pick up pet hair as well as my older i7 on low pile carpet. I would expect the S8 to see a big improvement here, But I think that roborock should also sell different types of rollers that should perform better on these types of carpets

Thank you! This helped. God bless you. John 3:16.

Amazon prime day I got a J7 for $350. To spend over $1,000 is just crazy. The value of roborock is not there considering discounts. And it tells you how much of a mark up is on these vacuums. Way over priced. Considering Design, Robo is too tall limiting the ability to go under some furniture and most importantly my bed frames. Plus I like the slim design feature of J7 dock that can fit easily under a table keeping it out of the way.

I have owned irobots, and roborocks. The roborocks kick a##.

iRobot has became horrible, the design teams need to be fired. I switch from a roomba combo to a Roborock S8 Pro Ultra. I was getting tired of the roomba combo mopping and leaving more mess on the floors

It is amaizing to see a better review still be full of shit. J7 combo is god for carpet and when you would actualy let it test somting more real you would see its the best of all. Carpets get dirty with light objects like fiber from cloas small debre and what is when your carpet is used and stept on so its flat on some spots. J7 combo will defenetly do a better job and no I dont own the other. I would like to see any other than roomba clean a used carpet it wont happen. Roomba because of the 2 brushes and the agresive gruves that the new model of the other model that is shown doesent have it eather. It has to be better at cleaning carpets but it wont upen up used carpets you can belive me. Even J7 combo needs to have 2 - 4 passes to get 100 clean but it can do that and after 4 passes the carpet is open up again. Even 30 jears old carpet is opened up and I dont see how that new design of thouse rollers would do that. Roomba uses hard edhes to open up carpet so I would realy like to see when the other can do that to. I dont think it can. Again it can for shure clean better than with one roller but that it is. And the J7 combo has a light. It has no problem to go around in the dark. When you would use it after it makes the map it does look to move a litle diferent and after some passes true the day it can operate in the dark like in the day. The cleaning with the mob is sorry bulshit. When you leave sucb mess you realy have a problem. I seen stains tested and when the robot detects its dirty it would make some funny moves. Moving foverd and back spinning but it would clean up. Its realy not so bad than alot of the reviews showd. And carpet test should be done with some light fabric in to the miks and on old carpet and lets see how long it takes to get close to roomba. Some rewievers did that and Roomba was always the best because ot the 2 mehanical rolers. The suction on the J7 combo is aperently bad but it some how makes a inprint of the first filter on the dust so how it isent good ? Because the mehanical motion does the job on carpets you dont need the suction and the suction isent good enought on carpet or why you have to make multiple passes with a normal one. You lusen the debre with mehanical motion. And J7 combo will never get stuck on carpet all other do not shure on the one in video but you can faind testers that actualy test all the aspects and Roomba is the only one that doesent what a suprise, thats why it lifts the mob up. Thouse tests with rice or what ever on carpet are realy a joke and 1% better what does that mean. When you want to buy one of the robots there are better rewievers who actualy test on the same fild and try to include all aspets like one who reviews normal one to not only robots. The bigest problem with the J7 is the corner cleaner that spins to fast and scaters debre. Which is actualy a big problem but usely its a mention or even doeaent get mentioned even in videos that want you to sell a competeter robot. The other is good to and I thought it is a better product but when you actualy look up more reviews the Roomba has a lot of strengts. One problem is that it has problems with rooms or layouts that are similar and it doest know in which room it is. The other I dont know but laidar isent as good as people belive and in tests that were the same there was no big leep. The other Roombas that dont have a camera that is as good as the j7 como have problems.