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

Man thanks so much for your work.

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!!

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

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

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.

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

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.

Excellent review, appreciate the time and effort that went into this

thanks for the excellent info and easy to find sections from your time stamps....hugely appreciated

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

Holy smokes -- great video!!! You spent a lot of time on little details! Thank you for your consumer service! Liked and subbed!

Well you got into a lot of trouble to test all these robot vacuum's , and your tests are very thorough . Subscribed!!!

Great video and analysis! Very helpful. Will check out the rest of your vides -- Thank you!

GREAT vid.. I like how you just get to the point quickly!

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??

Your review videos are "stellar" - I knew very little about vacuuming / mopping robots until I discovered one of your videos and ultimately this channel. Previously I only had heard of Roomba's but had no idea about the sheer amount of other brands in this category. After watching your reviews and videos from others, I settled on the roborock S7 MaxV over the their newer roborock S8 model. Memorial weekend deal for $539.99 and I also opted for with additional 3 year extended warranty ($60.99) offered through Amazon, because of the 1 star reviews and malfunction complaints on pretty much all brands. Thanks for doing such an awesome job on vacuum robots; it saved me a ton of time conducting my own research. Keep it going...

Thank you so much This video saved me a lot of time for researching

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

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.

Love your in-depth analysis!

Amazing. Concise and useful video!

What a great video, moves along at a brisk pace and covers every single thing you could want in making this decision. Although I'd love the S7 MaxV, it's pretty expensive and my moppable spaces aren't quite big enough to justify the expense. But I am getting the Q5+ through your affiliate link. Much appreciate you doing all the hard research work so I didn't have to!

Thank you! Very comprehensive!!

Excellent video thank you for helping me narrow my search

Excellent video 👍. My Roomba S9 (D-shape) often gets jammed in tight spaces.

exellent break down! Thank you !

Great list, thank you

excellent video thank you - looking forward to seeing where the Roborock S8 Pro Ultra sits in this list!

Hey, thank you for the review. I just got this and was concerned about a couple of things. But this video is very informative.

Brilliant comparison. Thanks a million.

very good video thanks a lot for all the testing!

Best review ever, thanks. You help a lot and I’m going for Roborock Q7Max

Ausome video! I was wanting for the s8 with the included self cleaning of the mop pad. For such an expensive appliance that needs additional parts did not seem like value for money. Good luck everyone.

what a great video! it's easy to get lost in the robot vacuum cleaner market. thanks to you, i now know which one i should buy. thank you!

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..

thank ypu this was extremely helpfull, your findings are very much in line with others that actually truly test stuff. based on this i found an Q7 max+ for 460€ in promotions, if i see form where the prices are coming i considder that a steal! i can't thank you enough

Looking forward to the next list.

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.

Awesome work, thanks!

Thank you, you made shopping for a Christmas gift easy

Great video, thank you!

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

Thanks for your analysis, which was succinct and on-point. One extra thing I would have liked to have known about was the apps. I have a Conga, which works pretty well in brushing (not in mopping); but the app regularly couldn't log-in, and then it updated and required me to give lots of privacy settings it had no reason to need. So I can no longer use it, except by only pressing the 'clean' button on top. It's a show-stopper, so I think important info to know about in advance.

Freaking awesome. It is the future. This is my contest submission. 👍

I have deebot. Amazing reboot. Cleans very efficiently .it has front camera and laser mapping. Never got stuck anywhere.

thank you, very insightful

thanks - great vid!

Although the Roborock S4 max was not mention it’s affordable and gets the job down. I would rate it at the tier “S” , it has LiDAR and cleans up the corners well in carpet and wood flooring.

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.

Good job on the video. How about the new ecovac t20 omni? Where would you put it?

Most of the problems with not cleaning along the edges can be solved by a sweeper with longer arms. Presumably, this is also what the update in the next model is about 🙂

Great review! What do you think about Tapo RV30 plus?

Still got my Roborock S6, Thing is a beast. I no longer have to vacuum and it goes into places that I have trouble with using the Stick Vac. Still have to vacuum carpet here and there but the S6 was well worth the money. Never has gotten stuck and it one smart ass robot. I have an office with 2 doors one on each side with a carpet in the middle. 1 day i decided to put no go zones around the carpet and only vacuum the floors on each side. The roborock was vacuuming one side and all of a sudden, I saw it "thinking" after it was done, did some quick computation and drove itself to the other door to vacuum the other side of the room. Shit is amazing.

Hi there, is there a recent list of the placements of the vacuum cleaners please? Thank you for a great video. 👍

thanks for the video. got question regarding durability, what are the performance depreciation after 10-20 weeks of usage?

Have you ever tested the Ecovacs Deebot? I was looking at the t9+ and now I'm interested in that Roborock Q5. I've been seeing a lot of reviews with the roborock.

I just bought my first robot vacuum, the S7 MaxV. Good to see it's good

Best video I've watched about robot vacuum cleaners... It is perfectly useful to choose your cleaner...

I bought my wyze robot vacuum brand new for $160 and have been so happy with the purchase! Looking to get the roborock s7maxv in the future for the mopping.

Very in depth test, thanks!! When comparing specs on paper hows does suction power PA compare with overall power Watts? Im looking at the Deepot T9 vs V10 the T9 has 3000 PA and rated 50W wheras the V10 has 4200PA but only 40W cleaning power. Am I right in thinking that its Watts value that actually matters? As it takes knto account airflow and actual cleaning power rather than just vacuum force?

wish these were better and more affordable! thanks for the great video!

My first one was the Roomba i7 and it worked fine, until it stopped charging properly. Out of frustration I got a new one, the Roborock Q5+. It is SO much better! Mapping was so fast, and accurate. It took my iRobot like 2+ hours to map my 2000sf house. Took the RoboRock like 20 minutes. And when the Roborock vacuums, it is also so much faster and efficient than the iRobot. The only downside is that it is slightly wider than the iRobot, so it can't go through my chair legs like the iRobot could, but it still manages to get everything clean! So happy with it, highly recommend Roborock over iRobot.

I have the shark IQ. The app is poor, but mine has no problem building a map and updating it every time it finds something new. I also think a lot of it's edge cleaning problem comes from having single brushes on each side, I picked up a set of double brushes for $15 and it fixed most of the problems. As much as I'd love to have a top-tier machine, I paid $150 for mine and am pretty happy with it. I will note however that it pays no attention whatsoever to no-go zones, and seems bound and determined to get wrapped up in wires because of it. On the other hand, I love that I can set it to come back to the dock every half hour to empty itself, and if it doesn't feel it worked hard enough on the first charge it'll come back, charge itself up and go back out to finish. One weird thing I noticed is that the first outing takes it to 50% battery and it comes back. Second time, it'll run the battery almost flat before it comes back in. I got it specifically to pick up dog hair and it's very effective for that.

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.

It's interesting how much Shark was able to improve between generations. I would love to get your opinion on the AI 360. It has added air vents that are supposed to push debris away from edges and corners. I ordered one for only ~265€ as an Amazon warehouse deal (330€ new). My alternative would have been the Roborock Q7 Max+ which costs 489€ here. These are my choices because I have a German Shepherd that sheds year-round.

Interesting. There's a couple things that are important with the Shark. For one you need to make sure it's on full power cleaning mode, which can only be accessed via the app. If you use it without the app, it's a default is eco mode. I'm actually really surprised at how well the shark IQ works after using Neatos for the past decade. I literally just got done testing my shark IQ vs my neato bovac connected (which is a very expensive robo vac). The shark absolutely destroyed the neato on both carpet and hardwood which I was not expecting at all. I've also owned many Roomba and always preferred Neato. That said I can't find one thing to complain about with this Shark, especially for the price. I think it works great.

Feeling very validated in my quite impulsive purchase of the q7 Max + 😝

I love my Eufy 11s, 99.99 on Woot almost 3 years ago and still going strong.

Great video. Would love to have seen the Mi MOP 2 Pro included

I first got the Roomba J7 and it did an awful job on carpet. Upgraded to the Roborock S8 Pro Ultra and I love it!

Thanks for the reply and feedback. Taking in your advice, which is better on low pile area rugs?

I wonder what the ranking of the Neato vacs would be if you had no software errors? I've had an older D7 for years with no errors.

I have Dreamebot L10S PRO with mop . Its perfect

Phe….friggen…..nominal job guys. That might be the best video about this topic on the web.

I would love to also see cost to run included. Before properly looking into we bought a couple of i robots - and the ongoing cost of filters and rollers especially is quite a sting. just had to purchase another set for both (different models) and that all up cost $300 for new sets of rollers, filters and spinner edge brush things. I have to get these pretty much every 6 months as they vacuum every day - so each is like $300 a year on ongoing parts costs - and im sure due to use battery will be on the horizon etc. Not sure if other brands / models have longer lasting parts that cost less, but definitely for ownership over say hopefully at least 3 to 5 years, notable differences in ongoing parts cost would be very interesting. great video though, wish i had seen something like this before purchase, but great guidance for next one. Love to know thoughts on the new dyson....

I’ve been running a Roborock s4 for over 3 years. With constant software updates it still can compete with newer robot vacuums. There app/software/mapping tech is second to none.

Best breakdown on youtube. Roborock Q5 will be for me.

Just bought the Q5+ for $399 as a Christmas gift to the fiancé. Definitely will be an upgrade from our terrible ILIFE V3s Pro. Thanks!

I totally loveur videos ur such an Interestibg expressive guy plus for sum reason my husband seems to take me up the arsenal then I'm watching them lol

Nice reviews, it would be amazing to see some reviews about Xiaomi too

I bought the wyze without doing any research. I got lucky with that one. It's great!

Excellent comparative analysis but would have liked to see the samsung Jetbot ai+ included

Have you considered testing the Blaupunkt robots?

I believe you need to test the Neato in a different environment. The vacuum might think it’s stuck due to the limited space. The same error can be seen if it gets stuck under a bed. Under normal use I rarely get error codes unless it sucks up the occasional phone cord or sock it’s found under the bed.

Thanks for this. Will be looking into some of them. would be nice to know about serviceable parts. I have a 1.5 yr old shark right now with a 30cent gear failure that makes the robot junk with no parts available.

Have two of the wyze vacuums, they are exceptional imo.

Thanks!

I was thinking about: Roborock Q7 Max VS Eufy X8 Hybrid after this wide just ordered Q7 Max! Thank you.

Idk why this video brought me so much joy. I found myself cheering or gasping when the various tier ratings were announced. Eager to see an annual revision.

From this looks like i luckily bought the by far the best one there is since i have no carpets the roborock s7 at a decent sale aswel and it realy has has been great so far

You should try to add xioami robot vacuum mop pro and the rest of there lineup to this list if you can, they seem to be good value robot vacuum cleaners

We had a Neato D4 Connected for years and it was great - it just got old and tired. It was run 7 days a week in our 1600 SF all tile house. I replaced it with a D8 and returned it. Got the D9 and it is no different the the D8, but I kept it. Big mistake. The D9 does clean very well, but it is not a robot vac that can be left to clean the whole house on its own. It always returns to its base, but it randomly skips rooms. It won't go into our hall bathroom MOST OF THE TIME. It sees 3 different color tiles (hall, marble divider and the bath tile), goes 3/4 of the way in and backs out. All of a sudden, like once a month it goes in and out of the bathroom with no problem. This vac likes to bump hard into trim and furniture. And it likes to climb like 2 inches up onto the baseboards when it backs up. Sometimes it gets stuck in the middle of a wall with no obstacles at a 45* angle and says"I'm too close to a wall, please move me". What the heck - it is supposed to clean edges! I have to reset it once a week. Bad software/firmware. Customer service is OK, but they refer you to tech support which is pathetic. Goodbye Neato......

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.

I love the Dreame for hackability!

I've had a roborock s5 for 6 years now, still going strong. Looks like the newer models have a ton of new features

I think very highly of my old roomba 560. I bet I'll like anything priced well on any of your tier.

Hi, great reviews. Can you pls create a review video for he laresar L6 pro

Great review. I love my Roborock.

Thanks man