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Robot floor cleaners are but a small slice of the overall vacuum cleaner market: At the time of this writing, only 10% of households use them. Still, the market is worth $6.21 billion worldwide this year, a figure that will almost double in the next five years, according to Mordor Intelligence.
“The robot vacuum category is my favorite right now," says PCMag senior writer Andrew Gebhart, who has a long history of testing these devices. "The major companies regularly push each other with meaningful innovations and sizable improvements.”
To wit, some robot cleaners have learned to climb stairs, and there's an upcoming Roborock model that features an arm to lift small items out of its path. Naturally, artificial intelligence is playing a role: Some robovacs have built-in AI to better target messes. All this innovation is exciting—especially for pet owners, parents, and anyone with limited time on their hands.
This is our fourth annual readers' survey about the brands behind the robot vacuums, mops, and combination units thereof that tend to your floors. Read on to find out which brands you like the best.
The Top Robot Floor Cleaner Brands for 2025
After a few years of surveying PCMag readers about robot cleaners, it’s clear that our audience has developed a love for two particular brands. Roborock and Eufy win all the awards this year, just as they did in previous years (with Shark brand cleaners from SharkNinja occasionally taking a category or two).
Starting with the overall results—which include ratings by brand for vacuums, mops, and combo units—China-based Roborock’s scores for overall satisfaction and almost every other subcategory are top-of-the-line. In particular, the brand rates well for battery life, obstacle avoidance, scheduling, home mapping, and its mobile app. It also earns the highest likelihood to recommend score, indicating good word-of-mouth from satisfied users.
Eufy, part of Anker Innovations, wins several subcategories, including ease of use, noise level, and, perhaps most importantly, value. It’s also tops at handling pet hair.
(Note: Click the arrows in our interactive charts to view various elements of our survey results.)
The numbers above include devices that feature a self-cleaning mode. Typically, such units dock with a base station that collects all the dust and refuse into a bag, so you seldom, if ever, have to empty the robot’s dustbin. Roborock takes another award for that option, earning an impressive 8.7 out of 10 for self-cleaning.
“I have had iRobots for years, both vac and mop,” says one respondent, mentioning a competing brand. “There is no comparison. The Roborock does much more. It's like it has a whole computer inside it. To be fair, it was twice the price. But it is amazing.”
“The readers are right,” Gebhart says. “Roborock models tend to have base stations that do a lot of heavy lifting as far as maintenance goes. The brand is also innovative, having introduced recent models with robotic arms and with wheels that can climb over thresholds. Plus, Roborock tends to be at the front of the pack in terms of raw suction power.”
Even with self-emptying options, all floor cleaners require some level of user maintenance—you have to wipe sensors, pull long hair off tangled wheels, change mopping pads, and the like. Eufy is the brand with the highest user maintenance rating.
“It works great,” says one Eufy user. “We knew it had to be manually emptied, but that is its ONLY drawback. We could not afford, nor have the space for, a self-emptying unit. This thing is awesome. And cheap.”
Below, we break out a list of “basic” models—a chart showing all the scores for units without a self-cleaning option. Shark drops off the list here, and Roborock takes the award with an overall satisfaction score of 8.4.
Filtering the results to show only the devices categorized as vacuums with no mopping or scrubbing options again changes things: Eufy takes the win with a superior overall satisfaction score. Eufy’s ratings here are lower than on the overall floor cleaners chart, which seems to indicate that people prefer having a mopping option.
“Eufy's higher-end models do tend to be more affordable than similarly capable models from other brands,” Gebhart says. “We've also quite liked some of their simplest and most affordable models, which work quietly and are small enough to clean under most furniture.”
Finally, we narrow things down to mops. This includes standalone robot mops—a category in which only iRobot contends—and combo devices that integrate vacuums and mops.
This final showdown pits Roborock against iRobot. The latter brand has a long history and once commanded the majority of the market. (One reader laments that their iRobot Roomba device is “so old now I can’t get anyone to repair it.”)
But in 2025, it’s not even close: Roborock’s overall satisfaction is a full two points ahead of the Roomba maker. In fact, Roborock beats iRobot in every category in which they compete, and almost always by more than a full point. Their closest match is for noise level.
To see which floor cleaners currently lead in our lab testing, read The Best Robot Vacuums for 2025.
Full Results
The PCMag Readers’ Choice survey for robot cleaners was in the field from June 5 to Aug. 18, 2025. For more information on how we conduct surveys, read our methodology.
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