(Credit: Joe Maldonado)
LAS VEGAS—The Robotin R2 Pro is a robot vacuum from a startup with a pair of unique features. First, it’s modular. You can pull the bulk of the body from the underlying frame and swap in one fit for a different task. Secondly, one of the bodies that will be available at launch doesn’t just vacuum your carpet, it also deep cleans it.
On display here at CES 2026, the Robotin sprays, shampoos, and then dries carpet as it works. It’s the first robot vacuum I’ve seen that can actually deep clean your carpet, providing a useful automated advantage if you need to thoroughly sanitize your home. It can supposedly wash and dry a 300- to 400-square-foot area in roughly three hours. While that timeline is quite slow for an ordinary robot vacuum, it's pretty efficient for a full carpet cleaning.
Due out at some point this summer, the R2 Pro will be reasonably priced between $1,000 and $1,500, which will place it somewhere within the ordinary premium range for the robot vacuum category. The price will include the base of the vacuum, which houses the wheels and the navigational system at the front of the bot, as well as two different modular attachments that form the bulk of the body when the vacuum is working.
One attachment will be equipped for vacuuming and deep cleaning, the other will have two spinning mop pads and an ordinary robot vacuum. The vac will also include a base station for refilling the water reservoirs within the bot and washing and drying the mop pad.
Future modules include one with a robot arm for picking up after you. This module wasn’t on display at CES, but a representative showed me a small image, and the arm looks a lot like the one on the Roborock Saros Z70, which was cooler in theory than practice.
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The modular system in general struck me as a bit bulky and cumbersome. The modules form most of the body of the vac, so they aren’t small; the base station, in particular, is enormous. Most vacuum base stations are an eyesore, and this looked much bigger than the competition, so you’ll have to find room for that base, and a spot to store any additional modules that you want for your home.
I got the chance to play around with the R2 Pro at CES, and switching out modules was a little tedious. Now, the model on display was still a prototype, so the fiddliness I felt could get polished by the time of release, but given that this is a small startup, it’s worth taking all promises with a grain of salt.
While I’m not convinced on the modular part, the deep cleaning aspect strikes me as a possible life saver for the right homes. If you need to thoroughly clean and sanitize your place for any reason, automating this part of the task could save you a ton of time.
If the Robotin R2 Pro does come to fruition as promised, we’ll put it through our rigorous testing process to see how well it holds up. In the meantime, check out all of our other favorite robot vacuums and everything else that’s catching our eye at CES.