Twelve serious contenders, three independent analyzers, one transparent point system. The winner isn't the one with the biggest suction number — and that's exactly the point.
We put 12 robot vacuums through our five-role gauntlet. These three came out on top:
26.4 / 30
Consumer Reports' top-rated robot vacuum, with 5/5 scores for bare floors, navigation, pet hair, ease of use, noise, and data security. List $1,299.99 — it sold at $799 during October's Prime event, and deal pricing in that class recurs at every major sale. The only machine in the field with measured excellence in daily livability. One asterisk: iRobot's completed restructuring, covered honestly below.
25.8 / 30
Vacuum Wars' #1 robot overall out of 205+ tested — the single strongest lab verdict in the field. 42,000 Pa, 212°F mop washing, and a bagless dock that deletes the $60–90/yr bag cost entirely. $1,159 street (list $1,299). The caveat: a young brand with an unproven support record.
19.2 / 30
RTINGS' best overall pick: turret-free solid-state LiDAR in a 3.14-inch ultra-slim body, now $899.99 direct from Roborock (list $1,599.99). Brilliant hardware — dragged to bronze by documented owner failures and the worst customer-service record in the field.
About these prices: every price on this page was re-verified on October 12, 2026, after the Prime Big Deal Days window closed — so you're seeing post-event reality, not deal-season fantasy. Where an event price has already died, we say so. The pattern to know: robot vacuums run near-constant promotions (25–58% below list during events), list prices are near-fictional anchors, and the deep deal prices noted on this page reliably recur at the next major sale. Never pay list.
Short version of our five-role methodology: one researcher built a complete fact base on all 12 contenders — street prices, specs, professional test results, aggregated owner sentiment, recalls, privacy incidents, and hidden costs. Then three independent analyzers, each with a different analytical lean (long-term reliability, measured lab performance, and the typical owner's lived experience), ranked all 12 on Quality, Value, and User Experience without seeing each other's work. The arbiter converted each ranking to points, averaged the three analyzers, normalized each dimension to a 10-point scale, and totaled them out of 30. Highest three totals take the podium. Ties break on Quality.
One rule shaped this category more than any other: absence of evidence scores as unproven, not neutral. A machine with no test results, no owner data, and no reliability record gets ranked below machines we actually know things about. Two heavily promoted models learned that the hard way at the bottom of the board.
All 12 contenders, scored by the arbiter from the three analyzers' independent rankings. Each dimension is out of 10; totals are out of 30.
| Rank | Model | Quality | Value | UX | Total /30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 1 | iRobot Roomba Max 705 Combo | 8.6 | 7.8 | 10.0 | 26.4 |
| 🥈 2 | MOVA V70 Ultra Complete | 9.2 | 7.5 | 9.2 | 25.8 |
| 🥉 3 | Roborock Saros 10R | 7.5 | 5.3 | 6.4 | 19.2 |
| 4 | Dreame L50 Ultra | 5.0 | 6.1 | 8.1 | 19.2 |
| 5 | Dreame X60 Max Ultra Complete | 9.2 | 2.2 | 5.6 | 16.9 |
| 6 | Ecovacs T90 Pro Omni | 4.7 | 9.2 | 3.1 | 16.9 |
| 7 | Roborock Q7 M5 | 2.8 | 10.0 | 3.9 | 16.7 |
| 8 | Eufy Omni S2 | 6.4 | 1.7 | 6.7 | 14.7 |
| 9 | Narwal Freo 20 | 6.1 | 2.8 | 5.6 | 14.4 |
| 10 | iRobot Roomba 105 Combo | 1.7 | 6.1 | 2.2 | 10.0 |
| 11 | Shark PowerDetect 2-in-1 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.6 | 9.7 |
| 12 | Shark Matrix Plus AV2610WA | 0.8 | 3.3 | 0.8 | 5.0 |
Two ties hid in the raw math: the Saros 10R and Dreame L50 Ultra landed at the same raw total, and the X60 Max Ultra tied the Ecovacs T90 Pro Omni. Both broke on the Quality score, per the methodology — which is why the Saros takes bronze and the X60 takes fifth.
Street price: $1,299.99 (list) at iRobot.com as of October 12 — the $799 Prime-event price has ended. That $799-class deal recurs at major sale events (it has also surfaced at club retailers), so patient buyers should treat ~$799 as the target price and full list as the price of impatience. The vacuum-only Max 705 lists at $899.99 and currently streets at roughly $549–749 depending on retailer and dock configuration.
The Roomba Max 705 won this category on the strength of the most complete measured record in the field. Consumer Reports' 2026 lab tests put it at the top of the entire robot vacuum class with an overall score of 73 — and, more tellingly, a 5/5 rating in six separate dimensions: bare floors, navigation, pet hair, ease of use, noise, and data security. No other machine in our field has verified scores like that on the things you actually live with. Suction specs tell you what a robot can do in boost mode on day one; ease-of-use, noise, and data-security scores tell you what it's like to own the thing on day three hundred.
That measured livability made it the unanimous choice at the top of all three analyzers' User Experience rankings — the only unanimous #1 UX in the field — which is where its perfect 10.0 UX score comes from. Our reliability-lean analyzer backed it with the ownership-cost story: iRobot is historically the most repair-friendly brand in the category, with a modular design, a long-running parts ecosystem, user-replaceable batteries (OEM packs run $80–110, and swaps take 10–20 minutes with a Phillips screwdriver), and structured protection programs — iRobot Protect and Protect+ extended plans, plus the $29/month iRobot Select subscription that bundles free replacement parts and a new robot every three years.
Now the asterisk, stated plainly: iRobot went through a pre-packaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy that completed on January 23, 2026. It is now a private company wholly owned by Picea, a Chinese contract manufacturer (and iRobot's own longtime manufacturing partner), delisted from Nasdaq, with prior shareholders wiped out. The promised "no disruption to app functionality, customer programs, or ongoing product support" has, so far, held: app updates shipped as recently as September 2026, new products launched the same month, and iRobot stood up an independent US subsidiary — "iRobot Safe" — specifically for data protection and governance. That's nine months of track record, not a guarantee. Everything good we said about iRobot's parts ecosystem and support programs is the historical record plus those nine months; the long-term question under Picea stays open, and one soft caveat is real: the current Roomba Home app lists compatibility with robots sold after March 2025, so support for much older models is the murkiest corner. Consumer Reports still rates the Max 705 5/5 on data security today, and our scoring reflects the evidence as it stands.
One more flag from the brand's owner record: Roomba j7+ owners (54% recommend, 91 aggregated verdicts) praised its reliability and obstacle avoidance but reported rollers that jam or melt, and docking issues. Older machine — but it's the brand history, so it's on the page.
Who it's for: anyone who wants the robot that scored best on the ownership experience itself — quiet, easy, privacy-vetted — at mid-tier money, with eyes open on the new ownership.
Street price: $1,159 direct from MOVA (list $1,299) — the $999 introductory price ended September 1.
The V70 Ultra Complete holds the single strongest lab verdict in this entire field: Vacuum Wars ranked it #1 overall out of more than 205 robots tested, on the most comprehensive public test suite in the category — carpet deep clean, hard floors, pet hair, tangle resistance, a 24-object obstacle course, navigation efficiency, and 14-stain mopping. That verdict earned it the field's best Quality score (9.2, tied with the Dreame X60 Max Ultra) and #1 Quality rankings from two of our three analyzers. On paper it's also the spec monster of the group: 42,000 Pa claimed suction, a 17cm extending mop, and 212°F mop washing.
But the feature that did real work in our Value and UX scoring is less glamorous: the dock is bagless. Most self-empty docks lock you into proprietary dust bags at $15–30 per 3-pack, replaced every 2–4 months — roughly $60–90 a year, forever. The V70's bagless dock deletes that line item outright. In a category where consumables quietly run $75–390 a year, a design choice that removes a recurring cost is worth more than another 5,000 Pa of marketing suction.
What kept it off the top step: MOVA is a young brand, and the fact base contains zero owner-durability history for it — no aggregated owner verdicts, no year-two failure data. Our owner-experience analyzer put it bluntly: "unproven livability from a new brand." Its third-party parts ecosystem is thin, which could make a year-three repair expensive or impossible. And Vacuum Wars is a single tester, however rigorous; the Roomba's CR scores plus iRobot's deep parts history gave the 705 a record the V70 simply hasn't had time to build.
Who it's for: buyers who want the best measured cleaner per dollar in the premium tier, hate consumable subscriptions by another name, and are comfortable being relatively early adopters of a brand without a long track record.
Street price: $899.99 direct from Roborock (list $1,599.99 — 44% off), with Amazon seen around $885. It held $999.99 for most of 2026 and has now dropped further; treat ~$900 as the current real street price.
The Saros 10R is the most interesting machine on this page, because it's the one where the professional reviewers and the owners tell two different stories — and our scoring system heard both.
The editorial story first: RTINGS, which has bought and tested 100+ robot vacuums, names the Saros 10R its best overall, crediting its multiple solid-state LiDAR sensors and obstacle recognition for great avoidance without a tall turret. Roboratings scores it 8.8/10, a weighted leader. The hardware is genuinely clever: turret-free StarSight solid-state LiDAR lets the whole robot stand just 3.14 inches tall — under-furniture reach no turret design can match — plus FlexiArm edge reach, a zero-tangle brush, 22,000 Pa, and a full vac-and-mop dock. It was widely cited as the best all-around starting point for most US homes in 2026.
Now the owner story: Roborock sells the most premium units in the category, and the record that comes with that volume is not pretty. Documented reports include LiDAR sensor failures — sometimes within a month of purchase — units quitting in place instead of docking after about two years, dock-finding problems, flooding docks on mop models, and one Qrevo owner whose unit went back for the same fault every six months across 18 months. When failures happen, owners hit a support organization with a BBB "F" rating, dozens of unanswered complaints, and a Trustpilot score around 1.5/5 in many markets, with frequent reports of in-warranty units going unfixed. Add the China data-residency policy covered in the red flags below.
That split is exactly what the scores show: solid Quality (7.5 — the lab wins are real), mediocre Value (5.3 — a 2-year warranty is worth little if support won't honor it), and middling UX (6.4 — lovely to live with until something breaks). It makes the podium because the hardware excellence is genuine and the price is fair for it. It sits at the bottom step because a robot vacuum is a 3-to-5-year relationship, and this brand's owners report being ghosted mid-relationship.
Who it's for: buyers with low-clearance furniture who want the best navigation hardware in the field at a fair flagship price, who are comfortable self-servicing (Roborock parts are widely available third-party), and who've read the privacy section below with eyes open.
For every category we also run the math with price muted — Quality plus UX only, out of 20 — to answer the question "what would you buy if the sticker didn't matter?"
Here's the honest, slightly awkward answer: the Roomba Max 705 Combo wins this too, at 18.6/20 — a whisker ahead of the MOVA V70 at 18.3. Yes, that's the same machine that won the overall podium. We're not going to invent a different winner for the sake of variety.
And that overlap is the story. Strip price out entirely and you'd expect the spec monsters to take over — the 35,000 and 42,000 Pa flagships with the boiling-water docks. They don't. The 705's measured 5/5 scores for ease of use, noise, and data security — the only verified scores of their kind in the field — beat raw suction specs even with money off the table. The expensive problems in robot vacuum ownership aren't cleaning-power problems; they're living-with-it problems, and the 705 is the only machine here with lab-verified answers to them.
The near-miss worth naming: the Dreame X60 Max Ultra Complete (14.7/20) is arguably the most decorated pure cleaner in the field — best overall at both Roboratings and Tom's Guide, Vacuum Wars #4, and a rare 100% score in flattened pet-hair pickup. Even with money as no object, it still doesn't win on this fact base: its measured below-average navigation efficiency means longer, less predictable runs every day, and its warranty extension requires registration within 30 days — a hoop normal owners miss. Money can buy its cleaning performance (now ~$1,355 street, down from ~$1,500). It can't buy away its daily friction.
Our budget formula doubles the Value weight — Quality + UX + 2×Value, out of 40. And here's the second awkward, honest result: the formula crowns the Roomba Max 705 Combo again, at 34.2/40 (the MOVA V70 scores 33.3). At its event price of $799 — 39% off a $1,299.99 list — the overall winner was discounted deeply enough to win the value-weighted math too. That deal has since expired and the Combo is back at full list, which turns the formula's verdict into a timing lesson: the best machine in the field is a genuine value when the recurring $799-class deal is live, and worth waiting for when it isn't.
But "the budget pick is an $800 robot" is not a useful sentence for someone shopping with $200. So here's the real cheap seat, called in plain prose rather than by formula:
The true budget buy: Roborock Q7 M5 — $229.99 on Amazon as of October 12, with a deal price of ~$150–160 that recurs at every major sale event (it was $159.99 at scoring). It earned the only unanimous verdict in the entire gauntlet besides the Roomba's UX sweep: all three analyzers independently ranked it #1 on Value, giving it a perfect 10.0/10. RTINGS names it their best budget pick, crediting strong cleaning plus genuinely useful app features at a budget price. You get LiDAR navigation and vacuum-plus-mop capability at a price where, as our reliability analyzer put it, even the downside is a small bet. Bonus: it's LiDAR-only with no camera — it maps your home but captures no imagery, sidestepping the category's privacy mess entirely.
The caveats that kept it at #7 overall: 10,000 Pa budget hardware that can't match flagship cleaning, no self-empty dock on the base M5 (manual bin duty every run — the M5+ adds the dock in the ~$300 class), and it inherits Roborock's F-grade customer support in full. At the recurring ~$150–160 deal price, those trade-offs are forgivable in a way they aren't at $999. At the current $229.99, they're worth weighing — or worth waiting out until the next sale event.
Three independent analyzers with three different leans don't usually agree. Where they do, that's signal. Where they don't, that's the interesting part.
Our lab-lean analyzer ranked the Saros 10R #3 on Quality, standing on the RTINGS best-overall crown and the Roboratings 8.8. The reliability-lean and owner-lean analyzers took the same lab evidence and still dropped it — to 3rd and 6th on Quality respectively — then gutted its Value and UX scores for the owner-documented LiDAR deaths, flooding docks, BBB "F" support, and the China data-residency policy. Editorial crown versus ownership reality, scored side by side. The arbiter's math split the difference and landed it on the bronze step: good enough to recommend, flagged enough that you know exactly what you're risking.
The Dreame X60 Max Ultra Complete is the consensus elite cleaner — its 9.2 Quality score is tied for best in the field, built on two independent best-overall verdicts and that rare 100% flattened-pet-hair result. It finished fifth. At its scoring-time street price of $1,499.98+ — the highest real street price of the twelve — it produced the field's worst Value score (2.2). Vacuum Wars' own ranking places the MOVA V70 above it, which meant paying roughly $500 more for a machine the biggest test program says is slightly worse (post-event drift has narrowed the gap to ~$200 — $1,355 vs $1,159 — but the order hasn't flipped). A scoring system that can't bench a fan favorite for costing too much isn't a scoring system; it's a mood. The X60 is the proof ours isn't.
Every category has fine print. This one has a bankruptcy, a hacking spree, and a privacy policy you should actually read. Here it all is, plainly.
iRobot went through Chapter 11, and your Roomba's future now runs through Picea. Our category winner's maker filed pre-packaged Chapter 11 after Amazon's acquisition collapsed in January 2024 under EU antitrust pressure — following layoffs of roughly a third of its staff, suspended R&D, the departure of CEO and cofounder Colin Angle, a March 2025 "going concern" warning, and a ~70% stock drop. The restructuring completed on January 23, 2026: iRobot is now a private company wholly owned by Picea, a Chinese contract manufacturer (its longtime manufacturing partner), delisted from Nasdaq, prior shareholders wiped out. Nine months on, the promised "no disruption" has held — app updates shipped September 2026, new products launched the same month, and a new independent US subsidiary ("iRobot Safe") handles data protection. That's a real early track record, not a guarantee: long-term app, cloud, and parts support still depends on an owner proving itself year by year, and the current app officially supports robots sold after March 2025, leaving older models in the murkiest spot. You deserve to know all of that before you spend this kind of money.
Ecovacs units were actually hijacked in people's homes. In 2024, security researchers at DEF CON 32 demonstrated a Bluetooth vulnerability in Ecovacs Deebot models (900 series, X1/X2, N8/T8, N9/T9) allowing remote takeover, live camera and audio streaming through the cloud, and silencing of the camera-warning sounds. This wasn't theoretical: in May 2024, hijacked Deebot X2 units shouted slurs at their owners in incidents reported in Minnesota, Los Angeles, and El Paso. Ecovacs initially downplayed the findings before committing to firmware fixes, with a 2025 government advisory listing patches due across the lineup by end of May 2025. The Ecovacs T90 Pro Omni in our field is a legitimately excellent cleaner — perfect pet-hair pickup, elite mopping — and its 9.2 Value score reflects the $499 event price it carried at scoring. That deal is dead: as of October 12 it lists at $799.99 and is sold out direct from Ecovacs, with street availability around $599+. Its 3.1 UX score reflects everything else in this paragraph.
Roborock's data goes to China, and the policy says so. Roborock's 2025 privacy policy update states that personal data is collected and processed in China, with terms permitting sharing with affiliates and third parties without consumer consent. China's Cybersecurity Law can compel data handover to the government on request. This is brand-wide policy, and it matters most on camera-equipped models like the Saros 10R, which carry the most privacy exposure of any design. LiDAR-only models — including Roborock's own Q7 M5 — map your home's geometry but capture no imagery. If the camera-and-cloud combination bothers you, the budget Roborock is ironically the privacy-safer Roborock.
The sticker price is the down payment. Consumables run $75–390 a year. Realistic running costs span roughly $75–230/yr by conservative estimates and up to $170–390/yr on higher ones, depending on model and home — over three years, consumables can equal half the purchase price again. The recurring bill: proprietary self-empty dock bags at $15–30 per 3-pack every 2–4 months (~$60–90/yr), filters every 3–6 months (~$20–40/yr), side brushes and rollers (a Roomba replacement kit runs about $62, needed roughly twice a year), plus mop pads and — on some brands — proprietary cleaning solution. Batteries need replacement at roughly 2–5 years ($80–110 OEM on iRobot, $60–120 on Roborock parts, $30–60 third-party), and warranties cover defective batteries, not normal degradation. Bagless docks like the MOVA V70's are a genuine structural advantage here, not a gimmick.
Suction "Pa" numbers are marketing, not measurement. Those 30,000–42,000 Pa claims are manufacturer-stated maximums in boost mode, with no independent standardization behind them. Owner-visible performance tracks brush and mop design and navigation quality far more than Pa figures. The same skepticism applies to "hands-free for 75/100 days" claims — which assume no tangles or clogs, while Consumer Reports member-survey data shows hair tangled in brushes or rollers is the #1 reported problem, hitting about 1 in 3 robot vacuums — and to obstacle-avoidance object counts ("300+ recognized"), which coexist with owner reports of cord tangles even on flagships. The quiet good news: no CPSC recall was found for any leading home robot vacuum brand in 2024–2026 searches (recent "robot vacuum" recalls were robotic pool cleaners), and no major brand currently paywalls core app features — maps, scheduling, and zones are free everywhere; the subscription plays are protection plans, not functionality ransoms.
| 🥇 Roomba Max 705 Combo | 🥈 MOVA V70 Ultra Complete | 🥉 Roborock Saros 10R | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total score | 26.4 / 30 | 25.8 / 30 | 19.2 / 30 |
| Street price (10/12/2026) | $1,299.99 list (recurring event deals ~$799) | $1,159 (list $1,299) | $899.99 (list $1,599.99) |
| Claimed suction | Not the headline — see CR scores | 42,000 Pa | 22,000 Pa |
| Headline verdict | Consumer Reports top robot vacuum (score 73); 5/5 on bare floors, navigation, pet hair, ease of use, noise, data security | Vacuum Wars #1 overall of 205+ robots tested | RTINGS best overall; Roboratings 8.8/10 |
| Mopping | Vac + mop combo | 17cm extending mop, 212°F mop washing | Vac + mop with full dock, FlexiArm edge reach |
| Dock consumables | Proprietary bags (~$60–90/yr category norm) | Bagless — no bag cost | Proprietary bags (~$60–90/yr category norm) |
| Privacy posture | CR 5/5 data security — only measured score in field | No incidents on record; no measured score | Camera-equipped; data processed in China per brand policy |
| Support & parts | Historically most repair-friendly; Protect/Protect+ plans; continuity under Picea unproven | Young brand; thin third-party parts ecosystem | 2-yr warranty, but BBB "F" and ~1.5/5 Trustpilot support record |
| The honest caveat | Maker is mid-Chapter 11; new owner unproven | Zero owner-durability history yet | Documented LiDAR failures, flooding docks, poor service |
It's a reasonable question with a documented answer. Camera-equipped flagships carry the most exposure: Ecovacs Deebot units were genuinely hijacked in 2024, and Roborock's policy states data is processed in China with sharing permitted without consent. LiDAR-only models map your home's shape but capture no imagery — the structural fix, and why the Q7 M5 sidesteps the issue entirely. If you want a camera model with a vetted record, the Roomba Max 705's 5/5 CR data-security score is the only measured privacy rating in our field. (The 2022 Roomba photo leak involved development units under consent agreements, not retail machines — but it's part of why CR now scores data security per model.)
Budget $75–230 a year realistically, up to $170–390 on the higher estimates — dock bags (~$60–90/yr), filters (~$20–40/yr), brushes and rollers (~$62 kits roughly twice yearly on a Roomba), mop pads, and on some brands proprietary cleaning solution. Add a battery at year 2–5 ($30–110 depending on OEM vs third-party). Over three years, consumables can total half the purchase price again. Bagless docks (like the MOVA V70's) and third-party consumables are the two biggest levers to cut this.
Here's the evidence as of October 2026: iRobot's pre-packaged Chapter 11 completed on January 23, 2026, transferring the company to Picea, a Chinese contract manufacturer and iRobot's longtime manufacturing partner. Nine months later, the stated commitment to no disruption has held — app updates shipped September 2026, new models launched the same month, and a new independent US subsidiary ("iRobot Safe") handles data protection. Today, the Max 705 is CR's top-rated robot with the field's only 5/5 data-security score, and iRobot's parts ecosystem remains the most repair-friendly in the category. The honest framing: you're buying the best measured machine in the field, with a smaller-but-real question mark over support continuity three-plus years out (and note the current app officially supports robots sold after March 2025). If that uncertainty is disqualifying for you, the MOVA V70 is our silver pick — though its young brand carries its own unproven-support question from the opposite direction.
Much less than the ads want you to think. Pa claims are manufacturer-stated boost-mode maximums with no independent standard behind them, and owner-visible results track brush design, mop design, and navigation far more than suction figures. The proof is on our podium: the category winner's case is built on measured CR scores, not a Pa number, and the 22,000 Pa Saros 10R out-ranked several machines claiming 30,000+. Buy test results, not spec-sheet pressure readings.
The Roborock Q7 M5 — $229.99 on Amazon as of October 12, dropping to ~$150–160 at every major sale event — the only unanimous #1 Value verdict from all three of our analyzers, and RTINGS' best budget pick with strong cleaning and useful app features. Buy it on a deal, not at full price. Know the trade-offs: 10,000 Pa budget hardware, no self-empty dock on the base model (the M5+ adds one in the ~$300 class), and Roborock's poor support record if anything breaks. As a bonus, it's LiDAR-only — no camera, no camera-privacy exposure.
Because our system scores evidence, and the fact base contains almost none for them. The Matrix Plus AV2610WA appears in our research as a volume seller with a 49%-off sale price — and zero performance, reliability, or owner data. The PowerDetect 2-in-1's only endorsement is a Wirecutter attribution we could verify only secondhand. Unproven is not proven good: a deep discount on an unknown is a gamble, not a value. If solid test data emerges, they'll be re-scored on it.
Everything here was re-verified October 12, 2026, after Prime Big Deal Days ended — which is exactly why some scoring-time deals (the Roomba's $799, the Ecovacs' $499) are marked dead above. This category runs near-constant promotions — two Prime events a year, Black Friday, brand "fall sales" — so 25–45% off list is typical in any given week, and the dead deals reliably resurrect at the next event. The rule: never pay list for a robot vacuum, and judge any "deal" against the street prices here, not the fictional list price next to it.
Verification & sourcing: Last verified: October 12, 2026. All prices were re-verified that date, after the Amazon Prime Big Deal Days window closed, against live manufacturer pages and price trackers, and are subject to change. (Scoring was performed on the October 5 fact base; score-time prices are labeled where they differ.) Facts on this page draw on Consumer Reports lab tests and member-survey reliability data, Vacuum Wars (205+ robots tested, updated 2026-09-30), RTINGS (100+ robots bought and tested), Roboratings, Tom's Guide, aggregated owner verdicts (559 owners via ownersreview.com), CPSC recall records, and published reporting on the iRobot bankruptcy and 2024 Ecovacs incidents. Wirecutter picks are cited only as secondhand, unverified attributions. Scoring follows our five-role methodology; the math picked this podium, and nobody overrode it.