The Wyze impressed us with it's exceptional performance on hard floors, scoring high for pet hair and hard debris pick-up.  It also gave us speedy mapping, which comes in handy, a user-friendly app and useful features such as a location-based trigger.

The Roomba s9+ also comes with a self-emptying charging base; while it's unfortunate that you'll have to purchase replacement bags for this base, you will only have to empty the container every 30 days. This will save you a lot of time versus emptying the onboard dustbin.

Users with carpets up to 7 millimeters high don’t even need to remove the mopping pads to vacuum, as the robot intelligently detects carpets and lifts the pads to prevent wetting. (The pads also don’t require removal after every use, thanks to the robot’s self-cleaning and drying mechanism when it returns to its dock.)

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Of course, coughing up the heavy sum of cash can be daunting at first, but the efficiency, speed and basically zero effort, means you can spend more time doing the things you love instead of hoovering.

During our pet hair pickup tests, non-e of the faux fur caused clogs, and the brush bar’s near-full-width design allowed it to clean the same area in fewer passes.

Cleans and Dries Its Mops: The mops are lifted automatically when returning to the base station to ensure your floors stay pristine. Automatic mop cleaning immerses the mops in water and spins them at high speed against grooves in the removable base plate to dislodge dirt.

While it doesn’t have a self-emptying base, we found maintenance to be simple. The dustbin detaches easily, and a one-touch ejection button lets you quickly dispose of debris directly into the trash.

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This Roomba is designed to keep going and is ideal if you prioritise hands-free cleaning on mixed surfaces.

Carolyn Forté, the Good Housekeeping Institute's Home Care and Cleaning Lab executive director, has over quarenta years of experience testing and writing about all kinds of vacuums. For this roundup, she oversaw all of the testing conducted by Lynn Redmile, the testing and product review analyst who conducted our Lab's last full category test of robot vacuums where three of the picks on this list came from.

It's good at avoiding objects, reliably dodging pets and other discarded objects, and only really struggling with cables (which pelo robovac Top 3 Automatic Vacuum Cleaners we've tested has been able to reliably avoid).

The S8 Max Ultra is a very solid all-rounder, and only lost its place in our ranking because Roborock came out with some even better models very shortly afterwards.

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