Consumer Reports

CR’s take: The Roborock S7+ is another great option for homes of any size. Its laser-assisted (lidar) nav system allows it to quickly and thoroughly clean a room, bumping into fewer walls and furniture legs than the other robotic vacuums we’ve covered here. It has a Smart Mapping feature as well, and comes with a dock that can automatically empty the bin. Its cleaning performance is strong across the board, too—on carpet and bare floors, with pet hair, and even up against edges. The S7+ also has a clip-on mop that will wipe your bare floors and lift itself slightly when it senses rugs to avoid getting them wet. We haven’t lab tested the mop, but some of our experts have used it at home and say it’s decent, and certainly more effective than not wiping your floors. On the downside, we haven’t collected enough information about Roborock bots to have a sense of how reliable they are or what the overall owner satisfaction tends to be (though user reviews are quite strong). A version without the auto-emptying dock is available, too; it’s simply called the S7. Roborock makes several similar models, including the flagship S7 MaxV Ultra (loaded with extra features that, eh, won’t really change your life), as well as a bunch of lower-end models that we haven’t yet tested, including the Q5 and Q7. But based on our experts’ experience with other Roborock models over the past few years, we expect them to work similarly to the S7.

CR’s take: The Roborock S7+ is another great option for homes of any size. Its laser-assisted nav system allows it to quickly and thoroughly clean a room, bumping into fewer walls and furniture legs than a lot of the other robotic vacuums we’ve tested. It has a Smart Mapping feature as well, and comes with a dock that can automatically empty the bin. Its cleaning performance is strong across the board, too—on carpets, bare floors, with pet hair, and even up against edges. The S7+ also has a clip-on mop that will wipe your bare floors and lift itself slightly when it senses rugs to avoid getting them wet. (We haven’t lab tested the mop, but some of our experts have used it at home and say it’s decent—and certainly more effective than not wiping your floors.) A version without the auto-emptying dock is available, too; it’s simply called the S7. Roborock makes several similar models, including the flagship S7 MaxV Ultra (a pricier model that’s loaded with extra features that, eh, won’t really change your life), as well as a bunch of lower-end models that we haven’t yet tested, including the Q5 and Q7.

Floor Cleaning Robot Comparison