Roborock - Roborock E25 / Xiaowa E25

That's completely logical. Well, logic. Here's what I would say in response to that. I'm a real nerd about the sweeps. And so roborock redesigned them this year and I was fascinated as to why because they went from a three-arm sweep to a two-arm curved sweep. They spent tons of time researching of course and testing etc. To arrive at this decision. Fine. Last month I test this new robot, the 3i and it has two of the largest most obnoxious looking three-armed sweeps at the front and unlike the roborocks, they're in constant contact with the floor. Well they work better than anything else that I've tried. And so when I unboxed the e25 and e28 and saw the same design I thought, oh well. These are also going to be highly effective. But they're not. So I think it's a combination of the hardware but also all the other factors involved including the triad of sweep, suction and roller, and in terms of the mop, how much downward pressure is being exerted on that mop head. There was something about the vibrations in those mop pad models that just make them more effective at getting dirt out. It doesn't make sense, it just is.

Water consumption relates to many factors, and you can select a water level of low, medium, or high. I haven't done specific testing, but the roller mop probably saves more water compared to a normal mop. For the same stubborn stains, like mud prints, the E28/25 is certainly more effective than the Freo Z, as it can clean them up in one go.

Its main brush is different from regular brushes; the E28/25's brush is separate. After each cleaning, it returns to the base station automatically pushes the hair to the center and detangles it. It depends on whether other brands have a similar design, or it is hard to find that feature across different brands.

Roller mop > spinning mop > vibrating mop. Vibrating mops lack edge cleaning and usually can’t hold as much dirt. Spinning pads can clean edges well, but they clean by spinning and trapping dirt then going back to the base station to clean the dirt before going back out and trapping more dirt. Roller mops have a clean and dirty water tank and is continually adding clean water water and scrapping off dirty water into the dirty water tank. They are hands down the best for mopping but are still newer and there are less models available currently with more coming. As for rollermop suggestions, the Eufy S1 pro is great. The E28/25 is now out though and has the same rollermop design but better edge cleansing. Narwal and Mova are releasing new ones this year with the Flow supposedly coming out in June. For 1k i would stay away from ecovacs and Yeedi. Too many issues with hardware and software with iffy support. You can do better for 1k. This is a personal opinion bur 1k for a vibra mop should be illegal lol.

We have 2 dogs 4 cats and 2 rabbits and both our roborocks (older e25 and a new Q5 Max+) do an amazing job in this very challenging/demanding environment. The e25 has the older single roller and it does get hair bound up in it that needs to be manually cleared. The new Q5 Max+ has the new dual rollers and it has no such problems. We tried a eufy but it was terrible by comparison, I gave it away lol.

IMO the real challenge is a pet hair heavy area that is partly hardwood combined with low pile rugs. The eufy L50 we had was utter trash and would leave clumps of hair every time it went up onto a rug...so bad. Ended up giving away the eufy it was so disappointing, waste of money. Our roborock e25 from 2019 does a better job, and our q5 max+ does an even better job than that. The only thing I can make of the high score you've given the eufy L60 (which is pretty much the same as the L50 but with slightly higher power) is that your tests are simply not representative of the real world, or, not representative of a real household with several pets. We have 2 Labrador Retrievers, 4 cats, and 2 house rabbits, so our environment is about as challenging/demanding as one can get. The robot vacuums are scheduled to run once per day. Based on my personal experience I'd never recommend the eufy brand to anyone with pets, it's just a poorly engineered unit by comparison.

I replaced the battery twice in my roborock e25 over 5 years, as well as other consumables like the roller, filter etc. It's otherwise still working as good as the day I bought it.