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Swept's pick under $600 is the ECOVACS DEEBOT T90 Pro Omni: a washing roller mop, camera avoidance and clean pet-hair pickup, for hard-floor homes with thin rugs and an ordinary shedder.
BuyBest for wood, tile and thin rugs
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At a glance
SuitsHomes floored in wood, vinyl plank or tile, with a few thin or medium rugs and a pet whose shedding is unremarkable
The catchOnly average on medium-pile carpet, and it can jam on a thick rug
SuitsHomes split between hard floors and low rugs, with a pet, that want a washing mop and camera avoidance without a microphone
The catchIts dock has quit at around 7–13 months in a handful of homes, near the end of a one-year warranty
SuitsMostly hard-floor homes on a tighter budget, where pet accidents worry you more than shedding
The catchWeak on pet hair pressed into carpet, and its side brush stops on rugs
SuitsHard floors and low rugs with a house-trained shedder, no camera wanted, and someone who picks up first
The catchNo camera: it rolled over fake dog poop and cables in home testing
SuitsCarpet and rug homes, shedding pets included, that don't need a mop and clear socks and cords before each run
The catchIt avoided none of the 24 objects in Vacuum Wars' course
Why you see a price band, not a price Prices change daily, so our pages show only the price band a robot sits in and leave the current price to Amazon. That way a page is never wrong by Tuesday.
Most robots in this band are very good at one of the three things you're paying extra for. They're quietly poor at another. The ECOVACS DEEBOT T90 Pro Omni does all three well, which makes it Swept's pick for the best robot vacuum under $600. Its dock washes and dries a roller mop that lifts dried stains far better than average. Its camera steered around 23 of 24 objects in Vacuum Wars' course. In the same lab it left no pressed-in pet hair behind and wrapped none of the long hair. It's the robot we'd put in a house of wood, vinyl plank or tile with thin or medium rugs. The pet should shed nothing out of the ordinary. The catch is deep carpet, where it's merely average. A mostly carpeted home should look at the Dreame D20 Plus instead.
The T90 is the pick for a mostly hard-floored house. Four things move it:
A small, tidy apartment doesn't need this band either. The Roborock Q7 M5+ is the robot we'd buy for that. If shedding is the whole story, our pet hair roundup goes deeper. Homes that fit none of these can start with the Home-Fit Finder, which asks about floors and pets and lands on one robot.
BuyBest for wood, tile and thin rugs
Price band: under $600
ECOVACS rates the T90's climb at 0.9 in (24 mm), a bit under an inch. The robot Vacuum Wars bought got itself up 1.3 in (32 mm). I spent years reading supplier spec sheets. A maker that underquotes its own part is rare enough to notice.
The rest of the box holds up too. The roller is rinsed with fresh water as it mops. Against dried-on coffee and grape juice it earned 157 points from Vacuum Wars, whose average in that review sits at 108. It also left the floor drier than most. Pet hair pressed into carpet came up completely, and long hair didn't wrap. Homes with cats and dogs that have lived with it describe the same thing: the hair goes in the bag and the roller stays fresh.
It carries a camera and a microphone. The US manual shows how to turn the Wi-Fi off: hold the dock's button for 30 seconds. The buttons still run a basic clean if you decline the app's privacy policy. That's more candor than most camera robots offer.
The catch is carpet. It pulled 81% of buried sand from medium pile, a hair above average. Just A Dad Approved called its carpet cleaning "just okay" after a couple of months at home. One owner, in a video ECOVACS sponsored, found it jams on a thick rug. On thin rugs between hard floors, that won't matter. In a carpeted living room, it will.
Buy it for a home that's mostly bare floor, where the pet's shedding is the everyday kind. Our full T90 Pro Omni review has the rest.
BuyBest for more rugs, with a camera
Price band: under $600
eufy sells the E25 on a self-rinsing roller mop and a camera trained on 200-plus objects. Both promises hold. It dodged 21 of 24 objects in Vacuum Wars' course. It pulled 88% of buried sand from medium pile and lifted 93% of pressed-in pet hair. Long hair stayed off its brush entirely. TechGearLab, using real fur, collected 86%. That's the strongest carpet result of any camera robot here. It's the one for a house where rugs outnumber bare floors.
It has no microphone and no live video, and it joins Apple Home through Matter. The mop is good rather than great, a shade above Vacuum Wars' average on dried stains. eufy's guide says to keep it off rugs thicker than 0.8 in (21 mm).
The catch is the dock. In a handful of homes it has lost contact with the robot at around 7–13 months. That stops the emptying, washing and drying all at once. It also lands right around the end of a one-year warranty. It's a small sample, and nobody measures failure rates by model. But it's precisely the weakness that costs you later.
For a home where rugs outnumber bare floors, buy it. Keep an eye on the dock.
BuyBest for less, if accidents worry you
Price band: under $500
Check the listing before anything else. You want the original P10 Pro Ultra, not the Gen 2. The Gen 2 drops the camera, and in Vacuum Wars' head-to-head it avoided far fewer objects. The original's camera avoided 19 of 24. RTINGS found it won't try to clean pet waste. Vacuum Nerds watched it steer around fake poop, a shoe and two cables. TechGearLab saw it drive through pet messes in a home, so call it good, not guaranteed.
On hard floors it leaves no pet hair at all. Its spinning pads are washed in hot water. MOVA's store says 149 °F and its own Amazon listing says 140 °F, a disagreement nobody has settled with a thermometer.
It has live video and microphones. The US manual shows how to switch the Wi-Fi off from the robot's Dock button.
The catch is hair in carpet. It lifted 66% of pressed-in pet hair at Vacuum Wars and 40% at TechGearLab. RTINGS saw it push surface hair around rather than collect it. Its side brush also stops on carpet, so rug edges and corners get left.
Buy it if your rooms are mostly bare floor and a pet accident is the mess you fear most.
BuyBest without a camera
Price band: under $500
The C28 is the E25's roller mop and washing dock with the camera taken out. For a lot of homes that's the point: nothing on it sees or listens. On the floor it gives up little. Vacuum Wars measured 100% of pressed-in pet hair, 89% of buried carpet sand and no long-hair wrap. After mopping, it left the floor drier than that lab's average. Owners who wrote only "C28", so may not have the US model, describe rollers free of hair and dock bags that haven't clogged after months with heavy shedders. eufy's guide says to fold tasseled rug edges under and keep it off rugs thicker than 0.7 in (18 mm).
The catch is what it can't see. eufy says it "intelligently avoids obstacles." It has a line laser and no camera, and it steered clear of 15 of the lab's 24 objects. Over three months in a home, Just A Dad Approved saw it roll over fake dog poop and cables and catch on chair legs.
For a house-trained pet and a home that wants no lens in the bedroom, buy it. Clear the floor first.
BuyBest vacuum for carpet, for less
Price band: under $300
The best vacuum in this roundup costs the least. Dreame claims 13,000 Pa, one of the smaller numbers here. Vacuum Wars measured below-average suction at its brush. Then it pulled 93% of buried sand from medium pile, more than any robot on this page. It collected 91% of the pet hair ground into the pile, and no long hair wound around its rollers. That's why it also tops our best robots under $300: a carpet home doesn't need to spend up to this band at all.
The dock only empties dust. The mop is a drag pad that testers tell you to leave in the drawer. Nothing on it watches or listens. Dreame's manual explains how to shut off its Wi-Fi from the robot itself: hold Dock and press Power ten times. The warranty runs 3 years, the longest here.
The catch is that it's blind. It avoided none of the 24 objects in Vacuum Wars' course. Whatever is on the floor, a sock or something the dog left, becomes its problem and then yours. If someone clears the floor before each run, that's annoying and survivable. If nobody will, it's the wrong robot.
For carpet and rugs with a shedding pet, in a home that picks up first, buy it. Our D20 Plus review has the detail.
Roller mops have spread, and three of the picks above use one. A roller doesn't settle stain scores on its own, though. Judge any new one on what it lifts.
No. The L40 Ultra that collected pet-hair awards was the first generation, which had a camera. Stores now sell the Dreame L40 Ultra Gen 2, out in January 2026. It has 3D structured light and no camera. Dreame raised the claim to 25,000 Pa, the highest in the L40 line. Vacuum Wars measured 2 of 24 objects avoided and 69% of long hair wrapped around the brush. Vacuum Chef put its avoidance at 30% and saw it fail on cables and fake pet waste. It does clean medium-pile carpet well (90%), and lab mopping was above average. An old name on a new generation with the camera removed is worth checking for on any listing.
Our call is wait while the evidence fills in. If you need a robot now, the T90 does what this one hasn't shown it can.
Dyson's vacuum-only R1 Nurovi Dry is the other one we're watching. Its early lab numbers on carpet are strong. Nobody has yet counted what it avoids or published a full review.
We compared only robots in this band, on what you can measure. That means the kind of mop and dock, whether it has a camera, what it pulls from carpet, and whether long hair wraps. No robot made the list on a single source. Each pick's exact model is backed by two separate kinds of evidence, and at least one of them didn't come from the maker. We don't use star scores or rankings that mix in store reviews or price. We ignore Pa.
For hard floors, yes. It's the main thing this band buys. The T90, E25, C28 and P10 Pro Ultra all wash and dry their mops. The D20 Plus's dock only empties dust, and its pad is a light wipe at best. Hot water is a pleasant extra. Nobody has measured the P10's, and the L40 Ultra Gen 2 washes at room temperature.
If you have a dog, or cords on the floor, yes. The camera robots here avoided 19 to 23 of 24 objects. The camera-free ones managed 0 to 15. No robot is a guarantee against dog poop. A camera turns a likely disaster into an occasional one.
No. The T90's box claims 30,000 Pa and the D20 Plus's 13,000 Pa. Yet the D20 Plus pulled 93% of buried sand from carpet to the T90's 81%. Brush design and the air path matter more than the motor's headline. Where I worked, a figure nobody had measured where the work happens was a sales figure. Pa on a robot box is one.
Not these. Foreign-made robot vacuums went on the FCC's Covered List on July 28, 2026. Models already authorized can still be sold and updated. Repairs with identical parts are allowed too. Every robot picked here was on sale before the list.
Nobody measures reliability or support by model, so nobody can tell you honestly. Warranties are one year on the T90 and both eufys. The D20 Plus gets three. The failures worth knowing about are the E25's dock around 7–13 months, and docking trouble at about a year in one Reddit thread whose posters mostly didn't say which P10 generation they own.
| Robot | Best for | Mop and dock | Camera | The catch | Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ECOVACS DEEBOT T90 Pro Omni | Wood, tile and thin rugs | Roller, washed and dried | Yes | Average on deep carpet | View on Amazon (opens in a new tab) |
| eufy Omni E25 | More rugs, with a camera | Roller, washed and dried | Yes, no mic | Dock failures near a year in some homes | View on Amazon (opens in a new tab) |
| MOVA P10 Pro Ultra | Accidents, for less | Spinning pads, hot wash | Yes | Weak on hair in carpet | View on Amazon (opens in a new tab) |
| eufy Omni C28 | No camera wanted | Roller, washed and dried | No | Rolls over poop and cables | View on Amazon (opens in a new tab) |
| Dreame D20 Plus | Carpet, for less | Drag pad, dock empties only | No | Avoids nothing; pick up first | View on Amazon (opens in a new tab) |
BuyBest for wood, tile and thin rugs
Under $600, you're paying for a mop that washes itself, a camera that sees the sock and pickup that keeps up with a pet. The T90 delivers all three on hard floors and thin rugs. Its maker undersold its climb, and its manual actually documents a Wi-Fi switch. Most of the others ask you to give one of those up. The E25 keeps all three, but asks you to trust its dock. The T90 only asks you to keep it off the deep carpet. In a mostly bare-floored house, that's no sacrifice at all. Buy it.
What we read for this page: 10 models weighed; 9 maker manuals among them; across this site's research, 497 sources kept in full; 148 Reddit threads read, kept as the reader's summary, not in full.
All measured figures are Vacuum Wars', on robots it bought. "Not measured" means no lab has published that figure for the exact model.
| Robot | Mop | Camera | Objects avoided (of 24) | Pet hair pressed into carpet | Buried sand, medium pile | 7-inch hair wrapped |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ECOVACS DEEBOT T90 Pro Omni | Roller, rinsed while mopping | Yes (RGB plus structured light) | 23 | 100% | 81% | 0% |
| eufy Omni E25 | Roller, self-rinsing | Yes (RGB plus LED) | 21 | 93% | 88% | 0% |
| eufy Omni C28 | Roller, self-rinsing | No (line laser) | 15 | 100% | 89% | 0% |
| MOVA P10 Pro Ultra (original) | Two spinning pads, one extends | Yes (RGB plus structured light) | 19 | 66% | 81% | 4% |
| Dreame L40 Ultra Gen 2 | Two spinning pads, one extends | No (3D structured light) | 2 | Much below average (no figure given) | 90% | 69% |
| Dreame D20 Plus | Drag pad, no lift, no wash | No | 0 | 91% | 93% | 0% |
| Roborock Qrevo S Pro | Two spinning pads | No (structured light) | 5 | 43% | 81% | 62% |
| Roborock Q7 M5+ | Drag pad, no lift, hand-washed | No (lidar and bumper) | Not measured | 79% | 75% | 43% |
| Dyson R1 Nurovi Dry | None | Not stated (lidar with object avoidance) | Not measured | 89% | 90% | 0% |
| Narwal Freo X10 Pro | Two spinning pads, one extends | No (structured light) | Not measured | Not measured | Not measured | Not measured |
The L40 Ultra Gen 2 against its first generation's awards. The praise and pet-hair picks that name "L40 Ultra" belong to the first generation (TechRadar's spec box quotes the old suction figure; Consumer Reports names no generation). The Gen 2 in stores measured 2 of 24 objects and 69% wrap. None of the first generation's results are carried over here.