Australia’s best robot vacuums (2025): Reviewed and ranked

Robot vacuum cleaners have been around for over 20 years now, which is quite frankly crazy to think about. In that time the little robots have made huge advancements; lidar navigation and mapping, auto-empty stations, self-cleaning mops, even humidity linked settings, and most recently robot arms that can pick up after you.

In a mature market it is harder to pick out the best robot vacuum cleaner, unless you've tested a bunch of them. Thats where we step in. I personally review at least one robot vac each month, but you'd be hard pressed to find a time there aren't three roaming around my house. Across the extended team, we clocked 17 robot vacuum reviews in 2024 alone. Our testing is consistent, looking at elements like particle efficiency, battery life, smart navigation, and reliability, but mostly we want to connect you with the robot vacuum that can do the most without your help.

Weighing these against the price, we score and rank every vacuum to help find the best robot vacuum cleaner available in Australia.

Just when you think the robot vacuum sector is full, a device like the Mova Z50 Ultra lands and proves you wrong. It is within the first lot of vacuums Mova released in Australia and it has blown the competition out of the water.

While the Z50 Ultra has much of the same technology in comparably prices robot vacuums, it is just slightly more reliable and effective for the same price. It's tangle free rollers live up to their name, its mopping is top tier, and the suction isn't just powerful, it is effective.

Overall the Z50 Ultra cleared over 98% of all our testing material. Carpet, hard floor, mopping, vacuuming, edge cleaning - it blitzed them all. The only issue we had with the cleaning capacity is the extendable mop arm would smear sticky messes on the baseboards occasionally. In the scheme of things, that won't matter to most consumers.

It's smart navigation and mapping was also incredibly reliable with the device able to make its way around my home for weeks without event. It doesn't seem like it, but that is high praise.

Across our testing the major red flag was how loud the vacuum is during operation. People with skiddish pets, napping children, or who just don't like too much ruckus in the house beware, but otherwise it is hard not to recommend the Mova Z50 Ultra. 

The Saros 10 only narrowly misses out on the top spot due to its price. For the most part the Qrevo Curv and the Saros 10 are neck-in-neck, but when you're asking for an extra $200 we expect the value proposition to reflect that. The extra money buys you a slimline design under 8cm tall, which makes it small enough to get underneath furniture for a more comprehensive clean, and a vibrating mop pad as opposed to a dual rotating set up.

Measuring in at 7.98cm the Saros 10 fit underneath all the furniture in our testing. If you've got tricky spots you hate trying to get at with your stick vacuum, this is an excellent solution. Our testing found it thrives on hard floors however. The Saros 10 had a 98% clearance rate for mopping and vacuuming on tiles, compared to a 91% for vacuuming on carpet. While the huge 22,000Pa suction power will pick up a lot of debris on soft flooring, it can't quite get everything.

Circling back to that mopping clearance rate for a second. Usually we rank vibrating mop heads below a dual-rotating mop head system, but Roborock has really got this one figured out. Like on its old flagship the S8 MaxV Ultra, the Saros 10's VibraRise mop system tackles sticky, and wet messes with flare.

Fitted out with self emptying, and a self cleaning mop with water up to 80 degrees celsius, the Saros 10 is an independent powerhouse. Apart from wanting to munch on cables and occassionally bumping into your feet, this robovac should keep your house clean without your help.

The Roomba 105 Combo is one of the cheapest, new robot vacuum cleaners you can buy. While most good deals are reserved for older models that are both past their prime and their security update cycle, the Roomba 105 is brand new and starts at under $400. That is hard to find in the market these days.

Performance wise it isn't top tier, but you can't expect it to be for a price that low. It's particle clearance rate is solid for what you're paying, it will mostly navigate your home albeit using an old school bumper system rather than active avoidance, and it is super easy to set up. If you just want a small robot butler to sweep up after you, this baby will do just that with little issue.

For the basic vacuuming bot and the charging dock you'll pay $379, but you can build this same device up if you're happy to spend a bit more. $120 more will get you the mopping add on, and another $200 on top of that will get you the self emptying dock.

Personally, I think you'll be happiest going with the cheapest option. In my testing I found the mopping and the self-emptying station to be pretty unreliable, but at its most basic the Roomba 105 is an absolute bargain.