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Appliances · Roborock · 2024

Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra

The dock that takes the most work off your hands. It is also the biggest and the most expensive.

A robot vacuum's pascals print well and predict little — #3

Overall

7.9

out of 10

Axis scores

Appliances is scored on these 5 axes. The total is their plain average — nothing is weighted.

Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra — axis scores out of 10Horizontal bar chart of editorial scores out of 10 across 5 axes. Bars run from a shared zero baseline; longer is better. Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra: Performance 9.2, Value 6.5, Durability 8.0, Ease of use 9.0, Quietness 6.8.PerformanceRoborock S8 MaxV Ultra — Performance 9.2 out of 109.2ValueRoborock S8 MaxV Ultra — Value 6.5 out of 106.5DurabilityRoborock S8 MaxV Ultra — Durability 8.0 out of 108.0Ease of useRoborock S8 MaxV Ultra — Ease of use 9.0 out of 109.0QuietnessRoborock S8 MaxV Ultra — Quietness 6.8 out of 106.8Editorial score out of 10 — higher is better
  • Performance — How well it does the core job
  • Value — What the same money buys elsewhere
  • Durability — Failure and fade reports past the one-year mark
  • Ease of use — Setup, daily operation, cleaning, maintenance
  • Quietness — Operating noise — a higher score means quieter

Specs

Suction
10,000Pa
Mopping
Dual spinning pads, auto-lift
Dock
Empties, hot-water washes, hot-air dries
Obstacle avoidance
Camera plus structured light

As published by the manufacturer. We didn't measure these ourselves.

Is it for you

Buy it if

  • You want the mop handled end to end, not just the vacuuming
  • Pet hair and floor smudges that need dealing with daily
  • A multi-room floor plan where mapping accuracy matters

Skip it if

  • You cannot give up an 18-inch-wide spot for the dock
  • A napping child means it has to run during quiet hours
  • The budget stops well short of flagship pricing

Touching this machine comes down to filling and emptying the dock’s water tanks, realistically once a week in an average home. Emptying the bin, washing the mop with hot water, drying it with hot air: all of it runs on its own. No dock here takes more off your hands.

A camera paired with structured light covers the other half of what you are paying for. It identifies and routes around cables, shoes, and pet waste with a reliability LiDAR-only machines do not reach. On a floor that is rarely clear, that is the feature that makes scheduled cleaning work unattended.

Photographs understate the dock. It wants roughly 45cm of width plus clearance in front for docking alignment, and it stands tall enough to be visible from across a room. Buy first and measure second and it ends up somewhere you did not want it. This is not a machine you tuck behind a door.

Noise is the weakness. On maximum suction it is the loudest robot in this comparison, and the hot-air drying cycle that follows mopping adds a low hum for two to three hours afterwards. A quiet cleaning mode removes most of the vacuuming noise, and a meaningful amount of carpet performance goes with it.

Consumables deserve their own line. Filters, brushrolls, mop pads, and eventually the battery are all proprietary and priced accordingly, and across five years they come to a substantial fraction of the purchase. That cost is what keeps the strongest cleaner in this comparison out of first place overall.

Last updated . The scoring method is on how we rank.