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Robot vacuums are conquering their final frontier with the eufy MarsWalker: Stairs

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TL;DR eufy’s Omni S2 brings full-sized power to robot vacuums with 30k Pa suction and 15 N water jets.

The optional MarsWalker platform enables the S2 to navigate up and down flights of stairs.

US sales of both units are on track to get started in 2026.

Robot vacuum cleaners have spent the past twenty years transforming the way millions of us keep our living spaces neat and clean, and they’ve been getting more useful and versatile this entire time. From automatic room mapping, to mopping floors, to even picking up after us with an articulated arm, manufacturers have been inching us towards a future where tidying up just isn’t a chore we need to worry ourselves with. And now at IFA 2025, eufy is bringing us one big step closer to that reality.

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eufy MarsWalker sets out to ascend new heights

If your home is all one floor, whether apartment or ranch-style house, robot vacuums have long been a convenient solution. But those of us spread across multiple floors have been at a disadvantage, stuck hauling the vacuum around, dealing with multiple units, or just cleaning some of our spaces manually (god forbid).

One of the first tricks robot vacuums learned was avoiding stairs, detecting edges and backing away before plummeting to their doom. But eufy is looking to change that now with its MarsWalker, a stair-climbing platform designed to give the company’s new Omni S2 vacuum a lift.

Rather than bulking up the vacuum itself with all the extra hardware it would need to navigate up and down stairs, the MarsWalker instead exists as a dedicated stair-climbing solution; when the Omni S2 finishes up cleaning one floor of your home it maneuvers into the MarsWalker platform, which then carries it up or down with the help of its four stair-tackling arms and track-drive system.

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