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iRobot has announced a new line of Roombas, a year after it debuted its first lidar-based robot vacuums. This week, it introduced eight robot vacuums that improve on its current lineup and feature lower prices, some up to £200 (about $270) cheaper. Key changes include higher suction power, a smaller overall size to better navigate your home, more models with roller mops, and the introduction of “hot spot mopping.”
iRobot filed for bankruptcy late last year, underwent a reboot, and is now owned by Shenzhen Picea Robotics, a Chinese original design manufacturer of robotic vacuums. The company says its new lineup is up to 25 percent smaller for “many” models, better enabling them to move around homes with low furniture, as low as 9cm. The bots also feature increased suction power and improved navigation across the line.
The new models will launch in mid-2026, rolling out in phases across North America and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, with the Roomba 415 Combo and 115 Combo apparently arriving first, as they’re already listed on iRobot.co.uk as coming soon.
iRobot has only provided The Verge with UK pricing; the line starts at £229 (about $309) for the base model 115 and goes up to £799 ($1,080) for the flagship 775. The prior lineup started at £249 and went up to £999 — costing $299 to $999 in the US. Exact specs and details on the features of all the robots haven’t been released yet, but here’s a look at what we know so far.
Roomba Max
The Roomba Max 775 comes in white or black, there is also a vacuum-only model, the 715. Image: iRobot
The top-of-the-line model is the Roomba Max 775 Combo, for £799. This features 30,000 Pa suction (compared to the 705 series’s 16,00 Pa), Roomba’s signature dual rubber roller brushes, which are good at getting hair out of carpet, and a self-cleaning roller mop with the new hot spot mopping feature.
This adds a “pressurized hot-spray pre-treatment to loosen sticky, dried-on messes” before scrubbing begins, according to iRobot. The spray feature is a new one for robot vacuums; it debuted on the Ecovacs Deepot X12 Omnicycle, which launched last month. However, the concept was first seen on iRobot’s original robotic floor mopper, the Braava.
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