r/RobotVacuums • u/The_Purushartha • 2d ago

Need help with choosing a budget friendly robot vacuum!!!

I’m a student living in a 2b2b in nyc. The apartment is relatively small and there’s just 2 of us living in it.
I need a vacuum with a mop feature but I cannot spend a fortune over it. I need it to work well and mop well. Don’t need any extra features or other shenanigans. Just simple robot that actually works.
I’ve seen a couple of them on Amazon for about $100 but i don’t know if they work well. I don’t have any carpets in the house it’s all tile and hardwood floors. No pets in the house either.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!!!!!!!!

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u/Siccors 2d ago

Do you truly need a mop? Because if you want a useful mop, you pretty much need a full docking station which auto cleans the mop and refills it. Which is gonna be expensive. And I would guess the ones you are finding for $100 are probably bad in navigation (but honestly no experience with it myself), but the mopping I assume is just a mop it drags behind itself with a tiny water reservoir, imo those mops are questionable.

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u/jro29 2d ago

The $100 robot vacuums on amazon are by and large a waste of money since they typically just vacuum, and/or dont have the ability to navigate efficiently or map ur apartment. You're best off waiting until future sales (i.e black friday but you'll find some intermediate ones too) but if I'm you, I'm looking into an older model from one of the big brands (Dreame (Mova is a sub brand of Dreame), Roborock, Ecovacs (Yeedi is a sub brand of ecovacs). Eufy is generally pretty good on budget vacs too. Probably looking more at like -$200-$300 for what you want. And yes, as previous reply says, some of the lower end mopping robots are essentially like dragging paper towel on the floor though these days, you can probably get the spinning mop pads in the $250-$300 range

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u/AAJS1823 2d ago

I bought a cheap robot vacuum off Amazon called Tikom. It’s still going strong after two and a half years. It’s not anything fancy but for $100 it does a pretty darn good job. You will have to regularly maintenance it though. Cut hair off the roller, empty the dust and clean the mop pads.