At IFA 2025, we noticed that nearly every major robot vacuum maker is setting stakes in the stair-climbing frontier. Reading time 3 minutes Stair-climbing robot vacuums are actually about to be a ...

Your robot vacuum’s awkward relationship with stairs is about to end. Roborock unveiled the Saros Rover at CES 2026, introducing the world’s first robot vacuum with AI-powered wheel-leg architecture ...

Dreame’s Cyber X robot vacuum is just a concept for now, but our PCMag colleagues saw it climb stairs while its sibling sorted items. Ajay has worked in tech journalism for over a decade as a reporter ...

Ajay has worked in tech journalism for over a decade as a reporter, analyst, product reviewer, and editor. He got his start in consumer tech, breaking Android news at Newsweek before going to PCMag, ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Who needs humanoids when your vacuum can sprout legs? The Rover uses articulating wheels to clean multiple floors ...

Today, the company announced that on May 27th, it will reveal when its Cyber X bionic quad-track stair-climbing system will launch and, presumably, how much it will cost. The robot that can transport ...

Staircases are among the most challenging terrains a mobile robot can face. A multi-year field study found that robots designed for stair traversal fail at least 35 times more often on stairs than on ...

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Roborock showed off the Saros 20 series at CES 2026. It has a record-breaking 35,000 Pa suction and can climb obstacles up to 3.3 inches high. The Saros 20 Sonic has a mop that can be extended to ...

Stairs are the enemy of robot vacuums. There isn’t currently a single robot vacuum on the market that can climb a flight of stairs without human assistance. Even the best robot vacuums we recommend ...