My Favorite Robot Vacuum of the Year Is at Its Lowest Price Ever on Prime Day

My name is Andrew Gebhart, and I’ve been reviewing robot vacuums and smart home gadgets in general for roughly a decade. I review other stuff too, and don’t tell this to my collection of smartwatches, but robot vacuums are my favorite. Why? For one, the field is constantly innovating. Plus, it saves me a ton of time from doing my chores.

In general, we recommend waiting until shopping holidays like Prime Day and Black Friday to score some of the best deals in the robot vacuum category. You can often find steep discounts that knock premium models (over $1,000) into midrange territory.

When shopping, look for a model with the features you want. Systematic navigation, app and voice controls, and a self-emptying dustbin are a few of my favorites, and all of them are proliferating to more affordable models. Robot mops have also gotten better over time, and hybrids that can vacuum and mop will take an additional chore off your plate. Higher-end hybrids can even clean and dry their own mop after a run.

One model stood out to me in particular from the 2025 crop that I’ve tested. Good news: That model is on sale for Prime Day with a $450 discount.

Speaking of well-rounded hybrids, the Ecovacs Deebot X8 Pro Omni is the best of the best. I actually prefer it to the newer Ecovacs Deebot X9 Pro Omni as the X8 performed better as a mop. So it’s lucky for us that the X8 is the one on sale.

The Deebot X8 vacuums and mops at the same time. When back at its base station, it empties its own dustbin and washes and dries its mops. It supports app controls. It has an embedded speaker so you can issue voice commands to the vacuum itself, and it’s compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant so you can control it through your smart speaker of choice. It even has a camera embedded in the front that you can use to look around your home when you’re gone.

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Better yet, the mop is a unique and relatively new design. It looks like a paint roller, and cleans itself as it works to great effect in our testing, limiting cross contamination from any sticky stains.

For Prime Day, it’s 32% off its $1,399.99 list price and you can snag it for $949.99. That’s $150 lower than its lowest ever price, and an excellent value for this highly capable model. Normally, I advise looking for discounts of 30% or greater, but the X8 is already a strong value given that other similarly capable models start at $1,599.99.

The Deebot X8 is my favorite robot vacuum right now regardless of price, so you should jump at the chance and snag it at an attractive discount.

Don’t miss out on any of the savings. Make sure to keep an eye on our round-up of the Best Early Prime Day 2025 Deals.  

About Andrew Gebhart

Senior Analyst, Smart Home and Wearables

I’m PCMag’s senior analyst covering smart home and wearable devices. I’ve been writing about tech professionally for nearly a decade and have been obsessing about it for much longer than that. Prior to joining PCMag, I made educational videos for an electronics store called Abt Electronics in Illinois, and before that I spent eight years covering the smart home market for . 

I foster many flavors of nerdom in my personal life. I’m an avid board gamer and video gamer. I love fantasy football, which I view as a combination of role-playing games and sports. Plus, I can talk to you about craft beer for hours and am on a personal quest to have a flight of beer at each microbrewery in my home city of Chicago.

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