Consumer & Domestic
2 robots · scored byDRMX
Household robots sold at consumer volumes — vacuums, mowers, pool cleaners and companion devices.
Home Robots in 2026: the market at a glance
This category contains 2 ranked home robots from 2 companies in 2 countries. The DRMX is a specification score; legacy admission does not establish field-level review or independent task testing.
2 of the 2 records are at commercial or limited-production stage. These recorded maturity claims do not establish paid deployments or operating performance.
How this category is scored
The Domestic Robot Metric (DRMX), version
0.2.0. Pillars are weighted for what
actually matters to this class, and normalised against
consumer & domestic-specific reference scales.
Not applicable to this category: Manipulation & Dexterity, Ecosystem & Viability. These pillars are excluded from the index and the remaining weights renormalised — not scored zero.
Category profile
Every company in this category is re-checked on the cadence above by the research agents, and every proposed change is reviewed before it reaches this page.
Top consumer & domestic robots
Full consumer & domestic leaderboard — all 2 with filters →| # | Robot | Company | Status | Autonomy | DRMX |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roomba Combo j9+ | iRobot | commercial | task-autonomous | 68.5 |
| 2 | S8 MaxV Ultra | Roborock | commercial | task-autonomous | 64.8 |
Why the DRMX weighs what it weighs
The published reasoning behind every pillar weight in
the Domestic Robot Metric, version 0.2.0.
- Hardware (0.35) — the three things a buyer actually experiences and no other profile scores: price (inverted — cheaper at equal function is strictly better engineering, and treating a high price as a quality signal would rank the field backwards), cumulative unit volume, and noise.
- Commercial (0.28) — a mass consumer market. There is no "BMW pilot" to cite here; shipping at volume is the evidence.
- Mobility (0.22) — coverage per charge rather than runtime alone, because runtime by itself rewards a slow machine that wanders.
- Autonomy (0.15) — low on purpose. A robot vacuum genuinely is task-autonomous and the ladder rightly scores that at 92 — which at humanoid weighting would rank a mop above a surgical system. Weighting it here keeps the rung honest while stopping a narrow task from reading as general capability.
- Manipulation (0.00) — excluded. These machines do not manipulate anything.
- Ecosystem (0.00) — excluded. iRobot, Ecovacs and Roborock are listed consumer-electronics firms; funding rounds are not the signal.
Frequently asked questions
How many home robots are there in 2026?
This catalogue ranks 2 records from 2 companies; the count covers the complete category, including later pages.
How many home robots are commercially available?
2 records claim commercial or limited-production maturity. Consult their deployment evidence for support and lifecycle details.