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 page lists 2 home robots from 2 companies in 2 countries, each scored 0–100 on the Domestic Robot Metric (DRMX). USA and China build the most, with 1 each.
All of them are real products. Of the 2 tracked, 2 are shipping to customers (2 commercially available). The difference is scored: commercial readiness is a pillar of the DRMX, and a robot in a demo video does not earn it.
On autonomy, the level each has actually demonstrated rather than claimed: 2 task-autonomous. A robot is graded teleoperated when its public demonstrations are remotely driven, however they are marketed.
Only 2 of the 2 publish a price. Published prices run from $1,399 to $1,599, with a median of $1,499. Undisclosed prices are left undisclosed rather than estimated, so treat that range as what is public, not what the market charges.
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 index tracks 2 home robots from 2 companies, counting only machines documented by at least two independent sources.
How many home robots are commercially available?
2 of 2 are shipping to customers — 2 commercially available and 0 in limited production.
Which countries build the most home robots?
USA (1) and China (1).