The Tapo RV30 Max Plus is our favorite cheap robot vacuum, boasting features you’d typically only find on far pricier models. In addition to its self-emptying dock, the robovac offers an impressive 5,200Pa suction power, picking up dirt and debris particularly well on hard floors. It even comes with a wide mop pad, which performs surprisingly well given it lacks active pressure application and oscillation.
The RV30 Max Plus’s lidar-based navigation is excellent, too, mapping and cleaning with impressive precision in our tests. Plus, it supports room-specific cleaning, letting you choose from five suction levels, three water levels, and three scrubbing rotations. That said, it doesn’t include AI-powered obstacle avoidance, so you’ll want to keep floors relatively clutter-free to prevent it from getting stuck or set virtual keep-out zones. Rounding things out, the robovac also now supports Matter, which means it’ll work with every major smart home platform for hands-free control.
