The Bissell Little Green Mini Cordless is a lightweight, battery-powered spot cleaner designed for quick spills, upholstery, stairs, vehicles, and pet messes. Despite its smaller tank, shorter hose, and lower suction, it delivered above-average stain removal in our studio evaluations and earned a place in the Vacuum Wars Top 5 Carpet Spot Cleaners.
We bought the Dyson Clean+Wash Hygiene and put it through our independent studio evaluations. It is a major improvement over the Wash G1, but its small tanks and below-average mopping score hold it back.
We bought the Shark StainStriker HairPro with our own money and put it through our studio evaluations. Here’s how Shark’s flagship portable spot cleaner performed on stains, suction, attachments, usability, and pet-focused cleaning.
The Dyson V16 Piston Animal Submarine is Dyson’s new flagship cordless vacuum, adding a redesigned All Floor Cones cleaner head, strong carpet and hard floor performance, sealed HEPA filtration, long battery life, and the Submarine wet-cleaning head. After our independent studio evaluations, it earned the top spot in our cordless vacuum rankings.
Our in-depth Eufy Omni S2 review breaks down how this premium flagship robot vacuum fixes the carpet-cleaning issues of the S1, its flawless obstacle avoidance scores, and where its mopping performance took an unexpected dip.
We put the new Dreame Aero Pro through our independent studio tests to see if this value-driven vacuum mop combo delivers flagship cleaning performance without the premium price tag. Here is our honest, data-backed verdict.
The ECOVACS DEEBOT T80S Omni is a strong midrange robot vacuum and mop with excellent suction, carpet cleaning, pet hair performance, mopping, obstacle avoidance, and dock automation. Its main drawback was below-average navigation efficiency, but it still earned a place on our Top 20 Robot Vacuums list.
The Tineco Carpet ONE Cruiser is one of the most feature-rich carpet cleaners we’ve tested, with app connectivity, SmoothPower self-propulsion, hot-air drying, a detailed LED display, and above-average sealed suction. But its small tank, high price, user-reported sensor issues, and frustrating usability kept it off our Top 5 Carpet Cleaners list.
The Bissell PowerClean 4173 impressed us with excellent pickup performance, a perfect 100% carpet deep-cleaning score, strong filtration, and quiet operation. However, concerns about handle weight, convenience features, and long-term reliability kept it out of our Top 10 Cordless Vacuums rankings.
The MAMNV D13S Max is an ultra-budget robot vacuum with LiDAR navigation and an auto-empty dock. It delivered surprisingly strong vacuuming and navigation results in our testing, but poor mopping, high hair tangles, and no true obstacle avoidance kept it from becoming one of our top budget picks.