Roborock just launched a wet-dry vacuum with steam mode, and my kitchen floor is about to get the best clean of its life

• The Roborock F25 Ultra is a wet-dry vacuum with steam and hot water modes
• It can be remote controlled via a companion app
• It's been tested on sensitive wooden flooring and proven to cause minimal wear

Roborock might just have set a new standard in wet-and-dry cleaning: the newly unveiled F25 Ultra offers steam and hot water cleaning modes, to tackle tough and oily spills with minimal elbow-grease.

It's one of a number of exciting new products I've seen from Roborock at IFA 2025 (alongside, excitingly, the brand's first robot lawn mowers). We rate the Roobrock F25 ACE as one of the very best wet and dry cleaners around, but this new model has even more tricks up its sleeve.

In VaporFlow mode, the cleaner blasts out 150C / 302F steam from six outlets. I saw it in action, tackling greasy ketchup on a tiled floor. The spillage was cleared in a single pass, with no smearing – truly impressive.

Steam cleaning is great for most hard floor types, but isn't always ideal on wooden floors. However, in tests Roborock has found there was minimal wear and damage to wooden floors, even after extensive use. This cleaner also uses steam in its self-cleaning function, to ensure the mop pads are as clean as possible after use.

Complementing this is WaveFlow mode, which delivers a continuous flow of 86C / 187F hot water that the brand says is ideal for tackling grease and "slime" (ew), and in testing, achieved a 100% removal rate for cooking oil.

There's an impressive 22,000Pa of suction, and the cleaner delivers 33N of downward pressure to scrub away ingrained dirt. Each wheel has independent control; the cleaner knows if you're going forwards, backwards or round corners, and powers the relevant wheels to make it as effortless as possible.

Like its predecessors, it can lie completely flat to the ground, but here, because of the power assist function, you can also pop your F25 down on the ground under a cabinet and ask it to clean forwards and backwards (via the app), and it'll do it all on its own.

I got a sort-of demo (the model on show wasn't connected to the app, but managed to drive itself anyway) and I'm not sure how useful this will be in practice, but it's certainly unique.

The Roborock F25 Ultra will go on sale in the US and EU first, with a list price of $799 / €799 (around £600 / AU$1,425).

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