It's Time to Let a Robot Mop Do the Mopping for You

We updated this article in February 2023 to ensure the information reflected current prices, features and more. Our top picks, based on testing notes from the Good Housekeeping Institute, remain the same.

Keeping floors sparkling is no easy task — especially in high-traffic areas like the kitchen and bathroom. Like some of the best robot vacuums, robot mops are a great tool to help keep floors clean in between deep cleanings. The robot mops we’ve tested in the Good Housekeeping Cleaning Lab don’t remove stuck-on stains as well as the best traditional mops we’ve tested do, but they’re easy to use and reduce the number of times you’ll have to pull out a traditional mop. And the best part? Most of them can do so with just the push of a button — no buckets, heavy bottles of cleaner or complicated TikTok-recommended cleaning solutions required.

In the Good Housekeeping Institute Home Appliances and Cleaning Lab, floor cleaning is one of our most tested categories of products, with experts testing dozens of the newest steam mops, traditional mops, vacuums in every form and more each year. When we test any wet floor cleaning tool, we evaluate how well it picks up dried messes (like sticky jelly and coffee dribbles) that we’ve applied to test floor panels installed in our Cleaning Lab. All of the robot mops that also vacuum go through our robot vacuum evaluations too. This includes testing dry debris pickup on hard flooring and carpets, pickup in our two-room obstacle course and battery runtime evaluations. We also look at how easy the device is to use and maintain as well as how much water it leaves behind on wood, vinyl and tile floors to assess any potential for floor damage. The robot mops below were selected based on experience with each brand and a thorough analysis of product information, videos, online consumer reviews and information from manufacturers.

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At the end of this guide, you’ll find more about how we evaluate robot mops in our Lab plus everything you need to know to shop for the right robot mop. Looking for more innovative products to help keep floors sparkling? Check out our guides on the best mops for hardwood floors and the best vacuum mops.