In the pantheon of new home appliances, the Roborock F25 Ultra is unequivocally my favorite product of 2025

I've been in the fortunate position to have reviewed a veritable tranche of very decent home appliances this year for both TechRadar and its sister publication T3 this year, but the Roborock F25 Ultra hard floor cleaner is the product that has impressed me the most.

At this juncture you might be wondering what a hard floor cleaner actually is. And you wouldn't be alone, because even the manufacturers of this particular household product don't really know what to call it. Some manufacturers ill-advisedly describe it as a 'wet & dry mop' – which it arguably isn't because the mop it uses is never dry – while others have settled on the more realistically acceptable but less glamorous moniker of 'hard floor cleaner'.

You'll also see things like this referred to as a 'wet and dry vacuum' (TechRadar's preferred term ...