New Robot Vacuums Australia 2026: What Actually Landed
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Three flagship robot vacuums reached Australia this month. Two of them you can buy today. The third, the one that answers when you talk to it, has an Australian product page and no way to buy it.
Buy the ECOVACS DEEBOT X12S OmniCyclone if the mop matters more to you than the suction number. Its roller lifts 15mm on carpet and a cover deploys over it, which is a step past the 10mm lift most of this class manages. Amazon Australia shows dispatch at two to three weeks on this one, so order it ahead of when you need it.
Buy the Roborock Qrevo Edge 3 Pro if you want it this week. It is in stock, it publishes 36,000Pa, and its chassis climbs an 8.8cm double threshold, which is the specification that decides whether a robot can get into your laundry at all.
The Roborock Saros 20 Flow is the one to wait on. Roborock Australia has built it a full product page and put no price and no cart on it.
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The three compared
| Machine | Suction | What the mop does on carpet | Buy it in Australia |
|---|---|---|---|
| ECOVACS DEEBOT X12S OmniCyclone | 27,000Pa | Roller lifts 15mm, cover deploys over it | Amazon AU, dispatch 2 to 3 weeksSold by ECOVACS Robotics |
| Roborock Qrevo Edge 3 Pro | 36,000Pa | Detaches, carpet to 4.6cm | Amazon AU, in stockSold by Roborock AU Direct |
| Roborock Saros 20 Flow | 36,000Pa | No figure published | Not yetAustralian product page, no price, no cart |
Every figure above comes from the manufacturer or from the Australian retail listing, checked on 21 September 2026. We do not publish prices, because they move and because the guide would be wrong within a week.
ECOVACS list two X12S machines on Amazon Australia at the same time. The X12S OmniCyclone is the one described here. There is also an X12S PRO Omni sitting a few hundred dollars below it. The names differ by two words. This site has already been caught out once by a near-identical pair, where the suction figure turned out to be 85% off, so check the exact words in the listing title against the words here.
The machines
The mop is the reason to look at this one. OZMO ROLLER 3.0 scrubs at 220 RPM under 4,000Pa of downward pressure, and when it reaches carpet the roller lifts 15mm and an intelligent cover deploys over it. Almost everything else in this price band lifts 10mm and lifts alone, which leaves a wet roller sitting above the pile rather than sealed away from it.
The other genuinely useful feature is FocusJet, which pre-sprays a heavily soiled patch to dissolve it before the roller arrives. You trigger it through the AGENT YIKO assistant. The station is bagless, so there are no dust bags to keep buying.
- The largest mop lift figure of anything on this page, and the only one that covers the roller as well as raising it
- Bagless station, no consumable bags
- Pre-spray for kitchen floors, which is where roller mops usually give up
- Lowest suction figure here, though that matters less than the mop
- Shares its name with a second, different machine
This is the highest suction figure Roborock publish on an Australian listing, but the chassis is the more interesting half. AdaptiLift 3.0 climbs a 4.5cm single threshold and an 8.8cm double one. That is the sliding door lip and the step down into a tiled laundry, which is where most robots stop and sulk.
The mop detaches rather than lifting, on carpet up to 4.6cm thick, and the listing states this in its own specification rather than leaving it to the marketing page. At 7.95cm tall it gets under a low sofa. The dock washes the mop at 100 degrees.
- In stock, sold by Roborock AU Direct rather than a reseller
- Highest published suction here
- The threshold figures are the best on this page by a wide margin
- Mop detachment leaves the pad at the dock, so a wet spill on carpet still needs you
Roborock Australia have given the Saros 20 Flow a full product page, headline and all. What that page does not have is a price or a cart. So it is announced here, not sold here.
The feature that got it written up is the voice assistant. Roborock say you can address the machine directly and it answers without needing Wi-Fi. Worth being precise about what that is: it is a wake word and a fixed set of commands, not a conversation. Useful, and not the same thing as the headlines suggest.
The other headline part is SpiraFlow 2.0, a pressurised self-cleaning system, paired with AdaptiLift Traverse 3.0. Roborock have published no carpet mop-lift figure for it on their Australian pages, so we are not going to invent one.
What actually decides this
Three of the four machines on this page publish a suction figure within 9,000Pa of each other, and all four are above the point where more suction stops being something you can feel on a domestic floor. The numbers that separate them are elsewhere.
What the mop does when it meets carpet. This is the single specification worth checking first in an Australian house, because most of us run hard floors through the living areas and carpet in the bedrooms. A machine that lifts 10mm clears a low rug. One that lifts 15mm and covers the roller, or detaches the pad entirely, clears a proper pile. It is the difference between a clean floor and a damp stripe across your bedroom carpet.
Thresholds. Published in centimetres, ignored by nearly every buyer, and the most common reason a robot only ever cleans one room. Measure the lip on your sliding door and the step into your laundry before you shop.
Body height. If the plan is to stop hauling furniture around, measure the gap under your sofa and your bed first. Both Roborock machines here are under 9cm.
How they compare with what we already recommend
Before you spend flagship money, here is the part the launch coverage leaves out. The ECOVACS DEEBOT T90 Omni, which has held the top spot in our robot vacuum and mop guide since September, already lifts its roller 15mm on carpet. That is the same figure as the brand new X12S OmniCyclone.
What the X12S adds is not a higher lift. It is a cover that deploys over the roller once it has lifted, sealing the wet surface away from the pile rather than only raising it clear. That is a real improvement. Whether it is worth the gap between the two machines is your call, and you should make it knowing the lift height is identical.
| Machine | Suction | What the mop does on carpet | Where it sits |
|---|---|---|---|
| ECOVACS DEEBOT X12S OmniCyclone | 27,000Pa | Roller lifts 15mm, cover deploys over it | New this month |
| Roborock Qrevo Edge 3 Pro | 36,000Pa | Detaches, carpet to 4.6cm | New this month |
| ECOVACS DEEBOT T90 Omni | 30,000Pa | Roller lifts 15mm, Triple Lift | Best overall in our vacuum and mop guideIn stock |
| Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Pro | 25,000Pa | Chassis lifts for carpet to 3cm, no mop-lift figure published | Our pick when allergies are the problem |
All four figures above were read from the Australian listings on 21 September 2026. The full ten-machine comparison lives in our robot vacuum and mop guide.
ECOVACS DEEBOT T90 Omni
Same 15mm roller lift as the new flagship, 30,000Pa, in stock today, and a long way short of flagship money. If you were buying on the mop, start here.
Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Pro
Chassis lifts for carpet up to 3cm and the dock washes at 100 degrees. The model we point people at when there is a hay fever sufferer in the house.
The Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Pro is unavailable at the moment. The nearest machine we cover that you can buy today is the Roborock Qrevo Edge 3 Pro.
Questions people actually ask
Is the Saros 20 Flow coming to Australia or not?
Roborock Australia list it on their robot vacuum range page and have built it a full product page, so it is clearly intended for this market. As of 21 September 2026 that page carries no price and no cart, and no Australian release date has been published that we can find. We will update this page when that changes.
Can you really talk to the Saros 20 Flow?
Yes, with a caveat worth knowing before you pay for it. Roborock describe a wake word and say the robot responds without Wi-Fi. What that means in practice is a fixed command set, not a conversation. If you were expecting to have a chat with your vacuum, adjust the expectation down.
Why is there no price on this page?
Because prices on these machines move weekly and a guide that quotes one is wrong by the time you read it. Every buy button here goes to the live listing, where the price is whatever it actually is today.
What is the difference between the ECOVACS X12S OmniCyclone and the X12S PRO Omni?
They are two separate machines sold side by side on Amazon Australia, and the names differ by two words. We have described the OmniCyclone here. Check the exact title on the listing before you buy, because the specifications are not the same.
Is the 36,000Pa on the Qrevo Edge 3 Pro and Saros 20 Flow twice as good as an 18,000Pa robot?
No. Suction figures stopped being the deciding factor for domestic floors some years ago, and every machine on this page is well past that point. Check the mop and the thresholds instead.
Related guides
If a flagship is more machine than you need, our robot vacuum and mop guide compares eight combination machines, including both of the ones above, and its no-mop section covers the models that skip the mop entirely. If your house runs tile through the living areas and carpet in the bedrooms, read the floors guide before you shop. If the stairs are the real problem, start with robot vacuums for multi-level homes, because none of these climb them. The navigation explainer covers how any of them build a map in the first place, and you can browse the full robot vacuum range. For the windows, our window cleaning robot guide compares five robots, four of them ECOVACS WINBOTs.
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