Roborock unveiled their 2026 line of devices at CES in January, unveiling the Saros 20 and Saros 20 Sonic robot vacuum cleaners – which Scott has just reviewed – alongside the Roborock F25 Ace Pro upright cleaner. 

An update on last year’s F25 Ace, the Ace Pro brings more to the table with a larger water tank, more suction and down force, as well as JetFoaming technology to get rid of tough household stains. 

Some of the favourite features I loved from the F25 Ace which I reviewed last year, including heated self-cleaning and drying, and the lay-flat design to access hard to reach places are still on-board.

Priced at $1,299, the Roborock F25 Ace Pro isn’t the cheapest option on the market so is it worth spending the extra for the JetFoaming technology, larger water tank and improved suction?  I’ve been using the Roborock F25 Ace Pro around the house for a month now and here’s how it went.

Setup and What’s in the box

The Roborock F25 Ace Pro includes everything you need to get up and running in no time. 

The unit comes in two parts with the handle easily connecting to the lower half with a satisfying click – though it is removable if you need to pack it away for any reason.

The handle includes the controls for power, switching modes and cleaning modes, with a roller wheel on the back for when you lay it flat when cleaning under furniture, and a trigger for activating the JetFoam. 

There’s a bottle of cleaning solution, cleaning brush, spare air-filter and of course the roller. You also get the dock and power cable, as well as quick-start instructions to get you going. 

The base unit includes a power cable, and charges your F25 Ace Pro, as well as where the unit runs the heated 90°C self-cleaning and drying routine. 

Once you connect the handle to the base unit, you’ll need to install the roller – a super easy process that involves just sliding it on. Replacing it is easy as well, with the ring pull release on the end allowing you to unlock it and slip it off.

You can see the JawScrapers behind the roller head, which cut hair before tangling, meaning there’s no need to manually remove hair from the roller.

The clean water tank is larger on the F25 Ace Pro with the 1L tank also including a small reservoir for the detergent. Removing and replacing is easy with a simple latch to unlock it.

The residual water soaked up from the roller head is emptied into a 720ml dirty water tank that includes a nifty shelf to catch all the hard debris coming in, making it easy to dump it in the bin.

A massive improvement for me is the inclusion of a handle on the lid of the dirty water tank – molded around the filter. The handle makes it easier to remove the lid and empty the dirty water tank – a process that can be a bit finicky, and has seen some splashing from other units. 

Using it

By the numbers, the F25 Ace Pro is a step up from last year’s F25 Ace. This year we get 25,000 Pa suction which includes 30 Newtons of downward pressure, with the brush rotating at up to 430 RPM.

Roborock’s Slidetech 2.0 again drives the F25 Ace Pro, with the motorised wheels gliding back and forth easily, letting you swivel the head around and manoeuvre it under furniture in lay flat mode. 

The F25 Ace Pro comes with three cleaning modes which you switch between using the ‘Switch Mode’ button at the top of the handle. This button lets you cycle through the default Auto setting through the Max option for tougher stains, and Eco mode for lighter cleaning that extends the battery life. 

There’s also a ‘Sponge mode’ which acts more like a traditional floor mop, ramping up the water usage but minimising suction. 

There’s also the big party trick for the F25 Ace Pro, the Foam Spot Trigger on the inside of the handle to start the spray foam. Holding it in starts it after a second or so, then releasing it stops the foam. 

The foaming jet is a great idea for those tough stains. The foam is surprisingly dense, with Roborock saying it can generate 167 million microbubbles from just 1ml of the solution.

In practice I found the foaming jet to be excellent. If you left it on a hard to clean stain for a little while to let those microbubbles work their magic, a few swipes with the roller left it fairly clean. 

In general though the Auto mode works fairly well on most of your every day floor cleaning, but having the Foam Spot, as well as Sponge Mode to really soak on some stains was excellent with a teenager and active dog in the house. 

When you finish cleaning, you return it to its dock where you can initiate the self-cleaning cycle. The button on the handle controls the cleaning, which bumps up the heat to 95℃ to get rid of any dirt or bacteria. You can also cycle between a hot-air drying cycle which also now runs at 95℃ with either a 5-minute fast dry cycle, or a 30-minute quiet dry cycle. 

Roborock App

‘There’s an app for that’ and while you can use the Roborock F25 Ace Pro without ever using the app – you might want to load it up to at least do some firmware updates. 

Firmware updates aren’t the only thing you can do with the app. You can check, and change all of the cleaning modes. Tweaking them to your particular preferences.

You can also set the volume and change language, manage how much cleaning solution you use and check the status of your consumables. 

When docked you can also change the cleaning modes, as well as set it so that Auto Self-Cleaning kicks in every time you dock it.

There’s also one of my favourite features from the Roborock F25 Ace series – You can also do remote control when the unit is in ‘Lay Flat’ mode making it very easy to control when you’re trying to clean under furniture.

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Battery and Charging

The Roborock F25 Ace Pro uses the same sized 4,000mAh battery as last year’s model and has similar staying power – which is to say it’s excellent. 

I was able to clean all the hard floors in the house on ECO twice, with Auto mode getting around one and a half  times through – while Max drained the battery pretty quickly, yet still got through the entire house with a little to spare. 

Charging time was fairly lengthy, taking about 4 hours to charge from completely flat to 100% full. 

Final Thoughts

The Roborock F25 Ace Pro steps up in every facet from last years F25 Ace, adding in a more powerful cleaning system and JetFoam technology to ensure your floors stay pristine. There’s also a larger water tank and improved down force for more intense cleaning with higher temperature water, and air drying for self-cleaning cycles.

At $1,299 it’s a premium option to keep your floor clean but definitely works and it’s extremely easy to use with Roborock’s Slidetech 2.0 powered drive system making it possible for anyone to use and achieve a great looking finish on your floors.

The Roborock F25 Ace Pro was launched here in Australia at Roborock’s Room to Live event with an on-sale date in mid-April. It’s not yet on the Roborock site for pre-order, but we’ll update as it goes live.