Owners keep the E25 for its roller mop, which actually lifts pet hair, litter and crumbs off hard floors instead of smearing them, and most would buy it again.
Read from 216 owner accountsUpdated September 24, 2026Compare it
What keeps coming up
The roller mop is the reason most owners bought it and the reason they keep it: because the roller cleans itself as it turns, it picks dirt up rather than spreading it across the floor, and owners with cats, dogs and toddlers say it does a far better job than spinning-pad mops.
Reliability is the clearest complaint. Owners describe units that stuck in a cleaning-and-charging loop within months, mops that jammed in the raised position, water pumps that never worked, erratic driving, and a wheel that seized on tangled debris after less than a year.
Once it is part of the routine, the E25 becomes the thing that runs daily on hard floors and rugs while owners get on with a baby, several cats or a dog. What people still notice after weeks and months is the floor itself: the floating hair and dander are gone, and the roller mop leaves a surface that looks and feels clean rather than streaked. Households with two units, one per floor, say it has cut their own vacuuming down to an occasional job. Navigation and suction are praised by most who mention them, and the anti-tangle main brush gets credit from owners with a lot of hair around.
The adjustments are real. Obstacle avoidance draws praise from most, but a minority found it bumped into everything or could not find its way back to the dock and returned it. Carpet performance divides owners, and one comparison found its vacuuming noticeably weaker than a dedicated vacuum robot. Hair tangling is also divided: the brush copes, but hair can wrap the wheels. The app and Wi-Fi connection are a sore point for nearly everyone who brought them up. A few owners also wish the lidar turret retracted so it could reach under furniture, and one found the E28 sibling laid down more water than it recovered.
Reliability & repairs
When the E25 works, it works hard: owners with heavy pet hair run it daily and report it lifting the load without fuss. But the reliability accounts lean clearly negative. Failures reported include a dead water pump out of the box, persistent water drips at the dock, a charge-and-clean loop at five months, error messages, the mop sticking in the raised position, erratic path behaviour that got worse over time, and a wheel jammed by tangled debris after roughly eight months of use.
What owners do about it depends on how support goes, and support is split down the middle. Some got a replacement unit, a redesigned drain part that fixed the dripping, or a brand-new robot and base after refusing a refurbished one. Others describe multiple returns, a unit killed by a firmware update, or giving up and switching brands; several advise buying through a retailer so returns are handled there. Long-term accounts are thin: most positive reports cover the first weeks to a few months, and the failures cluster inside the first year. We do not yet have enough multi-year accounts to say how the E25 holds up beyond that.
Parts named in the 7 accounts that describe a failure
waste water system1 of 7
dirty water reservoir sensor1 of 7
leak1 of 7
water pump/wheel bearing1 of 7
wheel/drive (tangled, resistance)1 of 7
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