Roborock F25 ACE Pro Wet Dry Vacuum Cleaner Review

The Roborock F25 Ace is one of the best-cleaning wet/dry mops I've put through my test floor — and I still can't fully recommend it. It beat the Tineco on the mess that matters, it never wrapped a single hair, and it cleans itself with hot water when it's done. But it has one problem I can't look past: the power-assist wheels never fully shut off, so if you let go of the handle it can drive away on you. That's why this one lands as a Skip It. Here's exactly how it held up.

What's in the Box and First Setup

The F25 Ace is a cordless, lie-flat wet/dry mop with a 20,000 Pa motor, an anti-tangle comb on the roller, and a dock that both charges it and runs a 90°C hot-water self-wash. It mops with room-temperature solution — the hot water is for cleaning the roller after, not for mopping the floor. Charging runs through the dock (about a 4-hour charge), and the app connects over 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi for a surprising amount of control if you go looking for it.

Cleaning Performance: What It Actually Picks Up

General Cleaning

On everyday cleaning it simply does a great job. The white-glove test came back clean and I didn't get streaking on the floor afterward. This is the part that makes the wheel problem so frustrating — the actual cleaning is genuinely there.

Stain Test

The test mess was dried-on chocolate syrup (very hard), ketchup, and cereal. I started in Auto, then switched to Max. In Max mode — max solution plus max suction — it pulled up the dried chocolate and ketchup with no streaking. The Tineco couldn't get that chocolate even with steam, so this was a clear win for the Roborock.

Hair and Pet

I ran it over a floor loaded with long hair. The anti-tangle comb strips the hair off the roller as it goes, and after the pass there was zero hair wrap on the roller. The catch shows up at the tank: there's no separate debris screen, so the hair and dirty water dump out together and you clean the whole tank.

The Runaway Wheels — the Dealbreaker

The power-assist wheels self-propel the mop and honestly feel good when you're pushing. The problem is they never shut off. Let go of the handle — especially in lie-flat mode — and it drives away on you. That's a real safety concern, not a nitpick, and it's the single reason this mop is a Skip It. I updated the firmware (524 → 568) hoping it was a software fix, and it did NOT fix the runaway wheels. Lie-flat mode is awkward to manage on top of that.

The App — Powerful but Buried

There's deep control in here if you dig for it: remote control, adjustable suction, water and detergent levels, roller speed, wheel-assist strength, and scheduling. The DirTect sensor auto-adjusts solution and suction to save battery. The problem is discovery — most features are buried, and most buyers won't connect Wi-Fi to ever find them.

Maintenance Reality

Self-wash plus hot-air dry (quiet 20 minutes / fast 5 minutes) keeps the roller in good shape, and the app can schedule a self-clean and a high-temp 90°C wash. The filter is washable and comes with a spare — but it has to dry fully in the sun before you reinstall it. Two things to plan for: there's no hair screen in the tank so you clean the whole thing, and you'll use both included brushes. Only one mop roller comes in the box, with no spare.

Battery and Runtime

Roborock rates it at about 60 minutes in Eco; the Max runtime isn't published. I didn't time it on camera, so treat the number as the manufacturer's Eco figure rather than a measured result. For a normal whole-home mop that's plenty.