iRobot Roomba Max 705

The Roomba Max 705 sits at the top of iRobot's current range and is the answer to a question the company avoided for years: whether the firm that created the home robot category could still build the best one in it. It is offered in two forms. The Max 705 Vac pairs a vacuum-only robot with an AutoEmpty dock, is quoted at 180 times the suction of the old 600 series, and holds debris in a sealed bag capturing particles down to 0.7 microns for 75 days or more of hands-free running; it lists at USD 899.99. The Max 705 Combo adds mopping and an AutoWash dock that empties the bin, then washes and heat-dries the mop, and lists at USD 1,299.99. The interesting engineering is in the mop. The PowerSpin roller with PerfectEdge spins while it works and is continuously rinsed by the dock, rather than dragging a pad that gets dirtier with every room - the flaw that made earlier hybrid machines a compromise. Navigation runs on ClearView Pro lidar together with PrecisionVision AI object recognition, mapping roughly 1,000 square feet in about eight minutes and holding up to five floor plans; Dirt Detect decides where to go back over. The robot itself is 35.1 x 35.6 x 10.4 cm and weighs 3.4 kg, runs on lithium-ion, and answers to Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri. iRobot does not publish a runtime figure or a suction rating in pascals - the comparison to its own 600 series is the only number it gives, which makes cross-brand comparison with Chinese competitors quoting raw pascals impossible on the maker's own data. The corporate context matters more than usual here. After the Amazon acquisition collapsed under European antitrust scrutiny in 2024 and years of losing share to Roborock, Dreame and Ecovacs, iRobot filed a pre-packaged Chapter 11 and on 23 January 2026 emerged wholly owned by Shenzhen Picea Robotics, which bought 100 percent of the equity in a court-supervised transaction. Shareholders were wiped out. The company remains headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, with engineering and product work anchored in the United States - so the Max 705 is now an American-designed robot owned by a Chinese contract manufacturer, sold against Chinese rivals that its new owner also builds for.

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