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On paper, the Dreame Aqua10 Ultra Roller is the apex robot vacuum. Heres what I think of it so far.
The titleholder for most powerful robot vacuum evolves every six months or so as the top robot vacuum brands throw an elevated new flagship into the ring. For most of 2025, the suction power number to beat was 22,000 Pa (Pascals) — but in August 2025, the Dreame Aqua10 Ultra Roller became the new apex robot vacuum with its 30,000 Pa of suction power (among other noteworthy upgrades).
Though I currently serve as president of the Roborock Saros 10R fan club, that vacuum has been out for nearly 10 months now. It was only a matter of time before a new darling came through my doors to upstage it as the best robot vacuum to buy right now, and on paper, the Dreame Aqua10 Ultra Roller's specs are definitely superior. I've been testing it at home for a week and have some initial results to share with the class.
If we want to take the "looks" part of "first look" literally, the Dreame Aqua10 Ultra Roller might just be the best-looking robot vacuum I've ever tested. My roommate, who is virtually unfazed by any new vacuum after the constant influx she's witnessed over the past three years of me turning our apartment into a testing lab, immediately noticed it. "Oh, THIS one is pretty."
Its crisp white and silver palette matches my landlord classic all-white apartment with a nod to our stainless steel appliances. The clean design is only to be rivaled by the Saros 10 that I tested earlier in 2025, which was pretty great, but still not as powerful as this Dreame model.
Is the Dreame Aqua10 Ultra Roller good on carpet?
So far, the Aqua10 Ultra Roller has been a beast on both rugs and hard floors. If the 30,000 Pa of suction power benchmark doesn't mean much to you, here's a frame of reference: That's more than double the 13,000 Pa of suction power of the flagship Roomba with a roller mop, the 2025 Roomba Max 705 Combo.
Again, it's also notably stronger than the next-strongest vacuums on the market with 22,000 Pa, like the Roborock Saros Z70 with an arm, the Narwal Flow (also a roller mop robot vacuum), and the Dyson Vis Nav (which doesn't mop, self-empty, or avoid small obstacles). When you Google "most powerful robot vacuum," don't be fooled when those models come up — even AI hasn't caught up to Dreame's imminent takeover yet.
The Aqua10 Ultra Roller's strength has really translated to pet hair pickup, large crumb pickup, and even fine powder pickup across various rugs in my apartment. It fully cleared a mess I made on purpose on my plush Tumble fur rug involving crushed Goldfish crackers, spilled dry rice, and tough tufts of cat hair collected from the cat tree. I think the parallel spinning roller brushes underneath really help its efficacy on dry debris.
Credit: Leah Stodart / Mashable
Credit: Leah Stodart / Mashable
Even when I thought the Aqua10 Ultra Roller missed a few hairballs, it literally seemed to go back and grab the leftovers at the end of the session. Chances are high that it'll be bumped to the absolute best robot vacuum for carpet on my list.
Is the Dreame Aqua10 Ultra Roller good at mopping?
A new question has quickly become the face of shopping for a robot vacuum and mop combo in late 2025: Are paintbrush-style roller mops better than spinning mopping pads? For the most part, I think the rumors are true: Roller mop robot vacuums are great at sopping up droplets and larger splatters without dragging spill remnants across the floor.
The Dreame Aqua10 Ultra rinses the roller mop with water from inside the vac in real time, ensuring that the fibers doing the "cleaning" aren't merely soaked in the juice or buffalo sauce that they just wiped up elsewhere. Of course, the self-emptying dock also self-washes the roller mop each time it returns to the dock. For mop washing mid-session, you can toggle a certain amount of time or square footage to elapse between trips back to the dock. Still, the live roller rinsing is a much-needed cushion against streaking.
In another purposeful disaster I created on the floor, the Aqua10 Ultra Roller tackled my wine spill and left the hardwood spotless in just one pass.
Credit: Leah Stodart / Mashable
Credit: Leah Stodart / Mashable
But as you may notice in these photos, there was another level in this kitchen cleaning test: shredded cheese. We go through bags of shredded cheese embarrassingly fast in my household, and there always seems to be new pieces of cheese lying under the counter, even if I just vacuumed the day before. To my surprise, the Aqua10 Ultra Roller left a lot of that shredded cheese behind — mere hours after it aced my cat hair test. The missed spots were all along edges, either along the wall or along the rug edge.
A lot of vacuums struggle with corner cleaning, not due to weak suction but due to the shape and reach of their edge brushes. I'm going to play around with settings in the Dreame app to try to right this — sending the robot vacuum for multiple passes, boosting suction power, and tweaking zone placement are all ways I've found to make a robot vacuum work better. Strategic tweaking of settings for sufficient corner cleaning probably shouldn't be a thing you have to do with a 2025 flagship robot vacuum, though.
Credit: Leah Stodart / Mashable
Credit: Leah Stodart / Mashable
So, it seems like there's something to be said for the flexibility of spinning pads vs. rollers. Not only do they scrub closer to the wall to grab more out-of-the-way droplets that I could see Dreame's roller missing, but those mopping pads' ability to scoot along edges is also handy for pushing dry debris out of corners into the vacuum's cleaning path.
(Next up on my testing docket: The new Dyson robot vacuum, the Spot+Scrub Ai, adopts the same roller mop technique — but the streets are saying it only has 18,000 Pa of suction power.)
Huge W: No phone chargers have been harmed so far
I never expect any robot vacuum to have 100 percent perfect small obstacle avoidance, even if it's one of the fanciest on the market. But even the high-end Roborocks that impressed me otherwise still consistently struggled with avoiding cords and phone chargers, even though they're spot on with other items like shoes and socks. So it's been really comforting to watch the Aqua10 Ultra Roller successfully dodge cords and cables on multiple occasions. From Halloween light extension cords on my living room floor to phone chargers that I throw in its path on purpose, I haven't had to yank anything from the Aqua10 Ultra Roller's jaws yet.
My next order of business is to see how it does around clumps of brown sugar or soil — the best makeshift pet waste.
It still can't climb stairs, but we're getting closer
Since the release of the X50 Ultra at CES in 2024, Dreame's main robotic vacuum claim to fame has its ProLeap system. That's the technology that originally stirred conversations about robot vacuums that can climb stairs, but the "stairs" in question could barely be more than two inches tall to be "climbable." That threshold has been bumped to 3.15 inches with the Aqua10 Ultra Roller, but that's still not really staircases.
For instance, my parents are currently adding a sunroom to their house, which will eventually be accessible from the living room via a sliding door (and maybe one shallow step down). The Dreame Aqua10 Ultra Roller would be one of the few robot vacuums that could safely scale that threshold and clean that room with the rest of the house without someone physically setting it in there. Every bedroom closet in my apartment has two large mirrored sliding doors, so it's nice to be able to send the Aqua10 Ultra Roller to sweep under my clothes without worry that it'll bust a wheel on the metal tracks. Still, it seems disrespectful to minimize the robust Aqua10 Ultra Roller to just a "stair climbing robot vacuum."
Eufy is trying to get in on the same climbing market with the Eufy Marswalker. However, it's not a standalone robot vacuum that can climb thresholds — it's a platform device that can take the Eufy Omni S2 robot vacuum up the stairs. That'll also be a 30,000 Pa robot vacuum, so pitting it against the Dreame Aqua10 Ultra Roller will be fun when it comes out in January.
Is the Dreame Aqua10 Ultra Roller worth it?
I would already recommend the Dreame Aqua10 Ultra Roller robot vacuum to anyone who is open to splurging on their next vacuum purchase, especially for pet hair. Forget a robot vacuum with an arm that picks up socks sometimes — this is the practically-priced innovation I've been looking for in a premium robot vacuum.
If you've already purchased a high-end robotic vacuum in the past year or so, you're probably safe to skip this one. But if you're in the market and ruling out cheap robot vacuums, the Dreame Aqua10 Ultra Roller is probably the best robot vacuum and mop out there right now — despite the lazy edge cleaning I've noticed in the first week.
For specs like 30,000 Pa of suction, the self-cleaning roller mop, and reliable small obstacle avoidance, its $1,599.99 MSRP is inarguably reasonable. Many weaker 2-in-1 robot vacuums have debuted around that same price over the past two years. But it's definitely worth noting that the Aqua10 Ultra Roller has been on sale for less than $1,300 for nearly the entire time since its release in August. While I still love the Roborock Saros 10R, its identical $1,599.99 price tag rarely gets a discount — and it has weaker suction power and less attentive cord and phone charger detection than the Aqua10 Ultra Roller.
Dreame Aqua10 Ultra Roller
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"As we head into 2025, our goal continues to be to make Twitch the absolute best place for our streamers, and also, an exciting place for new creators and viewers to build and find their communities," Dan Clancy, the CEO of Twitch, said in a press release about the new changes.
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Horror and comedy are sometimes thought of as being at opposing ends of the genre spectrum — but it doesn't have to be that way.
Alongside its original movies and truly scary movies, horror streaming platform Shudder has a nice little section reserved for horror comedy. Think parodies, tongue-in-cheek gore fests, and the type of films that can make you laugh even while they're grossing you out or putting your nerves on edge.
I've combed through the archives to track down the best horror comedies on Shudder, from Josh Ruben's highly entertaining Scare Me to Lee Min-jae's very silly Zombie for Sale…
Zombie for Sale
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What's it about?
A family finds a way to profit from a zombie.
Why should you watch it?
What if zombie bites weren’t all bad? More specifically, what if a nip from the undead would give the impotent new life below the belt? That’s the preposterous premise that kicks off this gleefully bonkers South Korean comedy. The Park family is scraping by running a battered gas station when their fortunes are turned by a zombie (Jung Ga-ram) with a rejuvenating bite. That’s just the first act of director Lee Min-jae’s playful horror-comedy. Family hijinks, ghoulish action, gross-out gags, and absurdly earnest romance also pop up, making for a movie that is chaotically charming and pleasantly unpredictable.* — Kristy Puchko, Entertainment Editor
How to watch: Zombie for Sale is now streaming on Shudder.
Nina Forever
What's it about?
A grief-stricken man starts up a relationship with his colleague only to be haunted by his dead ex-girlfriend whenever they have sex.
Why should you watch it?
Yearning for a dark comedy that’s bloody fun? You’ll fall hard for Nina Forever. Co-writers/co-directors Ben and Chris Blaine have dreamed up a truly deranged tale of love and letting go, and it all begins with a macabre crush. Grocery clerk Holly (Abigail Hardingham) hopes she can help mournful motorcyclist Rob (Cian Barry) forget his last girlfriend, who died in a grisly accident. But every time these new lovers crawl into bed, Nina (Fiona O'Shaughnessy) intrudes. Or more specifically, her broken and bloody corpse crashes the party with snarky one-liners and withering eye-rolls. Full of gore, sex, and jaw-droppingly outrageous gags, this horror-comedy earns its hard-R, yet delivers a surprisingly tender tale.* — K.P.
How to watch: Nina Forever is now streaming on Shudder.
Deadstream
Credit: Shudder
What's it about?
A "cancelled" YouTube prankster livestreams a tour of a haunted house in an attempt to redeem himself.
Why should you watch it?
"Full of sick thrills and dark humor, it feels like a real find," wrote Mashable's Kristy Puchko in her review. "It doesn't need a big budget, an established horror franchise, or big names to stand out. Briskly paced, wildly fun, and surprisingly smart, Deadstream is a bloody terrific good time. So, keep an eye out for it."
How to watch: Deadstream is now streaming on Shudder.
Scare Me
What's it about?
Two writers take turns telling each other scary stories after the cabins they're staying in lose power.
Why should you watch it?
Scare Me is a great example of a very simple premise being executed perfectly. Josh Ruben's tale of an amateur writer growing increasingly jealous of his professional author cabin neighbor is brilliantly written and directed, splicing witty exchanges with cleverly conjured campfire vignettes that take on a life of their own when they're performed. And this one really is all about the performances — as well as writing and directing, Ruben also stars in Scare Me alongside The Boys' Aya Cash and Saturday Night Live's Chris Redd, and the focus on storytelling means the trio have to break out their full range of (very impressive) acting talents.
There's laughter, there's tension, and although the actual scares are few, there's a creeping sense of unease that twists into something more in the film's final act.
How to watch: Scare Me is now streaming on Shudder.
One Cut of the Dead
What's it about?
A film crew attempts to shoot a low-budget zombie movie in an abandoned factory.
Why should you watch it?
I can safely say that I've never seen a film quite like One Cut of the Dead. Shin'ichirô Ueda's (recently remade) comedy horror (which is far more heavy on the comedy than the horror) is essentially a movie within a movie within a movie — a Russian doll-style story about a crew making a shoestring zombie flick.
We spend the first half of the run time watching the zombie film itself, but things really get interesting in the movie's second half, when we zoom out (and back in time) to watch the director and the production crew putting the whole thing together.
If that explanation has left you feeling slightly confused, it might be for the best — One Cut of the Dead is the sort of film that's hard to explain in words, but is probably more entertaining the less you know going in.
How to watch: One Cut of the Dead is now streaming on Shudder.
Boar
What's it about?
A small town in Australia is stalked by a man-eating boar.
Why should you watch it?
Boar may not appear in the comedy category on Shudder, but let's be honest here — any film that features a hippo-sized monster pig going up against a former WWE wrestler has to be a little bit tongue-in-cheek.
Fortunately, Chris Sun's Boar is exactly that: a lighthearted popcorn-muncher that mixes some entertainingly crude dialogue with some truly ridiculous fight sequences.
The perfect film to watch with a group of friends and a few beers.
How to watch: Boar is now streaming on Shudder.
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Scare Package
What's it about?
A video store owner takes on a new staffer, who quickly gets an education in the fine art of horror movies.
Why should you watch it?
Scare Package is essentially seven miniature horror films for the price of one, an entertaining anthology from seven different directors that parodies every horror movie stereotype you can possibly imagine. Ridiculous gory deaths? Cheesy one-liners? The serial killer who won't stay dead? Each trope gets its own moment to shine in this delightful mishmash, which is as much Cabin in the Woods-style satire as it is a love letter to the genre.
How to watch: Scare Package is now streaming on Shudder.
Glorious
Credit: Shudder
What's it about?
After separating from his partner, a troubled man stops at a rest stop and strikes up a conversation with an unseen figure in a bathroom stall who claims to be a god.
Why should you watch it?
You might think a movie set almost entirely in a rest-stop bathroom would be a hard sell, but the combination of a well-written script, Rebekah McKendry's creative direction and some top acting from Ryan Kwanten, J.K. Simmons, and André Lamar helps keep the pace of this one going. Extra points for the creativeness of the idea and the weird genre mishmash, which combines silly humour, tension, and Lovecraftian horror.
How to watch: Glorious is now streaming on Shudder.
*This blurb appeared on a previous Mashable list.
UPDATE: Oct. 16, 2025, 2:30 p.m. UTC This list was first published on Sept. 7. 2023. It has since been updated to reflect current streaming options.
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