iRobot vs Ecovacs
iRobot: 3 incidents on record recorded between 2016 and 2026, 1 where a person was hurt. Every case links to the sources it rests on.
Ecovacs: 3 incidents on record recorded between 2019 and 2024, none recording an injury. Every case links to the sources it rests on.
Counts are events documented in the press the register reads that cleared verification, not a safety rating: fleet sizes are not public, and a widely covered company accumulates more cases than a smaller one with the same incident. The escalation share is the one number that normalises itself. Formula on the methodology page.
Reading the numbers
iRobot and Ecovacs have the same number of cases on record, 3 each. iRobot's record begins earlier, in 2016, against 2019.
A person was hurt in 33% of iRobot's cases and 0% of Ecovacs's. Both have the same escalation share, 0%.
Both records are mostly about consumer robots. The more recent case belongs to iRobot, dated 2026-02-05.
Both records, newest first
Each case links to its timeline and to the sources it rests on.
- 2026-02-05A robotic vacuum cleaner's lithium battery caught fire inside a Miami Gardens home, resulting in a 20-year-old man being airlifted to hospital with injuries.Report
- 2024-05-24Hackers remotely took control of Ecovacs Deebot X2 robot vacuums in multiple US cities, using their speakers to yell racial slurs at owners and their cameras to surveil homes.Follow-up
- 2023-05-12A proposed class action lawsuit alleges that Ecovacs Deebot robot vacuums contain a defective motor built from substandard materials that causes the devices to fail prematurely and become wholly inoperable.Report
- 2020-11-03iRobot warned owners that certain Roomba i7+ Clean Base docking stations could malfunction and present a hazard if liquids collected by the robot vacuum were deposited into the unit.Report
- 2019-02-14A Deebot Ecovac robotic vacuum is suspected of catching fire in a Fort Thomas, Kentucky home, causing damage to the property while the owner escaped unharmed.Report
- 2016-08-15A Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner ran over dog feces and spread the mess across every surface throughout a home in Little Rock, Arkansas.Report
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