At IFA 2025, we noticed that nearly every major robot vacuum maker is setting stakes in the stair-climbing frontier.
Stair-climbing robot vacuums are actually about to be a reality, sort of. That’s courtesy of a little baby trend at IFA 2025 of robot vacuums slipping into something more climbable—a little caddy that carries them upstairs when it’s time to move floors, then waits to carry them back down when they’re done. The first one we encountered was the Eufy MarsWalker.
Then, it turned out that Dreame had one, too, using almost the exact same approach, only it’s weirdly much scarier-looking. Both have a sort of Half-Life headcrab vibe, but where the MarsWalker really looks like, well, a robot meant to walk on Mars, Dreame’s version, the Cyber X, looks like it would be the nearly identical-to-the-hero villain if the two shared a 1990s Saturday morning cartoon series. Instead of the sleek stalks that the MarsWalker uses to pull itself onto stairs, the Cyber X has what can only be described as chainsaw hands—because Dreame elected to put the tank tread bits on the device’s little legs, not its body.
The two mostly work the same way; robot vacuum meets stair-climbing caddy and climbs in. They roll to the stairs and the caddy probes for the bottom step, then stretches out in front and back to roll up the stairs.
