Vacuum Wars found useful dried-stain cleaning, but excessive water, weak carpet cleaning, and tangled hair limit this budget robot.
The Tikom G8000 Max is a robot vacuum and mop with a conventional charging dock, not a self-emptying base. Vacuum Wars tested it in a studio and found that it handled basic surface debris and dried stains, but struggled with water control, embedded carpet dirt, long hair, and dependable navigation.
Vacuum Wars listed the robot at $108.21 on October 27, 2026, reduced from $129.99, and marked it in stock at Amazon at that time. Prices and stock can change, so treat that figure as a dated snapshot rather than a guaranteed ownership cost.
The G8000 Max has a 450-milliliter dustbin that must be emptied manually. It also uses one bristled main brush, two side brushes, and a removable flat mop pad connected to a water tank. Tikom advertises 5,000 pascals of suction, but the review’s results show why that number does not tell the whole story.
Strong stain result, troubling water output
The mop’s best result came from Vacuum Wars’ controlled dried-stain test. The G8000 Max scored 136, above the outlet’s test average of 108. That suggests useful stain removal in that specific test, not guaranteed results on every household mess.
The problem was how much water the robot left behind. Vacuum Wars measured about 17 grams of water, compared with a 1.07-gram test average, and observed visible puddles on the test surface.
The robot offers three water settings, but they did not behave as shoppers might expect. Vacuum Wars measured 17.7 grams of leftover water on the low setting and 16 grams on the high setting. Its combined mopping score was -86, compared with a 30.8 average.
That makes the mop a risky choice for moisture-sensitive floors. The test raises a flooring concern, but it does not show that the robot will damage every type of floor.
Carpets and long hair are weak spots
The G8000 Max performed reasonably in some lighter vacuuming tasks. It removed 85% of flattened pet hair, close to Vacuum Wars’ 82% average, and picked up various sizes of surface debris from hard floors and carpets. The tester did notice some scattering.
Deep carpet cleaning was much weaker. In a medium-pile carpet test with sand embedded in the fibers, the robot removed 64%, compared with a 78% average. It also scored 0.5 in a crevice test against an average of 2, showing difficulty with debris in recessed grooves.
Long hair creates another maintenance burden. In Vacuum Wars’ seven-inch hair-tangle test, 60% of the hair wrapped around the brush, more than twice the 26% average. Reasonable pet-hair pickup does not erase that result: picking up hair and avoiding brush tangles are different tasks.
Basic navigation and controls
The G8000 Max uses gyroscope and floor-tracking navigation rather than LiDAR, which measures distance with light. Vacuum Wars observed the robot spinning unexpectedly and struggling to find its charging dock.
It covered 0.85 square meters per minute in one navigation test, above the 0.71 average. However, its estimated coverage per charge was 1,064 square feet, below the 1,170-square-foot average.
The Tuya-powered app supports basic scheduling, row cleaning, edge cleaning, and spot cleaning, but Vacuum Wars found the app frustrating during testing. A separate remote provides another way to issue basic commands; the navigation problems were observed separately.
Is it practical for your home?
For someone willing to empty the bin by hand and accept basic navigation and a frustrating app, the G8000 Max offers two limited positives: surface pickup and dried-stain cleaning. Its $108.21 listed price was low, but the manual maintenance and mop behavior reduce the value of that bargain.
Vacuum Wars said it could not recommend the model and called it the lowest-scoring robot vacuum the outlet had tested in seven years. Based on these studio results, carpet-heavy homes, households with long hair, and anyone protecting moisture-sensitive flooring should wait for a better fit rather than buy this one for its low price.