Bosch just lifted the curtain on something most kitchen designers have been quietly waiting for. A robot vacuum and mop that doesn’t sit in the corner of your living room or peek out from under a console. This one lives inside the kitchen abinet, drives itself out through a hidden door in the baseboard, cleans the floors, and slides back home when it’s done.
Price: TBD
Where to Buy: Bosch
It’s called the Bosch Built-In Vacuum and Mop Robot, and it’s the first product to come out of Bosch’s strategic partnership with ECOVACS. The two companies first unveiled the system at IFA 2025 in Berlin, showed it again at Milan Design Week earlier this month, and locked in European availability with an April 21 press release out of Munich.
Stores get it this spring. Bosch handles the cabinet integration and the home appliance pedigree. ECOVACS supplies the robotics platform, the navigation tech, and the 20,000 Pa suction that powers the whole thing.
How the Built-In System Actually Works
The clever part isn’t the robot. It’s the service station that disappears into a sink base cabinet alongside your standard waste disposal setup.
That station connects directly to your home’s fresh water line, wastewater line, and a power outlet. It supplies fresh water, drains the dirty water, washes the mop pads with 75°C hot water, dries them with 45°C hot air, and cleans itself between sessions. There’s an antibacterial dust bag tucked inside with a 2-liter capacity, an automatic detergent dispenser, and an anti-leakage system designed to keep your cabinet dry if anything goes sideways.
When the robot’s ready to clean, an automated door in the kitchen baseboard pops open. The robot drives itself out, runs its route, and parks back in the station when it’s done. Charging, refilling, and pad cleaning all happen behind the cabinet front, which means you never see the maintenance side of robot vacuum life. Bosch says a trained kitchen installer can fit the whole setup into any kitchen.
What the Robot Itself Brings
At 84 millimeters tall, the robot clears most low furniture and any baseboard taller than 10 centimeters. That low profile is the entire pitch, since the spots robot vacuums usually skip are the spots a built-in system needs to handle.
ECOVACS contributed its patented mopping and navigation tech. Edge cleaning is where the robot earns its built-in keep. Of the two rotating mop pads, one extends outward to reach cabinet kickplates and tight corners, while an extendable side brush handles whatever the pads miss. On carpet, the mop pads lift up to 9 millimeters off the surface. Door thresholds up to 20 millimeters get cleared without drama. 
The 20,000 Pa suction is Bosch’s most powerful figure to date for a robot vacuum, which makes sense given that this one’s built around ECOVACS’ floor-cleaning expertise rather than Bosch’s traditional appliance lineup.
Navigation runs on a Smart Vision camera paired with structured light and a sensor array. Bosch credits ECOVACS’ patented technology for the navigation stack and the mopping mechanics.
Smart Features and the Home Connect App
Control lives inside the Bosch Home Connect app. From there, you can view the floor plan the robot generates, draw no-go zones, set cleaning routines, and tag the robot with a name if you want to.
Bosch and ECOVACS are also leaning into the privacy angle for the European launch. All the data stays inside the EU and falls under EU data protection rules, which is the kind of detail that matters more in Munich than it does in Brooklyn but still ends up shaping how these products get built worldwide.
Some of the smart features need a Home Connect account and a SingleKey ID to work, and you’ll need an internet connection in the kitchen to use them. Standard fare for a connected appliance in 2026.
Availability and Price
Bosch hasn’t published a price yet. The built-in vacuum and mop robot ships to European stores starting spring 2026, which lines up with this month’s launch announcement. Installation is part of the deal, since this isn’t something you unbox and drop on a charging dock. A kitchen installer needs to plumb the service station into your fresh and wastewater lines and fit the automated baseboard door so the robot can enter and exit.
Price: TBD
Where to Buy: Bosch
If you’ve watched ECOVACS chase bigger suction numbers and bigger docking stations year after year, this is the logical next step. Instead of making the dock taller, Bosch and ECOVACS hid the whole thing inside your cabinetry. LG showed a similar under-sink concept at CES 2026 that picked up an Innovation Award, but Bosch and ECOVACS are first to actually ship one to European stores. It’s the first robot vacuum system designed to be plumbed into the kitchen the way a dishwasher is, not parked on a charging mat, and it sets up a real category fight for the kitchen brands that have been treating built-in robots as a future problem.
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