Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET:  Add us as a preferred source  on Google. For many, robot vacuums have become an answer to the annoying chore we all have to do to keep our homes clean. But not all robot vacuums are created equal. While they have gotten much smarter since their early days of bumping around furniture and leaving dirty edges behind, we decided to really put them to the test.  To find out which robot vacuums are the best, we ran dozens through the gauntlet  in our lab in Kentucky , evaluating suction power, navigation performance, object avoidance, noise level, and, most importantly, pickup performance.  Also: The best robot vacuums for pet hair We compared 10 robot vacuums based on our smart home reviewer Maria Diaz 's recommendations from her real-world home testing, as well as the products we've tested in our lab.  The robot vacuum that stood above the rest in terms of debris pickup was the Ecovacs X8 Pro Omni .  How we tested these robot vacuums In our lab,…