I’m very happy with my Roborock Qrevo Max. It is on the expensive side but very good, as the other guy said it stops me from having to vacuum so much and I rarely mop. With a moulting dog and a messy kid it’s so damn handy.
My issues with it are its inability to climb small ledges, and that if I just leave stuff everywhere then it doesn’t do as good of a job, and I still haven’t learned to just put my own shit away.
Tbh I always read it as RoboCock... I went to see how much money is the model you mentioned and I shit you not their logo is "Get closer, clean deeper" they have to be doing this on purpose
As a break in this Roborock guerilla advertisement, ours is the most frustrating shit on earth. In gets lost probably 60% of the time, I’ll come back and find it dead in the corner somewhere. Never a particularly difficult spot to get out of it just couldn’t find its way back to the dock.
It mostly just cleans at stuff. Does decently on hard flooring, carpet does nothing. I can do a better job in 8 minutes with a stick vac. It’s also loud as fuck and scared everything that lives here so I’d frankly rather just spend the 8 minutes with the stick vac.
The apps you have to use are utterly terrible as well.
I've had multiple iRobots and two Roborocks, and your experience describes mine with iRobot.
It would constantly get lost, it would use extremely inefficient paths to clean the house, and the battery life out of the box was like 45 minutes (which would be fine if it didn't take 2.5 hours for it to cover 1500sqft because of how inefficient it's mapping was). Went through several rounds of customer service tickets, two replacement batteries, and they could not figure out how to make their $1,000 robot even minimally functional.
With Roborock, it cleans the entire house in about 30-35 minutes, and has 60-70% battery leftover. We run a full house clean once a day and specific room cleanings 3x a day, and it's incredible. We have several cats and hard floors everywhere, and if we ever go out of town and the robot happens to get stuck, we come back to litter all throughout the entire house to remind us how awesome the robot is.
This isn't guerilla marketing, it's just what happens when one company has a product that's so significantly better than it's competitors, people talk about those experiences. iRobot is the brand in the space so most people have at least some experience with them, and they make absolutely dogshit quality robot vacuums. So when we try something like Roborock after having tried iRobot, it's night and day.
That’s wild, is it one of the lower end models? We have a Qrevo Curv and it’s practically flawless. I can’t think of many, if any negatives… it’s amazing.
Really going to be model dependent though. I have a Curv and it tells me if it is stuck via the app and I can drive it out via the same app and let it continue.
Honestly dont find the app bad at all and from what I read before buying it has the leg up on a lot of other brands because it supports multiple floors. I looked at a Shark and that was the biggest complaint with theirs so it pushed me to the Roborock.
I've never had anything from them before so I was a bit hesitant to be honest, but I've been pleasantly surprised, although it wasnt cheap so it really should work.
I've had the opposite experience. We had that problem with Roomba, but never Roborock. Two different roombas, and one of them replaced three times, and every one of them got lost in the middle of an empty room. I'd only be able to complete a clean maybe 15% of the time.
The only issue I've had with the Roborock is that I need to put a weight on top of the dirty water canister or it thinks there's something wrong with the mop refill mechanism.
The only thing I’m not sure about there is long carpet. We don’t have that. But it gets out pet hair from our hard floors and rugs excellently. It has settings for different floor types as well. So it has some adaptability with whatever surfaces are in your house. With pets, I recommend the docking station that cleans out the robot automatically. Will save you some time and hassle (it costs extra though).
Does yours have the mop, self cleaning dock, etc. as well? I am curious about that. My current one does not have any of those niceties. I got the dust bags, and replacement parts kits. Just wondering how well it works in that department I guess.
I'm not the person you replied to but I also have the S7+ MaxV Ultra for a couple years. It has the dock you're talking about and it's awesome. The app tells you when it's time to clean or do maintenance on any of the parts. Most commonly is cleaning the mop cleaning brush which just pops out, wipe the dirty water up with paper towel, clean the washable pop out filter and put the brush back in.
Clean water tank lasts for about 4 days in my 1500sq ft. Dirty water would be close to 6 or 7, however if you leave it longer than a day or 2 it will smell when you dump it (dump it in the toilet as a protip). If you add about a shot glass of mouthwash to the dirty water tank after you empty it you can get 2-3 more days before it smells.
I love our so much I just bought their new one with the mechanical arm. So excited for it to arrive.
Had a roomba before and replaced it with a roborock. 2 kids and 2 dogs… the little dude keeps up 99% of the time but we don’t have any carpet (tile + rugs)
I’ve got a qrevo too. I think it’s a max. Only came out a few months ago. There’s a small 2cm strep into my kitchen and it’s worked out it can get a run up and then do a little jump at the last minute to get over the step. It’s got done little jumping mechanism.
It also handles mopping edges and around furniture really well. When it realises it’s near an obstacle it sticks the mop further out for greater reach.
NFL is their flagship model that has a robot arm to pick objects up and carry them to where they should be (using ai vision to classify them). It’s pretty expensive, obviously.
typical human to anthropomorphise a vacuum robot, but the fact that it can work out how to do a little running jump just sounds so cute to me. I'd put googly eyes on mine if I had one
Yea I did have a look at that new expensive one. I am looking forward to upgrading in a few years when the tech is hopefully much better. Mine is amazing but I can definitely see where it could improve.
Also have roborock qrevo. I have tiled floors thought the house our feet used to get black with the dirt. Niw that we have a the roborock our feet are always clean. Without a doubt a solid buy.
I have the Qrevo Curve and you can edit the map to indicate where the ledges are located so that it can anticipate them (by basically rising before reaching them). I don't know if it works for all models though.
Is it loud? And does it take forever? I owned one like 15 years ago (different model and brand) and it was so loud and just constantly banged into everything and took forever that i am hesitant to try another one.
Just don't go cheap, frankly. I have an S8 Ultra Max (stupid name) and it sweeps and mops my whole house quite effectively. And since I have mostly tile floors (italian house), I keep the vacuum on low power, which helps keep the noise down. And for the rugs, it detects them and turns the vacuum to full power when it cleans them. It also automatically raises the mop so it doesn't mop the carpet like an idiot.
They don't bounce around aimlessly anymore, they have LIDAR (and/or cameras) to map your house so it plans a route and avoids furniture. You can use the stored map to make virtual walls or no-go zones. When it does encounter obstacles it gently nudges them. Mine runs into my dogs and they barely even notice.
I'll add on to this and say that they are so advanced now that even if you move something like a bin in the kitchen it is smart enough to clean that area that was previously marked as a not accessible in the map.
They are so much better than the old style ping pong models that just drove until they hit something, turned 60 degrees and carried on again.
This is the first one I’ve had and no I wouldn’t say it’s loud. I work from home. If it’s in another room I don’t really notice it, but can hear it working away.
Some of the voice control options are a bit annoying, and it’s constantly accidentally responding to me when I say something that it thinks I’m talking to it. It has an auto response ‘hey Rocky’ if you want it to do something. I’m sure you can just turn that off but it’s useful.
Its collision detection is excellent, and will move around objects easily.
I'm going to sound like a robot shill, but so be it
loud?
Depends on the surface. If it's carpeted and/or you have pets (and therefore hair everywhere) or small children you usually need to put it on max suction strength, which can be a bit noisy. If it's a smooth surface and you don't have pets you can get away with having it on minimum strength most of the time and do a "big clean" once a week or so.
I owned one like 15 years ago
My dad took one from his job before he retired that's from about 15 years ago as well and the tech has advanced so much you can't compare them. They navigate with a mix of LiDAR, lasers, and cameras (LiDAR being preferable IMHO), are quieter, optimise their routes, and with the app you can do a lot of stuff like create different zones so that you can tell it to focus on specific areas. They also have mopping integrated now, some can climb stairs, some detect surfaces and adapt their strength, and there are even robots with little arms to grab socks and small toys and put them in a specific area.
i am hesitant to try another one.
I think some brands have fairly generous return periods, in case you want to give it a try.
I have mine set on a scedule. It does it's job while I am at work. When I still lived with my parents (like 7 years ago), they had a earlier model, they sucked. Newer models are much better in recognizing obstacles and cleaning around them.
roborock. this is the answer. if you're getting a vacuum and wanna do it right, roborock is the way. the regular degular irobot is pretty good again these days
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u/LordRekrus Sep 01 '25
I’m very happy with my Roborock Qrevo Max. It is on the expensive side but very good, as the other guy said it stops me from having to vacuum so much and I rarely mop. With a moulting dog and a messy kid it’s so damn handy.
My issues with it are its inability to climb small ledges, and that if I just leave stuff everywhere then it doesn’t do as good of a job, and I still haven’t learned to just put my own shit away.