Knowledgeable’s Ranking
Execs
- Swing-out facet brush and mop pad
- Integral voice management
- Matches underneath low furnishings
- Fast mapping
Cons
- Higher on arduous flooring than carpet
- Costly
- Some app choices are arduous to search out
Our Verdict
There’s lots to love about Roborock’s Qrevo Slim mopping robotic vacuum. Its voice management doesn’t require a sensible speaker because the intermediary, the mapping is fast and adaptive, and due to the dock, there’s minimal upkeep required. Plus its facet brush and a mop pad cleverly attain out into corners. But though it’s loaded with tech to make utilizing it simpler, the cleansing efficiency total didn’t wow us.
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Billed because the slimmest robotic vacuum with 3D time-of-flight, or ToF, expertise (a way for measuring distance between a sensor and an object), Roborock’s Qrevo Slim mopping robotic vacuum guarantees rather a lot.
Along with not bumping into objects round your private home, it’s low sufficient to scoot underneath furnishings, has an RGB digicam to identify filth, and might detect flooring sorts, ramping up the suction and discontinuing mopping for smooth surfaces.
Nonetheless, it’s the built-in voice management which doesn’t require a sensible speaker that you just would possibly worth essentially the most: it’ll reply to a bunch of instructions, from beginning and stopping cleansing to sending it again to the dock.
Design and Construct
- Low-profile robotic
- 1,000Pa suction
- Robotic responds to direct voice instructions
The very first thing you’ll discover in regards to the Qrevo Slim is its measurement: it’s a modern 8.2cm tall, permitting it to brush alongside kitchen plinths and entry the house under beds and sofas (its diameter is fairly common at 35cm).
It’s additionally pretty light-weight at 4.2kg so simply carried to a different flooring. Like its dock, the robotic is completed in a mixture of shiny and matt black plastic.
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Rachel Ogden / Foundry
Rachel Ogden / Foundry
That is mixed with layers of navigation: LiDAR sensors (two on the entrance, one on the again) and three cameras (an RGB and infrared on the entrance, an infrared on the again).
Beneath, there’s a pair of rubber rollers for sweeping up filth together with 11,000 Pa suction, a facet brush that reaches into corners and round furnishings legs, and two mopping pads (the correct one in every of which additionally reaches).
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Rachel Ogden / Foundry
Rachel Ogden / Foundry
On prime, for individuals who like hands-on controls, is a single button that may be pushed a couple of other ways to both spot clear, begin cleansing, ship the robotic again to the dock, mop solely or have interaction the kid lock.
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Rachel Ogden / Foundry
Rachel Ogden / Foundry
It’s paired with an upgraded Multifunctional Dock 3.0, which washes and dries the mop pads, and comprises a bigger mud bag for the Qrevo Slim to empty into.
What’s intelligent although, particularly for individuals who are much less tech savvy, is the built-in voice assistant, which doesn’t must be related to Wi-Fi to work. By saying ‘Howdy Rocky’, you possibly can, for instance, ask the Qrevo Slim to scrub a particular room (as soon as mapped), or modify the suction stage, because of a bunch of preset instructions out there within the app. It’ll even bear in mind your dialog on a chat historical past display.
Efficiency and Options
- Straightforward to edit maps
- Customised cleansing
- Color digicam
Return by just a few years and robotic vacs have been nonetheless taking an age to map a flooring. Nonetheless, this isn’t so for the Qrevo Slim. We set it off mapping ours and it was executed in a couple of minutes, presenting a floorplan that was simple to divide and title within the app into completely different areas.
There are a number of choices for customising your clear
We appreciated that it recognised that there have been completely different flooring sorts and offered this on the map, though if it will get it flawed, you possibly can change it.
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Rachel Ogden / Foundry
Rachel Ogden / Foundry
One other plus of the app is that there are a number of choices for customising your clear: it’s potential to decide on a quick cleansing mode (nice for when visitors are about to descend or in your method house), alter how loud the robotic’s beeps are (plus there’s a don’t disturb choice so it received’t make noise once you’re sleeping), 4 choices every for mop water circulate and suction energy, and you may select whether or not you’d prefer it to go spherical a few times.
Or, should you’d favor the robotic to make these selections, there’s Good Plan, which makes the cleansing selections for you.
That mentioned, there’s some helpful stuff, resembling selecting off-peak charging, that’s arduous to search out, as is spot clear, hidden underneath a settings menu referred to as Pin n Go, so digging by the menus is a should.
We discovered the distant viewing through its color digicam attention-grabbing however gimmicky. It may be used to take photographs of your pets, however this selection wasn’t enabled in our app.
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Rachel Ogden / Foundry
Rachel Ogden / Foundry
We examined the Qrevo Slim’s cleansing on each arduous flooring (vinyl) and mid-pile carpet, utilizing flour to signify mud and oats as bigger particles. Whereas the clear was principally good on the arduous flooring, we observed that there was a line of oats that hadn’t been picked up as soon as it was completed.
There was additionally a small quantity of flour that had been missed. The efficiency was spotty on carpet – though that is frequent for robotic vacuums. Our carpet nonetheless had flour left behind and some oats, even after we ran a second cycle on the very best suction energy.
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Rachel Ogden / Foundry
Rachel Ogden / Foundry
On the arduous flooring, the mopping was examined utilizing a skinny layer of brown sauce and mint sauce that had been left for a couple of hours. The brown sauce was picked up simply however as soon as the ground had dried, in a while, we observed that the place the sauce had been nonetheless felt sticky underfoot.
Roborock’s Qrevo Slim navigated properly – for essentially the most half
Though the mint sauce had dried, flecks of mint caught to the comb rolls after they’d been sucked up. The mop pads tended to unfold the flecks of mint to different areas of the ground too. Disappointingly, there aren’t any spare mop pads, so as soon as they have been coated in mint, they needed to be cleaned earlier than we might do any extra mopping.
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Rachel Ogden / Foundry
Rachel Ogden / Foundry
Roborock’s Qrevo Slim navigated properly for essentially the most half – it averted partitions, desk legs and doorways – however though its makers say it may recognise and react to as much as 73 varieties of obstacles, we discovered it nonetheless bumped right into a low stone fireside, sucked up and have become clogged with a small scrap of paper, and swallowed a big feather from a cat toy.
One plus we observed after it had been cleansing is that hair didn’t wrap across the brush rolls, which is a standard drawback with robotic vac clogging.
The Qrevo Slim is especially good at discovering its method again to the dock. Having beforehand examined robotic vacuums which have trundled spherical misplaced, we have been impressed that regardless of the place we put the Qrevo Slim, it at all times discovered the dock shortly and immediately.
Emptying into the dock’s bin was noisy – however not as loud as some – whereas the mop pad washing was unobtrusive. We appreciated that the robotic will be instructed to cease drying the mop pads as soon as they’re washed, too, which means that you would be able to save power on days after they’d dry naturally.
Worth and Availability
If you happen to’re in Europe, you possibly can already purchase the Qrevo Slim. It has an MSRP of €1,299 nevertheless it’s at present out there from Roborock’s German web site and its French on-line store for €999.
The Qrevo Slim is just not but in the stores within the UK and US. We’ll replace this overview as soon as it has landed in shops.
If you happen to’re seeking to purchase now, see our round-up of one of the best robotic vacuums we’ve examined for our prime suggestions, and our information to one of the best low-cost robotic vacuums for the highest price range buys.
Do you have to purchase the Roborock Qrevo Slim?
Roborock’s Qrevo Slim delivers some helpful advances on this planet of mopping robotic vacuums: it navigates extra easily, doesn’t get caught or misplaced, and permits cleansing choices to be extra simply customised. Plus, you get all of the comfort of voice management with out being tied to a sensible speaker or machine.
Nonetheless, for all this tech, like most robotic vacs, there’s nonetheless a spot between its efficiency on carpet and the skills of a normal vacuum cleaner. Whereas the mopping is sweet for on a regular basis upkeep however not an alternative choice to a tough flooring cleaner or a mop and bucket.
Basically, the Qrevo Slim is a giant timesaver for clear flooring however don’t rehome your vacuum cleaner but.