Roborock Q Revo MaxV Review: Powerful Cleaning

At a look

Knowledgeable’s Ranking

Professionals

• Good cleansing outcomes, each when vacuuming and mopping
• Good mop entry alongside edges and in corners
• Simple to make use of, handy app

Cons

• Impediment detection leaves lots to be desired
• No FlexiArm facet brush

Our Verdict

Roborock Q Revo MaxV is a robust robotic vacuum cleaner that delivers sturdy efficiency in each vacuuming and mopping. With 7,000 Pa of suction energy, an environment friendly rubber brush and a mop system with twin rotating pulleys, in addition to FlexiArm expertise for higher edge cleansing, it achieves spectacular outcomes. The impediment detection may have been higher, however for those who’re okay with placing away small objects earlier than cleansing, this can be a good selection for its worth level.

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Finest Pricing In the present day

Value When Reviewed

$1,399

Finest Costs In the present day: Roborock Q Revo MaxV

$1,399.99

The variations between an costly and a less expensive robotic vacuum cleaner are many. The so-called flagship fashions from extra established producers can rapidly establish obstacles and easily keep away from them. They will empty themselves of each mud and soiled water, and the mopping perform is now actually spectacular – each when it comes to efficiency and the flexibility to wash in hard-to-reach areas comparable to corners and edges.

If you happen to select an entry-level mannequin, you’ll get a machine that may deal with the identical duties with some effort. The suction energy is significantly weaker, and you may anticipate it to often gobble up a sock or two, usually leading to downtime. If it has a mop perform in any respect, it’s an easier model – often only a mop pad that trails alongside behind, exerting solely the gentlest strain.

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Good fashions at an inexpensive worth

In between these extremes, we discover fashions that supply most of the options and expertise of the highest fashions, albeit in easier variations, however at a lower cost level. Dreame has its L collection in numerous configurations (together with the L40 Extremely, which we’ve reviewed), and Roborock presents its Q Revo, additionally in a number of variants, with the MaxV a brand new, extra superior mannequin.

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We just lately examined its sibling, the Roborock Q Revo Slim – a very nice machine that performs effectively general, however was notably spectacular when it got here to the mopping perform. It has two rotating pads as a substitute of the vibrating “scrubbing pad” that was commonplace only a 12 months or so in the past, even on top-of-the-range fashions.

Dreame was an early adopter of this, which I think about to be a way more environment friendly answer, and it’s solely constructive that Roborock is now implementing the identical expertise in increasingly fashions.

Extra superior than its sibling

Nonetheless, when reviewing the Q Revo Slim, we did discover that its impediment detection and avoidance was hit or miss, regardless of 3D scanning with structured gentle that’s imagined to be tailored for that function.

MaxV, then again, has a extra superior system that mixes structured gentle with an RGB digital camera to extra rapidly and effectively detect objects – based on Roborock, objects as small as 5cm vast and 3cm excessive. That sounds promising.

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The bottom station, measuring 34 x 48.7 x 52.1 cm, holds a vacuum cleaner bag, a clear water tank and one for soiled water. Nevertheless, there’s no container for detergent, which the Roborock S8 MaxV Extremely has, for instance. The bottom station additionally robotically cleans the robotic’s mops at completely different intervals (relying on the settings you select) and dries them after every cleansing session.

The set up and mapping of your house is finished very quickly, and you may simply divide the rooms and add completely different zones if you need. What’s extra, the app is actually user-friendly and presents a wealth of customisation choices, relying on the format of your house and the way intensive you need the cleansing to be.

Customised cleansing

For instance, you may select whether or not to keep away from carpets altogether or embody them within the cleansing – it’ll robotically elevate its mops when the robotic detects carpet. The temperature of the scrubbing water may be adjusted, from room temperature to sizzling (as much as 60 levels), and the robotic can return to a selected location for one more move with the mop if it judges the floor to be notably soiled.

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A cool, add-on characteristic is which you can remotely activate the robotic’s digital camera to examine its standing. Through the built-in microphone and speaker, you may even have two-way communication with folks at residence if you’re out, or examine in your pets.

The suction energy is a whopping 7,000 Pa. Mixed with the spiral-patterned rubber brush, it does a wonderful job of caring for mud bunnies, breadcrumbs and different particles. The mop system, with its two rotating pulleys, additionally performs very well.

The MaxV can also be outfitted with Roborock’s FlexiArm expertise, the place the right-hand mop is angled out at edges, round furnishings and in corners. This can be a answer we’ve seen on a number of Dreame machines up to now, and it’s definitely an enormous enchancment relating to accessing hard-to-reach areas. Had the MaxV additionally inherited the facet brush from the Roborock S8 MaxV Extremely, which has comparable expertise, it might have been a whole success.

Impediment detection – nonetheless the Achilles’ heel

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After which there was the difficulty with object identification and avoidance. Positive, it really works higher than on earlier fashions, however we’re nonetheless removed from perfection. A sock thrown on the ground was recognized in a flash, and the robotic rounded it properly like a ballet dancer. My bunch of keys, nonetheless? Utterly ignored and run over with out mercy. Throughout the identical cleansing session, it additionally managed to tug alongside an audio cable that for some unfathomable purpose had ended up underneath the TV bench.

So sure, it’s positively an enchancment, however it’s nonetheless a way off the extent of the Roborock S8 MaxV Extremely or Dreame L40 Extremely.