Roborock took CES by storm last year by launching a robotic vacuum with an arm for picking up your mess. This year, the company has lifted its game (quite literally), showcasing a robotic vacuum with a wheel-leg architecture that promises easier cleaning for multi-storey homes.
The Roborock Saros Rover is being billed as the world's first robot vacuum with wheel-leg architecture. It looks to be a much more elegant solution to the stair-climbing robots that carried your robot vacuum up the stairs that were shown off at IFA last year.
Each wheel-leg can raise and lower independently, allowing the robot to execute small jumps, agile turns, and directional changes whilst keeping its body level as the terrain changes beneath it.
Even more impressively, the Saros Rover will be able to clean your stairs. Not just detect them to avoid tumbling down, but actually navigate up and down them while cleaning each step.
If it works as promised, that's going to be a game-changer for Australians living in multi-storey homes who currently need to carry their robot vacuum upstairs or run multiple units.
The Rover can supposedly handle curved staircases, carpeted stairs with bullnose fronts, slopes, and those annoying multi-level room thresholds that trip up most robot vacuums. Roborock says it uses AI algorithms alongside complex motion sensors and 3D spatial information to understand its environment and react with precision.
Unfortunately, though, the catch here is that the Saros Rover is still in development, with no confirmed launch date yet. While it's a real product rather than just a concept, we will be waiting a while before we can actually buy one.
Saros 20 arriving soon
If you're not keen to wait for robot legs in your home, Roborock also announced the Saros 20 and Saros 20 Sonic.
These bring the new AdaptiLift Chassis 3.0, which can conquer thresholds up to 8.5cm high. That's achieved through liftable main and auxiliary wheels plus a climbing arm that unfolds when it detects a threshold. The upgraded StarSight Autonomous System 2.0 maps faster and can recognise up to 201 objects.
Under the hood, there's a 35,000 Pa HyperForce motor, and the new RockDock features 100°C hot water washing for the mop.
Australian availability and pricing will be announced soon.
Foam party for your floors
The F25 ACE Pro is the newest addition to the F25 series, and it's bringing what Roborock calls JetFoaming technology. This system transforms just 1ml of foam cleaning solution into 167 million microbubbles, designed to cling to, dissolve, and lift stubborn stains like coffee, sauce, and greasy residue in a single pass.
Beyond the foam, you're getting 25,000 Pa suction power, a 35% larger water tank than previous F25 models, and an anti-tangle roller with "JawScrapers" that Roborock claims achieves 0% hair tangling. The self-maintenance dock cleans the roller at 95°C to break down grease and inhibit bacteria.
Again, Australian availability and pricing are yet to be confirmed, but I'm keen to see whether this foam technology actually delivers on those bold claims about single-pass cleaning.
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