Roborock Qrevo Slim review

Product identify: Introduction

• Kind: Robotic vacuum cleaner with mopping
• Docking: Self-empty, self-cleaning station 
• Navigation system: 3D ToF, StarSight Autonomous System

Regardless of falling into the Roborock’s mid-range ‘Q’ line-up of robotic vacuum cleaners, the Roborock Qrevo Slim introduces brand-new expertise and main suction to the Chinese language model that’s broadly thought-about the very best within the robo cleansing enterprise.

Ditching LiDAR for the brand new StarSight Autonomous System for navigation, this robotic is, as its identify suggests, in a position to squeeze underneath extra furnishings, as it’s only 82mm excessive.

Launched at IFA 2024, the Qrevo Slim is the results of greater than 5 years of labor and is ready to seize top and depth knowledge in an effort to recognise and keep away from as much as 73 obstacles, together with your furry associates.

In case your cat or canine instantly seems, the Qrevo Slim’s essential brush will cease and it’ll alter its trajectory. 

It’s not low-cost although, with a price-tag that isn’t fairly as punchy as Roborock’s prime S Sequence fashions just like the S8 MaxV Extremely, but it surely’s a darn web site greater than its Q Sequence stablemate, the Roborock Q5 Professional.

Information: Roborock fashions in contrast

It’s a price-point that places it up agains the likes of the Eufy Omni S1 Professional and the Samsung Bespoke Jet Bot Combo but it surely greater than holds its personal towards these two, that are each thought-about flagships for his or her manufacturers.

Learn our complete Roborock QRevo Slim evaluate to search out out why…

Design and elements

• Time of Flight (ToF) sensors 
• Duo rollers to forestall hair wrapping 
• FlexiArm for higher edge efficiency  

Though a spherical robotic, the Roborock Qrevo Slim appears completely different to people who have come earlier than from the Roborock secure, because it doesn’t have the LiDAR dome on prime.

In some methods, the shortage of LiDAR makes this robotic look extra like a price range mannequin from a number of years in the past, however that’s positively not the case. 

On the entrance of the robotic is the brand new StarSight Autonomous System, which makes use of Time of Flight (ToF) sensors to let the robotic map its environment and even spot and detect comparatively small objects. 

Roborock’s StarSight Autonomous System makes use of a mix of 21,600 sensor factors, 38,400Hz sampling frequency and a RGB digicam for exact navigation and impediment detection. 

Because the Slim’s sensors are on the entrance, the robotic largely maps and navigates by what it’s taking a look at. Roborock has sensors on the rear to assist the robotic higher perceive is environment.  

And, there’s a digicam on the entrance, which is used to identify and keep away from frequent obstacles, just like the system within the high-end S8 MaxV Extremely. 

Chopping LiDAR out implies that the robotic is way slimmer than many of the competitors, standing simply 82mm tall. That implies that it could actually get underneath a wider vary of objects, equivalent to sofas and sideboards, so you’ll be able to arguably clear extra with this robotic. 

Beneath, the Slim has used most of Roborock’s latest improvements. There’s a FlexiArm facet brush, which might swing out to tease grime out of corners and on the edges of rooms. 

Twin contra-rotating flooring brushes are in place, designed to agitate grime whereas avoiding getting clogged with hair (they usually actually work, refusing to get clogged with lengthy hair). With 11,000Pa of suction energy, the Slim sits on the prime of Roborock’s vary. 

These brushes can carry off the ground, stopping grime being smeared over a freshly mopped flooring, because the Slim returns to its docking station. 

For mopping, there are two microfibre mopping pads, certainly one of which is a FlexiArm mannequin, in a position to swing out to offer true edge mopping. 

For carpets, these pads can carry 10mm off the bottom, which ought to let the Slim traverse most shortpile carpets. Nevertheless, should you want extra flexibility for deep pile carpet, then a robotic that may carry its pads or depart them behind within the docking station, such because the Samsung Bespoke Jet Combo AI+ could also be a better option. 

This robotic comes with Roborock’s Multifunctional Dock 3.0, which has twin 4-litre tanks: one for contemporary water, which is used for filling the robotic’s mopping tank and for cleansing its mopping pads, and one for soiled water. 

In case you want, there’s a model of the Roborock Qrevo Slim that has a plumbed-in dock that you just don’t must manually fill or empty. 

Each docks clear the mopping pads with sizzling water, which is nice for sanitising and helps with mopping. After cleansing, the mop pads are dried with sizzling air. Nevertheless, there’s no detergent choice on this dock, as you get with the high-end S8 MaxV Extremely or Eufy S1 Omni. 

Massive 3-litre luggage are used for mud assortment. That is, in response to the corporate, sufficient house to carry as much as seven weeks’ price of grime. 

Because it vacuums, the Slim makes use of its personal bin to gather grime because it goes round. This lifts out simply sufficient, and must be washed and cleaned, together with its filter, no less than month-to-month. 

The app

Among the best issues about shopping for a Roborock vacuum cleaner is that all of them use the identical, excellent app. The competitors could also be catching up, however the Roborock app stays the very best within the enterprise. 

After first connecting the Roborock Qrevo Slim to your Wi-Fi and app, the robotic goes on a brief mapping run, utilizing its sensors to detect the format of your own home. When carried out, the app takes a guess at the place rooms are, and it’s really fairly good.  

If the robotic will get a number of issues incorrect, it’s trivial to merge or cut up rooms to get the format that you really want. 

Though the Slim is sufficiently small to slide underneath most furnishings and sensible sufficient to cleanly navigate most houses, there could also be some houses or bits of furnishings that it struggles with, so you’ll be able to set no-go zones.  

Furnishings may be added to the map within the tough location it’s in actual life. Furnishings may be tapped to create a cleansing zone. It’s useful for cleansing up after a meal, for instance. 

The app additionally provides the primary cleansing modes: room (or rooms), your entire dwelling and zone cleansing the place you draw a field on the map. 

For every choice, you’ll be able to then use SmartPlan to let the Qrevo Slim select its energy settings, or you’ll be able to manually choose the cleansing choices. 

There’s a option to vacuum solely, mop solely, or vacuum and mop on the identical time. For every choice, you’ll be able to select the suction energy with a selection of 4 suction modes, and 4 water move choices. 

There’s additionally a selection of fast and commonplace cleans for vacuuming and mopping; choose mopping solely, and there’s are two extra route modes to provide a deep clear, whereas choosing Vacuum solely provides one additional energy mode, Max+ 

Simply in case that wasn’t sufficient, every cleansing mode provides you the selection to make one or two passes with the robotic. 

Dive into the extra settings menu, and there’s much more management over how the robotic works. Automated Remopping is a really helpful mode, the place the docking station can detect how soiled the mopping pads are after which ship the robotic out once more to cowl a very soiled space mechanically. 

There’s extra management over how the robotic offers with carpets, with a option to keep away from them fully, ignore them (fantastic for carpets that may get moist), or lifting its pads.

It’s a disgrace that the map doesn’t help no-mop zones to inform the robotic not simply to keep away from a fragile carpet or rug. 

Efficiency

• Highly effective vacuuming 
• Wonderful mopping 

It’s fast and simple to start out the robotic off on a clear utilizing the app, or you can begin a whole-home clear utilizing the buttons on the entrance of the robotic. 

With 11,000Pa of suction energy, the Roborock Qrevo Slim is, on paper, one of the vital highly effective robotic vacuum cleaners, with much more suction than the flagship S8 MaxV Extremely.  

Fortuitously, this suction energy interprets into sensible cleansing efficiency. With carpets, the suction energy’s sufficient to suck mud contained deep inside the fibres, giving a full clear. 

Exhausting flooring are simpler to hoover, however the Roborock Qrevo Slim didn’t miss a spot when it went about my ktichen. And, the FlexiArm helps dislodge and accumulate grime that collects across the edges of rooms. 

Mopping efficiency can be excellent. As soon as washed and saturated with sizzling water, the Roborock Qrevo Slim can take away most ground-in stains on exhausting flooring in simply a few passes. More durable stains can take a number of passes after this. 

To that finish, the Eufy Omni S1 Professional can do extra on a singe cross, with its curler bodily eradicating grime from the ground and self-cleaning because it goes. 

Navigation is pretty much as good as you’d hope. Ably shifting round a crowded room, I discovered that the Roborock Qrevo Slim might match underneath the nook couch with out getting caught (a activity that many different robots fail at), and it managed to get near furnishings with out barging it.  

Impediment avoidance isn’t fairly pretty much as good as with the camera-based methods, and the Roborock Qrevo Slim did run into my pretend pet mess whereas it was out and about. 

Sound got here in at 59.8dB, which makes this robotic impressively quiet to the purpose the place it’s not notably annoying to make use of when you’re in the identical room because it.  

Battery life can be sensible. Roborock quotes 180-minutes on the bottom energy setting, however up this to extra helpful ranges and also you’ll discover which you can simply clear a flooring of a home with two passes and have energy left for spot jobs. In brief, the Roborock Qrevo Slim is able to go while you want it to. 

Remaining ideas

In case you’ve obtained a number of low furnishings that you just’d like to wash underneath, the Roborock Qrevo Slim is an distinctive robotic.

Not solely can it get to locations that different robots can’t attain, however its excessive suction energy additionally means it could actually clear these areas, in addition to conventional carpet and exhausting flooring brilliantly.

It’s an ideal mop, too, struggling solely with the very hardest of stains. I’d prefer to see higher AI impediment avoidance, however that apart, this very a lot looks like a correct high-end robotic vacuum and mop. 

How we take a look at

Once we publish our opinions, you’ll be able to relaxation assured that they’re the results of “residing with” long run exams.

Robotic cleaners often reside inside an ecosystem, or a spread of merchandise that – supposedly – all work in concord. And they’re designed to supply a spread of various cleansing choices. Due to this fact, it’s unattainable to make use of a robo cleaner for per week and ship a verdict.

As a result of we’re testing sensible dwelling package all day, on a regular basis, we all know what issues and the way a selected sensible cleansing machine compares to alternate options that you may additionally be contemplating.

Our opinions are complete, goal and honest and, in fact, we’re by no means paid on to evaluate a tool.

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