roborock Saros Z70 Robot Vacuum and Mop, OmniGrip Arm, AI-Powered, 22,000Pa Suction, 3.14’’ Ultra Slim, FlexiArm Riser Technology, AdaptiLift Chassis, Obstacle Avoidance, Auto Mop Washing & Drying

I have had robot vacuums since 1999 the first Irobot one. And I have to say FINALLY, someone niailed it! No cumbersome app needed(unless you want). Just say "Hello rocky clean my bedroom" and it picks up the floor, junk in the bin, slippers etc sorted and does a great job of vacuuming. The arm is no gimmick, it really does the job, its fantastic!

It is an amazing robot vacuum. It's vacuum and mopping capabilities are excellent. The robot arm is a useful addition. But, sometimes it tries to pick up things that are to heavy. It had issues with fallen orchid flower, It was sticky and stuck to the robot arm. I really love remote control feature, you can drive it with FPV video stream. You can even remote control the arm! It is possible to video call via this robot vacuum! It has feature that helps find you pet. In my opinion, It is useful tool and a cool toy.

I have owned an iRobot S9 and its side-kick the iRobot Brava Jet M6 for over 5 years. This Roborock Saros Z70 replaces them both and does MUCH BETTER work. I've only had it a few days so I don't know about reliability, but so far it has been working awesome. This is a BIG upgrade from the S9 and M6! The app is much easier to use than the iRobot app. The Z70 auto-scanned the rooms and had them mapped within minutes. No bumping into things to map, it just looked around. I then updated the map by dividing it into rooms and naming them so I can clean one at a time. Easy. After the first cleanings I tweaked the map to get the room dividers just right. It was so cool watching the Z70 find its way around without bumping into things or getting confused! Super cool that now I can send it in to clean an un-tidy room because it will see and work around random things on the floor instead of just trying to eat them and jam. I put a slipper in the way just to watch the little arm come out, pick it up, and put it away. Per Roborock it currently will only pick up a slipper, a sock, or a ball of paper but they say soon it will pick up more kinds of things. Cool to watch its little mop swing out to wipe exactly up to the edges and swing up out of the way when on carpet or a rug. Way cool that it washes its own little mops when done, and dries them too! The dirty water tank on the base showed that the mops were really cleaning, not just smearing on shine for show. Cool that I don't have to fill the mop fluid, it just fills itself at the base before going out and adds the shine fluid too. I got the official Roborock floor cleaning solution in the 16 oz bottle. The base tank for the fluid held the entire 16 oz so it was dump in, toss the bottle, done. This machine is very quiet. It turns up the vacuum power some when on rugs but still not nearly as noisy as the S9 was. It would be awesome if an American company created this, but the Chinese have sure done a great job on it. I asked Grok about security and he said all the right things regarding that. He said the info about my home is kept on-board the machine, not sent to the cloud unless I choose to place it in the cloud. He said the right things about encryption and such stuff. Sorry to hear iRobot announced bankruptcy. Hearing that is what prompted me to get this. Having the Z70 makes me understand why - iRobot was probably not going to be able to compete against this.

Overall I’m enjoying the Saros Z70 so far, I purchased it to upgrade from my S7 MaxV Ultra. The S7 was my first robot vacuum and at the time a revered unit as it had unmatched suction, mopping, and overall efficiency compared to its competitors. Unfortunately the cliff sensors on it became saturated with moisture and after doing multiple repairs on this unit in the past I just let it sit as the cliff sensor repair was pretty in depth and expensive. Since that time it seems like other brands have caught up to Roborock’s innovation, however they’re the only brand I’m aware of that makes a vacuum with an extendable arm, so since I was able to get the Z70 for 50% off I had to try it out. Comparing the Z70 to the S7 MaxV Ultra both certainly have their individual advantages, but overall are pretty similar units. Regarding the actual robot (not the dock), I liked how the z70 has the LiDAR sensor built into the machine, not protruding to be able to fit under lower furniture, this feature paired with the extendable side brushes and extendable mop heads are a huge upgrade and makes its cleaning ability that much more thorough. Another difference in design between these models which has to be considered with the extendable arm is how small the dust bin is on the z70, its tiny. At first I had no idea how it would hold any dirt but after letting the dustbin get full a few times I found that the self-emptying function on the dock is able to get the dust bin fully clean. Whereas on the S7 MaxV Ultra my biggest gripe was having to constantly manually clean the dustbin, the dock on that model could never get the dustbin clean in any way. So despite the z70’s small dustbin size it does actually work in relation to the S7’s. Comparing their cleaning efficiency seems to be similar, despite the z70 claiming to have 4x the suction power of the S7. The mop heads on the z70 are round and spin compared to the s7’s vibrating mop pad, I do prefer the spinning mop heads as they seem like they’re cleaning more efficiently than the vibrating pad, especially with the heated water, but time will tell on this feature. I am also finding the battery life on the z70 is much better than the S7, it seems to be able to do more on a charge and recharge much faster. Not to mention the z70’s dock comes with a much safer plug, the S7’s dock came with a plug that needed an adapter for US outlets, and it was very sketchy as it would ark and spark when being plugged in or nudged. That adapter always seemed like a huge fire risk to me so I’m glad they now have a power plug with a built in 3 prong cord. One thing I did find interesting with the z70 is how if it gets stuck, it acts a lot more aggressively than the S7 when trying to get itself out. When the S7 would get caught on something it would simply reverse a few times, essentially try to wiggle its way out of the spot, and quickly give up. The z70 will recognize that it’s stuck, and out of nowhere floor it in reverse with decent speed. While this may be efficient in getting the robot unstuck, i can see this being a pretty decent safety risk if it bumps into a table with a candle or something similar when going in reverse so quickly. Regarding the extendable arm, it’s cool but that’s about it. It still seems like it’s in its beta stage in terms of the amount of items it’s able to recognize and pick up, I tried it out last night by placing a ball of paper on the ground. It took it a long time to figure out what it was, over a minute, and after that minute the arm came out, picked up the piece of paper after dancing around it a few times, and then once the z70 picked up the paper it didn’t know what to do with it. Perhaps I have to program the storage areas more but that’s as far as I got with the extendable arm, don’t expect it to be your personal maid as much as a party trick, over time I’m hoping it will be able to pick up and store dog bones/toys. It’s a solid vacuum that I do enjoy, but I don’t think it’s worth $2500 or even $2000 due to the fact that it’s so similar to the S7 MaxV ultra in terms of its cleaning efficiency. At $1200 or less it is a fantastic vacuum, the dock on the Z70 is a huge upgrade in terms of looks and function and the z70 does have its perks in comparison.

Had this thing for about a week, so still don’t know it it’ll break. I replaced an iRobot I7 with this. This is much quieter that the iRobot and this maps, cleans, and mops well. Pretty happy with the purchase, so far. While the arm is a bit of a novelty (and also the reason I bought it), it does seem to work. It’ll move shoes to the shoe area and seems to put anything else in the trash bin - decides “is this a shoe or something else.” It occasionally tries to pick up large things - it unsuccessfully tried to pick up a large cat tree and also a normal size dust mop.