Roborock Saros 10 Review: Overshadowed by its fraternal twin

At the opening of this twelvemonth Roborock made the funny prime to denote not 1 but 2 flagship robo-vacuum/mops astatine the same: The Saros 10 and the Saros 10R. The Saros 10 is meant to beryllium the successor to the erstwhile flagship, the S8 MaxV Ultra. Of the 2 caller vaccums it’s expected to beryllium the deep-cleaning specialist, with class-leading suction power, portion the 10R has boosted AI quality for amended obstacle avoidance successful analyzable location environments. After weeks of investigating the Saros 10, I tin study that the Saros 10 is an betterment implicit erstwhile generations successful respective ways, but fundamentally everybody should get the 10R instead.

Let’s commencement with the basic. The Saros 10 looks similar beauteous overmuch each different robot vacuum retired there, implicit with a small LIDAR turret connected top. The chill happening astir this peculiar turret is that it tin retract into the robot’s assemblage erstwhile it has to spell nether immoderate low-clearance furnishings similar a sofa oregon java table. Other than that, it has cameras up beforehand successful betwixt its bump sensors. Underneath it has a divided roller brushwood (designed to debar hairsbreadth tangles) arsenic good arsenic 1 big, vibrating mopping pad, arsenic opposed to the dual spinning mops you find connected galore different robovacs (more connected that momentarily).

Unlike the rounded basal presumption of the Roborock Qrevo Curv (which I’ve been using since I reviewed it past November), the Saros 10’s dock is crisp and angular. It looks a spot much futuristic, but it besides sticks retired a spot more. It’s besides beauteous ample astatine 18.5 inches tall, 16.1 inches wide, by 17.3 inches deep. The basal features 2 large, cubic h2o tanks (one for clean, 1 for dirty), a compartment for the disposable vacuum bags, and a abstracted vessel for cleaning solution (which is simply a bully upgrade from the Qrevo Curv, which required you to adhd a spot of cleaning liquid to the caller h2o each clip you refill). The bot and dock are disposable either successful achromatic oregon white.

The banner diagnostic with Saros 10 is simply a whopping 22,000Pa of suction powerfulness from the vacuum, which exceeds immoderate different robot vacuum that I cognize of (the Saros 10R comes adjacent with 19,000PA and the Qrevo Curv has 18,500Pa). It did so prime up my infamous Snack Gauntlet connected some hard flooring and carpet amended than the different vacuums I’ve tested, and it adjacent managed larger debris similar pistachio shells better. It did good with tiny bits, too, similar flecks of dried oregano and cracker crumbs. I wouldn’t accidental it’s nighttime and time amended than the Curv, but it’s decidedly an betterment successful the vacuum department. It did conflict to prime up things erstwhile they were precise adjacent to stationary objects (like a array oregon seat leg), though.

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Setup was beauteous straight-forward. You fundamentally conscionable scan the QR codification connected the bottommost of your robot wrong the Roborock app, and it pairs. It past completed mapping of my full one-bedroom flat successful astir 10 minutes. The representation did necessitate immoderate editing, though. The mirrors connected my closet doors made it deliberation determination was different country that didn’t exist. If you person debased furnishings you privation it to cleanable under, you person to fto it cognize to retract its LIDAR turret erstwhile it gets there. Strangely, it wasn’t large astatine identifying whether it was connected hard flooring oregon a rug, which you deliberation would beryllium casual for it. The app could besides springiness you much options for labeling furniture, but overall, I had everything work to spell wrong 15 minutes oregon so.

The Saros 10’s entity designation seems to beryllium a marginal betterment implicit the Qrevo Curv. It maneuvered astir shoes and slippers nary problem. It besides avoided slurping up a sock disconnected the carpet, similar the Curv did. Cables are these things’ Achilles’ heel, but the Saros 10 was astute capable to debar powerfulness cables that I near connected hardwood. It inactive sucked them up erstwhile they were connected my patterned carpet, but I’m guessing owed to deficiency of contrast. Unfortunately, I wasn’t capable to trial it against the Saros 10R, which allegedly has adjacent amended obstacle avoidance (though Jorge inactive had immoderate issues with powerfulness cords successful our review). The Saros 10 besides does a bully occupation of lifting itself implicit thresholds and heavy carpet lips up to heights of 1.57 inches (4 centimeters).

So, wherefore bash I accidental cipher should bargain this vacuum implicit the 10R? It’s the mop. This is the 4th procreation of Roborock’s “VibraRise” mopping system, which is simply a solid-state mop that vibrates rapidly similar a SonicCare toothbrush and supposedly tin exert much downward force. It besides has a diagnostic wherever if you prime vacuum then mop, it volition detach the mop and permission it successful the dock, truthful it doesn’t accidentally dampen your carpet. And the mop really mops astir arsenic good arsenic the spinning versions recovered connected the Qrevo Curv and Saros 10R, astatine slightest successful the places it tin get to, and there’s the rub.

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The Saros 10R and Qrevo Curv some person 1 mop caput that tin widen retired from nether the robot’s assemblage to get each the mode up to a partition oregon adjacent somewhat nether an overhanging oven oregon fridge door. The Saros 10’s vibrating mop cannot widen outward, truthful it tin lone cleanable what’s straight nether the robot. I enactment retired a clump of dried spices adjacent to a partition and a country successful my room and acceptable it to vacuum lone to spot however adjacent it could get. Shockingly, the Saros 10’s mopping way stopped a afloat 4 inches shy of the wall, and a whopping 8 inches distant from the corner. That’s bad. Like, fatal-flaw bad, arsenic acold arsenic I’m concerned. By comparison, the older Qrevo Curv’s mop really made interaction with the baseboards and came wrong a precise respectable 1.5-inches from the corner.

I’ll besides accidental that the Saros 10 is louder than the Qrevo Curv, some portion vacuuming, but adjacent much noticeably erstwhile it’s self-cleaning backmost astatine the dock. When it empties its dustbin into the container it’s beauteous jarring, and adjacent the cleaning of the mops is beauteous large (though I bash similar that it washes them with 176-degree F h2o to sterilize them and past uses lukewarm aerial to adust them).

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Obviously, the deficiency of existent edge-to-edge mopping was precise disappointing, and it was a trial I repeated conscionable to marque definite I hadn’t missed something. Because a robot vacuum is lone arsenic bully arsenic the places it tin scope I person to powerfully counsel you to get a bot similar the Saros 10R instead, particularly since it’s the aforesaid price, has efficaciously each of the aforesaid features, and has amended AI smarts. The Saros 10 is fantabulous connected carpets (and vacuuming hardwood), but if you person to spell backmost astir your location with a manually mop the corners and edges it missed past it’s conscionable not worthy it.