Review: Siri Can Clean Your House With the Roborock Saros 10R

[hagar]

> I'm not sure if people who have multi-story homes purchase more than one vacuum

That’s what I’ve never understood about these devices. And it’s not just stairs, presumably doors stop them too. It’s essentially a device for a single room, or at most a single open plan area. People who own them - how do you handle this? Do you have the robots just for particularly busy/dirt prone areas, and clean everywhere else manually? Do you move them about? Do you have multiple?

Mine cleans the downstairs area automatically every day when I leave my house (thanks to HomeKit integration).

From time to time I put it upstairs to clean there after I opened all doors. Works fine and returns to the spot where it started.

 

[hagar]

HomeKit integration for robot vacuums is very basic: start, stop and return home. No other options.

Can’t believe it took Apple this long to add support. Maybe the next device category integrations will be faster as they are for the first time using Matter for this instead of direct HomeKit integration.

 

[Boeingfan]

Siri thought she was a rocket scientist, turns out she is a cleaner. Someone’s gotta do it.

 

[DamFu]

> I'm not sure if people who have multi-story homes purchase more than one vacuum

That’s what I’ve never understood about these devices. And it’s not just stairs, presumably doors stop them too. It’s essentially a device for a single room, or at most a single open plan area. People who own them - how do you handle this? Do you have the robots just for particularly busy/dirt prone areas, and clean everywhere else manually? Do you move them about? Do you have multiple?

I live in a split level, most of the living space upstairs, couple smaller rooms, 2nd bath, garage, downstairs. Upstairs I have an Omni 10x Pro and downstairs I have an older Roborock (S5 max I think). I leave the doors open to the rooms I want cleaned. My robovacs have no issues navigating from room to room. .

 

[d-klumpp]

And a discussion of privacy? Are the maps entirely on your device, or hosted in the Cloud?

 

[jclo]

just another example of how the Chinese tech is overtaking US. Roomba invented robot vacuum and owned almost 100% market share for years, now it's a foot note near bankruptcy with vacuums that are years outdated.

I wasted thousands of dollars on 3 different Roomba over the years, they all sucked (no pun intended) and required more maintenance than they are worth, getting stuck, not able to auto dock etc... Then I tried a Roborock and it was everything I imagined what a robo vacuum should be - lidar navigation, anti hair tangle brush with no maintenance, auto empty, 100% perfect auto dock every time, and an amazing app that shows you exactly what the robot vacuum did...that was about 5 years ago and I never looked at a Roomba again.

Fast forward to a year ago when I finally upgraded to the wet mop version, and it was another eureka moment, the thing just works perfectly. One of the headache that make wet mopping not worth it is you have to clean the mops afterwards, but with this one it auto clean and auto dries, so the only thing I needed to do is empty the dirty water, give it a quick rinse, and fill the clean water bucket. It mopped floor like a pro.

I am constantly amazed at the amount of tech that got packed into this thing and how well it works.

PS my old vacuum only Roborock is still going strong at my mom's place, she still calls me quite often and tell me how amazing that thing is (~5 year old tech).

If I'm being honest, I went into this review (and testing other robot vacuums) expecting to be disappointed with the performance. I have been genuinely taken aback by how good these robot vacuums are.

Yesterday, I turned the Saros 10R over to snap a picture (the one you see in the review) and I was really surprised to see zero hair in the brush, or wrapped around the wheels, or anything dirty at all. I have not touched the robot or cleaned anything out since I received it for the review, and I've been testing it for a little over two months. It's almost all convenience, no chore, which is not always the case for smart home devices.

We may not have flying cars in 2025, but we have one heck of a robot vacuum. Hopefully I can check out the new one that uses a little arm to move objects at some point.

 

[Baritone_Guy]

Does this one have Matter? Looking through the specs and the design, it looks super similar to the Saros 10R. That baseboard cleaning add-on is intriguing. I'm reviewing the Ecovacs X9 Pro Omni that's also similar right now and that should be coming in a week or two, but it has a different mopping mechanism. I do like the Ecovacs mopping action because it cleans the dirty water off the mop constantly, but so far the Roborock has better navigation. Looks like it might be more annoying to get to the water tanks on the Narwal.

Height is a surprising factor I didn't think would be too big of a deal, but the Roborock is slim, it can get under almost all of my furniture, including under the stove.

I am not sure on matter. Does not mention it. The Ecovacs is also one of the ones I am looking at. They sure don't make this easy on us.

I wish there was a place to get honest comparisons vs influencer comparisons.

 

[WinstonSmyth]

The problem with these vacuums is that dust in always in the locations these machines can not reach, plus vacuuming the floor is only a small part of cleaning your house, and the quickest.

 

[randomthoughts]

If I'm being honest, I went into this review (and testing other robot vacuums) expecting to be disappointed with the performance. I have been genuinely taken aback by how good these robot vacuums are.

Yesterday, I turned the Saros 10R over to snap a picture (the one you see in the review) and I was really surprised to see zero hair in the brush, or wrapped around the wheels, or anything dirty at all. I have not touched the robot or cleaned anything out since I received it for the review, and I've been testing it for a little over two months. It's almost all convenience, no chore, which is not always the case for smart home devices.

We may not have flying cars in 2025, but we have one heck of a robot vacuum. Hopefully I can check out the new one that uses a little arm to move objects at some point.

I actually bought the Saros 10R after your review (yay 0% financing).

I kind of stopped paying attention to robot vacuums many years ago, thinking they would always get trapped or not go over the small metal frame bar of my coffee table.

I didn’t know they now mop, do maintenance automatically, and can go over obstacles.

I have had it since Saturday and I cannot tell you how much of a quality of life improvement this is. I can now have vacuumed and mopped floors every other day if I want. No more cat hair dust bunnies. This was absolutely a worthy investment.

Thanks for a great review, your post has had a big impact for me.