Ryan Haines / Android Authority
There are household appliances you can convince yourself you don’t need. Sometimes, you’re right — I mean, who needs a 9-in-1 coffeemaker, rice cooker, and ice cream machine? For a while, I even put robot vacuums into that same category. After all, as a dad of two cats in a one-bedroom apartment, I didn’t think I had that much space to worry about. Besides, my traditional vacuum was doing just fine, even if I did have to grab a mop from my closet afterwards.
Then, the Roborock Qrevo CurvX showed up, and it changed my tune. Between its ultra-thin design, powerful suction, and smart features that actually ensure that I don’t have to keep a constant eye on it, it’s pretty much taken over my home cleaning routine. Here’s how it made me a believer in robot vacuums and why you might want to consider one, too — especially with Black Friday just around the corner.
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Ryan Haines / Android Authority
It’s funny; when brands decided that 2025 would be the year of the razor-thin flagships, I really thought they would stick to phones. I figured that the iPhone Air and the Galaxy S25 Edge would be the extent of my slimmed-down reviews for the year and that I’d go right back to life as I knew it. Then, Roborock took that logic of being slim yet powerful and transformed it into a robot vacuum cleaner.
Alright, well, Roborock probably didn’t take its cues from either Apple or Samsung, but that doesn’t change the fact that the Qrevo CurvX is unbelievably compact. It stands at just 7.98cm (3.14 inches) tall, which is low enough to glide under almost all the furniture in my apartment with ease, including some that I didn’t expect to fit. The Qrevo CurvX breezed under my coffee table, my bed, and a dresser or two, then followed it up with a journey under my couch — territory that hasn’t been navigated since the day I moved in.
Outside of a brief hang-up, which was my fault for leaving a cluttered maze under my couch, it cruised from one room to the next, using its RetractSense LiDAR to anticipate chair legs, my bed frame, and more. In open spaces, the Qrevo CurvX’s LiDAR unit sticks out of the top of the vacuum, like most scanning-equipped robots, allowing it to keep a 360-degree eye on the situation. Then, as it dips under furniture, the sensor retracts, slimming the robot’s profile and switching to a 100-degree view to navigate much tighter spaces.
Just as impressive, though, is the way that the Roborock Qrevo CurvX handles a change in flooring. Its AdaptiLift chassis works in almost the opposite way that the RetractSense LiDAR does, picking out and lifting over single-layer thresholds of up to 3cm (1.18 inches) or dual-layer thresholds of up to 4cm. My apartment is, thankfully, not that complicated, so the Qrevo CurvX has only had to navigate a few stacked rugs and the cable for my power strip, but it’s done both with ease.
Also, I know I said the Roborock Qrevo CurvX is my first tangle with a robot vacuum, but I have to admit that’s not true. The last one, however, which only served as my cleaning assistant for about a week, just couldn’t figure out how to handle the tassels of an Oriental rug I received from family members. Each time it approached, it seemed to go right for the tassels, almost asking to get tied up. With the Qrevo CurvX’s AdaptiLift chassis, though, I’ve yet to meet the same issue. Faced with those very same tassels, Roborock’s sensors kick in, reminding the robot to lift its way over the challenging surface rather than push right through.
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