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TL;DR Ahead of CES 2026, Roborock has dropped a new teaser for its upcoming hardware.
While not much is shown, the image of a ball rolling down stairs suggests this could be the next challenge the company intends to address.
Dialing up the brightness, we see what appears to be a vacuum with a new arm-and-wheel locomotion system.
We’re just about one week away from CES 2026 getting started, and tech companies have already been lining up to tease their new hardware announcements ahead of time. Last year, at CES 2025, we saw Roborock push the limits on what we’ve come to expect from robot vacuum hardware with the reveal of the Saros Z70 and its articulated arm for picking up small items. Today we’re getting a preview of how Roborock is planning to follow that one up, and it sure looks like the next frontier for the company’s vacuums could be navigating stairs.
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Across its social channels, Roborock teases “a new chapter” for its hardware with this short video:
Alright, so we’ve got what starts off as a very wheel-looking soccer ball, which then stretches out before rolling down some stairs. And then we’re left with a barely lit glimpse at what’s presumably this new hardware.
Stairs have always been a problem for vacuums (even well before the robot era), but recently we’ve been seeing companies step up to finally bound over that hurdle, thanks to efforts like eufy and its MarsWalker platform. While that one exists as an external solution that the vacuum essentially “rides,” we get the sense from this teaser that Roborock might be planning something a little more integrated.
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