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Robot vacuums have improved exponentially over the past few years, but one issue that remains is the mop. The biggest problem is that there’s just one mop pad to work with. The robot vacuum drags the same wet pad through your kitchen, your bathroom, and your living room. If you have hardwood in one room, tile in another, or a grease-splattered area near the stove, everything gets the same treatment. MOVA is addressing this concern with the MOBIUS 60, the winner of the CES Innovation Award in 2026.
The headline feature is the MopSwap™ Hub, with three different mop pad types housed in the base station. The robot swaps out the mops depending on what needs to be cleaned, with each engineered for specific surfaces and messes. And, of course, the MOBIUS 60 has all the other features and capabilities you’d expect from a flagship robot vacuum. Here’s what you need to know.
The MopSwap™ Hub features three specialized pads
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If you have a kitchen with tile floors near the stove, you’ve likely seen grease and food splatter build up over time. In this case, the MOBIUS 60 reaches for the ThermoHold Mop, a pad built with a phase-change thermal material that retains warmth during mopping, with the residual heat helping break down grease.
And for rooms with solid hardwood floors, the robot deploys the Plush Mop, made with ultra-fine, ultra-soft fibers designed specifically to clean and polish delicate surfaces without leaving water marks or micro-scratches. If you have bamboo or composite wood flooring, this is the best pad for the job.
And for everything else, like your hallway, the laundry room, the bathrooms, the HyperClean Mop handles multi-surface daily cleaning. It’s a composite fiber pad built to be versatile, covering a wide range of floors efficiently and getting into corners where debris likes to hide.
Of course, the MOBIUS 60 isn’t lugging around three different mop setups everywhere it goes. It returns to its base station between rooms to swap them out, so the grime from your kitchen isn’t carried to your bathroom. The system uses AI to intelligently detect each room’s environment and automatically select the optimal pad for hands-free convenience
It’s one of the biggest hygiene concerns with traditional robot mop designs, and MOVA has built a mechanical solution to address it.
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