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Roborock’s new robot vacuum is so hands-off, you might forget it’s there

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Why This Matters

Roborock’s Qrevo 2 Pro introduces advanced features that significantly reduce maintenance hassles for users, such as a Dual Anti-Tangle System and a self-cleaning dock, making it more convenient and reliable for everyday cleaning. Its powerful suction and intelligent cleaning modes ensure thorough dirt and pet hair removal across various floor types, enhancing home cleanliness with minimal user intervention. This innovation underscores the industry's push toward smarter, more autonomous cleaning solutions that prioritize user convenience and efficiency.

Key Takeaways

TL;DR Roborock’s new Qrevo 2 Pro packs 25,000Pa suction and a Dual Anti-Tangle System designed to keep hair from wrapping around its brushes.

It can automatically remove its mop pads before cleaning carpets, while Carpet Boost+ and Deep Carpet Cleaning help tackle dirt buried deeper in rugs and carpets.

The self-cleaning dock washes, dries, refills, and empties the robot automatically, with up to 65 days between dustbin emptying. The Qrevo 2 Pro launches at a promotional price of $ 550.

Robot vacuums are great at saving you from actually vacuuming, but that doesn’t always mean they’re completely hands-off. Hair still gets tangled around the brushes, mop pads need cleaning, and if your home has a mix of hard floors and carpets, there’s always the possibility of a damp mop ending up somewhere it really shouldn’t. Roborock’s new Qrevo 2 Pro wants to make those annoyances much less common, and some of its upgrades sound genuinely useful.

That starts with the actual cleaning. The Qrevo 2 Pro comes with 25,000Pa of suction, so it should have more than enough power to deal with the usual mess around the house. Crumbs scattered under the dining table, dust hiding beneath the sofa, pet hair on the floor, or dirt worked into a carpet are all exactly the sort of things it’s built to pick up.

Of course, picking up all that dirt, especially hair, creates another problem. Anyone with long hair or a pet that seems determined to leave half its coat around the house probably knows what happens to a vacuum brush after a few cleaning runs. Hair gets wrapped around it, and suddenly you’re sitting on the floor with a pair of scissors trying to cut everything free.

That’s exactly the kind of maintenance Roborock is trying to cut down on here. The Qrevo 2 Pro uses its Dual Anti-Tangle System, with the main brush and side brush designed to move hair toward the vacuum instead of letting it wrap around the rollers. Roborock claims this setup can achieve a 0% hair-tangling rate and remove 100% of hair, as per its testing. Those claims will obviously need some real-world testing, but having to clean the brushes less often would already make owning a robot vacuum considerably easier.

And that hands-off approach carries over when the Qrevo 2 Pro moves from hard floors to carpets. Some robot vacuums simply lift their mop pads when they roll onto carpet, but the Qrevo 2 Pro goes a step further and removes them completely. Before cleaning a carpeted area, the robot can head back to its dock, leave the mop pads behind, and return to vacuum the carpet without anything wet underneath. Once it needs to start mopping again, it can go back and reattach them. If you have rugs scattered between tiled or wooden floors, that could save you from worrying about damp pads brushing across them or leaving wet patches behind.

Leaving the mops behind solves the wet-carpet problem, but Roborock is also giving the vacuum a little more help once it gets there. Carpet Boost+ increases suction when the Qrevo 2 Pro is on carpet, while the Deep Carpet Cleaning option sends it over the same area for another pass in a crisscross pattern to catch spots it may have missed the first time.

The same attention extends to the places a robot vacuum can easily miss. The side brush can reverse direction when the robot reaches a corner, allowing its longer bristles to reach farther into spaces where dust tends to collect. Roborock says this improves corner coverage by up to 30%. The mop can also extend outward when cleaning alongside walls and get within 1.85mm of the edge.

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