Knowledgeable’s Score
Execs
Swing-out aspect brush and mop pad
Integral voice management
Matches beneath low furnishings
Fast mapping
Cons
Higher on onerous flooring than carpet
Costly
Some app choices are onerous to search out
Our Verdict
There’s a lot to love about Roborock’s Qrevo Slim mopping robotic vacuum. Its voice management doesn’t require a sensible speaker because the intermediary, the mapping is fast and adaptive, and because of the dock, there’s minimal upkeep required. Plus its aspect brush and a mop pad cleverly attain out into corners. But though it’s loaded with tech to make utilizing it simpler, the cleansing efficiency total didn’t wow us.
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Billed because the slimmest robotic vacuum with 3D time-of-flight, or ToF, expertise (a technique for measuring distance between a sensor and an object), Roborock’s Qrevo Slim mopping robotic vacuum guarantees so much.
Along with not bumping into objects round your property, it’s low sufficient to scoot beneath furnishings, has an RGB digicam to identify filth, and may detect ground varieties, ramping up the suction and discontinuing mopping for delicate surfaces.
Nevertheless, it’s the built-in voice management which doesn’t require a sensible speaker that you simply would possibly worth essentially the most: it’ll reply to a number of instructions, from beginning and stopping cleansing to sending it again to the dock.
Design and Construct
Low-profile robotic
1,000Pa suction
Robotic responds to direct voice instructions
The very first thing you’ll discover in regards to the Qrevo Slim is its dimension: it’s a glossy 8.2cm tall, permitting it to comb alongside kitchen plinths and entry the house under beds and sofas (its diameter is fairly common at 35cm).
It’s additionally pretty light-weight at 4.2kg so simply carried to a different ground. Like its dock, the robotic is completed in a mixture of shiny and matt black plastic.
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Rachel Ogden / Foundry
Rachel Ogden / Foundry
That is mixed with layers of navigation: LiDAR sensors (two on the entrance, one on the again) and three cameras (an RGB and infrared on the entrance, an infrared on the again).
Beneath, there’s a pair of rubber rollers for sweeping up filth together with 11,000 Pa suction, a aspect brush that reaches into corners and round furnishings legs, and two mopping pads (the correct one among which additionally reaches).
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Rachel Ogden / Foundry
Rachel Ogden / Foundry
On prime, for individuals who like hands-on controls, is a single button that may be pushed a couple of other ways to both spot clear, begin cleansing, ship the robotic again to the dock, mop solely or have interaction the kid lock.
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Rachel Ogden / Foundry
Rachel Ogden / Foundry
It’s paired with an upgraded Multifunctional Dock 3.0, which washes and dries the mop pads, and incorporates a bigger mud bag for the Qrevo Slim to empty into.
What’s intelligent although, particularly for individuals who are much less tech savvy, is the built-in voice assistant, which doesn’t must be related to Wi-Fi to work. By saying ‘Hiya Rocky’, you may, for instance, ask the Qrevo Slim to wash a selected room (as soon as mapped), or modify the suction stage, because of a number of preset instructions obtainable within the app. It’ll even bear in mind your dialog on a chat historical past display screen.
Efficiency and Options
Straightforward to edit maps
Customised cleansing
Color digicam
Return by just a few years and robotic vacs had been nonetheless taking an age to map a ground. Nevertheless, this isn’t so for the Qrevo Slim. We set it off mapping ours and it was finished in a couple of minutes, presenting a floorplan that was straightforward to divide and identify within the app into totally different areas.
There are a number of choices for customising your clear
We favored that it recognised that there have been totally different ground varieties and offered this on the map, though if it will get it mistaken, you may change it.
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Rachel Ogden / Foundry
Rachel Ogden / Foundry
One other plus of the app is that there are a number of choices for customising your clear: it’s potential to decide on a quick cleansing mode (nice for when visitors are about to descend or in your means dwelling), alter how loud the robotic’s beeps are (plus there’s a don’t disturb possibility so it received’t make noise whenever you’re sleeping), 4 choices every for mop water stream and suction energy, and you’ll select whether or not you’d prefer it to go spherical a few times.
Or, when you’d desire the robotic to make these selections, there’s Sensible Plan, which makes the cleansing selections for you.
That mentioned, there’s some helpful stuff, similar to selecting off-peak charging, that’s onerous to search out, as is spot clear, hidden beneath a settings menu known as Pin n Go, so digging by means of the menus is a should.
We discovered the distant viewing by way of its color digicam attention-grabbing however gimmicky. It may be used to take photographs of your pets, however this selection wasn’t enabled in our app.
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Rachel Ogden / Foundry
Rachel Ogden / Foundry
We examined the Qrevo Slim’s cleansing on each onerous flooring (vinyl) and mid-pile carpet, utilizing flour to symbolize mud and oats as bigger particles. Whereas the clear was largely good on the onerous ground, we seen that there was a line of oats that hadn’t been picked up as soon as it was completed.
There was additionally a small quantity of flour that had been missed. The efficiency was spotty on carpet – though that is widespread for robotic vacuums. Our carpet nonetheless had flour left behind and some oats, even after we ran a second cycle on the best suction energy.
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Rachel Ogden / Foundry
Rachel Ogden / Foundry
On the onerous ground, the mopping was examined utilizing a skinny layer of brown sauce and mint sauce that had been left for a couple of hours. The brown sauce was picked up simply however as soon as the ground had dried, afterward, we seen that the place the sauce had been nonetheless felt sticky underfoot.
Roborock’s Qrevo Slim navigated properly – for essentially the most half
Though the mint sauce had dried, flecks of mint caught to the comb rolls after that they had been sucked up. The mop pads tended to unfold the flecks of mint to different areas of the ground too. Disappointingly, there aren’t any spare mop pads, so as soon as they had been lined in mint, they needed to be cleaned earlier than we may do any extra mopping.
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Rachel Ogden / Foundry
Rachel Ogden / Foundry
Roborock’s Qrevo Slim navigated properly for essentially the most half – it averted partitions, desk legs and doorways – however though its makers say it may well recognise and react to as much as 73 kinds of obstacles, we discovered it nonetheless bumped right into a low stone fireside, sucked up and have become clogged with a small scrap of paper, and swallowed a big feather from a cat toy.
One plus we seen after it had been cleansing is that hair didn’t wrap across the brush rolls, which is a standard drawback with robotic vac clogging.
The Qrevo Slim is especially good at discovering its means again to the dock. Having beforehand examined robotic vacuums which have trundled spherical misplaced, we had been impressed that irrespective of the place we put the Qrevo Slim, it at all times discovered the dock rapidly and instantly.
Emptying into the dock’s bin was noisy – however not as loud as some – whereas the mop pad washing was unobtrusive. We favored that the robotic could be instructed to cease drying the mop pads as soon as they’re washed, too, that means you can save power on days once they’d dry naturally.
Value and Availability
Should you’re in Europe, you may already purchase the Qrevo Slim. It has an MSRP of €1,299 however it’s at the moment obtainable from Roborock’s German web site and its French on-line store for €999.
The Qrevo Slim just isn’t but in the stores within the UK and US. We’ll replace this evaluation as soon as it has landed in shops.
Should you’re trying to purchase now, see our round-up of one of the best robotic vacuums we’ve examined for our prime suggestions, and our information to one of the best low cost robotic vacuums for the highest finances buys.
Must you purchase the Roborock Qrevo Slim?
Roborock’s Qrevo Slim delivers some helpful advances on the planet of mopping robotic vacuums: it navigates extra easily, doesn’t get caught or misplaced, and permits cleansing choices to be extra simply customised. Plus, you get all of the comfort of voice management with out being tied to a sensible speaker or gadget.
Nevertheless, for all this tech, like most robotic vacs, there’s nonetheless a niche between its efficiency on carpet and the skills of a typical vacuum cleaner. Whereas the mopping is nice for on a regular basis upkeep however not an alternative choice to a tough ground cleaner or a mop and bucket.
Primarily, the Qrevo Slim is an enormous timesaver for clear flooring however don’t rehome your vacuum cleaner but.
