roborock Q10 S5+ Robot Vacuum and Mop, 10,000Pa Suction Black

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  Colton

  12 de julio de 2026

  Very satisfied

  I’ve been wanting a robot vacuum for a while but was hesitant. Landed on Roborock after watching tons of robot vacuum reviews. Went with the Q10 and have been very happy so far.Vacuum feature works very well and does a great job at picking up the dust, pet hair, and dirt that accumulates in my house daily. I run this thing daily and it amazes me at how much is in the dust bin after each session. People don’t realize how dirty things get.I have a 1 story house with all wood floors which I feel is ideal for these things. I have some rugs and mats, which this vacuum handles well. Easily moves over thresholds and smaller bumps.I think a robo vac is good for someone who keeps their space fairly clean but wants something to maintain that. This vacuum is not going to replace a regular vacuum, but it will cut down on the number of times you’ll need to use a regular vacuum. If you run this thing daily/every other day, you’ll find that you won’t need to use a regular vacuum much anymore (aside from larger messes/spills).I believe that if you use this vacuum daily, you’ll prevent dust/hair/dirt from accumulating to a noticeable amount. It handles the small day to day build up easily as long as you run it often.Have not used the mop feature but honestly don’t expect it to work well (which I’m fine with because I just wanted the vacuum feature). I doubt any robot vac would mop well because it just can’t generate the force a human can with a hand-held mop.Maps out your home well and does great at manuevering around obstacles. Will adapt to your house as things change. App is cool because you can set schedule and have it clean everything or specific rooms.Overall great product and worth the price.Ver másVer menos

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  Linda Sherry

  18 de septiembre de 2022

  It’s not quite perfect, but it’s so much better than cleaning by hand.

  I’m going to frame this review as a series of responses to what I imagine are common concerns for potential buyers.Q. This version doesn’t come with the fancy dock. Is that bad?A. Yes and no. The robot has an internal dustbin of perhaps 20 cubic inches volume, which is enough to clean a few large rooms in a row without filling up, but only if they’ve been cleaned already recently (which thankfully is usually the case after a while if you’ve set a proper cleaning schedule). That said, since the robot runs as little as once per week or as much as 4 full runs per day (“full run” here meaning the robot runs until its battery reaches 20% and it has to return to dock), depending on your schedule, if a lot of dirt is introduced or you haven’t run it recently, it can get tiresome to empty the dustbin manually. On the one hand, that’s still a lot less effort than manually shoving a vacuum into every corner of the space, but since the robot uses a semi-enclosed dustbin rather than a filter bag, you have to shake all the dust and fibers out of the bin by hand which inevitably leads to a small cloud of dust in your face and around your trash bin. I lasted less than a week before I decided to order the auto- empty, or “plus” dock.Q. What about my privacy? I heard this model has a camera.A. It does. It also has an onboard AI to process the images from the camera so it doesn’t need to send them to the cloud for processing. It’s not my job nor my area of expertise to tell you how much privacy you need, but i will say that I’ve had the robot for most of a week and my router has logged a total traffic of about 500MB from the robot. Since I’ve been monitoring the robot from my phone at work and used the remote access function, that’s a reasonable amount.Q. Remote access?! But what if someone used that to drive around my home taking pictures of my stuff?A. Well, assuming that they didn’t go to the effort of brute forcing their way past the encryption on the connection, they’d have to have your login information for the app (they’d have to know which brand of robot you got to even know which app to use) and they’d have to enter the dot-pattern lock code that the app asks for every time you use the remote function, and that’s assuming you enabled that function at all, as it’s disabled by default and can only be enabled by physically interacting with the robot. But even assuming that they got past those hurdles, they’d then have the privilege of directing the robot to crawl across your floor at ~5 inches per second while announcing that “remote viewing is active”, and they’d still only have a camera view from 1.5 inches over the ground, which isn’t a great perspective from which to steal someone’s data. Combine that with the fact that the robot is incapable of opening doors and the remote connection can be terminated by pushing any of the easily accessible buttons on the slowly moving robot, and you aren’t exactly left with the stuff of nightmares.Q. What about the AI? Is it going to take over the world?A. Well, I can’t be sure about larger AIs, but the one in this robot is nearly smart enough to avoid getting the robot trapped by chairs with crossbars for feet and not quite smart enough to find a way to roll over ethernet cables without tangling them. It helps the robot navigate and it lets you look at pictures of objects the robot has identified as obstructions (if you have that option enabled), but it’s not going to be thinking circles around even the average housepet.Q. What about this mopping function?A. I wish I could say that it’s amazing and I don’t think I’ll ever mop again, but that just isn’t so. Mostly it’s because my house was built over half a century ago and the robot was designed last year, but my kitchen is the main area that needs to be mopped and it is unfortunately filled with the sort of cupboards that overhang the floor by a couple inches - just low enough that the robot can’t get under them. As a result, the major splash zones right under the ledge go completely untouched by the mopping operation. As if that weren’t annoying enough, the mop attachment has no way to actually remove fluid from the surface it’s cleaning, so cleaning with it is kinda like putting a moist washcloth on a string attached to a stick and kinda dragging along the ground over the stains: not the most immediately effective option. That said, with enough passes and cleaning of the mop attachment proportional to the amount of material to be cleaned, it eventually gets most of the floor pretty clean. And since individual passes are essentially free as far as personal effort goes… it’s good enough I guess. I just wouldn’t go for this model if all you need done is mopping.Q. What about the price?A. Well, at 2-5 times the cost of manually operated vacuums, it is definitely an investment, and it does fall a little short in some ways. For example, it doesn’t agitate carpet as energetically as most vacuums and doesn’t suck quite as hard either, so it’s unlikely to get as much cleaning done on the first pass as other vacuums. Then again, each pass is a significant investment of your time and effort with a regular vacuum, whereas with the robot you just have to tell it where you want it to clean, how many times, and what level of suction or scrubbing to do and it will do the rest on its own (note: it will charge in between cleaning cycles if it needs more charge to be able to finish, but it will resume once it has enough charge and will remember where it left off. second note: depending on which dock you have, you may be required to intervene to empty the dustbin, as well). The other main flaw is that there are some things it just can’t do. The robot is incapable of fitting into tight spaces and can’t climb stairs, so cleaning those areas is right out. In addition, the vacuum roller is several inches from the edge of the robot, so while the side brush can sometimes push loose debris into the vacuum, that pretty much only works on tile, wood and other flat non-porous surfaces. Thankfully, humans and most of our preferred living partners tend not to travel those areas much either, but you can still expect to occasionally need to shove a conventional vacuum around into those awkward spaces. And of course the stairs. In any case, I suppose it’s a long investment, but some napkin math tells me that over the course of the next year, I’ll save approximately 40 hours of cleaning. Assuming the robot lasts past the initial year (given how easy it is to maintain, I rate that as very likely), it will have paid for itself by then in saved labor.Q. If there was one more thing you’d add to make this product better, what would it be?A. Fast charging. The robot will automatically attempt to return to its dock when it drops below 20% power. Using the basic charging dock, it takes just over 4 hours to charge after that. In a world where most phones can charge from 20% to 80% in less than an hour (some in less than 15 minutes), I’m not entirely sure why this robot takes over 4 hours to charge. There is something to be said for the longevity gains to be had from slow charging over fast charging, but I think I would have preferred a setting in the app with an explanation attached and a slot on the side of the robot for installing a new battery. I’d like to stress that this is not a critical feature of this robot, but it would be nice to be able to schedule all the cleaning for when I’m at work, but it requires too much battery charge, and the dock can’t replenish it fast enough.Q. Overall, are you happy with the robot?A. Yes. Very. I was happy enough with it when all it had done was clean my carpets, but for an extra kick, I decided to ask it to clean my garage, in which everything from woodworking to machining to welding is performed and which hadn’t been cleaned for 2 years. Not only did the robot not catch fire or explode (not even a little, though it did ask me to clean its roller), but it actually cleaned up all the dust, sawdust, metal filings, welding sparks and stray leaves! I honestly hadn’t been sure it would survive that sort of torture test, especially since the manual says it’s only for indoor home use and my garage is not the environment the designers meant when they wrote that. So far, I’m quite impressed and I just hope I can find a way to make it do its job without buying every accessory and replacement part under the sun, since you kind of have to expect that sort of nonsense with companies that try to convince you their product catalogue is a lifestyle.

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  Buyer

  5 de noviembre de 2023

  Don’t make the mistake I did, Roborock is Garbage…

  Less than 10 months after purchasing a Roborock Q7 it is dead, completely. It fails to power on, won’t connect to the app, and is for all intents and purposes a paperweight. This happened after a ‘firmware update’, and this in my experience has been one of, but not nearly the worst of the experience with Roborock. Firmware updates all seem to cause massive problems for the vacuum, from deleting maps, removing features, and now outright bricking the vacuum. Once the device failed I did what any customer would do and contacted their support. When I tell you that Roborock has the worst, capital W, Worst support I have ever utilized, I absolutely mean it. Roborock support is only after hours, meaning if you are located inside the United States, you will only be able to meaningfully communicate with support at night. They have a 24x7 helpline where Tier 1 technicians provide basic, extremely limited support. In my case it was “Press the power button, does it turn on?” After that I was told the Tier 2 support would need to be involved. Tier 2 support is only via email, and expect at a minimum 24 hours between messages. Roborock confirmed that they do not have interest in allocating the resources to allow customers to communicate with Tier 2 support. They do not see the value in it. So I waited patiently for a response. The device is after all only 10 months old, certainly they would just ship a new one and refurbish mine that was bricked by a bad firmware update. Surprisingly that was not the case. The response I got back was that the device was Out of Warranty. 10 month old, a $500 vacuum, and it’s “Out Of Warranty”. I was told that if I chose to I could ship the device back to them at my own expense, and that sometime later it would be returned to me and that they would ‘attempt to repair it.’The thing that interested me here is the length of the warranty. I was confused and messaged back, assuming they had made a mistake. Obviously the device was under warranty, it was just 10 months old. I confirmed the serial number and again, waited 24 hours for a reply. It almost began to feel like a NASA mission, where I was waiting for some communication delay between me and a set of engineers on another planet. I am an engineer, and I have some experience with warranties, so I went to look how long the warranty was on Roborock Products. The warranty, it turns out, is 30 days. Roborock only guarantees that their products will continue to function for 30 days after purchase. Past that date repairs are only carried out at the end users cost. Generally a warranty time is set where you calculate the MTTF, mean time to failure of the components, and you design the warranty to be long enough to cover basic failures, but not so long as to include the failures of consumable products. Given this knowledge it’s safe to assume that Roborock does not expect their devices to last more than 30 days. The design is intentional, and these aren’t ’out of band failures’. Roborock is, and I confirmed with support, aware of the fact that their devices all will fail within a year, and the expectation is that the customer can, if they choose, continue to pay for subsequent repairs, regardless of whether or not this failure was caused by misuse, failure of components, or by receiving a bad firmware update.All of that in mind, the actual functionality of the vacuum is also extremely limited. We ran our vacuum on a nightly schedule for 10 months and rarely was there a night where it actually completed the schedule without getting lost, stuck, or failing in some way. Low lying furniture seemed to provide an especially difficult challenge, as the vacuum would constantly climb onto the furniture legs and then become stuck. The solution ended up being placing ‘no go’ zones around everywhere that the device would get stuck, and after about 7 months of tweaking the map, we were able to get it to successfully complete a single run. Of course roughly 40% of the map had been blocked off and in subsequent runs we found that the Roborock frequently got ‘lost’ and wandered into No Go zones, only to then freeze and require us to move it manually out of the zone. It was a little like having a toddler vacuum for you, some part of the floor got cleaned, but overall it was more work to use the Roborock than it was to just vacuum it ourselves. Even when it did vacuum we found that it did at best a mediocre job, often leaving debris behind, and that the ‘mopping’ function left our floors streaky and resulted in a wet and smelly mop being dragged over our carpets when it transitioned between floor types. There is no function to tell it to vacuum carpets first and then mop floors, in fact it randomly moves between floors and carpets in a way that seems designed to ensure as much of the carpet as possible gets wet. The Lidar function is all but useless and in watching the vacuum operate I watched it constantly bounce and knock into things, seeming to have no idea where it actually was at any given time. It functioned roughly as well as a cheap robot vacuum without any lidar or advanced mapping features.Finally, and this I only learned recently. Roborock is entirely located in China. I include this because for a lot of people there are serious concerns with services and hardware that communicate back with Chinese servers, largely because the Chinese government openly identifies that it has the ability to take possession of any data on any server that belongs to any Chinese company, which is why you have seen services like TikTok be blocked and why the Government has banned Huawei. Understand that if you have a Roborock vacuum that any data it collects becomes property of the Chinese government, including mapping data and anything the sensors detect in your home. This may or not be a big deal to people, but I feel it’s worth mentioning since Roborock does a good job of obfuscating this point.Overall I would say that the 500$ Roborock performs no better than a 99$ Eufy vacuum I have upstairs. The LiDAR doesn’t seem to function at all, it seems to have no ability to avoid furniture or to keep itself from becoming trapped or lost. Even when it does vacuum it does a mediocre job and generally leaves the carpets dirty and wet, if you use the mopping function. I would highly suggest you avoid both this model and products from Roborock. It’s clear from my interactions with support that Roborock has no faith in their products, they consider them to be disposable and provide only at cost repairs after purchase.
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  Art

  10 de julio de 2026

  RoboRock Q10 S5+ works very well. Excellent Budget Robot! - 2 Month Review.

  I purchased this RoboRock Q10 S5+ during Prime days, the price was like $254. I also purchased the Asurion 3 year product warranty at the same time for an additional $36. The first unit I received was brand new but out of the box factory defective. Kept getting "internal error, reset the robot" when I tried to perform the initial home room mapping. So 6 factory resets later, I still had the same error. I returned that unit for an exchange with another identical product from Amazon. What was irritating with that exchange was that for some that also resulted in the 3 year Asurion warranty being refunded and voided. I almost didn't catch that the extended warranty had been refunded and eliminated from my order. The new 2nd unit, the exchange vacuum, would have been without the additional 3 year service warranty that I thought I had from the original purchase had I not just happened to notice that refund. I repurchased the 3 year warranty to cover my replacement unit. Given my experience with the first robot and from some other reviews I have read on this particular robot, I would recommend folks to get the additional service warranty, you may end up needing it.Anyhow my review of the 2nd new unit which I now have.... I love it. Its a great robot so far. No issues of any sort so far. Its been operating flawlessly every single day. The room mapping process was easy and quick. The application on my phone is easy to use. The robot vacuums the floor well *and* in a very efficient manner - its does back and forth passes instead of the random direction bumper car vacuuming of my previous robot. It does not got hung up and stuck like my previous robot did. In 2019 I had purchased a Ecovacs Deebot N795 robot from Amazon, it was a cheap entry level purchase. It vacuumed well when it vacuumed but it absolutely got hung up on everything in the house. From pedestal chair bases, to every single type of chord, thick or thin in the house, socks you name it, That robot would find it and get stuck on it. There really was no such thing as an automated room or house cleaning with that unit. Completely different story with this RoboRock. It is completely a get it going and forget about it doing its thing type of an operation with it. It just does not get stuck! There have been 2 items in total which it has gotten stuck on since I started using it - that's it! In my bathroom I have one of those thick, rubberized backing, bathroom floor mats by the shower. It does not like that - however none of my vacuums do, including my upright Shark, So I just pick up that throw rug before I do the bathroom, no big deal. The only other thing it ever got stuck on was a fiber optic chord of some led lighting which my wife had plugged in one of the bedrooms. The chord for that was extremely thin and hard to see. I just eliminated that singular light and chord, Since then, zero issues. ZERO. I am truly impressed with how well this robot functions autonomously and how well it cleans the floor. Its not going to vacuum at the same level as an upright unit. This is for day to day maintenance vacuuming only - and it shines in that role. The plus unit also comes with a docking base that has a self emptying dust bin in it. I cant express how well that functionality works and what a time saver it is to have that feature. My previous robot did not. So you had to remember to empty the dust bin after every use, and the dust bins are not all that huge, so you could end up vacuuming with a totally full onboard bin and wonder why it was not cleaning well. That also made use of that vacuum not a set it, run it, and forget it sort of an affair. You had to constantly maintain and monitor it. Completely different story with the RoboRock. I have it set to auto empty every 30 minutes no matter what. Every 30 minutes of use it self empties and I don't have that issue. At the end of its selected cleaning cycle when it docks to charge, it also self empties when that occurs.This RoboRock came with a mop feature. From reviews of many different robots different manufactures and models within those manufacturers, for the most part the mopping features do not work so well. Maybe on units costing thousands of dollars you can expect some bang there with the mopping feature.... So I did not have high expectations for this part of the robot to work well and I did not buy this robot with much thought to using that feature whatsoever - it just came with the unit so to speak. Now after experimenting with the mopping feature on this robot, I will say that it works "ok". Nothing like wow or anything close to that, but the floor does looks better for using it rather than not using it. It will scrub off small spills and stains off of the laminate floor. It will shine the floor up a tiny bit. Again nothing earth shattering, definitely will never replace hand mopping, but it helps. The floor looks better and cleaner for using it. No drops of water left behind as well. Another plus with this mopping feature is that it DOES NOT dispense huge amounts of water onto the pad. You start out mopping by removing the mop pad and wetting it completely under the sink, wringing it out well before attaching to the bottom of the robot. Then, as the robot works, it basically has a drip dispenser from its solution tank to the mop pad to keep the pad damp and to dispense the water/cleaning solution in an IV drip manner onto the pad. This keeps the pad damp throughout the cleaning cycle but not overly so. As many of you know, excessive standing water and laminate/vinyl floors don't necessarily mix well. You don't want standing water getting into and under the flooring or it will swell and cause buckling. No issues here with that whatsoever. You do have to manually perform these steps with the wetting of the mop pad (and the cleaning of the pad once done), installing the pad, removing the pad - so just remember mopping doesn't fall under the fully automated category for this robot.So my final review of my RoboRock Q10 S5+..... totally worth the $254 price. Works extremely well and I am very satisfied with the purchase and performance so far. Its made maintenance vacuuming fun and truly effortless. Buy the extended warranty, as there may be some legitimate concerns for extended longevity and reliability with this unit. For an additional $36 dollars for 3 years I feel that it is worth the price for the peace of mind and long term insurance. Buy this vacuum would be my honest recommendation.Adding additional comment and review now that I have 2 solid months of daily use into the product. The Roborock app allows you to put the robot onto a scheduled cleaning cycle. So that is what I use for daily automated cleanings. Its very convenient and easy, a great way to remind yourself that "hey I have this robot now that I can use to clean my house every day for me". When you see it out and about doing its thing, that's your reminder! This is also a great way of ensuring your getting your moneys worth out of this product.With 2 solid months of use, no additional robot hangups beyond the 2 incidents which I described earlier, flawless automated performance so far. I have washed the air filter once. The filter is easily washable in the sink and doesn't fall apart. Cleaning that was important, it does get visibly dirty and does impact performance. I rinsed that out with just warm water and additionally the dust bin (using warm soapy water there). This maintenance took like 10 minutes and was easy to perform. I then air dried those parts on a sunny window sill. I have also pre-emptively purchased additional filters, brushes and mop pads on Amazon so I can perform that maintenance when the need arises. Not expensive.I have also discovered another big benefit of the predictable movement of this vacuum, where it travels in incremental straight lines across your floors instead of the random bumper car style of older robot vacs.... this gives you an opportunity to move furniture items out of its path before it reaches them. This is nice, say if you have and end table or something like that which you normally don't vacuum under, but you want to be more thorough in a specific case and get under it. This gives you time to move the item before the vacuum reaches it, very handy. Then once the vacuum has hit that spot, you can put the item back. I only do this once in a while, every few cleanings, but its handy. The predictability of the robots movements allows that.Another big plus of robot vacuums is their ability to get under furniture items which have a "crawl" space. So things likes beds, some cabinets and night stands etc. At its highest point (the top of the LIDAR unit on this vacuum) the height of this vacuum is 3 inches and slightly less than 7/8 of an inch. So if the free space underneath your object is 3 and 3/4 or less, this robot will definitely go underneath it. Getting these spaces clean is a godsend. The robot is excellent at this.Just further input on the phone app. Once you have your rooms auto mapped, you can add no go zones to your map as well as other manual editing options (combine rooms, erase part of rooms etc). This was handy so that like in my case I can have the robot quit vacuuming a certain area in our kitchen where the dog bowls are located. We have a rubber mat under that area. By marking this area as a no go zone the robot skirts around that particular spot each time which is great.For those of you who want more details and visuals, check out the "Just a Dad" channel on YouTube. This guy video reviews robots at nauseum. Be a bit aware though, I think he is compensated for some of his reviews, so be on the lookout for some occasional bias.Another thing, when your reading these reviews..... If you haven't noticed it, there seem to be many reviews here which are reviewing Roborock robots which are not the Q10 S5+ model, which is the robot this space is supposed to be for. Why they are mixed in here I have no idea, but it really wrecks the "read a relevant review" process.... Not sure if that's Amazons fault or the reviewers - so just be careful when that the review your finding in the review section actually covers the exact product you think its for. Doesn't make any sense but if you look closely, take this specific product as an example, you have a considerable number of reviews for a product "a", "b", "c" when this is actually the review area for a product "d" So make sure your read a correct review when your reading. That's why I like putting the exact product and model explicitly into my product review text because I see this discrepancy over and over in Amazon.....Final word - still think this robot is great, would rebuy it!Additional fruit salad..... keeping it real....Our home environment. What we do have.... 2 adults (1 slob = me and 1 Mrs clean = "The Wife"). 2 dogs - one furry white haired Shi Tzu - with long hair, and one medium dog - with short brown hair, and 1 large long haired Maine Coon black haired cat. What we don't have...No kids (those are grown and making messes in their own houses and apartments). But we do not have a pristine house. But we also don't have small Lego's, plastic army men, Pokemon cards, small plastic spring gun pellets, small magnets, board game pieces, plastic doll accessories, pennies, nickels, dimes, gold fish crackers etc. laying around - you get it - the standard small kids in the house picture. We also don't have teenagers with their 10,000 USB charging cords in the house (instead we just have 50 - lol), no nail polish bottles, no 37 crusty socks under the bed, no used Kleenex's etc. Will enough of those small items impact the vacuum? While I dont have physical proof (no grandkids yet), but yes I think this vacuum would have considerably more issues if those was all present in the house and on the floor. So don't think that this thing will pick up after your kids. I know (firsthand) as a parent that's a bummer to hear....
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  hopeprism

  26 de junio de 2026

  Love the Q10 S5+

  Owned it for 6 months now and am pleasantly surprised how good Rockie is. I didn’t want to spend too much for the top-of-the-line, but I didn’t want to buy a cheap robot either, so the Q10 S5+ was the best affordable choice when it’s on sale. Rockie is quite smart, even though she does not have an RGB camera (I didn’t want one with a camera due to privacy concerns). It uses IR (infrared) and is able to detect many objects, with the exception of items like loose slippers. I advise to move as much out of the way as possible. She can vacuum and mop an entire floor on the highest setting (Max+ and Deep Cleaning). It takes a while for deep cleaning, but she does a pretty good job. Obviously, you still need to vacuum parts of the house yourself, but the Roborock is well worth the investment in time saved every week. Hope she lasts forever.You need to manually refill the water tank and I recommend wetting the mop pad before you start since it doesn’t spray that much water to begin with. I haven’t had to change the dustbin bag yet since it holds a lot, but you can purchase extra bags easily on Amazon. You do have to occasionally clean the sensors and the brushes, but it takes a couple of minutes. The Roborock will map out your floor(s) and can detect carpets and rugs. Quite a smart robot. I move her to different floors once in a while, since she can be a bit heavy to move back and forth all the time. There is also a quiet suction setting, but don’t expect it to be completely silent if you have a dog or baby you don’t want to wake. Overall, I recommend the Q10 S5+. Technology has gotten so much better since the Roomba first came out.Ver másVer menos

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  Dad, the engineer

  Excellent robot vaccum (see details). Highly recommended

  To the world, I am an early adopter. However, the thing to know is that, even within early adoption, there are different levels. For example, when Tesla released the Model S in 2012, I instantly KNEW I wanted one. I ended up buying one 3 years later. Sometimes I'm on the bleeding edge of technology, but when I'm not so sure about its viability or sustainability, I will sometimes wait a beat. When Roombas made a splash in the early 2000s I was skeptical... mostly about limitations due to battery technology (runtime, suction), but also intelligence (processing power, sensor suite, firmware progamming). Friends and coworkers would buy robot vacuums, but then stick them in a closet after a while. Fast forward to late 2019, and I think I might finally have my vacuum!The Roborock S6 Robot Vacuum is really the first product of its type that I thought would work for my use case. My house was built in the early 80s, so it has some architectural quirks that newer homes don't have. The house has two stories, but that's not really that unusual - what's a bit different is that various sections of the house are sunken or raised by a half a foot. It's visually interesting, but a robot vacuum isn't going to parkour its way around the place. The largest contiguous areas at the same elevation are about 1400sqft, 900sqft, 1700sqft, and 1200sqft. It's a big house. The "cliff" sensor in the S6 is super important, with the dropoffs. I figured I'd get an S6, see how it worked in one area of the house. If it worked out, I might get 2 or 3 more.The S6 arrives in a series of Russian nesting boxes. When you get to the actual retail box, the packaging is slick and professional. The components are individually bagged. The vacuum arrives already assembled (there is no battery pack or filter to install), and the docking station, power cable, documentation, mop components, tray, and extra filter are also included. Preparing the S6 consists of putting the power cable in the base (you can choose which side to route the power cable out (nice touch). I was a little surprised that there was no way to secure the base to the floor or baseboard... the base has anti-skid rubber pads, but some people may want to opt for a more permanent and cleaner (ha) solution.Next, I put the robot on the charger (it arrived charged to about 60%). I downloaded and installed the Roborock app from the Google Play store on my Pixel 3 XL (Android 10). When you launch the app you are directed to create a Roborock account. Roborock does not support external auth'ing (Apple, Google, FB, etc.), so you will have another password to keep track of. After you validate your email, by entering an emailed verification code, you are in the app an ready to add your robot(s). The app shows all nearby, unregistered Roborock devices. Select the vacuum from the list (even thought there's likely to only be one thing on it), and you will be prompted to select your WiFi network's SSID. Enter the auth information and whether you want to save the credentials to your account (presumably for the easier setup of future devices), and it will push the configuration to the vacuum. A minute or so later your vacuum will be communicating with your app via STUN/STUNT/TURN, instead of through the vacuum's ad-hoc WiFi network (as you'd expect, the vacuum's SSID goes away once the device is on your network).Just a side note here: with all of your IoT devices, like wifi sprinkler controllers, smart TVs, smart speakers (Sonos, Alexa, Google), vacuums, home automation stuff, cameras, etc., it's a good idea to set up a VLAN'd SSID that has NO access to your PCs, laptops, and NAS devices. It's just a good idea, and it doesn't really take much work.The hardware side of the vacuum is pretty straightforward. There's a small waste bin on board, with no sensor to tell the vacuum when it's full (kind of a deficiency, in my view). There are infrared, laser, and tactile sensors to sense obstacles. There's a small, pleated air filter to keep from ejecting just-vacuumed debris back into the air. There are provisions for mopping, in terms of on-board water, a metering mechanism, and mop attachments. The key component of the vacuum, though, is the battery. It's really responsible for most of the performance (and performance limitations) of the device? Runtime? Battery capacity. Suction power? Battery capacity. Speed? Battery capacity. Even noise, which is pitched as a positive, is low (in-part) because there isn't more power budget to devote to the vacuum motor. Finally, if you're wondering why it doesn't use a HEPA filter, it's also due to power. More restrictive filters reduce suction (at the same power level, with the same motor). The unit seems well made, with decent workmanship, but my personal experience with its longevity is nonexistent, since the unit is new to me (I'll post updates if I encounter problems).The software side of the vacuum is where things get interesting. You see, the product page of the S6 lists all kinds of awesome features, but they can only be used if you enable "Map Saved Mode" in the app. That mode is marked beta. If you're a technologist, you can look at the S6 (and its feature set) as being a product of something called agile software development. You come to market with the minimum deliverable product, and then you use your stakeholder input (customers and potential customers, in this case), to drive continual development of the product's features. If you're NOT a technologist, or you're a cynic, you may just look at it as having been sold an unfinished product. It's worth noting, though, that your phone, your laptop, and possibly even your car subscribe to the agile development methodology. Roborock probably assumes that anyone that's willing to get a robot vacuum is probably down for continual development.The operation of the vacuum from the app is pretty cool. On the first run, you can see the ray-projection LIDAR as the area is mapped out. You can also see the route trace as the vacuum does its thing. Neat. The cliff sensor worked well without me having to set a no-go area. I also didn't have to set any invisible walls to keep the vacuum from getting stuck or hung up. All that, and the vacuum didn't mark any walls or furniture. The S6 did move a light metal waterbowl around a little. The vacuum is quiet enough that it didn't freak out my 3 small dogs. The problem I did run into was dog-related, though. My first run with the S6 was on a 1400 sqft area, about 2 weeks since the last vacuum (I was expecting the S6 to come earlier). The issue was that the roller and the waste cup were full after about 700 sqft. That's not really that big a deal, but the problem was that the vacuum had NO IDEA that it was full. Only after returning to the base did the unit say that the filter was clogged. No kidding. That seems like something to address in a future iteration of the product. Since the subsequent cleanings were much lower volume, it wasn't an issue that was repeated. Obviously, YMMV... I have no idea how dirty you are :p I was a little worried about vacuum handling the transition on and off the doormats and rugs in the area, but it handles them like a champ. After the 1400 sqft area is done the battery still has about 40% capacity.I did OAuth the skill to my Alexa installation. It works, but I'm more curious how it will work when I have multiple devices on the same account.I haven't used the various robot vacuums, since their inception. Hearing horror stories about them definitely scared me away for years. For me, the Roborock S6 gets it right (enough), to the point where I think now is the right time for consumers to get in. Despite the best software features being labeled "beta", the product acts and feels mature. I Expect to buy one or two more S5s or S6s. Highly recommended.