Roborock Saros Z70 review: a great robot vacuum with a sometimes helpful arm

I suspect my dog ​​doesn’t like Roboric Saros Z 70. Unlike dozens of robot vacuums, which allows happiness to clean up while sleeping, Z70 steals its treasures. His dog’s toys – though this may be a future feature – but my family’s socks that he likes to collect and take home with him.

Since the Z70 came, it was confronted. The first robot vacuum with the mechanical arm, Z70 contains five -axis arm, which has been branded the Omnigarp, which has been used to use, lift and clean the ship’s sensors and camera, which includes the aforementioned socks, shoes and sandals, tissues and paper, and shoes, and shoes, shoes, and papers. The theory, this means that I should spend less time in picking up or walking in the bed of the gus after my children so that they can find their stolen socks.

In practice, it is nowhere to be achieved. Yes, arm Can Pick up the items and keep them away, which is seriously impressive. He collected my son’s wasted socks and some balls of paper, and where I told them. But the Z70’s boundaries are about to break the deal, and its lack of consistency also allows it to be reduced.

For example, when the boot finds the shoe, he always chose not to pick up any shoes, only once recovered his own chapel or sandals. He also struggled permanently to keep more than one item in the right place when it was cleaned.

Nevertheless, this is the first user robot vacuum that has enrolled in the supplement area, and even in this beta -like stage, it is noteworthy. But to drink water from the eyes, $ 2,599, Saros Z 70 needs to take more than some socks.

Saros Z 70 is a flagship robot vacuum that is a huge step in my current top -picked floor sweeper, Roburic S8 Maxo Ultra. With double suction power, a sophisticated navigation and barrier detection system, and dual spinning mops that can automatically remove, are an impressive cleaner.

However, except the arm, this is basically the same vacuum as launched with it earlier this year with $ 1,599.99 Saros 10R. For $ 1,000 less, right now 10R is a better bet.

When cleaning up my home, Saros Z70 used an AI -powered camera in front of the robot to identify possible selection items, then returned to “configure” them. This process, which was too slow, checking the item for a few moments, then slipping around, opening the arm from the body of the robot, raising it, turning it horizontally or vertically, and using his pins grip to catch it.

A camera in the “hand” sees this item and determines how to lift it, then measure the weight of a grip sensor object – 300 grams (0.66 pounds) maximum. The sensors with the arm also find out if something is on the way, so that it can stop a commodity or stop beating something. At one point, he tried to take a carpet toss, realizing that it was very heavy, and let it go.

When he arranged to take something, it would have waived the item in the air and would win it to the zone that I nominated in the app. With about 80 80 % of success in socks or paper, a robbery went into the bin. The robot has always dropped the goods, not always in the box. Sometimes it, and once or twice, when it is confused, is nowhere near.

The shoes had to go to the shoe storage area, but it just managed to take a sandal during my test, it had to avoid chapel, flip flop, and crooks, which I left around. Even then, he collected sandals outside the shoe storage zone.

Roburk advised to try the manual control option in the app, which gives a direct view from the camera to the arm to find out if the boot can identify properly and lift one of the shoes that he was ignoring. He worked on Philip flop, when he was instructed, he picked it up. It will not just do it independently. .

Z70 did a good job with a large, small fabric toys that looked like socks, and paper, but it didn’t like the small socks. However, in most cleaning runs, he has only lifted one or two items, even if half a dozen shoes and socks were scattered around.

It can’t even lift the items on the carpet, so the stockings that my husband slipped and hid under the coffee table while watching the television. Speaking of tables, the arm cannot reach the lower furniture. If it finds anything above it within 45 cm (17.7 inches), it will not deploy its arm.

All this explains the promise of technology compared to its current reality. The robot AI uses the barriers to identify and determine whether they have to avoid (such as a pet’s pope), clean (like cables) around them, or pick them up. The logs in the app revealed that its success is compared to a prescription using flash cards. On a run, he identified the black flip flop as a cable, a piece of paper as a plastic bag, and a brown silper as a pet pop. But at the next run, he picked up the same ball of paper without any problem.

Today, the arm is an inspirational novelty, but your money is not so practical. However, the hardware feels solid, and if the software can be improved, it can be very useful.

I am permanently picking up and moving the shoes that reject my family, and with the robot it reliably makes my life easier, when we can’t find our daughter’s crooks, don’t mention help with panic on Monday morning. If it can pick up big things like clothes, phone charging cables and other common domestic disorder, I would love to keep it loose on my teenage children’s rooms before cleaning it.

Robrook has claimed a lot of updates in boot tasks from next month, saying that reliable should be improved accordingly and increased its object reservoir, which should be achieved importantly as heavy items like shoes. According to Robrock, the boot is currently limited to 300 grams (0.66 pounds) but is capable of handling up to 700 grams (1.5 pounds).

Hopefully, when picking up shoes, it will make the arm more confident. Currently, it is very specific about what it will collect, as a large extent as a safety feature. He occasionally lifted the small cat’s toy and filled animal, but mostly chose to try to understand something if there was any doubt.

Talking about safety, Gus and my cat, Bone both tried to play with the arm, and he immediately. He stopped moving, so I’m sure they are safe. The arm is also amazingly strong, though I am not sure that if he is determined to recover the sock, it will benefit up to 70 pounds. (There is an emergency stop button for the arm.

Putting the arm aside, Saros Z 70 takes the lead as vacuum. Her Star site 2.0 navigation system – Lift yourself 10 mm And cross the door of 4 cm.

This is the first robot vacuum I have experienced that once ever on my carpet, under my sofa, or the sharp legs of my lounge chair. Its 22,000Pa SUCTION POWER DEMOLISHED My Oatmeal and Cheerio Tests, and the dual spinning mop pads efficiently displayed smal spills of milk, juice, and dried ketchup.

If you like the latest tech and are willing to pay (a lot) of capacity, Saros Z 70 has an interesting peek in the future – not mentioning any entertainment toys (yes, you can control the arm remote). But if you are happy to pick up your socks, Robrock’s Saros 10R ($ 1,599.99) Offers all the same floor cleaning capabilities, arm, $ 1,000 less. –

Is robotic weapons the future of home cleaning? Perhaps with the speed of innovation in home robotics, an independent cleaning machine like a robot in our homes has begun to feel less like science fiction. It may be that Roburk has sent the robot with an independent arm, but it will not be the last. For now, the Z70 is an impressive, if there is a flaw, a glimpse of things to come.

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