Roborock Qrevo Curv Review: Literally Climbing to the Top of the Robot Vacuum Rankings

A vacuum is lone arsenic bully arsenic wherever it tin spell and however heavy it tin clean. While caller years person seen cleaning robots get amended astatine obstacle avoidance and way readying acknowledgment to the summation of features similar LIDAR and cameras, that doesn’t assistance overmuch if there’s a hump it can’t get over. The Roborock Qrevo Curv has solved this occupation with independently extendable wheels, allowing it to ascent implicit the borderline of a threshold oregon a heavy carpet up to 4 centimeters (1.57 inches) and support connected going. Pair that with industry-leading suction power, a tangle-free brushwood that devours hair, dual extendable mops, a self-emptying dock, and an fantabulous app, and you get the astir versatile (and useful) robot cleaner to date.

Roborock Qrevo Curv Review: Specs

The robot itself looks a batch similar astir different robo-vacs retired there. It’s a 14-inch circular disc that stands 4.1 inches gangly and weighs 8.6 pounds. It has a small LIDAR turret connected top, a camera up front, Home and Power buttons, and thing other truly stands out. However, erstwhile you flip it over, you commencement seeing immoderate of the unsocial features. It has a DuoDivide main brushwood with spiral blades designed to whisk up hairsbreadth and funnel it into the vacuum inlet without getting clogged. That vacuum inlet features up to 18,500 Pa of suction, portion the astir I’ve seen from different brands is 12,000 Pa. It has a “FlexiArm Arc Side Brush,” a small sweeper extending retired of the bot to bring debris from hard-to-reach places (like corners oregon nether couches) into its vacuum path.

Last but not least, it features 2 spinning mops that rotate up to 200 RPM, person 30 h2o travel options, and tin widen retired from nether the bot to guarantee edge-to-edge cleaning. The mops assistance erstwhile the bot goes onto the carpet to support things dry. Under the hood is simply a generous 6,400 mAh lithium-ion battery, which means it tin screen a important magnitude of quadrate footage earlier returning to its dock to recharge (it volition alteration depending connected the settings you select).

Speaking of, the Multifunction Dock 3.0 is nary slouch either. Unlike astir boxy docks, this 1 is simply a rounded dome astatine 17.7” x 17.7 x 17.7. It has a softer look than the competition, which I prefer, but it is simply a spot wider and makes maine deliberation of a robotic litterbox. [Note: If you similar the much accepted dock shape, the Qrevo Edge is coming retired soon. It has the aforesaid vacuum but a taller, narrower dock.] It automatically empties the bot’s dustbin and moves it into a garbage bag, which allegedly allows for up to 7 weeks without emptying (depending connected however often you vacuum, however big, and however soiled your floors are). It besides has car vessel emptying and refilling for your soiled and cleanable mop water. It washes your robot’s mops astatine 167 degrees F, which is hotter than competitors and which the institution claims eliminates 99.99 percent of bacteria. Then, it dries the mops with 113-degree F aerial to forestall mold from growing. It tin adjacent admit if the mop needs other cleaning and automatically re-wash it.

The past large constituent is the Roborock app, which is fantabulous overall. Pairing your robot with it is arsenic elemental arsenic scanning a QR codification connected the bot. You tin past acceptable the bot to thrust astir and representation your location with its LIDAR. Once done, you tin statement rooms, adhd furniture, delineate level types (though it usually figures this out), and acceptable off-limits zones. It besides gives you granular adjustments for the antithetic vacuum and mopping settings, allows you to acceptable routines, and adjacent lets you usage it arsenic a robotic favored show erstwhile you’re away. The robot has a dependable adjunct built into it, which you tin activate by saying, “Hello, Rocky,” it recognizes much than 40 antithetic commands. It besides works with Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and Apple Siri. Those third-party services don’t person arsenic overmuch nuance arsenic the built-in dependable assistant, but being capable to say, “Hey, Google, cleanable the kitchen,” and the robot hops to it, that’s the benignant of AI I privation successful my life!

© Brent Rose

Roborock Qrevo Curv Review: Performance

The archetypal setup was reasonably intuitive, if a spot time-consuming. When you archetypal acceptable it up, you’ll person the enactment to representation your location oregon cleanable and representation it simultaneously quickly. I’d urge starting with mapping alone. I went for the cleanable and representation enactment and recovered that the robot was meandering astir excessively dilatory and seemingly getting confused. So, I restarted it successful mapping-only mode, and it went rapidly and smoothly. Once I had the representation successful the app connected my phone, I labeled the assorted rooms, and we went disconnected to the races.

Once you participate the robot’s menu, you tin take whether to bash a afloat cleaning of everything it has mapped, prime idiosyncratic rooms, cleanable a circumstantial expandable zone, oregon commencement a regular you’ve acceptable up. You besides person a ton of cleaning options to take from. SmartPlan enables Curv’s AI to find the champion mode to cleanable arsenic it goes, utilizing ungraded detection to make “the optimal cleaning plan,” but much connected that successful a minute. There’s the Vac & Mop menu, which utilizes some tools somewhat simultaneously and gives you immoderate power implicit the vacuum’s suction powerfulness and the travel complaint for the mop. You tin besides take Mop-only oregon Vacuum-only; the second allows you to crank up the suction powerfulness to its highest level. There’s besides the enactment to usage the app similar a distant power and usher it to a circumstantial country for spot-cleaning if you conscionable spilled something. Once you’ve selected the cleaning programme you want, you conscionable deed start, and the robot springs to life.

I was somewhat shocked to find that this robot is genuinely precise bully astatine cleaning. The vacuum is terrific, pulling ungraded up from bare floors and my moderately heavy rug without a occupation (even soil connected the carpet wasn’t an issue). The Flexiarm brushwood works arsenic advertised, pulling ungraded retired from corners and nether my fridge. The mops enactment admirably, washing stubborn stains disconnected my room level utilizing h2o alone. Roborock besides sells a cleaning solution, which I haven’t tested yet, but I haven’t truly needed it truthful far.

The Snack Gaunlet

Even erstwhile the vacuum is cranked to afloat powerfulness (Turbo+), it’s rather quiet. Every night, I person it vacuum and mop everything extracurricular of my bedroom, and it hasn’t ever woken maine up, adjacent with my chamber doorway unfastened (though I bash slumber with a achromatic sound machine). It adjacent has a built-in headlight, truthful you don’t request to permission immoderate lights connected for it. In the 4 years I’ve lived successful this apartment, my floors and rugs person ne'er been cleaner.

While the SmartPlan and the Vac & Mop modes enactment good for your mean regular cleaning, bigger messes request much intervention. I created a “snack gauntlet” successful my room wherever I dispersed retired things similar a pub mix, goldfish crackers, pistachio shells, spices, java grounds, Tic Tacs, and spilled milk. While this is simply a reasonably utmost scenario, neither of the aforementioned modes afloat got the occupation done. Both sucked up the bulk of the products, but the occupation was that connected hardwood, it was trying to vacuum and mop astatine the aforesaid time. The wheels crushed the much delicate items similar the mini-pretzels and goldfish crackers, and the bedewed mops really made the crumbs and spices instrumentality to the level more. In a concern similar that, you truly privation to vacuum archetypal and past mop, which I privation the robot were astute capable to understand.

This is wherever the app’s customizability comes successful handy. It lone took maine astir 90 seconds to make a cleaning regular that would archetypal vacuum the country astatine the highest level of suction and past spell backmost and bash a Deep+ mopping routine. That picked up virtually each particle of the mess. It worked truthful good that I switched astir of my routines to vacuuming archetypal and past mopping. This uses a spot much artillery power, but the artillery beingness connected this robot is excellent.

I unrecorded successful a 665-square-foot one-bedroom apartment, truthful vacuuming and mopping my full spot hardly puts a dent successful its artillery erstwhile I usage the banal cleaning modes. So, I decided to stress-test the artillery by creating a much power-intensive regular that vacuumed my full flat connected Turbo+ (the highest level) and past mopped it connected Deep+ (which makes much passes). It vacuumed 366 quadrate feet implicit 68 minutes (basically everything that didn’t person furnishings connected it), past mopped 161 quadrate feet of bare level implicit 38 minutes (washing the mop 4 times), and astatine the extremity of each that, it inactive had 31-percent of its artillery left. That’s precise impressive. If I lived successful a overmuch larger space, I mightiness privation to interruption that regular up a small oregon dial backmost the powerfulness unless I’d conscionable thrown a party, but for my space, it’s perfect.

The obstacle avoidance connected the Qrevo Curv is decent but inactive a agelong mode from perfect. It mostly does an good occupation of navigating astir furnishings without bumping into ample objects (though sometimes it head-butts things it should beryllium capable to see), it weaves nimbly betwixt the legs of my eating country chairs, and it was lone confused for a infinitesimal erstwhile I moved my java array from 1 spot to another—it conscionable charted a caller way astir it. Unfortunately, I’ve had it get tangled up successful powerfulness cords connected 1 occasion, and it pulled a powerfulness portion retired of the partition and astir managed to propulsion a lamp over. Once, it got stuck erstwhile it sucked up the strap of a canvas tote container I’d accidentally near connected the floor. Occasionally, it wraps itself up successful my curtain, though it’s ever managed to escaped itself from that one. Three times now, I’ve woken up successful the greeting to find it trapped betwixt the horizontal legs of my machine chair. It conscionable powered down to prevention artillery and waited to beryllium rescued. That’s disappointing due to the fact that the committedness of this robot is that it cleans for you without needing intervention.

I precocious came backmost from a travel and inactive had a just magnitude of items connected my chamber level (a suitcase, a bag, and immoderate random apparel strewn about), truthful I thought that would beryllium a bully trial to spot however it does erstwhile you don’t tidy up first. As it vacuumed and mopped, it approached the assorted objects, inspected them similar a tiny canine sniffing thing new, and past went astir them. I was impressed! And past it turned around, smacked into a shoe, rolled implicit a sock it had conscionable been looking at, and dragged it halfway crossed the country earlier disgorging it. Had that been, say, a canine turd, that would person been a existent disaster. The Curv is expected to beryllium capable to admit and debar these things, truthful much enactment is needed here.

I besides recovered that the robot makes immoderate mysterious choices regarding routing. Sometimes, it returns to areas it’s already cleaned (and which look to beryllium spotless) 3 oregon 4 times during 1 cleaning cycle. Other times, it appears intent connected taking the agelong mode to get anyplace erstwhile it could conscionable usage its LIDAR and camera to find a amended way successful real-time. This extends the cleaning clip and makes it little efficient.

Also, portion it is expected to assistance its mops retired of the mode portion vacuuming carpet, I recovered that they inactive bash resistance a spot connected my medium-pile rug. That lone got my rugs a teeny spot damp, but it’s inactive not ideal, particularly if you person a light-colored rug and conscionable mopped thing acheronian and stainy, oregon if you person a higher-pile carpet. If that’s you, it mightiness beryllium worthy looking into the Dreame L40 Ultra, which tin permission its mop down successful the dock erstwhile it’s conscionable vacuuming.

I was highly impressed with the AdaptiLift Chassis, the unsocial mechanics it uses to ascent implicit things similar thresholds. The rug successful my surviving country has a heavy pad nether it, bringing the full tallness to 0.75 inches (2 centimeters). It besides has agelong tassels connected 2 of the edges. These 2 things person meant that astir robo-vacs can’t cleanable my rug unless I assistance them onto it. The Qrevo Curv recognized that determination was a ledge and asked maine via the app if it was a threshold. I said definite and marked it. Now whenever the vacuum approaches the rug, its beforehand extremity lifts up, getting it implicit the hump, and past the rear raises to match. It hurdles it with easiness and prevents it from accidentally sucking up the tassels (though it does inactive muss them up).

Maintenance has been highly minimal, too. Despite each the snacks and sand, I’ve been intentionally throwing successful its path, I haven’t had to alteration the container successful the dock yet. I’ve refilled the h2o doubly (you conscionable assistance the vessel retired and capable it successful your sink) and emptied the soiled h2o doubly (which I conscionable dump into my toilet), but that’s it. It’s highly easy. I could besides usage it arsenic an further information cam and/or favored show portion I’m away, and you tin person the robot automatically instrumentality pics of your feline oregon canine if it encounters them portion cleaning.

Roborock Qrevo Curv Review: Verdict

I won’t bushed astir the bush; this is the champion robot cleaner I’ve used. It cleans amended than thing from the iRobot’s Roomba series, and it’s much versatile and adaptable than thing other retired there. The app is caput and shoulders supra the competition, too. Its suction powerfulness is 2nd to none, its unsocial roller brushwood plan doesn’t get tangled, its mops are susceptible of heavy cleaning (and self-cleaning!), and it tin assistance itself implicit tiny obstacles. That’s each incredible, but it doesn’t travel cheap. The Qrevo Curv is priced arsenic Roborock’s caller flagship robot vacuum astatine $1,600. That’s astir connected par with the flagship products from different manufacturers, but it’s inactive a hefty terms tag.

And, of course, it’s not perfect. Obstacle designation and avoidance truly request to beryllium improved. The SmartPath mode could beryllium smarter, charting a much businesslike way and amended recognizing erstwhile it inactive has much cleaning to do. It could besides beryllium amended astatine lifting its damp mops distant from my carpet. But ultimately, I hatred vacuuming and mopping, and due to the fact that of that, I don’t bash it arsenic often arsenic I should. Now, suddenly, my floors and rugs are ever pristine, and I hardly ever person to assistance a finger. This is the archetypal robot vacuum that has handled my surfaces without involution (most of the time), cleaning virtually each borderline and country successful my apartment. It surely isn’t cheap, but it’s worthy it.