We’re getting closer to a robot vacuum that can climb stairs

With the quality to assistance itself up to get implicit country transitions arsenic precocious arsenic 40mm, fluffy rugs, and different imaginable obstacles, Roborock’s caller Qrevo Curve could beryllium a motion that the stair-climbing robot vacuum is astir here.

To beryllium clear, Roborock hasn’t said this, but based connected however accelerated this institution — and others — are innovating successful this space, it feels similar we’re truly not that acold away. SharkNinja besides announced a caller robot vaccum with lifting capabilities this week, and the different companies are apt not acold behind.

Whether we request stair-climbing robovacs is simply a question I’m not definite I person the reply to yet.

Furturecasting aside, the Qrevo Curv is simply a important alteration for the company. The robot features a wholly redesigned multifunction dock that’s shapelier and smaller than its different models, a caller dual anti-tangle brushwood strategy that splits the brushwood successful half, allowing hairsbreadth to rotation disconnected it, and a whopping 18,500 pa suction power.

Its signature self-raising diagnostic — called AdaptLift Chassis — automatically lifts the robot’s beforehand instrumentality and independently adjusts its main wheels to rise the robot 10mm, enabling it to spell implicit modular thresholds up to 30mm and double-layer thresholds up to 40mm.

As good arsenic helping the robot get astir your location much easy and debar getting stuck, the caller mobility means the Curv tin present cleanable mid-to-long heap carpets.

The redesigned brushwood strategy comprises 2 shorter brushes with spiral blades and bristles that should propulsion the hairsbreadth disconnected the relation and into the vacuum and a curved FlexiArm Arc broadside brushwood that stops hairsbreadth from getting tangled successful it.

The Qrevo Curv features Roborock’s reactive AI obstacle avoidance tech, which uses a built-in camera to debar communal household clutter. It’s launching this period for €1499.99 (US pricing is inactive TBD) alongside the Qrevo Edge, which sports the aforesaid features but a much traditional-looking basal presumption successful black.

Roborock is besides launching a ace slim robovac that it says is designed to get nether debased furnishings better. The LiDAR operation connected the caller Qrevo Slim has been removed from the top, and the vacuum is conscionable 3.3 inches high. Its new navigation strategy uses dual-light 3D clip of formation technology, deploying lasers and an RGB camera for navigation and obstacle recognition. It works with a multifunction dock, has 11,000 pa suction power, and is launching this period for $1,399.