Roborock Saros 10 reviews

Roborock Saros 10: Introduction

• Type: Robot Vacuum Cleaner with Mopping
• docking: Dock with car and automatic clean
• Navigation System: Retractic for LDS navigation system

To avoid confusing it with the Roborock Saros 10R, the Roborock Saros 10 is truly the Roborock Flagship Robot cleaner of the year.

Compared to the 10R, this model offers more suction power, more powerful mopping capabilities, better docks and undoubtedly a better navigation system.

The 10R was a very good robot vacuum cleaner, but it’s fair to say that the RoboRock Saros 10 is truly amazing and can handle the toughest jobs easily.

The Saros 10 is the first robot of the Chinese brand with a new Retractsense navigation system. So, although traditional LDS laser towers are located at the top, they can be stored to fit under low-clearance furniture, and in these areas, time-of-flight sensors can be used instead.

With the sensor stored, it is less than 8cm tall.

It also boats the updated Vibrarise 4.0 mopping module, the same 22,000pa suction rating as the upcoming Z70, and the Vertibeam lateral fault system.

Read the complete Roborck Saros 10 review.

Design and Components

The Roborock Saros 10 may look a bit like its siblings, but the 10r is from the outside, but some notable differences make this model stand out.

First, the Roborock Saros 10 uses Lidar navigation rather than the forward-looking Starsight Autonomous TOF system used by the 10R. Lidar offers a complete 360-degree view of the surroundings.

The Lidar needs to have a dome attached, but the 10R has a similar trick to the Dreame X50 Ultra Complete, which allows its sensor to be retracted to its body.

Skillfully, the front of the robot has a cutout that allows the sensor to provide a 110-degree view of forward-looking navigation.

With the sensors stored, the Roborock Saros 10 is only 79.8mm tall (same as the 10R), so it can fit into many low bit furniture. I have a tricky corner sofa that slops behind me, but the Saros 10 managed to clean it up to be clean without getting stuck.

In addition to Lidar, the front camera uses AI to help robot spots, from shoes and cables to pet confusion, avoiding common obstacles.

I flipped the Roborock Saros 10 over and underneath it is the same Duodivide Brush roll. This is divided into centers designed to guide the long hairs into the suction path, preventing them from getting entangled.

There is also the FlexiArm Side Brush. This is also an anti-tangle model designed to swing around the corners and edges for wall cleaning.

The side arms and main brushes can move away from the ground either when the robot is mopping when needed or when it detects that it is not needed. For example, the main brush can be lifted after vacuuming and wiping at the same time, reducing the risk of spreading dirt on wet floors.

The real difference between the Roborock Saros 10 and 10R is that this model uses full-width Sonic Scrubbing pads rather than dual microfiber pads. It can vibrate up to 4,000 times per minute, and this mopping pad scrubs the floor.

Since you can’t physically swing to clean the edges of the room, Robolock added a small side mop to the mix to take care of this job. Thus, the RoboRock Saros 10 has a similar mopping system to the RoboRock S8 MAXV Ultra.

But there’s another trick the Roborock Saros 10 has: its adaptive chassis. Adjustable on all four edges, Adaptilift allows the robot to lift its body up to 10mm from the ground.

The use of this technique depends on the situation in which the robot finds itself. First, Adaptilift allows the robot to climb a threshold of up to 4cm.

You can then use Adaptilift to release the Saros 10 when it gets caught in a range such as a Sals-Leg chair.

Beyond general navigation, the Saros 10 can be cleaned better using AdaptIlift. On deep stake carpets, the robot can lift its body and keep moving to clean the vacuum. The deep stake carpet slowed my robot down, but it kept moving and vacuuming.

On hard floors in mopping mode, with Adaptilift, the Saros 10 lifts the front and pushes the mop cloth down to the ground for better agitation and dirt. There is no other system similar to that. For the X50 Ultra Complete, Dreame’s Proleap is only a climbing threshold.

This robot is equipped with Rockdock Ultra 2.0.

First of all, the tank is hidden under the flap, so the dock looks a bit neater. There are two 3 liter tanks. One is for clean and dirty water.

Not only does it use clean water in the tank, it also has a detergent tank. Roborock doesn’t provide detergent in the box, but sells its own branded version. Instead, I used a regular floor cleaner.

Instead of washing MOPs at a single temperature, Rockdock Ultra 2.0 uses dynamic washing mop and utilizes different temperatures to tackle different stains: starch-based stains 50°C, 60°C for grease stains, and 80°C for coffee staining and sterilization.

After washing the MOP pads with clean, clean air edges, use 60°C air to dry the pads to prevent odor and bacterial growth.

A 2-liter self-sealed bag will be used for the dust collection. These should last about two months of dirt before they need to be replaced.

App

Again, the Roborock app is used to manage your Saros 10 Robot. It’s essentially a great app that starts with allowing you to perform quick mapping runs around the robot.

Finally, the robot will suggest the layout of your home’s room and use AI to find common furniture, so you can add labels for your room, such as your kitchen or dining room.

Although AI’s obstacle recognition was not always correct, we discovered that the room layout was correct. The dining table was correctly identified, but when I moved the robot to the bedroom I thought the bed was a sofa set.

Room layouts can be easily modified by splitting or fusing the rooms. There is also a manual option to add furniture to your room or fix incorrectly identified furniture.

It’s worth adding furniture to your room. This is because it can be used in the app for cleanup work.

For example, after you’ve finished your meal, you can tap on the dining table to clean this with Saros 10.

Sorting the map gives you the option to clean around the entire house, the selected room (or room), the zone you want to draw on the map, or, as mentioned, a bit of furniture.

At the selected location, it is a question of choosing a cleaning method. There are options for vac & mop, mop only, or vac only. It’s a shame there’s no quick option to vacuum first and mop second.

If you want to do this, you need to set up a routine instead. Each routine includes options for cleaning and cleaning settings, allowing you to create two jobs, such as vacuuming anywhere.

The routine is great for building jobs that you want to run regularly, but for one-time jobs, it’s good that there is a vacuum-first and MOP seconds option.

You can set the cleaning to SmartPlan. This allows SAROS 10 to automatically set the mode according to your environment. You can also access manual options and choose how SAROS 10 works.

There are four vacuum modes and four water/scrub strength options available. You can then choose either fast or standard clean. Just select MOP only and there are two routing options for deeper cleaning, but VAC only offers additional power settings.

You can do one or two paths, two paths, and give an extra path to a really dirty house.

Before you start clean, it’s worth diving into advanced settings to turn on some of the advanced features. Flexiarm Design Extended Cleaning improves cleaning under appliances and overhangs. With automatic remopping, the Saros 10 recalls them back to the very dirty areas.

AI lab settings have deep cleaning options for heavy stains and dirt, and the robot will automatically detect and focus and clean highly dirty areas.

In addition to using the app, Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant are supported. Additionally, an integrated “Hello Rocky” voice assistant will be used. I like the “clean” option. This will search for Saros 10 and run a clean spot if you’re where you were.

The only problem with this mode is that the robot does not automatically return to the dock at the end of the clean and must be sent using voice commands.

performance

With all the extras turned on, I found the Saros 10 to be an incredible vacuum cleaner and MOP.

With Mopping, when advanced features are turned on, 10 uses Adaptilift to push the mopping pad into the ground, automatically focusing on tough dirt and giving you more attention.

Most tough stains disappeared within two passes, but much more severe stains, such as dry ketchup, were more difficult to deal with, and took four passes. That said, the fact that a robot can handle such tough mess meant that there was little need to use a hard floor cleaner to handle the mess by hand.

Performance vacuum cleaners are excellent. Rated at 22,000pa, this is the highest sorbitity power vacuum cleaner I’ve seen. This power is clear. Even the difficult mess of carpets were removed with an accuracy close to the accuracy of a high-end cordless vacuum cleaner.

Edge performance was equally good, and the Saros 10 cleaned up to the edge of my room without any problems.

The navigation is excellent. Robolock was the first company to add AI object detection to its robots, and the system is mature. I ruled out the confusion of shoes, cables, fake pets and the Saros 10 easily avoided these issues.

I had never seen a robot packed. It climbed the threshold, lifted up onto the deep pile carpet, squeezed under the sofa, and the sensor dropped. That doesn’t mean that Saros 10 won’t get stuck, but such events seem rare.

Final Thoughts

The Roborock Saros 10 has everything you need to vacuum your flagship robot. High power vacuum cleaner, excellent navigation and obstacle avoidance, and deep mopping.

Certainly, it’s expensive, but if you want the best, this is it.

Testing method

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Roborock Saros 10: Specifications