It’s powerful, and it can stand on its tippy toes to get over tall thresholds.
It’s powerful, and it can stand on its tippy toes to get over tall thresholds.
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday brought some of the best deals of the year on robot vacuums. One of the handful of great discounts remaining is on the Roborock Saros 10, which we recently crowned the runner-up in our buying guide to the best robovac you can buy. This robovac and mop hybrid is still costly at $1,099.99 ($500 off) at Amazon and directly from Roborock, but it’s the biggest discount yet, and it might be worth the cost for you.
The Saros 10 is powerful, boasting a whopping 22,000Pa of suction. In our tests, its Duo Divide brush did an excellent job sucking up dried oatmeal, Cheerios, and other pesky debris. It was particularly impressive at removing pet hair from high-pile rugs. Even after a couple of months of testing, we still didn’t see any hair tangled in the brush.
It’s versatile, too. It can lift itself 10mm to give it a better shot at crossing tall room thresholds, and thanks to a retractable lidar tower, it can even slide under furniture as low as 8cm. And it manages all of that without getting tripped up by obstacles. I wish I could say the same for myself.
The Saros 10 also offers an impressive vibrating mop, which comes with a flat pad that scrubs effectively without getting stuck in things like rug tassels. What’s nice is that robot can lift its mop pads out of the way to keep carpets dry while it vacuums. Rounding things out, the robovac also supports the Matter smart home standard for interoperability with different platforms. Also, it features a responsive built-in voice assistant, so all you need to say is “Rocky, clean here,” and it’ll get to work.