Review: Siri Can Clean Your House With the Roborock Saros 10R

With iOS 18.4, Apple added enactment for robot vacuums to HomeKit, and immoderate of the companies that marque robot vacuums person started offering products with Matter integration. Matter-compatible robot vacuums tin beryllium added to ‌HomeKit‌ and controlled via Siri dependable commands and the Home app.


Roborock is 1 of the companies that's adopting Matter, and the Roborock Saros 10R present works with ‌HomeKit‌. The Saros 10R is 1 of Roborock's flagship vacuums and it's comparatively new, truthful similar astir of these Matter-enabled vacuum options, it does not travel cheap. It's $1,600, but it does person Roborock's astir precocious diagnostic set.

Design and Size

The Saros 10R is conscionable implicit 3 inches tall, truthful it's compact capable to acceptable nether each of my furniture. I person a TV basal that's astir 4 inches that a antithetic robot vacuum isn't capable to acceptable underneath, but I haven't tally into that occupation with the Saros 10R.

There are a batch of components successful robot vacuums, truthful the bladed physique is simply a feat of engineering, and having a robot that tin get nether each of my furnishings is simply a large plus. When I manually vacuum with a Dyson stick, I can't scope each of the areas that the Saros 10R can, truthful my location ends up cleaner erstwhile the robot handles the vacuuming and mopping.


While the Saros 10R is thin, it's inactive connected the larger side, measuring successful astatine astir 13 inches. If you person a smaller abstraction with a batch of furniture, it mightiness beryllium excessively ample to efficaciously clean, but I've been impressed with the constrictive spaces it tin maneuver through. Since it's round, it tin get itself into and retired of immoderate choky fits.

I mostly usage the app to nonstop the Saros 10R disconnected to cleanable oregon to resume cleaning aft a pause, but determination are buttons connected the instrumentality itself. The powerfulness fastener turns it connected oregon sends it to cleanable if it's already on, and the dock fastener sends it home. A agelong property connected the dock fastener activates a spot cleaning feature.

All of the robot vacuums person basal stations, and the Saros 10R basal presumption is reasonably large, but it benignant of blends into the background, similar a vacuum oregon a mop might. The basal presumption is achromatic integrative and it includes respective components. There's a particulate container that collects the particulate and hairsbreadth the robot picks up, a cleanable h2o bin for wetting and washing the mop, a conception for level cleaning solution, a soiled h2o bin for collecting the h2o utilized to lavation the mop, a dryer for drying the mop, and a ramp that helps the robot get up onto the basal to charge.


The dock weighs astir 25 pounds, truthful it's astir apt not thing you're going to privation to cart astir if you person aggregate floors successful your home. I'm not definite if radical who person multi-story homes acquisition much than 1 vacuum, but carrying the robot and basal presumption upstairs would beryllium a workout. The dock has an LED connected it that turns reddish if there's a occupation oregon achromatic erstwhile the robot is charging, and it needs to beryllium placed connected a hard aboveground with astir 2 feet astir it to marque definite there's abstraction for the robot to dock itself.


Roborock says to usage its proprietary cleaning solution due to the fact that different solutions tin harm the internals of the vacuum. Some companies similar Bona marque cleaning solutions specifically for robot vacuums, and I didn't person an contented utilizing that benignant of cleaning fluid.

There are rubber wheels astatine the bottommost of the robot, and they travel retired acold capable to assistance it get implicit thresholds and to assistance it implicit carpets. I person a threshold that's astir an inch successful 1 spot, and it's capable to navigate it fine. The mops are capable to assistance up capable that it tin vacuum rugs portion mopping without getting the rugs wet.

Navigation

The Saros 10R has what Roborock calls its "StarSight" autonomous system, which is fundamentally respective sensors. It has a beforehand camera and sensor for detecting obstacles, and it has a partition sensor for determining wherever walls are located.

The archetypal cleaning with the Saros 10R starts disconnected with a mapping diagnostic wherever the robot maps each of the rooms that it is capable to access, and past portion cleaning, it continually scans for and identifies favored messes, pets, cords, furnishings that's hard to navigate, and different obstacles. You tin opt successful to person the robot instrumentality a representation whenever it encounters an obstacle, truthful you tin spot what it's avoiding.


Its sensors bash a bully occupation mapping retired a country and adjacent identifying the furnishings successful the room, which helps it find what a country is. If it sees a eating table, for example, it'll statement that country arsenic a eating room.


It's capable to place favored messes truthful that it doesn't resistance a messiness astir the full house, and it's besides fantabulous astatine detecting cables that should beryllium avoided, truthful it doesn't get tangled up. It doesn't tally into walls oregon furniture, and the extending mops and the broadside brushwood fto it get into nooks, crannies, corners, and the sides of walls erstwhile cleaning adjacent arsenic it's avoiding obstacles.

Cleaning Features

Most of the robot vacuums person the aforesaid wide vacuuming features, with variations successful suction and the roller barroom design. The Saros 10R has what Roborock calls a "DuoDivide" anti-tangle brush, and I haven't seen it get tangled. I person wood floors, 4 cats, and 2 radical with agelong hair, and determination hasn't been clogging oregon tangling. Hair and fuzz tin get wrapped astir the bearings of the rubber wheels connected the bottommost and that's not amusive to remove, but it hasn't stopped the vacuum from functioning.


As for suction, it picks up each speck of particulate and feline hairsbreadth from my floors, which are wood. It hasn't damaged my wood floors, which is ever a interest with a vacuum, and it does a bully occupation keeping them astir spotless. It besides does good with my ample rugs, but it tin conflict with smaller rugs that get stuck. It's ne'er been wholly tripped up by a rug dissimilar my different robot vacuum from a antithetic brand, truthful it's not a occupation that requires my interference. There is simply a broadside brushwood that's capable to expanse particulate from corners, curves, astir furniture, and on walls truthful that it tin beryllium vacuumed up, and it's effective.

Of note, I person 1 ample rug that sheds continually and the robot tin support it clean. My Dyson vacuum has a hard clip with this rug due to the fact that the fluff clogs it up. I person different rug successful my laundry country that is simply a lint and fur magnet. The modular hard level attachment connected my Dyson that I usage 99 percent of the clip can't cleanable it, but the Saros 10R sucks up each the lint that's go 1 with the rug with nary problem. It's astatine slightest connected par with my Dyson (a V15 Detect), and amended for immoderate areas.

I privation to constituent retired that I person each hard flooring with conscionable rugs and nary rooms with carpet, truthful I haven't tested the vacuum connected carpet. If you person carpet, cheque retired different reviews too, due to the fact that I don't privation to talk to its carpet show with conscionable rugs to trial with.

The Saros 10R doesn't conscionable vacuum, it besides mops, and the mopping functions are what separate robot vacuums from 1 another. Roborock is utilizing a acceptable of dual spinning mops for the Saros 10R, each of which is about-palm sized. The 2 mops enactment successful unison, and the robot tin screen a bully magnitude of level abstraction with nary existent gaps, providing a thorough clean.


The mops tin cleanable good astir seat legs and different furniture, due to the fact that they tin widen retired from the robot somewhat for a person clean. Dried connected stains similar ketchup tin instrumentality a fewer passes, but everything other comes up immediately. The Saros 10R goes backmost to the basal presumption to lavation the mop, and the default clip is 15 minutes.

Noise Levels

The Saros 10R is quiescent erstwhile mopping, but erstwhile it's vacuuming, it sounds similar a vacuum. You're not going to privation to tally it portion you're trying to enactment oregon ticker TV, but sound cancelling headphones similar the AirPods Pro artifact it retired capable to tally it portion you're home.

Roborock App

Robot vacuums look to person apps with endless settings, and the Roborock app is nary exception. Setup is simple, and the app walks you done the steps (basically conscionable connecting to Wi-Fi), and done the mapping, cleaning, and attraction process.


The built-in sensors successful the Saros 10R tin representation each accessible areas, and tin besides observe furnishings to find country type. There are besides settings that let it to observe objects connected the crushed and drawback photos, truthful you tin spot what it's avoiding and however the AI is working. After a representation has been completed, the Saros 10R is acceptable to clean. There are aggregate cleaning modes that harvester vacuuming and mopping, and you tin prime antithetic suction settings for the vacuum and h2o settings for the mopping. There are besides modes for quick, standard, and heavy cleaning.

You tin travel on connected the representation to spot wherever the robot has cleaned, the signifier it used, and areas that it mightiness person skipped owed to obstacles. It's ace detailed, and the diagnostic to amusement pictures of what the robot noticed and skipped is useful. It detects pets (and tin debar them), cables, furnishings wherever it tin go trapped, favored messes, fabric, other soiled areas, and more. I person seldom had an contented with the Saros 10R getting itself stuck due to the fact that the AI to debar cables and different obstacles is excellent.

The Map created by the robot tin beryllium edited, truthful if it doesn't bash a large occupation separating retired rooms, it's imaginable to manually hole it. I person an unfastened level plan, truthful I went successful and sectioned things retired truthful that I could person it cleanable circumstantial rooms. If you person aggregate floors, you tin make much than 1 map. You tin adhd areas, region areas, and artifact areas for customized cleaning.


There is an enactment successful the app to ticker the Saros 10R camera unrecorded truthful you tin spot what it's doing and cheque successful connected pets. I didn't person galore instances wherever determination were issues, but if it does drawback a cord oregon something, the app sends an alert truthful it tin beryllium addressed.


The app supports mounting up a cleaning schedule, truthful I person assigned it to cleanable antithetic areas connected Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, which splits up the cleaning truthful it doesn't request to beryllium moving for hours a day. I besides person antithetic cleaning scenarios that radical rooms unneurotic with adaptable cleaning parameters that alteration factors similar suction powerfulness for rooms without rugs.

HomeKit Integration

Thanks to Matter support, the Roborock Saros 10R tin beryllium added to ‌HomeKit‌ and it shows up successful the Home app. It tin beryllium controlled with the Home app, oregon with ‌Siri‌ dependable commands.


‌HomeKit‌ is much constricted than what's imaginable with the Roborock app, but ‌Siri‌ integration has proven much utile than expected. When the room is messy aft eating, I tin accidental "Hey ‌Siri‌, cleanable the kitchen," and the Saros 10R is capable to bash that based connected the rooms I setup successful the Roborock app.

In the Home app, there's enactment for automations that trust connected different ‌HomeKit‌ products. If for immoderate crushed I privation the Saros 10R to vacuum erstwhile I crook connected a light, I tin acceptable that up. The Home app tin besides beryllium utilized to person the robot cleanable astatine circumstantial times, erstwhile a sensor detects something, oregon erstwhile radical permission the home, which is possibly the astir utile option.

For starting a random cleaning, the Home app is little useful. It doesn't see each of the assorted cleaning modes and settings, but you tin take to vacuum, mop, oregon vacuum and mop. You tin person the robot cleanable the full location oregon circumstantial rooms.

Maintenance

The Saros 10R is simply a analyzable portion of machinery that does necessitate immoderate maintenance, though it hasn't been excessively overwhelming yet. So far, I've had to bare the soiled h2o tank, capable the cleanable h2o tank, regenerate cleaning fluid, cleanable the sensors, and cleanable the base.

The bottommost of the Saros 10R aft 61 full hours of operation. I haven't cleaned it.

Eventually I'll request to regenerate the filter and the particulate container (which should beryllium done erstwhile a month), and swap successful caller mop heads. There are estimated lifespans for immoderate of the hardware similar the broadside brush, portion others suggest replacing connected an as-needed basis. The mop and bristles of the assorted brushes tin deterioration retired implicit time, with replacements disposable from Roborock.

Battery and Cleaning Time

The Saros 10R can't cleanable my full location connected a azygous charge, and it typically needs to complaint astatine slightest erstwhile if I'm not splitting up the cleaning by room. Cleaning clip tin alteration based connected settings, specified arsenic suction powerfulness and whether it's acceptable to "deep" cleanable with aggregate passes, but present are a mates of scenarios.

Cleaning 1

• Started astatine 12:30, afloat cleaning. 150 quadrate meters total.


• Ran retired of artillery astatine 14:47 and had to charge.


• Resumed cleaning astatine 16:59.


• Finished astatine 20:07. Total cleaning time: 244 minutes, 1 charge.

Cleaning 2

• Started astatine 10:31. Deep clean, 199 quadrate meters.


• Ran retired of artillery astatine 13:21, and had to recharge.


• Resumed astatine 15:32, finished astatine 17:49. Total cleaning time: 291 minutes.

Cleaning 3

• Started astatine 18:23, 3 main rooms, 81 quadrate meters. Standard clean.


• Finished astatine 21:49. Total cleaning time: 133 minutes.

Cleaning 4

• Started astatine 10:00 connected schedule. Full clean, 101 quadrate meters.


• Finished astatine 14:38. Total cleaning time: 164 minutes.

The Saros 10R is not speedy unless I person it successful the speedy mode that leaves much abstraction betwixt passes. It takes a important magnitude of clip for a clean, and it tin and volition tally astir each time if I acceptable it to cleanable the full location and it needs to charge. Cleaning successful sections means it doesn't request to complaint arsenic often.

It takes astir 2.5 hours for it to complaint up, but it volition ever resume erstwhile it runs retired of battery.

Bottom Line

The Saros 10R is 1 of Roborock's newest cleaning bots, and of the fewer that I've tried, it's the astir impressive. My level looks and feels overmuch cleaner, and it takes astir nary enactment from me. There person been a fewer instances wherever the robot gets itself tangled successful cords and loses a mop, but the obstacle avoidance is bully capable that it avoids a batch of cablegram issues, stays distant from immoderate favored messes, and knows not to get itself trapped successful furnishings that's hard to navigate. It doesn't conflict with my rugs, oregon the thresholds betwixt rooms.

It's the astir hands-off cleaning acquisition that I've had, and that has value. I don't person to walk implicit an hr a week vacuuming and much erstwhile I mop, I don't person to fuss with the robot, and the level is cleanable passim the week. I bash privation the artillery lasted longer due to the fact that it can't get done the location connected a azygous complaint erstwhile it's vacuuming and mopping, but that's manageable by splitting up the areas cleaned each day.

At this price, a robot vacuum needs to beryllium fundamentally perfect, and capable to clasp up to longterm regular use. I tested the Saros 10R by utilizing it regular for a small implicit 2 months, due to the fact that I wanted to springiness it much clip than I would the mean review. It's truthful acold held up and continues to enactment well, but I'm going to support utilizing it to springiness updates connected its longevity.

It decidedly cleans ace well, navigates astir perfectly, and is casual to use, but I expect thing priced this precocious to enactment for a agelong time, and that's not a metric I tin justice conscionable yet.

How to Buy

The Saros 10R tin beryllium purchased from the Roborock website oregon from Amazon for $1,600.

Note: Roborock provided MacRumors with a Saros 10R for the intent of this review. No different compensation was received.
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