5.0 out of 5 stars Great Vacuum! The Definitive Review + Tips

P.R. · March 5, 2019

I previously own a Roomba professional and could never get it to work the way I wanted. I promised myself to never buy a "dumb" robot vacuum again. The Roborock is leagues above the wandering roomba vacuums and for anyone with a large floor on a single level this is a must. I got the Roborock last December right when they activated the virtual no go zones\barriers. Frankly it would have been a huge disappointment without that feature. Especially in a large area there's all kinds of areas you really do not want or need the vaccum to go and you need to setup zones to keep it out of trouble.Shape:The shape of a vacuum matters a lot. This unit is a circle like a Roomba. Neato uses a "D" shape.For pure vacuuming the "D" shape is actually better since it mimics the design of full size vacuums by pushing the brushes to the edge of the unit This allows it to vacuum closer to objects. With Roomba and Roborock the brushes are in the middle, which makes it impossible for it to vacuum within a couple of inches of anything. They do put in a side brush to help, but it's more of a band-aid fix to a fundamental issue. That said with Robot vacuums the circle shape helps keep it from getting stuck (able to turn out of trouble more easily) which is why Roomba and Roborock stay with it. In practice you won't notice the lack of edge vacuuming much but you will certainly notice a vacuum that gets stuck all the time. For me shape ends up being a situation where there's advantages and disadvantages to both so it's hard to call a true winner.Vacuuming:This has a great battery in it that can run it for over an hour straight. It's also extremely efficient compared to a Roomba. You can watch dozens of videos online. While in many videos the Roomba picks up slightly more, the Roborock finishes nearly twice as fast. The speed of the Roborock is important since you could just schedule the Roborock to do a second cleaning and have it still finish in less time than the Roomba. This fact in my opinion makes a lot of these Youtube tests invalid.The dust bin is small and I usually have to empty it after 2 cleanings.Mopping:Frankly this is more of a gimmick, but it did work alittle better than I thought it would. The cleaning cloth they give you is thinner than most dishrags and it is limited to how much it can truly clean. I tried it out and frankly it did pick up a little more than I would have guessed it doesn't get anything you normally would have to scrub. The whole prep (filling it, setting up no go zones, putting it into mop mode and cleaning it) is far more time consuming that it's worth compared to just using a wet mop\swiffer. This is a great vacuum, but don't buy it for this feature.Mapping:Setting your no-go zones up are key to getting this to work flawlessly.My house was relatively easy. (screenshot attached) It mapped it on it's first vacuum and then I just put in the areas I did not want it to go.I got a second Roborock for my office (screenshot attached) and it was a challenge to get it to work correctly. Its a HUGE area for a vacuum like this and frankly it probably needs two vacuums. This is where I saw the flaws come out. Realistically it only has enough battery to do the hallways in one pass. It does recharge up to one time to go out and do the areas it did not reach. In this large area it did get lost and start mapping things incorrectly.I used the "go-to" feature to manually guide it through the initial mapping process, which then allowed me to setup virtual walls and no go zones. I was able to fix it's issues by bisecting the office with a virtual wall forcing it to take a "one way" path through the office. This help tremendously and now it vacuums everything without any issue.Cons:The biggest con is probably the fact that you can't save your floor layouts. This is a huge problem since it takes time to setup all your no-go zones and you can't even set them without an initial map. If you take it to another area or it gets too confused, it blows away your entire map. While it's quite smart on it's own this is extremely irritating for those who need the no-go zones. I really hope they add this feature soon. Otherwise for those who don't plan on moving it, it's perfect and I don't know of any vacuum that can handle multiple maps with virtual zones anyway. I could just buy a second one for my second floor, but I think I would rather wait to see if they add support. If you have a house that has a lot of different levels and you need to move it, you probably won't truly be able to use the virtual zone feature.Conclusion:Even with it's flaws this is the best robot vacuum out there Xiamoi is really giving Neato and Roomba a run for their money on this one.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent performance

R.B. · September 11, 2025

I am so pleased with this vacuum! I’ve owned a few robotic vacuums and mops from another well known brand, and this Roborock absolutely blows them out of the water.The mapping technology is pretty smart. It cleans in neat rows without missing spots, and navigates well around furniture, obstacles, and zones I’ve designated as off limits. The house mapping function allows me to choose which rooms I want cleaned and when. Other robotic vacuums I’ve owned were constantly getting stuck and needing my help. This one never needs my help or supervision. The only times it’s gotten stuck, it was my fault for leaving something tangly on the floor.After ten months of almost daily use, it’s still in excellent shape and functioning great. I have a long-haired cat, and I myself also have long hair, so that’s really saying something!The app was confusing to use at first, and the user experience for dealing with the house layout within the app could use some improvements. It does sometimes also get “confused” when I switch between different floors of my house. All of that said, the vacuum’s performance is so good and the experience is so much better than other brands that I still feel it deserves closer to a five-star rating than to a four-star.The value for the price of this product cannot be understated. Comparable vacuums that perform this well cost 4x the price of this one.Overall, I’m extremely happy with this purchase. When I’m ready to purchase another robotic item from my home, I will definitely choose this brand again.

1.0 out of 5 stars I REALLY wanted to like this vacuum

N. · October 16, 2019

I had been researching robot vacuums for a few months and when some of the side-by-side vacuum review sites started talking about the Roborock S4 being the new "must buy" robot vacuum, I was pretty excited. Bolo had a $40 off discount for early buyers, and so my sales pitch to my wife began. She wasn't wanting to spend the money, but I convinced her that it would allow our house to stay more clean without work from us.We are on the tail end of a major 7 month (and counting) home remodel job and we put in new hardwood flooring through most of our upstairs as a part of it. That means that any bit of dog or cat fur stands out pretty easily, and my wife is a bit OCD about clean floors. Sounded like a great match, so we jumped in and bought it.We didn't try it out right away as there were too many known obstacles due to construction, but after a few days, I wanted to try it out. The floors were bare except for some basic furniture, and I blocked off one section of the dining room where there were tools and such as well as the main hallway since some work was being done down there so that the Roborock would just ignore it. Things seemed to go well... for the most part.It got stuck a few times on the bare floor. That's right. It struggled going over pretty much every floor vent. We have 4 different styles down currently as we decide which one we are going with long term. They are all just barely above the surface and none of them have large gaps. Oh, and the S4 wanted to suicide itself down the stairs. Twice during that first cleaning, it went along the top edge of the stairs, and dropped one wheel over the edge and stopped. I didn't think too much about it because I figured that after it mapped the house, I could just put a no-go line there. I did this test during the day when I was home, but my wife was not. I wanted to work out the bugs before showing it to her.Fast forward a couple of days. Time to try the cleaning again. Same setup as before, and off it went. It got stuck in all of the same vent spots, but managed not to drop a wheel off of the top of the stair (YAY), and it was pretty cool. We weren't sure what to do about the vent covers though, and after getting stuck on the 6th one, we canceled the vacuum job as we were leaving the house.Then it happened... We opened up the rest of the floor after tools and construction to the floors was done. Put the rest of the furniture in the house, and put down some rugs.The Roborock started off and I had high hopes. Now that the whole floor was open and everything was in place, I could finally get the full map of the house to set any no-go lines and areas... My enthusiasm was short lived. Stuck on air vents, ok, we knew that would happen, but then it got stuck under the dining room table. The chair legs are big enough for it to fit through, but it just bounced around under there for a solid 10 minutes before I had to move a chair to let it find its way out. I thought that the S4 was advertised to be smarter than that??? And then it found the first rug... Stuck... Alarm goes off that it is stuck too. It never made it on to the rug, but had bounced around between a rug, a kitchen cabinet, and the refrigerator long enough that it errored out. Hmmm. Maybe I need to just move the rug a couple of inches to give it some room to work. Nope, it couldn't seem to make it on to the rug. Most of the time (like 98% of the time), only one wheel would go up on to the rug, and then it just couldn't get on the rug completely and would wiggle around over and over and not make progress.I know what you are thinking... Must be thick rugs or shag rugs or something... Nope. These rugs are significantly thinner than a threshold that the Roborock managed to go over, are just normal low pile material, and don't have a pad or anything under them (although we want to add a pad to the main one in the living room at some point). The Roborock just couldn't sort out how to get on to the rugs. The 2% of the time that it did get on a rug, it vacuumed just fine, until it went off the rug and tried to get back on.Not only could it not get on to the rugs, but all of its wiggling around would cause it to not map the house correctly. It thought that it was in the dining room when it was still in the kitchen. It was taking areas that it already cleaned, and then duplicating that area about 15 feet away on the map because it saw it as a new area, it was skewing a large portion of the map on to a 45 degree angle, which really made it get lost.At one point, it was cleaning a random spot on the map, and then its laser saw something that made it think that it was somewhere else and it literally just "jumped" to the new location.Again, every time it got stuck, I tried to leave it exactly in place and just lift it up and back down to reset the error and move the obstacle, or move it only an inch or to so that it would be really close to where it thought it was.Sadly, all of these issues just make it impossible to use. Even if it didn't get stuck and send an alarm for help, it can't map the house correctly, and even if it could do that, it is so noisy when it tries to get on to a rug. We can't run the vacuum at night because this would be too noisy (and it would never finish anyway), and we can't run it during the day because I just don't trust it not to get lost.Maybe we got a bad unit or damaged unit. It was brand new, and while the Roborock boxes (they double box it which is nice) weren't daamged, Bolo put it into a much larger (more than twice the size needed) box and didn't have many of those air pouches for packaging. The Roborock box was free to bounce around inside the larger box and we know how rough the trip can be from warehouse to home.A lot of people LOVE this thing, and I know that this isn't the normal case, but it was absolutely terrible experience for us.I took a number of videos of it getting stuck on the edge of our rugs, and saved screenshots of the swirly motions it took when it encountered the edge of a rug trying to get on to it and how messed up the mapping is.I've included one photo with some comments and things marked.Red is where it was getting stuck on rugs and swirling around. This seemed to be the cause of the rest of the problems.Pink is where it was lost enough that it re-mapped areas, duplicating them because it thought that they were new areas.Blue is where it lost total orientation too and skewed a chunk of the house 45*Green is where it suddenly went from one spot and "transported" itself across the room. It was not picked up or anything, just jumped. At this point I just canceled the cleaning and boxed it up. Sorry Roborock S4, but it just wasn't meant to be.Again, good luck to everyone else. This seems to be a great vacuum for a lot of people, and I REALLY wanted to like it, but when it can't even go on to a low pile rug (even though it can vacuum it if it does make it on to the rug), and then it just gets completely lost/disoriented, it just won't work.PS. Roborock, if you are listening, have someone who speaks English proofread your app. Some words are misspelled... "Enc current cleanup and reset vacuum power?" I assume you meant "End" and not "Enc"? I saw a couple of others too.

Take care of it and it'll take care of you

A.C. · January 31, 2024

My main floor is a hydronic concrete slab, the 2nd floor is a matte hardwood, and my toddler's playroom is carpeted with coral fleece. The Q5+ does a stellar job on each of them. It detects its surroundings and loads the proper map and settings for each floor. We have a big fluffy dog that would leave lots of hair and dirt all over the place and we can really see a huge difference since getting the Roborock.What's important to understand with these vacuums is that they're meant to run almost every day to *keep* your floors clean; you shouldn't let dust and debris accumulate too much between cleanings. They also require frequent maintenance if you want to make them last. This is true for all robot vacuums.Some insight if you do choose the Roborock Q5+:-You can replace the main brush with the newer design rubber roller from the S7 models. It deals better with hair, but is somewhat less durable than the brush roller and also less efficient on carpet (many S7 owners on Reddit swap in a Q5 brush and say it works better than the rubber one on carpet).-If you stick with the original Q5 brush make sure you clean it often, as hair will inevitably get entangled around it. Also check the side brush regularly for entangled hair around the screw and seal.-The auto-emptying can be tricky as it requires a perfect seal in order to vacuum properly into the dock's bin. Make sure the 4 plastic tabs of the brush cover are well tucked in the housing of the roller. The tabs should not be visible when seated correctly (see photo). If your dust box is not emptying this is most probably the fix for that.-Verify the robot's dust box often for clogs, and keep that filter clean as they are expensive to replace. You should also clean your sensors with a microfiber cloth every once in a while. There is a timer in the app to remind you (it doesn't actually detect anything; just a timer you have to reset manually).-For Android users: To connect properly to your WiFi you should turn off mobile data and any adblocker app, and also disable auto-connect to both 2.4 and 5 ghz wifi networks until the robot is paired.

Used for a month, robot vacuum looks like a solid purchase

M. · July 15, 2020

You're paying a premium for two features here : vacuum intelligence and in-app mapping. Those two features were important to me so I didn't mind. If you don't care about those things, go for a cheaper model like Eufy.If you mind, the S4 is a damn good choice. The mapping is outstanding, controlling this vacuum from my smartphone is surprisingly convenient, you can also point it to a place so it only goes there, was useful to me as i cook a lot with flour. The S4's map makes it smart and efficient, it will do the contour of the room, then zigzag in straight lines as much as it can. It also doesn't care about most carpet, only struggling with the highest ones we use as a welcome mat. It had issues with bar stools, as it tried non-stop to climb the rounded sides, but I was able to setup a no-go zone in the app so it ignores the bar stools.Great mid-range vacuum. If you wanna spend the money to get past entry-level products, this is a great choice.

Robô inteligente!

C.A. · January 27, 2025

Excelente

Kil tuy doken bir dort ayakli arkadasiniz var ise hic dusunmeden alin

K. · March 9, 2020

Urunu alirken sanki gereksiz bir luks mu diye kendimize soruyorduk ama denemek istedik ve iyiki denemisiz. Oncelikle urunun supurmesi, yazilimi, kullanimi, temizlemesi vs herseyi cok basarili (paspasi haric). Ilk acilista kendisi sensorleri sayesinde evinizin haritasini cikariyor ve hafizaya aliyor. Sonrasinda (yeni gelen guncelleme ile) odalari tek tek secip temizletebiliyorsunuz. Sadece belirli bir alani da secip temizletebiliyorsunuz. Girebildigi her yere giriyor ve hic bosluk birakmiyor diyebilirim. Halimiz olmadigi icin o konuda yorum yapamayacagim ancak uzun tuylu bir kopegimiz var ve artik bu urun sayesinde ne kadar rahatiz anlatamam. Supurme cok yorucu gibi gelmese de robotu calistirip baska islerle ilgilenebilmek, hele bu supurme isinin her gun yapilmasi ve o kadar dokulen kila tuye ragmen tertemiz bir evde oturmak cok guzel bir duygu.Paspas konusunda ise yine idare eder ama yukaridan bir guc uygulayamadigi icin hafifce islak bezle siler gibi dusunun ve beklentinizi ona gore olusturun. Ben yine de paspaslisini alirdim, kuru supurme yaninda islak bezle silmesi de daha iyi. Herkese tavsiye ediyorum, alali bir ay oldu ve cok memnunuz.

Muy buena!

N.D.M.G. · August 1, 2020

Es mi primera experiencia con una aspiradora de este tipo, en la casa se tarda más o menos un minuto por metro cuadrado, prácticamente pasa por todos lados con mi configuración de muebles que no son tantos para el espacio, yo tengo pisos de Mármol, en esa superficie funciona bastante bien. La configuración y limpieza es muy sencilla, y la batería dura suficiente. Es fácil usar el mapa que genera para que solo aspire un área en particular. Antes usaba una beam (en esa conectas el tubo de la aspiradora a la pared, la ventaja es que te permite usar un motor muy fuerte ubicado normalmente en un cuarto de máquinas lejos del área que aspiras, no lo cargas y casi no lo escuchas). Incluso comparado con la beam la roborock se comporta bastante bien, y con la robot no haces nada o casi nada. Cuando menos la unidad que me tocó a mi funciona bastante bien