TechRadar Verdict
The Roborock Qrevo Slim is a fully-fledged, super-capable robotic vacuum and mop.
That’s the short version; read on for my full Roborock Qrevo Slim review.
At time of writing (because this market moves fast!)
For comparison with other brands, the equally expensiveEufy Omni S1 Prois rated at just 8,000Pa.
Roborock has replaced the conventional LiDAR sensor with a system it calls StarSight.
(Head to TechRadar’s article onhow robot vacuums navigatefor a deep-dive into this area.)
The rest of the Qrevo Slim’s design is similar to other self-cleaning robovacs in the Roborock range.
Roborock also sells the Qrevo Slim with a refill-and-drainage system.
This dock is the same width and depth, but is shorter, at 405 mm (15.9in).
For this review we’re looking at the regular model with the larger, manually-refilled and emptied water tanks.
Not the Qrevo Slim though.
It drove over every threshold, every time.
The automatic mode selection also impressed me.
But on one occasion it got confused and failed to find its way back to the dock.
I don’t know what caused this, but it only happened once during several weeks of testing.
Onto the specific cleaning tests.
I begin by scattering a mix of oats and flour across approximately one square meter of wooden kitchen floor.
As expected, this mode didn’t do a particularly good job at picking up debris.
It’s okay for dust (or flour in this case) but struggled with the oat mix.
Max vacuum strength is noticeably louder, at 69 dB.
The cleaning power is also ramped up, providing an excellent clean.
This is despite me telling the robot to clean right up to the wall.
It also frequently failed to clean up directly in front of its docking station.
Telling it to clean the whole room fixed this.
Requesting another clean, on a lower power setting, addressed this.
To summarize, cleaning whole rooms twice using Turbo or Max mode is best in most cases.
I then repeated these tests on carpet, and saw very similar results.
The Quiet and Balanced modes are fine for a little-and-often approach, but failed to pick up all debris.
Finally, the mop.
In short, it did a great job.
It’s also worth remembering that the mop uses only warm water and no detergent.
After several weeks of testing, the base still appeared as-new.
Lastly, the robot has a voice control system that responds to the command ‘Hello Rocky’.
The Qrevo Slim’s battery life is a claimed 180 minutes.
This feels fairly accurate, but will vary considerably depending on which controls are used.
Roborock Qrevo Slim review: app
The Roborock app works like most other robotic vacuum controllers.
On top of all that are the routines.
Routines appear on the home screen of the app, and can be activated with just one tap.
iPhone users can create a homescreen widget with one-tap access to a couple of your most-used routines.
As with other robotic vacuum apps, there are options to reconfigure your map and rename rooms.
Should you buy the Roborock Qrevo Slim?
Much quieter tweaks are also available.
You want an equally impressive mop
The Qrevo Slim’s dual-rotor mop is impressive.
Roborock itself has the more affordable Q Series, for example.
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