Earlier this year at CES 2025, Roborock debuted a robot vacuum cleaner with a robotic arm – the Saros Z70. It’s designed to pick up discarded socks or toys that stand in the way of giving your home a good clean. Honestly, it’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
At launch, it was slated to arrive “later this year”. Now, it’s finally available to order in both the US and UK. It’ll set you back $1900/£1800. But to celebrate its UK launch, Roborock is offering £100 off if you order before 2 June.
The OmniGrip Mechanical Arm is a five-axis arm that folds back into the vacuum’s body by bending back on itself. That’s quite a feat in itself, since the Z70 is under 8cm tall in order to go under as much furniture as possible.
At present, the arm is designed to pick up light objects like socks and sandals under 300g, but Roborock says it will release software upgrades to try and support the recognition of different types of objects. During a cleaning cycle, the cleaner will mark objects it can lift. It will then return to them, move them, and then clean the missed area.
Interestingly, the arm won’t be turned on by default in the app, so you can choose what kind of objects can be picked up and where it should put them. You can buy a dedicated bin from Roborock for it to place rubbish. It uses AI to work out what objects are, and you can constantly tweak its settings. The vacuum also features a child lock and safety stop button on the cleaner.
The vision is that future cleaners will be able to help with more ‘home assistant’ type tasks including tidying. Some manufacturers have been talking about how to use robotic arms to reach small areas that a robot cleaner can’t traditionally go. Perhaps future robot vacs will also be able to clean on the top of skirting boards, too.
Of course, it does do regular cleaning as well. This Roborock vac seriously sucks, with 22,000 Pa of suction to get up even the smallest bits of grime. Anti-tangle tech will stop hairs from jamming this thing up, and dual spinning mops take care of hard floors. There’s an(other) arm that sticks out to the side with a brush and mop, so every corner and crevice will be throughly cleaned.
Also at CES, Roborock also launched the Saros 10 and 10R robot vacs as well as handheld wet-dry vacs – the F25 series. Plus there are three new washer-dryers, too – the Roborock Zeo One, Zeo Lite and Zeo Mini. As I mentioned, the Saros Z70 is finally available to order in the US and UK for $1900/£1800.
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