Q10 S5+ Robot Vacuum and Mop, 10,000Pa Suction, Upgraded from Q8 max+, 70 Days Self-Emptying, Obstacle Avoidance, Sonic Mopping, Dual Anti-Tangle Design, Auto Mop Lifting, Ideal for Pet Hair

Unboxed it today and got it cleaning the main part of the house after just charging it to 51%. I am still having trouble believing how good it is, especially in cleaning up clumps of pet hair all over the place. We have multiple dogs and cats who shed constantly and copiously, and I have black floors to boot (pro tip: pets and black floors are a bad combination). In addition, the beasts keep tracking in mud/dirt from the backyard and leave muddy (when raining) and dusty (when dry) paw marks all over the place. So I set out to see how the S7 would deal with the worst of it. I decided to not manually vacuum first because I wanted to stress-test it with a week's worth of pet hair clumped all over the place along with a filthy floor. I installed the Roborock app on an Android tablet (with no Google account on it, got the app off apkpure, natch), created a Roborock account, and used the app to connect the robot to my Wifi and install a firmware update which was available. I then filled the water reservoir and snapped on the mop attachment with the mop cloth on it. Then as soon as the charge level hit 51% I pressed the "Clean" button in the app and waited to see how the robot would tackle the very unclean floor. The S7 was totally up to the challenge, and right out of the dock it left a strip of unbelievably clean floor. Now I wish I had taken photographs, because this thing just went gangbusters on all the clumps of hair and dust on the floor and I'm still pleasantly shocked by how good a job it did. The area mapping algorithm is pretty efficient and effective - it divided up non-rectilinear areas into blocks of rectangles, and after systematically cleaning the rectangular area it went to clean the irregularly shaped areas (of which my house has many; I think the architect hated 90-degree angles and liked conic sections). As the robot moves about doing its business, the app shows real-time progress of the robot's movement as well as new areas of the map appearing - if you've played an RPG computer game, the map update as the LIDAR refines the map and shows new areas is very like how games like Baldur's Gate, Diablo, etc uncover new areas of the map as you explore them. It did most of the main area in 34 minutes, using up 32% of charge. Just as it negotiated the tall bumpy threshold into one of the bedrooms, it decided it needed to return to the dock for charging. Now, that threshold between the bedroom and the main area is quite large, and I was expecting that I'd need to go help the robot back into the main area so it could go dock itself, but after a few seconds I heard it trundling back in and it headed straight to the dock and plugged itself in to charge. At this point I plucked it off the dock to see exactly how much trouble it had gotten itself into with all the pet hair it had sucked up so far. I expected that the roller would be wound solid with pet hair and that I'd need a session with scissors and patience. It was not needed - the roller was completely clean, and most of the pet hair it had sucked up was in the dust bin. One compressed clump of pet hair was up against a wall, but I think it got dislodged there as the robot cleaned the floor at the wall junction. The dustbin itself could be designed a bit better because it has a couple of baffles across the top of it (under a removable filter) which make it a little difficult to empty the dustbin of pet hair - I had to pick out clumps with my fingers and pitch them in a dustbin. No biggie, though. I then checked the state of the mop cloth to see whether the cleaned-up pet hair was felted to the cloth, and again I was impressed by how little pet hair was actually on the mop cloth; I expected lots but found almost none, which was further proof that the robot had vacuumed up whatever it encountered. The water reservoir was about half empty. Sound-wise, the robot is not that noisy when cleaning - to me it seems to be less noisy than a regular non-robotic vacuum cleaner. The robot is currently resting (charging) and I've refilled the water reservoir. Can't wait to see how the algorithm handles cleaning when it has to resume cleaning where it left off. One thing I have to mention: since Roborock is a Chinese company I had some privacy concerns regarding house maps etc (remember the Roomba scandal from a few years ago?) which remain to be assuaged, but the company's product page for the S7 MaxV Ultra (the S7's bigger better brother) states that they have privacy certifications from a well-known German arbiter whose name escapes me at the moment, so perhaps this is not going to be a problem after all. All in all, I am VERY impressed by this thing and will definitely be buying the AutoDock for it. Next year, I'll buy its bigger brother the S7 MaxV Ultra (with double the suction power, and a snazzy self-cleaning AutoDock) when I have some money to drop on it.

In a nutshell, you will LOVE this vacuum if you have smooth hard surface floors like luxury vinyl planks (LVP), hardwood, etc. Truly, it’s the best thing since the automatic washing machine! It also does well on tile floors for vacuuming, but for mopping, it’s basically is a Swiffer so your grout may not be as clean as you want. I don’t have carpet, but I have 2 small rugs. It recognizes when it switches to rugs/carpets but it takes a couple seconds for it to kick into “Max” suction, so my rugs were only partially cleaned. The details… FYI, you’ll need an outlet area with quite a bit of clearance around it for the charging base – 3 feet on either side and 5 feet in front of it (per the manual). Allow about 4 hours for it to fully charge for the first time. Installing the app on an iPhone and connecting the vacuum to your 2.5 gig Wi-Fi (after entering Wi-Fi password) you: 1) Click on the button at the bottom of the app to proceed. 2) Your Wi-Fi settings open, then you click on the Roborock. 3) Close “Settings” and click on the Roborock app. Now the Roborock S5 Max is setup. OK, I named my Roborock “Rosie” (after the Jetson’s robot maid), so “it” is changing to a “she”. 😊 Vacuuming: Just press the button on the Roborock and she says “Starting to clean” and takes off! The first time cleaning she’ll make a map of your place, which you can view in the app. She uses her external brush on the right side to sweep in dirt toward her and then vacuums it up! She really digs into areas while cleaning around obstacles. She swept in my small walk-in closet but didn’t disturb my clothes that were hanging to the floor. BIG BONUS: her low profile allows her to clean areas that I very rarely clean! She went under my beds, night stands and dressers! She even went BEHIND the couch! If she can get to it, she’ll clean it! But on the flip side, make sure you don’t have things like boxes, power cords, etc. which can get in the way of cleaning. The app shows the power settings for vacuuming: Balanced, Turbo and Max. It’s defaulted to “Balanced” mode which appears to be lower suction for hard floors and it increases power when it’s on a rug. On that note though, she did not do a good job cleaning small rugs. I have LVP throughout the condo and tile in the bathrooms. I like running her on Turbo mode which is slightly noisier and uses a bit more power. If you have tile floors with grout, it might be better to use a higher suction mode to clean the grout better. Repositioning: Originally, I plugged her into a spot that had the required clearance, but thought I’d try a different spot where the bed is only 4 feet in front of her, BUT she can go under the bed, so that gives her the clearance she needs. When I started her up in her new location, she moved forward, looked around and then said “Positioning”. Then she roamed around the room and briefly outside the bedroom and said “Positioning complete”. Now she knew where she was and started on her merry way vacuuming the condo! No go zone: I didn’t want her to chew up my tree skirt around the Christmas tree so I used the app to draw a “no go zone”. You can draw a box on the map or in my case, I drew some lines. Sure enough, she didn’t go past the lines I drew in and my Christmas tree skirt was spared! Bottom line: 17 stars out of 5! She does a GREAT job and I love that she vacuums UNDER things that I typically ignore. The mopping is also a great feature that helps your floors look fresh and clean. Although this doesn’t replace YOU vigorously mopping your floors, it definitely helps to keep lightly dirty floors cleaner. I can’t say how well she works on carpet, but if you have mostly a hard surface floor, she’s a HUGE help!

Love the concept. This definitely helped keep our floors cleaner of pet hair and dust. With that said, there are a lot of design changes that would make this so much better. The filter caddy that holds the filter in the refuse bin, falls out easily when emptying the bin, and they do not sell replacement caddies on their site. The plastic they used for the caddy is brittle and the release tabs both broke, one after a few days, and the other after about a month. They do not have these available for sale. The mop feature is buggy. several times we found a smeared puddle of water where it decided to start putting water down, and didn't stop till the tank was empty. Some of our floating floor seams are puckered now from water sitting on the floor for hours while we were all gone. We had to turn the mop function off completely before it ruined our floors. They sell it as something that can handle hair, and it does pick most of it up, but if it's long, you will be cutting it out of the brush heads, and the wheel bearings. One wheel bound up with hair and would not move till it was cut out. With the wheels being half recessed, that was a fun 2 hours I will probably have to do again every 3 months or so. There is a little plastic flap in the dust bin that hangs over the opening from the brushes loosely so the suction can open it. This gets caked with gunk regularly, and then stops all the hair and dirt at the bin entrance. I coated it in Teflon, and it works better, but there are so many better ways to do this than what they chose to do. It is apparently standard operation with their vacuum design. Would have been so much better if they used a centrifuge or gravity assist design instead. The bin is small. With a dog, 2 cats, and 4 people, we have to empty the vacuum twice a day. Navigation is okay but not completely reliable. it regularly remaps because a laundry basket was sat on the floor, or a package came in. Then it gets stuck at the drop off points because it doesn't know they are there. I have to regularly go in and delete new maps it tries to build. Marking the areas you do not want it to go is not greatly accurate either. It seems like every time it runs, they shift a little side to side. This means I either over size the no-go zone which means it misses dirt around the edges, or I size it just right, or a bit small, and it gets stuck when it gets too close to the edges, or goes where it shouldn't and gets stuck. Overall I would go with someone else. Roborock is all about releasing new versions with new gadgets and features. Their parts availability and pricing is sadly a big fail for us. You will spend as much as you did on the original unit in accessories and parts every few months. Don't get me wrong, I have Dysons that cost $800.00, but I spend maybe $100.00 on parts and replacements every few years, not months. I would get the Dyson robovac, but it has it's own nav problems that need resolved 1st. Bet I get one when they fix the Nav. Everything else about them is great! **UPDATE** had to special order parts for the vacuum, Roborock doesn't sell the parts that broke after only 3 months of use! They don't have any names for the parts, Like a diagram!, so I had to describe what we need. I said, "The plastic housing that holds the air filter, and fits inside the lid of the collection bin." They had no idea what I was talking about. I sent them a picture I had to track down that had the broken part in it, edited it to highlight the part, arrows & all!; They still failed! I specified the exact model, and serial #, of my unit. They sent a filter that doesn't fit my vacuum and some other random plastic piece I cant identify anywhere on the vacuum and does not fit anywhere I can find. That took about 2 hours to setup, and 5 emails. I believe that makes them qualify for my "Worst Purchase of the Year" award for 2025. Only thing that would have made it worse, is if they tried to charge me for the parts or shipping while it was still well within the warranty period.

The vacuum is great, and the mop is okay. You do have to wash the pad after almost every use, otherwise it starts to stink, and it doesn’t wash very well in general. I do like that it has a mopping function—not a deep clean, but enough to get dog paw prints off the floor. I do wish it had the option to set a schedule like my Roomba did. Overall, it’s still a nice machine and gets the job done. It was easy to set up and use and worth the money to have the mopping factor in it.

I recently replaced my Roborock S5 with this one when the S5 died. This version genuinely impresses me. It is quieter than the S5, even on Max; has better pickup; has a better designed side brush and dustbin (top mount of filter minimizes the filter dirtying, but makes emptying it a little more awkward); and it has a mopping function that is actually useful. I have to mop a lot less now. The sound it makes also is much less annoying, so I don't mind having it run while I am home anymore. I mop a lot because I have two old Yorkies who are about to pass away, and they're frequently leaving bladder, stomach and or bowel contents on the floor. I also have a cat who thinks it's fun to pee in the cat box and poop next to it. As long as you don't tell it to clean up a pet mess that should be picked up or wiped up instead, it is very useful for helping to clean up pet messes once the pee or puke has been sopped and wiped up, or the poop has been picked up. When I need it to clean up the remnants of messes like that, I use 3% hydrogen peroxide in the water tank instead of water. It cleans, disinfects and doesn't harm the S7. If you have old, sick and/or clueless pets and they make significant messes it might encounter while you are not available then you will either need to lock them up while it runs and check for messes first, or get one that can avoid pet messes. That is the only drawback I see this machine having. The software is excellent. I was able to have it map the house and then easily and quickly correct the "rooms" layout it had concluded were in play. They weren't far off, either. I have it set to vacuum automatically in Balanced mode every week day, and do a deep mopping of the house every weekend day, a few hours after it vacuums the house at max. The level of configurability is top notch. Can't believe how well it mops. Stuff I would have had to pull out the mop for before, it can and does handle for me. Dried up pet puke, dried spills, even dried spills that have managed to collect a lot of dirt because they're sticky from sugar. I only have to pull out the mop once a week now, instead of up to 3x a day. When I'm cleaning the remnants of a pet mess that is oily, such as wiped up urine, I put down some dish soap on that spot on the ground and then let the machine spread it around while it mops to get rid of the oily residue. Until I cleaned up all the power cables on the floor, it had a tendency to get stuck on them while mopping. While it always found a way to get out of being stuck, this caused it to make puddles of dirty mop water that later dried up and left spots that I had to have it go back and mop up. Solution: make sure it can't get caught on power cables! That was my fault, so all I can say here is that I'm impressed that it can get itself un-stuck each time. This makes my life much easier, in multiple ways. I don't have to vacuum anymore. I only mop a fraction as much as I was doing before. And I can breathe better because the vacuum picks up better than before and the mop actually does clean the floor. Every time I have washed the mop pad it has created muddy water in the sink while I'm scrubbing soap into it. So far only one of those times has involved a pet mess that should have been picked up before it ran, so I know the "muddy water" results from fine dust and dirt that is on the floor that can't just be vacuumed up. The mop feature cleans a lot of fine dust off the floor, and that really helps me breathe better. I have what one doctor called "hypersensitive lungs", and dust makes me cough a lot. This isn't cheap, but it's worth the cost if you need to keep your house much cleaner than otherwise with a minimum of work on your part. Yes, you have to clean the mop pad every 1-2x it mops, but this takes about 3 minutes. I pop it in the sink, give it a few drops of dish soap or a few pumps of hand soap, and throw in an inch of hot water. Scrub it against itself until the water is good and muddy, and then drain and repeat the scrub against itself in fresh water without more soap. It will dirty that somewhat as well, and then be clean. Battery life is enough to vacuum my whole house on Max and then deep-mop it at maximum agitation as well, and still be around 56% battery. (My house is a little smaller than average.) The water tank can clean my entire house in one go on a standard vacuum and mop run with max water drip, but deep mopping is best done a room at a time with a tank check after each. I also have a female family member with very long hair who lives in this house. The brush is almost immune to getting wrapped up in her hair. Her hair was absolutely killing the S5's brush roll; I would have to clean it about once a week, and it wasn't always easy. I have had to spend maybe a few seconds once removing her hair with the new roll, and without even checking until a month after buying it. Even then it was only a few strands. Impressive. All in all, very pleased. This is a critical and very necessary appliance in my house, both because it lets me spend more time on my business instead of cleaning, and because it cleans well enough to make it much easier to breathe. This should definitely be at least one of your top two or three options. My research showed that there were only one, maybe two other vacuum systems that were worth considering as of this review. Given how crowded the market is, that's impressive. I'm very happy with my choice, and I will not be looking back.

OK, it has been two years and I am updating my review. I am keeping the 5 stars because the vac is working as good now as it was when new. But it has not been without its ups and downs. After about a year, I began to notice it wasn't picking up nearly as good as it once did and I started looking for new vacs. I stumbled across a review for a completely different product. This reviewer, having the same problem, different product, had found a "hidden" filter deep inside his vac. So, one day when using my leaf blower outside, I decided to use it to blow out the q5. Dust went everywhere and I was amazed at how much the vac quieted down and began suction like new! Apparently I hadn't noticed the increase in noise as the vac labored against restricted flow. It was nothing short of a complete renewal. But, I began to have problems with the cliff sensors. It would falsely sense a cliff and refuse to vac that area. I noticed a buildup of dust INSIDE the cliff sensors. (apparently they are not airtight) With a can of compressed air, I was able to blow out the sensors and it straightened right up, again to like-new efficiency. I have integrated the practice of blowing compressed air into the sensors as well as EVERY crevice that dust could accumulate into my cleaning/emptying routine and now, two years after purchase, I get like-new performance from the q5. I would still recommend this, just be prepared for a still-clunky app that you WILL become accustomed to. Good Luck!! OK, so I'm giving this five stars because it is so much better than I had anticipated and I want people to read this review. The product itself IS five-star. The ap, maybe two. Keep in mind that I haven't had it too long and maybe with a little more experience, the ap might be more palatable. But here goes: I use this in a basement where the floors are mostly smooth concrete, with one room low-pile carpet. As long as you keep the vac emptied, it works great. I have a husky dog and his undercoat shedding is a disaster of epic proportions. It sucks up his hair like a champ on both surfaces. When it gets pretty full, it will dump dog hair and dust at the edge of every rug it passes over. But that's my fault. The robot seemingly wanders around like a drunk, and somehow it unerringly chases after the dog wherever he goes, but it knows what it's doing once it maps out the area. The problems come when you want it to do something different, like just clean one of the rooms. Most of the time, the selection on the ap to select just one room simply doesn't work. Sometimes it does, so I know I'm doing it right. You can install an "invisible wall" but so far it has been impossible for me to put in a HORIZONTAL wall, so I gave up. Putting in a "zone" has been more successful, but still a pain. The only thing in my areas that it will not clean are the door mats, made of very thin carpeting. Hair gets stuck in there and the vac simply can't suck or scrub it up. But that's minor. I can scrape the hair off with a shoe and the vac obligingly sucks it right up. Overall, this was good purchase and I can't imagine dealing with "Operation Fur Drop" without it.

I never could get the app to sync with my roborock, but I still use it regularly. I didn’t really want yet another app to manage, so I don’t mind turning it on and letting it go. I named it robopuppy, because it can be a little bit of unhinged chaos if you don’t prepare (read: pick up your socks!) it does get stuck under my couch frequently (the front part) but that is due to my bumpy area rug so it kind of high centers in a couple of spots. I like that it vacuums under my couches without me moving them, so it getting stuck is something I am willing to deal with. I like that it has no problem navigating my bumpy area rug but it will get caught on my tasseled rug in my kitchen, so I do pick that up before I let robopuppy loose. It picks up a lot for being such a basic little machine. I deducted another star because when I finally decided to try the mop feature out, it quit working after just a few uses and there is water in the tank always, reminding me of what might have been. I can’t even see where the water comes out, so I am a little puzzled how it even worked in the first place. It definitely didn’t replace real mopping, but it was a nice little refresher. All that being said, it has taken so much off my plate in terms of cleaning. I can have the whole house 2500 sq ft vacuumed twice a week while I’m working so that I have time for everything else. I have mostly tile downstairs, it’s dark colored and I have a dog and live in a very dusty area. Pick up your cords, socks, and anything with tassels before use and it’s a great little cleaning tool! Also it leaves nice vacuum lines in carpeted rooms, which I love!

I owned a Shark Ion for about a year and a half. It worked at first, but I had two warranty replacements die on me in short succession. I also had issues with the noise level of the Ion; it was very loud while running, to the point that I hated being within earshot of it during a cleaning session. It was annoying to have to empty the dust cup manually every day, as there was no self-emptying feature. And, it got stuck. Everywhere. All the time. Under furniture, on top of thresholds, on top of dog toys. I decided I was done with Shark, and spent a LOT of time researching robot vacuums for a replacement. I landed on Roborock, and invested a lot of time in reviewing all of their models to see which would work best for me. I needed something that could keep up with a cat and a dog, something I could run daily, and something that would be quiet. Self-emptying was a bonus. After watching a million Youtube videos and reading dozens of reviews, I landed on the Roborock Q10 S5+. I've had this unit for around 5 days now, and I love it. It is extremely quiet while operating, even on the "Turbo" mode. It's like light background noise to me. The vacuum was able to map out my 800 sq foot apartment in about a half hour, and it was very easy to go into the app to divide and name each of my rooms, and delete areas I didn't want the vacuum to consider. This robot was so thorough, it tried to map out my balcony that it could detect through my glass door, even though it didn't have access to it! It maps out the cleaning path for each run, so you're able to see exactly what it does. This vacuum does the perimeter of each room, and then does a back-and-forth sweep across. I've found that it's able to get more dirt and hair the first run, but you'd need to run it a second time for more thorough cleaning or bigger messes. A few downsides: - I've noticed shorter cleaning cycle times. Generally the robot runs for around one hour, which is much shorter than the Shark Ion, which could run for 1 1/2-2 hours. When I run it on the Turbo setting, I get around 40 minutes of cleaning time. - It does get extremely loud when emptying it's dust cup. It sounds as loud as a normal vacuum, so it's manageable to deal with for 10-15 seconds. - The self-emptying is a major plus and one of the main reasons why I went with this vacuum. However, the app will not tell you if the dust bag is full. I think this is a major flaw, as you can't tell from looking at the bag whether or not it is full. I don't want to guess, and I definitely don't want to be wasteful with dust bags. I'll update this review once I've had it a bit longer, but I'm very satisfied with the Q10 S5+ so far!