The Roborock Qrevo Edge boasts impressive cleaning capabilities for everyday tasks, effectively vacuuming carpets and hard floors. Its setup is minimal, and its intelligent features and navigation are top-notch. However, its consistent failure to clean room edges, especially while mopping, is a significant drawback for a premium-priced robot vacuum explicitly designed for edge cleaning. Furthermore, tackling significant spills requires careful attention, as the Qrevo Edge can potentially spread rather than clean them. This review delves into the specifics, offering a detailed analysis of its strengths and weaknesses.
Cleaning Performance: Strengths and Shortcomings
The Roborock Qrevo Edge utilizes 18,500Pa of suction power, effectively cleaning carpets with embedded hair and fur, though some strands invariably remain. This aligns with the understanding that robot vacuums serve as maintenance cleaners, not primary cleaning appliances. The vacuum effectively picks up fine powders and larger debris, but its edge-cleaning performance consistently falls short. While not unique to this model, it's a disappointing flaw given its name.
Vacuuming Capabilities:
- High Suction Power: The 18,500Pa suction effectively removes dirt, dust, and debris from carpets and hard floors, particularly at higher suction settings. Performance on hard floors is excellent, even at lower settings, while higher settings tackle carpets with embedded hair effectively.
- Multiple Suction Levels: Five power levels (Quiet, Balanced, Turbo, Max, and Max+) allow users to tailor cleaning intensity to different surfaces and dirt levels. The app allows for single or double vacuum runs, addressing tough cleaning tasks.
- Hair and Fur Removal: While mostly efficient, some hair and fur remain, especially along carpet edges. The side brush struggles to gather and direct these towards the main roller. This is a common issue across many robot vacuums.
- Handling Different Debris: The Qrevo Edge handles a variety of debris effectively, including oats and tea leaves. However, fine dust, like tea dust, can be left behind, especially on carpets. Max+ setting improves performance for this type of debris.
- Edge Cleaning Deficiency: A major drawback is the consistent failure to clean room edges, particularly noticeable on hard floors. This remains an issue even at the highest suction settings. Fine dust tends to get pushed into gaps between tiles or wood panels.
Mopping Performance:
- Effective for Regular Cleaning: The Qrevo Edge excels at mopping for everyday cleaning tasks, such as removing footprints and spilled water. It adeptly senses floor type changes, raising its mop pads when necessary.
- Water Flow Levels: Four water flow levels (Low, Medium, High, and Custom/Gentle) cater to different floor types and cleaning needs. Low and Medium settings may be insufficient for some tile types, while High is suitable for general cleaning. The custom setting offers greater control.
- Handling Tough Spills: A major weakness is the poor handling of tough spills. The Qrevo Edge can spread rather than clean up thick, viscous spills like ketchup or oyster sauce, particularly with default Zone cleaning settings. Multiple mopping runs at higher water settings improve results but do not eliminate the issue.
- Dried Messes: The Qrevo Edge struggles with dried spills and messes. Even with the High water setting and multiple runs, dried spills like oyster sauce or talcum powder might leave streaks on the floor.
- Edge Mopping Inconsistency: Similar to vacuuming, the mopping function often leaves an inch or so unmopped along room edges despite the extending mop pads.
Design and Build Quality
The Roborock Qrevo Edge's design isn't revolutionary, featuring a white body (robot and dock) that appears sleeker than its actual size suggests. The robot is comparable in size to other models, and the dock's footprint is relatively compact. However, the dock is tall, making it unsuitable for placement under countertops or kitchen islands.
Robot Design:
- LiDAR Navigation: A prominent LiDAR puck on top aids navigation. The silver-grey Roborock logo adds a touch of class.
- Dustbin and Buttons: A magnetic cover hides the 325ml dustbin, requiring infrequent access. Buttons are minimal, reducing the need for frequent interaction.
- Front Camera and Navigation: A front-facing camera provides remote security monitoring and pet observation. A front light illuminates dark areas during cleaning.
- Bumper Protection: A semicircular bumper protects the front, effectively absorbing impacts.
- Undercarriage Features: Two large wheels facilitate threshold traversal (up to 4cm), alongside a smaller front wheel for maneuverability.
- Unique Roller Brush: A split roller brush minimizes hair tangling. This design pushes hair to the center for suction.
- FlexiArm Technology: This extends both the side brush and mop pads, improving cleaning reach.
- Mop Pads: Two circular mop pads attached via Velcro are individually extendable and liftable to avoid wetting carpets. They don't detach for vacuum-only runs.
- Hidden Water Reservoir: The onboard water reservoir is integrated and not readily visible.
Dock Design:
- Self-Cleaning Functionality: The dock provides comprehensive self-cleaning features: emptying the dustbin, refilling the water reservoir, washing and drying the mop pads, and self-cleaning the tray.
- Water Tanks: Two water tanks (4L clean, 3.5L dirty) are easily accessible. Indicator lights and app notifications alert users of issues.
- Dust Bag: A covered 2.7L dust bag is easily replaced.
- Build Quality: Overall build quality is good but is compromised by the poor seal of the water tank lids. This can lead to odors. The plastic dock looks good but doesn't exude a premium feel despite silver detailing.
Setup and Navigation
Roborock simplifies setup, making it highly intuitive, eliminating the need for the manual. Initial mapping is quick and accurate. The app allows for easy room editing, adding furniture, and dividing open-plan spaces. The Qrevo Edge's navigation is generally excellent for everyday cleaning.
Mapping and Room Editing:
- Quick Mapping: Initial mapping is rapid, requiring only a few minutes for a typical space.
- Accurate Mapping: The initial map provides an accurate representation of the space.
- Easy Map Editing: The app simplifies map editing. Adding furniture and adjusting room boundaries is straightforward.
Navigation:
- Efficient Navigation: The Qrevo Edge demonstrates excellent navigation for regular cleaning runs. The app offers several cleaning routes (Fast, Standard, Deep, Deep+), each affecting battery life.
- SmartPlan Navigation: This AI-powered feature optimizes cleaning paths, suction, and mop settings based on learned information. This feature works better after several cleaning sessions. Navigation is slightly erratic during initial Zone cleaning.
- Obstacle Avoidance: Obstacle avoidance could be improved. The robot sometimes fails to mark obstacles on the map, while its performance with smaller objects is inconsistent. It struggles with smaller items, as expected in most robot vacuums.
App Features and Voice Control
Roborock provides a well-designed app, characterized by a clean interface and dark mode compatibility. The app offers comprehensive control, but its complexity requires time to master. Voice control through Rocky, Siri, Google Home, or Alexa is possible, but limited.
App Functionality:
- User-Friendly Interface: The app's design is clear, intuitive, and visually appealing.
- Comprehensive Control: Offers extensive control over cleaning routines, settings, and features.
- Map Editing: Simplified map editing features are accessible and useful.
- Custom Routines: Creating and managing custom routines can be complex, requiring practice.
- SmartPlan: This learns cleaning preferences and optimizes subsequent cleaning runs.
- Camera Features: Remote security monitoring, pet observation, and remote control are available but turned off by default for security.
Voice Control:
- Rocky (Roborock Assistant): Limited voice commands.
- Siri, Google Home, Alexa: Offer better control than Rocky but with limited commands. App control is recommended for full functionality.
Value and Alternatives
The Qrevo Edge's high price is hard to justify considering its weaknesses. While the vacuum and mopping are good for everyday use, the consistent edge cleaning failures and trouble with spills make it a less appealing option compared to similarly priced or cheaper alternatives. The higher-powered Roborock Saros 10 offers comparable performance for a similar price.
Alternatives:
- Ecovacs Deebot T30 Omni (or T30 Pro Omni): Offers excellent value, comparable cleaning (though slightly less suction), and a self-emptying dock.
- Dreame L40/X40 Ultra: High-end models with excellent suction, mopping, and smart features, but at a higher price point.
Conclusion
The Roborock Qrevo Edge is a capable robot vacuum, excelling at everyday cleaning tasks. Its navigation, SmartPlan feature, and self-cleaning dock are remarkable. However, the persistent failure to clean edges, especially during mopping, and its struggles with tough spills significantly detract from its value, especially considering its premium price. While its numerous features and easy setup are appealing, potential buyers should carefully weigh these shortcomings against other comparable options offering better value or performance. The Qrevo Edge shines in its efficiency for regular cleaning but falls short in handling more challenging cleaning scenarios, making it a niche product for those who prioritize ease of use and maintenance over absolute cleaning perfection.