A new beast has appeared at my home – Roborock S5 / S50. Right now, it’s running around vacuuming.
I’m not very knowledgeable about robot vacuums yet, but my first impression is very pleasant indeed. First, it has a lidar on its dome, scanning the room and understanding where it is based on the scenery. This allows it to always vacuum the floor parallel to the walls, with very high accuracy, without exceptions.
It remembers the map of the apartment, updates it during operation, and you can draw areas in the app where it shouldn’t go, etc.
At first glance, the wet mopping feature seems to be added just for show—as expected for mobile vacuums, it’s not great. But formally, it’s there, which helps marketers with sales. On the other hand, if the water tank were bigger, the vacuum wouldn’t be able to fit between chair legs.
Of course, it doesn’t get along well with wires and small papers on the floor that shouldn’t be sucked up. Also, it just pushed a clothes dryer and was compacting old fluorescent lamps to be thrown away in the corner (I quickly jumped up to help with those).
In general, it’s a fun little thing. It beeps and reports to my wife on her phone when you pick it up.
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 