One hundred years ago, one of futuristic fantasies was that we would travel in flying cars. Although strictly that has not been fulfilled, we do move with airplanes, which are flying buses. The same happened with the robots that home tasks were going to do: they were described as Androids that would move in wheels and deal with the kitchen, order and hygiene of the home.
Fortunately in this last section we have evolved favorably and we have vacuum robots, which also scrub soils and are almost invisible and equally silent. Some of them can schedule at a distance and determine specific areas. One of these is the Roborock Saros 10.
Clear successor of the S8, This model is clearly a step forward. There are many examples and even before starting it. If the past roborock generations had trusted the molded white or black plastic with metal details, now the S10 is based, on its base and on its full load station, on the mirror metal. This gives him a futuristic appearance and adds an advantage: It is not as high as other similar and that makes it much easier to locate it in any corner.
When lifting the upper part of the station is the dirty and clean water tank, each with a capacity of about four liters of water. A panel at the front of the base opens to reveal the vacuum bag and the dedicated base for a cleaning solution. Even better, it is simply a container, we must not buy specific cartridges of the brand; You can use the solution you want, although Obviously Roborock advises you to use yours. The problem with this is that It is not easy to find it in the brand website. We couldn’t. The suggestion is to use a solution that does not produce much foam.
The robot itself is thinner than the previous versions of this brand or others. While I have lifted much of my furniture to facilitate the cleaning of robots (or myself), Saros 10 could even strain in tables where a fist barely fit. But not only has this capacity, too It is able to save steps of up to three centimeters, such as the bar of a ladder that we have in the place where we have tried it.
In fact, in our house, the living room separates two rooms by 10 centimeters high steps, not very high, But enough for no robot to save them. To do this we built small ramps with a remarkable inclination and the S10 saved them without problem.
The ability to deal with small spaces and save obstacles has to do with its Lidar technology, the mapping system of many robots. Only in this case this “Cartographic Chamber” is retractable and if the object he faces is very low, the camera descends and the path does it based on the map that has previously drawn. At that point, the robot depends on cameras, lights and some artificial intelligence.
The use of The AI allows you to detect changes in the map configuration, expand it, select specific areas and detect if there was any “domestic accident”like food or drink spilled. And act accordingly cleaning the area with the greatest anell.
Good news is that Saros 10 leaves the armed box. You just have to put the minimum ramp for the loading and plug it in. Download the application and scanning the QR code is also a matter of seconds. AND This is essential to control it at a distance. Something Roborock has designed to be very simple. An important detail is that also, with prior authorization and identification, we can activate it to make calls through S10. Beyond curiosity, this allows us to use it as insurance to know if there is someone at home. Or what our pets are doing, since we can ask you to go to a certain area and show us what is there.
Once activated, Saros 10, perhaps due to the additional power of the cameras and AI, begins to put the nose in every corner of the area to be clean. This allows you to create The map, a very precise one in terms of space measurement, but was also full of information that no other robot application had captured in so much detail.
In general you have to confess that I am quite skeptical of the use of the AI label in many productsends up being the “technological aloe vera” of today, which appears everywhere. However, in this case, here it serves that, to each new mission, the S10 learn from cleaning in the areas and is done more efficiently and quickly.
For the first time, each furniture, each carpet and each cable were arranged in the application. He does not understand that the obstacle he finds is an air purifier, but he succeeded in the shape of the application. This is important for two reasons: first, having precise reference points in the room makes the creation of cleaning areas much more defined. Secondly, demonstrates how useful AI is, since correctly identifying what the robot finds means that you can decide more precisely how to deal with that element. A short -haired carpet needs a different pressure from that of a tile floor.
All other aspects of the Roborock application work wonderfully, including the “pin and go” function, which allows you to mark a point on the ground and the robot will go there and, if you want, it will clean it. I also love the remote control function, which makes the application a remote control for the robot, so you can direct it where you want even if we are not at home.
In the specific cleaning section, it also stands out. While most robots range between one or two rollers, Saros is the first one that presents a divided roller design, which according to Roborock will practically eliminate that the hair is trapped in the machine.
These elements work well to collect the waste from the ground, either from a carpet, carpet, tile or wood. Even more interesting, Saros 10 has a Absurd quantity of suction power: 22,000 Pa. That is more than double the majority of robots.
Mopa is another important detail: Saros 10 for Fantar, has A vibratory pad to scrub and thanks to its ability to reach 80 ° Ccleaning is guaranteed. Second, the robot chassis (basically the robot itself) can lift its front. While this is intended to help you better navigate through the spaces, it has also taken advantage of the rear of the robot, where the pad is, and thus the mop has a better contact with the floor.
Verdict
If money is not an obstacle (Roborock S10 costs € 1400), it is the best market robot currently, not only for cleaning, but also for its future potential.