roborock Q10 S5 Robot Vacuum and Mop 10 000Pa Suction Upgraded from Q8 max 70 Days Self-Emptying Obstacle

Very impressed by how well this works. It also does the whole house much quicker and quieter than the shark I had. The mopping feature is great for us, we run it daily, our floors are never super dirty but with 3 cats, 4 kids and my wife and I we like to stay ahead of it. The mapping feature and dividing rooms is very easy. Would def recommend this to anyone. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

Absolutely love. I have had it for 3 months now. I have 5 cats and 1 dog, and it does an EXCELLENT job of getting upset all the hair and DIRT/DUST. I've tried other robot vacuums that don't get up dirt/dust very well, and it is huge for me that this does. The app set up and mapping was quick and easy. I also love that you can see on the app where it has cleaned, where it hasn't, and where it found a barrier. The tank it empties into holds quite a bit. Like I said, I have a total of 6 animals (the dog is german shepherd and sheds a lot), and I run it almost every other day. It is fairly large capacity. I bought additional bags thinking I'd have to change them out frequently, I didn't have to change out the bag until after about 1.5 months. Only complaint about the self emptying is that it doesn't automatically empty until it is done and goes back to the docking station. As in it doesn't sense that it is full and needs to go empty. So if you need it to empty throughout cleaning, you need to set a time in the app. For ex -It takes about an hour for it to clean my set area. I had to set mine to self emptying after 30 mins (so halfway through cleaning). Once it is fully done, it docks and self empties again. The tank it empties into you also have to check if it is full, as it doesn't tell you. Read more