We’re getting closer to a robot vacuum that can climb stairs

With nan expertise to assistance itself up to get complete room transitions arsenic precocious arsenic 40mm, fluffy rugs, and different imaginable obstacles, Roborock’s caller Qrevo Curve could beryllium a motion that nan stair-climbing robot vacuum is almost here.

To beryllium clear, Roborock hasn’t said this, but based connected really accelerated this institution — and others — are innovating successful this space, it feels for illustration we’re really not that acold away. SharkNinja besides announced a caller robot vaccum pinch lifting capabilities this week, and nan different companies are apt not acold behind.

Whether we request stair-climbing robovacs is simply a mobility I’m not judge I person nan reply to yet.

Furturecasting aside, nan Qrevo Curv is simply a important alteration for nan company. The robot features a wholly redesigned multifunction dock that’s shapelier and smaller than its different models, a caller dual anti-tangle brushwood strategy that splits nan brushwood successful half, allowing hairsbreadth to rotation disconnected it, and a whopping 18,500 pa suction power.

Its signature self-raising characteristic — called AdaptLift Chassis — automatically lifts nan robot’s beforehand instrumentality and independently adjusts its main wheels to raise nan robot 10mm, enabling it to spell complete modular thresholds up to 30mm and double-layer thresholds up to 40mm.

As good arsenic helping nan robot get astir your location much easy and debar getting stuck, nan caller mobility intends nan Curv tin now cleanable mid-to-long heap carpets.

The redesigned brushwood strategy comprises 2 shorter brushes pinch spiral blades and bristles that should push nan hairsbreadth disconnected nan domiciled and into nan vacuum and a curved FlexiArm Arc broadside brushwood that stops hairsbreadth from getting tangled successful it.

The Qrevo Curv features Roborock’s reactive AI obstacle avoidance tech, which uses a built-in camera to debar communal family clutter. It’s launching this period for €1499.99 (US pricing is still TBD) alongside nan Qrevo Edge, which sports nan aforesaid features but a much traditional-looking guidelines position successful black.

Roborock is besides launching a ace slim robovac that it says is designed to get nether debased furnishings better. The LiDAR building connected nan caller Qrevo Slim has been removed from nan top, and nan vacuum is conscionable 3.3 inches high. Its new navigation strategy uses dual-light 3D clip of formation technology, deploying lasers and an RGB camera for navigation and obstacle recognition. It useful pinch a multifunction dock, has 11,000 pa suction power, and is launching this period for $1,399.