Roborock - S8 Pro Ultra
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"The roborock I have kicked and smashed with my foot so many times out of anger when it doesn't collaborate, and still he rocks 4-5 yrs later and no broken parts"
"they are extremely durable. ... I’ve got well over 1000 miles out of a pair and they still have grip and the uppers are in great shape"
"I've used them for 1500 miles of multi-day hiking with no issues!"
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"It also doesn’t bump into stuff, slows down and turns around before running into anything. I am impressed. ... The navigation is night and day between this and J9+, no more bumping or getting lost. ... I think it’s better, it has the front facing camera which looks to be higher resolution, plus the LiDAR does make a huge difference to the speed of navigation, plus it doesn’t bump into furniture or doors anymore."
"The best feature of the L40/X40/p10 pro ultra is that they have class leading object avoidance so you don't have to pick up your cat's toys or prep your house every time you want to run the robot meaning you can run it on a daily schedule which will keep your house cleaner. ... I run my X40s daily and they never get stuck on cables, cat toys and other random junk that ends up on the floor."
"On top of that, you get a great app, excellent navigation and good obstacle avoidance. ... It also has a really fantastic navigation and obstacle avoidance system that is far superior to any vacuum only robovac that I have experience with."
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"I absolutely do not regret buying the robot vacuum. ... My room is a lot cleaner and dust-free now, and I can tell just by wiping my floor with a wet toilet paper and seeing barely anything picked up. ... I've been getting allergens a ton less, most of which not even in my room. ... All this for the commitment of a weekly emptying is miles more convenient than vacuuming traditionally, as opposed to making a few taps on my phone. ... looking back it was definitely worth the investment."
"My cat has very bad mite allergies, and this vacuum is a must have for us for keeping the floors clean of all dust, dander, and dirt."
"The second floor of my house is all carpeted, and I used to clean with a Dyson V8, but since I got the E28, I haven't vacuumed myself."
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"It did a perfect job so far, I only have to empty/fill the water tanks in the station once a week (the robot vacuums the whole flat everyday and mops the flat twice a week)."
"We have four roborock S7’s running in our 5,000 sqft office. ... Bought them since they first came out years ago. ... They run every day. ... Only last year did we replace the battery for all 4. ... Other than that, no issue at all, rock solid, very pleased that we also have them for our homes too."
"What I really love is how little effort it takes—the base cleans and dries the mops on its own, so I barely have to lift a finger."
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"VibraRise works ... especially if you spray some floor cleaning solution on the mop before installing it, it works wonders!"
"The S8 can mop, and is a huuuuge upgrade compared to the Roomba."
"my mopping roborock really did a number of gross floors. ... It has a vibrating mop pad instead of spinning things and it really did a good job."
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"Hair Pickup on carpet is better than the S7 MaxV but still worse than the Neato D7. ... I confirmed this by running the S7 Max V first (with rubber brush), on my upstairs carpeted room - that I purposely haven't vacuumed in a week. S7 Max V barely got anything and had some wrapped around the edges - as it does. ... For me yes but I say that mostly because of the tangle free vacuuming of pet hair and the improved hair pickup on carpets. I was tired of cleaning out the old one and so far with this I have zero tangles. ... The S7 MaxV had the worst hair pickup on carpets, with the stock rubber brush, of all the bots I ever owned. Tangles were minimal but it didn't do well taking hair off the carpets (it did great on the hardwood/tile though). Swapping out the rubber to the bristle brush improved the pickup but increased the tangle problem - it also created a problem with auto-empty for me a few times. ... It mops/vacuums significantly better than my S7 MaxV. Especially on carpets (especially especially pulling dog hair off carpets). ... That being said I LOVE the anti-tangle brush. 3 Months and I haven't had to clean the brush one time. It's literally perfect for me."
"quite frankly, it's sh*t. ... It can't handle pet hair ... but it just doesn't deal with pet hair."
"J8+ barfs hair clumps over one of our rugs ... My J8 leaves hair clumps even when run daily. ... If I run the vacuum every day it’ll do the rug just fine. May leave 1-2 ropes. If I don’t run it every day, there will be more. ... The borders of the rug is where there are always ropes. ... I can run the robot twice and there will be ropes. ... I can run the Dyson then the robot and there will be ropes. ... I can pull the edges up, dyson under the rug, then Dyson the entire top of the rug and the robot runs—guess what I get along the edges? Ropes. ... However in real life my J8 is a fail in this use case. ... J8+ is meh for Pets. ... the j8+ barfs hair clumps all over one of our rugs."
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"it is also way more prone to tracking pet messes about, that happened once with a pile of cat vomit and I was a little traumatized."
"it has alleged pet accident avoidance. Well silly me, trusted that, dog had an accident and the vacuum smeared it all over the floor and the docking station. ... I had to manually clean it and have turned off the schedule clean functionality. Will do a manual start after checking the room for pet accidents."
"Firmware currently needs fixing as obstacle avoidance failed poop test ... But the same cannot be said about the obstacle avoidance and navigation. ... If the weird obstacle avoidance gets fixed"
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"The biggest downside to an S8 with an automated dock is the mechanism the dock uses to clean the mops. It is complicated and requires enough maintenance to keep it from filling up with gunk and debris until it clogs. Cleaning this mechanism is more difficult and time consuming than with models that use spinning mops."
"I will not recommend a fancier S8 because of the mechanism required by the docks to clean the mop. It is too complicated and requires too much maintenance. ... If good vacuuming ability sold robovacs, we would all be buying S7s and S8s. But their mop cleaning system is terrible and requires too much maintenance."
"But I dislike the mopping system. It does a great job mopping, but the mechanism in the dock used to clean the mops it too complicated and needs far too much maintenance."
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"Roborock refused to cooperate or properly fix the issue while still under warranty! ... Their customer support is all through email after you call the 1800 number, and their response was basically we replaced the board in the unit and base station what do you want us to do? ... well they never emailed back. Calling the 1800 number you get the "were so sorrycwell escalate this and you'll recieve an email soon." No email just silence."
"they would no joke die consistently 2-3 months after their warranty expired. 3 of them in a row, like clockwork."
"replacing my shitty Nighthawk router. ... craving a solid stable experience as opposed to the weekly-to-daily wifi drops and router dementia every 6 or so months. ... same dementia and wifi dropping issues for all the nighthawk products. ... the wifi radios just turning off for 5 minutes at least once a day, if not more, or dropping until the router is rebooted at least twice (Ethernet is fine at this time); ... Mainly it's the first two issues: random factory resets and radio dropouts. ... I would have figured maybe I had a bad router, but it's happened across 3 different models, one model I have two of that did the same thing."
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"the self emptying vacuum feature can get loud"
"super loud at highest suction"
"It's... not quiet. ... I have it set to clean the house around 5am, because with my bedroom door closed, it won't bother me while I'm asleep."
007meow 1.0One big issue that I haven't seen covered - dustbin *effectiveness.* A HUGE issue on my Q Revo Curv, in a household with dogs, is that the dustbin opening is small - that means that hair and dust has limited room to enter and all just bunches up near that hole, not spreading out throughout the bin. As a result, it gets clogged quickly and 3/4 of the dustbin's volume is wasted. The S8 Pro Ultra I upgraded from had a much wider opening and I never had these issues with it.
amandainpdx 1.0This absolutely clocks with my Outlook, which is actually quite reassuring. The S8 Pro was the best that I had ever tested until I tested the S8 maxv ultra and it replaced that.
S8 pro. I know that this is an incredibly overwhelming and confusing decision, and in an ideal world, I would now give you 800 reasons to support why I said that. But it would be super duper double rainbow awesome if you just trusted me.
ThW s8 line from roborock is great.
AussieJeffProbst 1.0I have a roborock s8 pro ultra and its great. The integration works well and the vacuum does its job well. You do have to use the roborock app to set it up initially though which can be a dealbreaker for some people though. For me I dont really care as long as I can ditch the app after setup, which you can. >must be silent when it goes/comes back to clean a single room starting from the base I think you would be hard pressed to find that. Its a machine it isnt going to be silent. Its definitely quiet but not silent.
barefooter1969 1.0Yes it does. It’s the most useful and amazing bit of home tech I’ve ever owned. 150sqm of tiles, rugs, a dog, 5 year old daughter and I only manual mop if there’s been a spillage of something. Had a Roborock S8 pro ultra for a couple years and now a Dreame Matrix 10 - it’s another level.
benny1234765 1.0Have an eco vac and a Roborock s8 pro ultra. The eco is fricken useless. Worst purchase ever. The robo rock is amazing, the house always feels clean, device is super easy to use and maintain. Highly highly recommended.
BuffaloBuffaloBufalo 1.0The mopping ones have an option for how much water it uses. I’ve used a Roborock s8 pro ultra and a matic, and both have been great with linoleum and hardwood floors. If you’re really worried though you could check out the DREAME Matrix10 Ultra. That one has separate mop pads and cleaning solution specifically for wood floors. I go months between changing the dust bag in the auto empty base. The water depends on how often you mop. I can usually do 2-3 full floor mopping runs before changing the water and i have about the same size house as you. To avoid wet hair clogging anything, you can have the vacuum do a vacuum only run and then a mopping only run automatically as part of a routine. If you’re worried about using a lot of bags, the ECOVACS DEEBOT X11 OmniCyclone doesn’t use bags for its base station. Any robovac with lidar and cameras will have no problem with your furniture. Maybe keep an eye on the height of the robot so it can get under things. If you had clutter id point you towards the matic, but anything but the absolute cheapest robots will be able to navigate furniture. Personally, I really hate dealing with the dirty water tank, so I just bought the plumbed version of the narwal flow, but its not coming til next week so i cant give a review. It should also be really good at not getting hair tangles. So in sum Roborock is a good brand, I would strongly recommend something that connects to a water line, and the narwal flow has all the features I think are important (plumbed, no hair tangles, roller mop, can handle thresholds, obstacle avoidance).
ca-morgan 1.0I also have the S8 and so far it has been worth every penny.
commonbert 1.0In my experience, when you by parts from Aliexpress that are labeled "original", they are indeed original parts. Have ordered them several times for my S8 Pro Ultra and Qrevo Slim.
CompetitiveSelf2949 1.0Check out vacuum wars on YouTube. They have a great selection of robot vacuums that they’ve reviewed. I just picked up a Roborock s8 Pro Ultra for under $700 refurbished by Roborock on eBay
DaisyAndJacka 1.0Refurbished Roborock on eBay has been amazing for me. — I like their app too. Makes it easy to set specifications for flooring and no go zones. I have a lot of cats and dogs. A mix of flooring. I set the option so it vacuums carpet first before it mops any room, so it doesn’t go on carpet with a wet mop.
Oh and to add more details. I specifically got the S8 Pro Ultra (in white) for around $450. Normally I think they are $700ish but sometimes they go lower and eBay has like additional coupons / discounts . So it was on sale for $600 and then eBay had a discount for $150. But some other options don’t look that bad: Dreamy L10s Pro Ultra is $350 right now on eBay refurbished.
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