This Robovac Sucks and Mops Like a Champ, Except in One Location

Under the vacuum, you will find cracked, double roller brushes (again, involuntarily similar to the brushing system on many Roborock models), and it can suck a considerable 20,000 PA, putting it right there with the most powerful competitors. The X50 Ultra also has double, rotating mopy pillows, one of which can extend away from the body to clean closer to walls; The MOP pads can stop and stay at the base during vacuum-only tasks. There is also a swept arm with three brushes, which can extend out to help bring waste into the path of the vacuum. The bot has a Lidar turtle (which retreats when goes under low furniture) and also extends in the front for navigation.

Setting the X50 Ultra is straight – you almost fill the clean water reservoir, install the detergent bottle and put it in. Then, you control everything with an accompanying app, which first requires scanning the QR code under the hood of the robot, install any firmware updates, and then have your home mapped. The initial scan of my apartment was very fast. The X50 Ultra didn’t drive everywhere, so I took care that it missed some areas, but it managed to count every square foot. You will have to spend a few minutes calling the rooms and editing the sharing lines between them, but that’s for the course with Robovacs.

For my first clean, I just chose Cleangenius regime, which is the default and its most “smart” mode. It suggested that I start with an initial deep clean, which I thought a beautiful touch, but it did not accurately impress me from the gates. For beginners, the X50 Ultra chose a wildly ineffective route for cleaning my apartment, starting with my kitchen (well) and then driving to the bedroom, passing several areas in between. Then it jumped to the living room, etc. Within the room, the X50 Ultra seemed to waste a lot of movement only a kind of look, turning in circles and generally meander. The template it made on my carpet was just a coincidence. The whole vacuum lasted 80 minutes in total, which was 11 minutes longer than the next slowest vacuum I tested (the Roborock Saros Z70), even on their deepest cleansing modes. While the X50 Ultra made it through my one -room apartment on maximum power, the battery descended about 30% by the end of it. This means that in a larger house may have to stop and reload mid-cleaning before it lasts (or you could reduce the suction power).

The X50 Ultra also missed a fair amount of dirt in the initial run. I was surprised how many small bits and pieces were still tightened about the kitchen and lobby, so after the floor dried, I returned the robot to those areas, but this time on maximum+ vacuum power. The Robovac is much louder in this mode, but it has managed to suck everything in the middle of the rooms. Unfortunately, the edge -cleaning was a serious dismissal. Even with its extended swept arm, it just missed a ton of things close to the walls.

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Dreame’s Robovac is doing a very good work on fly, and it has managed to clean three ketchup spots at various stages of drying as well as some frozen fat on my floor. Unfortunately, again, it struggled to clean the edges. I poured some juice on the floor right next to my washbasin (a common place for liquid accidents), and the place was essentially aligned with the edge of a overload cabinet. Somehow it did not reach the spill at all, although it was well reached by its extensive MOP pad. I will say, however, that the mopping -day whispers quiet. Some of the mops on Roborock’s bots shout like Banshees. The X50 Ultra was easy the quieter MOP in Robovac I tested.

In general, the object recognition on the X50 Ultra is strong. It carefully avoided an orange USB rope on a hard wood, and threw a white cord on a white carpet. Its detection of objects is not always perfect-once it pushed a black rope on the white carpet (which you would think it would be the easiest to see), and I had to overturn the boot and release it from the vacuum brush (very easy, a very easy, tool-less matter). The X50 Ultra managed to avoid things like socks and slippers, and often labeled them right on the map when it saw them. Dreame claims that the X50 Ultra can identify more than 200 objects, and you can have it tuned to automatically photograph them if you want it for some reason.

For its hardest attempt, I threw my famous snack, consisting of orphan biscuits, pumpkin seeds, pistachio shells, some scattered oats, and chunks of oregano around the edges of walls, and I distributed them both on hard wood and middle ball. It’s mostly good news here. The X50 Ultra performed better than any other Robovac, which I tested in the areas it reached. Almost all the robots really struggle with the pistachio shells and tend to suck them. This bot didn’t hit an eye, hovering them without hesitation and quietly. It also did not crush or regurgitate any of the orphanas or seeds, which is a common thing. The X50 Ultra even got some oats hiding under my television cabinet – anything no other Robovac, which I tested. The vacuum and spun brush system has performed incredibly well here.

The X50 Ultra still suffered from the aforementioned edge issues. Cleaning along the walls was Spotty (I used dried origan, so I could clearly see places it missed). The Robovac was also inconsistent in the corners, almost always leaving at least some waste (sometimes more). If a piece of food was within an inch or so of furniture or wall, it simply missed it completely. I put a few shells under cabin passes (which it can subdue), as well as the bot missed those. It is especially frustrating because the X50 Ultra performed better than any other vacuum on the open floor.

There are some other excellent features worth mentioning. For beginners, the X50 Ultra can wrap over thresholds up to 1.65 inches high, which is the largest climb for any Robovac on the market, and it does it with two smart extensive legs that mirror it with things. It’s good to watch, and it worked well. The X50 Ultra also has vocal commands built right in it, so while you can match it with Google Home, Apple Home, or Alexa, you don’t have to, and you can give it very specific commands (eg “Empty the bedroom”, “Mopi the kitchen,” etc.) – and it will hope.

I also love that the X50 Ultra leaves its mop pillows on the dock when it doesn’t need them, which should help keep your rugs drier. Even if you do both at the same time, the Robovac will raise the MOP pads full 10.5mm (0.4 inches), which should be enough to keep them over most (non-shag) carpets. It can also lower its lidar mast, making the boot about 3.5 inches high. Overall, Dreame’s accompanying app is solid, and although it doesn’t have as much polish as Roborock’s programs, it offers effectively all the features you might want, including remotely control the boot with a power -video, taking photos of your pets, and as aggressive adjustments for all of the features, etc.

Ultimately, the X50 Ultra is a very good robotic vacuum/MOP. Although it is slower than I would like, the real thing that avoids it to be great with capital G, is its bad performance around edges, corners and furniture. However, I will say that it seems to be a limitation of the software instead of the hardware, which gives me hope that this could be treated in future firmware updates. But for now, for a robotic vacuum, which is currently being sold between $ 1,400 and $ 1,700, I hope not to have to empty/mopi any edges by hand after it will perform its main cleaning.

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