Roborock has just unveiled one of the more interesting new gadgets of CES 2025 with its Saros Z70 – an all-in-one robotic vacuum and mop that also features a mechanical robotic arm that pick things up off the floor and put them away for you. Alongside a couple of other more standard new Saros bot cleaners, the headliner Z70 also delivers on some of the brand’s most notable specs to date when it comes to actual suction power and its all-new time-of-flight (TOF) navigation sensors. Scope it out below.
Roborock’s new Saros Z70 cleaner bot with retractable robotic arm
The Roborock Saros Z70 is described as “the world’s first mass-produced robot vacuum cleaner equipped with an OmniGrip intelligent and foldable robotic arm.”
It essentially lands with the same full-function suite of home robotic cleaning bot features we have seen from the folks at Roborock previously – an included charging dock that also auto empties the bot, washes its mopping pads, and replaces them with new cleaning pads when needed. But it also happens to feature a retractable, foldable arm that automatically deploys from the top of the unit to pick up objects off the floor for you – we have seen tech like this in the past from other folks, but this one is actually scheduled to be available to the public this year.
Saros Z70 will vacuum and mop your floors as expected, but it can also move lighter objects out of the way with the robotic arm, before putting them away. At launch the robotic arm is said to have somewhat limited capability with the ability to deal with lighter objects weighing up to 10.6 ounces – specifically towels and tissues as well as socks and light footwear like sandals. From within the Roborock app, users can customize where these objects should go (tissues and light debris in the garbage can, sandals back in the closet, this sort of thing).
Support for additional objects and, presumably, where they should be put back will be added via updates in the future. As of right now now it sounds like Roborock has programmed the bot to recognize over 100 objects with the ability for users to teach the bot to understand 50 custom objects as well, but it sounds as though the expanded recognition list is mostly still in the works with full functionality coming via OTR updates.
Beyond that, you’re looking at quite a comprehensive cleaning bot with an impressive 22,000Pa of suction power – among the most powerful on the market – alongside a full-function base station where the bot is recharged, empties out its dustbin, and has its mop pads replaced when needed.
This time around, Roborock is leveraging Time-of-Flight sensors as opposed to LiDAR – this allows the unit to have a much shorter form-factor at 3.14 inches tall to sneak under furniture and the like – alongside an onboard RGB camera and AI to help with navigation and double down as an in-motion home security camera. The built-in voice commands we have seen from other models are in place as well, but the brand will be adding Alexa and Google Assistant support as well as Matter via OTR updates as well.
The Roborock Saros Z70 has to be one of the coolest new pieces of kit we have seen from the CES 2025 yet that you’ll actually be able to bring home this year, but will it actually work? It seems there’s a lot riding on future updates here, feels like it might only sort of do what it’s supposed to, and seems a touch gimmicky to me right now. But it also does look like a promising piece of tech that is at least attempting to make some advancements in the home cleaning bot space.
The Roborock Saros Z70 is a cutting-edge robotic vacuum cleaner, expected to be available in the market during the first half of 2025. The model features an OmniGrip, the first-of-its-kind mass-produced* foldable robotic arm with five-axis, designed to deploy itself for cleaning previously obstructed areas and handling small items such as socks, small towels, tissue papers, and sandals under 300g**. Equipped with advanced navigation, vacuuming, and mopping capabilities, the AI-powered Roborock Saros Z70 is set to add a new dimension to automated cleaning by transforming traditional robot vacuums into innovative robotic home assistants.
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