★★★★★ 5
Impressive upgrade from S5.
Color: Black04
I recently replaced my Roborock S5 with this one when the S5 died.
This version genuinely impresses me.
It is quieter than the S5, even on Max; has better pickup; has a better designed side brush and dustbin (top mount of filter minimizes the filter dirtying, but makes emptying it a little more awkward); and it has a mopping function that is actually useful. I have to mop a lot less now. The sound it makes also is much less annoying, so I don't mind having it run while I am home anymore.
I mop a lot because I have two old Yorkies who are about to pass away, and they're frequently leaving bladder, stomach and or bowel contents on the floor. I also have a cat who thinks it's fun to pee in the cat box and poop next to it. As long as you don't tell it to clean up a pet mess that should be picked up or wiped up instead, it is very useful for helping to clean up pet messes once the pee or puke has been sopped and wiped up, or the poop has been picked up. When I need it to clean up the remnants of messes like that, I use 3% hydrogen peroxide in the water tank instead of water. It cleans, disinfects and doesn't harm the S7.
If you have old, sick and/or clueless pets and they make significant messes it might encounter while you are not available then you will either need to lock them up while it runs and check for messes first, or get one that can avoid pet messes. That is the only drawback I see this machine having.
The software is excellent. I was able to have it map the house and then easily and quickly correct the "rooms" layout it had concluded were in play. They weren't far off, either. I have it set to vacuum automatically in Balanced mode every week day, and do a deep mopping of the house every weekend day, a few hours after it vacuums the house at max. The level of configurability is top notch.
Can't believe how well it mops. Stuff I would have had to pull out the mop for before, it can and does handle for me. Dried up pet puke, dried spills, even dried spills that have managed to collect a lot of dirt because they're sticky from sugar. I only have to pull out the mop once a week now, instead of up to 3x a day. When I'm cleaning the remnants of a pet mess that is oily, such as wiped up urine, I put down some dish soap on that spot on the ground and then let the machine spread it around while it mops to get rid of the oily residue.
Until I cleaned up all the power cables on the floor, it had a tendency to get stuck on them while mopping. While it always found a way to get out of being stuck, this caused it to make puddles of dirty mop water that later dried up and left spots that I had to have it go back and mop up. Solution: make sure it can't get caught on power cables! That was my fault, so all I can say here is that I'm impressed that it can get itself un-stuck each time.
This makes my life much easier, in multiple ways. I don't have to vacuum anymore. I only mop a fraction as much as I was doing before. And I can breathe better because the vacuum picks up better than before and the mop actually does clean the floor. Every time I have washed the mop pad it has created muddy water in the sink while I'm scrubbing soap into it. So far only one of those times has involved a pet mess that should have been picked up before it ran, so I know the "muddy water" results from fine dust and dirt that is on the floor that can't just be vacuumed up.
The mop feature cleans a lot of fine dust off the floor, and that really helps me breathe better. I have what one doctor called "hypersensitive lungs", and dust makes me cough a lot.
This isn't cheap, but it's worth the cost if you need to keep your house much cleaner than otherwise with a minimum of work on your part. Yes, you have to clean the mop pad every 1-2x it mops, but this takes about 3 minutes. I pop it in the sink, give it a few drops of dish soap or a few pumps of hand soap, and throw in an inch of hot water. Scrub it against itself until the water is good and muddy, and then drain and repeat the scrub against itself in fresh water without more soap. It will dirty that somewhat as well, and then be clean.
Battery life is enough to vacuum my whole house on Max and then deep-mop it at maximum agitation as well, and still be around 56% battery. (My house is a little smaller than average.) The water tank can clean my entire house in one go on a standard vacuum and mop run with max water drip, but deep mopping is best done a room at a time with a tank check after each.
I also have a female family member with very long hair who lives in this house. The brush is almost immune to getting wrapped up in her hair. Her hair was absolutely killing the S5's brush roll; I would have to clean it about once a week, and it wasn't always easy. I have had to spend maybe a few seconds once removing her hair with the new roll, and without even checking until a month after buying it. Even then it was only a few strands. Impressive.
All in all, very pleased. This is a critical and very necessary appliance in my house, both because it lets me spend more time on my business instead of cleaning, and because it cleans well enough to make it much easier to breathe.
This should definitely be at least one of your top two or three options. My research showed that there were only one, maybe two other vacuum systems that were worth considering as of this review. Given how crowded the market is, that's impressive. I'm very happy with my choice, and I will not be looking back.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2021