I spent weeks waiting in my house, tracking it. My poor Omnigrip has been in trouble. I spent the morning dropping my arm off the separate toilet paper holder in the bathroom. It pulled all the kitchen towels from the shelf. The emergency stop button (and sub-lock) works, but you still have to pry out the items from your paws.
Roborock acknowledged in an email that Omnigrip has many strange limitations. For example, it cannot recognize shoes that are not on a hard surface and therefore cannot pick up the trigger on the carpet. Sometimes it picks up something and immediately puts it back.
If you want to pick up something remotely, you must carefully locate the robot vacuum until the desired object is within the “blue area” in the camera view. Even without admitting that it is difficult to navigate without any death in the app, the vacuum cleaner fails to recognize the crumpled tissue in the blue area several times. Also, temporarily, the app warns you about getting close to physics next to the vacuum. This almost negates the ideal use case of “playing with lonely pets in the office”.
After a month in my messy house, the machine learning of the Saros Z70 became so confusing that there was no classification at all. Most days, it cleanses, then turns around in circles and says, “Classification Fails” and then returns to your hometown to be depressed. This is not to say cannot Works; these issues seem to be solved with some software updates. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work well Now.
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screenshotRoborock Saros Z70 is so by Adrienne
As far as the rest of the robot vacuum is concerned, one of the main differences between the Saros Z70 and the Saros 10R is that the battery life of the arm-waving robot is much shorter. Although the Saros 10R usually cleans the entire floor of my house at once, the Saros Z70 often returns to the middle of the dock to clean for charging. My cleaning at 9am can last until 2 or 3pm. This is not a problem for me, but if you start a vacuum after dinner and want to finish the vacuum before going to bed, this may be a factor.
Roborock has the best navigation system I have tested so far. The proprietary name is Starsight Autonomous 2.0, basically LiDAR, which is a pulsed laser that provides robotic real-time information as it navigates around your home. It also has a camera on the robotic arm (so why it tangles together on the toilet paper holder) as well as the front of the vacuum, but like all Roborock vacuums, it also complies with the Tüv Rheinland safety standards and ETSI ENSI EN 303 645 Cybersecurity standards so I can move around my house.
I was impressed by the extent to which Roblock navigated around the obstacles. With two children and a dog, my house was unusually full of stray items. When the Saros Z70 was running, I deliberately stopped picking up as usual to see if it tripped. Apart from a few items without a robot vacuum, such as the hair of my daughter’s doll, it coped very well.
