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

Under the vacuum cleaner, you will find divided double roll brushes (once again, strangely similar to the brush system on many Roborock models), and it can suck considerable 20,000 PA, putting it up there with the most powerful competitors. The X50 Ultra also has double and rotary mop pads, one of which can extend from the body to clean the walls closer; Vadrouille stamps can detach and stay in the base during vacuum tasks. There is also a sweeping arm with three brushes that can extend outwards to help bring the debris on the way of the vacuum cleaner. The bot has a Lidar turret (which retracts when it goes under low furniture) as well as expanses at the front for navigation.

The configuration of the X50 Ultra is simple – you almost fill in the clean water tank, install the detergent bottle and connect it. Then, you control everything using an additional application, which first requires the scanning of the QR code under the robot hood, the installation of firmware updates, then the cartography of your home. The initial scan of my apartment was very fast. The X50 Ultra was not driving everywhere, so I feared that it missed certain areas, but it managed to take into account each square foot. You will have to spend a few minutes to name the rooms and edit the division lines between them, but it is the level of the course with Robovacs.

For my first cleaning, I have just selected the Cleangenius mode, which is the default and the most “intelligent” mode. It suggested that I start with an initial in -depth cleaning, which I thought was a nice touch, but that did not exactly impress me. To start, the X50 Ultra chose an extremely ineffective route to clean my apartment, starting with my (fine) kitchen, then crossing to the bedroom, jumping several areas between the two. Then he jumped at the living room, and so on. In the room, the X50 Ultra seemed to waste a lot of movement just looking around, turning in circles and generally meanders. The pattern he made on my carpet was only random. The whole vacuum cleaner took 80 minutes in total, 11 minutes more than the slowest vacuum that I tested (the Roborock Saros Z70), even on their deepest cleaning modes. While the X50 Ultra crossed my apartment from a maximum power room, the battery was down approximately 30% at the end. This means that in a larger house, it might have to stop and recharge in the middle of cleaning before continuing (or you could reduce the suction power).

The X50 Ultra also missed a good amount of dirt during the initial race. I was surprised by the number of small pieces of pieces still scattered on the kitchen and the corridor, so after drying the floor, I returned the robot to these areas, but this time on the Max +vacuum power. Robovac is much stronger in this mode, but it managed to suck everything in the middle of the pieces. Unfortunately, cleaning the edges was a serious disappointment. Even with his stretch sweeping arm, he missed a ton of things near the walls.

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Robovac’s Drene does a very good cleaning job, and he managed to clean three Ketchup spots at different drying stages as well as frozen fat on my floor. Unfortunately, once again, he had trouble cleaning the edges. I had overturned juice on the ground right next to my sink (a common place for liquid accidents), and the place was essentially aligned on the edge of a overhanging cabinet. In one way or another, he did not arrive at all at the spill, even if he was well within the reach of his stretch tamper stamp. I would say, however, that the cleaning action is silent. Some of the Roborock robots are shouting like banshees. The X50 Ultra was easily the quietest mop of a Robovac that I tested.

Generally, object recognition on the X50 Ultra is strong. He carefully avoided an orange USB cord on hardwood, and he dodged a white cord on a white carpet. His detection of objects is not always perfect – once he has extended a black cord on the white carpet (which, in your opinion, would be the easiest to see), and I had to return the bot and free it from the vacuum brush (a very easy and toolless affair). The X50 Ultra has managed to avoid things like socks and slippers, and has often labeled them properly on the card when it saw them. Dreame says that the X50 Ultra can identify more than 200 objects, and you can have it adjusted to photograph them automatically if you wish for any reason.

For its most difficult test, I threw my notorious snack glove, composed of red fish crackers, pumpkin seeds, pistachio shells, dispersed oats and organ pieces around the edges of the walls, and I distributed them on hardwood and a medium carpet. This is above all good news here. The X50 Ultra behaved better than any other Robovac that I tested in the areas it has reached. Almost all robots really have trouble with pistachio shells and tend to somehow suffocate on it. This bot did not beat an eye, aspiring them effortlessly and silently. Nor has they crushed or regurgity none of the red fish or seeds, which is a common problem. The X50 Ultra even hidden oats in my television office – something that no other Robovac that I tested has reached. The vacuum and rotation brushes system has been incredibly well worked here.

The X50 Ultra was still suffering from the aforementioned edge problems. Cleaning along the walls was uneven (I used the dried oregano so that I could clearly see the places it was missing). Robovac was also incoherent in the corners, almost always leaving at least a little debris (sometimes more). If a piece of food was less than an inch of furniture or a wall, it completely missed it. I put a few shells under overhangs of the cabinet (which it can get under), and the bot also missed them. This is particularly frustrating because the X50 Ultra has performed better than any other vacuum on the open floor.

There are other excellent features to mention. To start, the X50 Ultra can blow up on thresholds up to 1.65 inches high, which is the biggest climb for any Robovac on the market, and it does it with two intelligent extensive legs that catapult it on things. It’s cool to look at, and it worked well. The X50 Ultra also has vocal commands built directly, so even if you can associate it with Google Home, Apple Home or Alexa, you don’t have to do so, and you can give it very specific commands (for example, “vacuum cleaner in the room”, “Mop the Kitchen”, etc.) – and it will jump.

I also like that the X50 Ultra leaves its mop pads on the platform when it does not need it, which should help keep your carpet drier. Even if you do both at the same time, the Robovac will raise the Vadrouille pads to 10.5 mm (0.4 inches), which should be enough to keep them above most carpets (non-Shag). It can also lower its Lidar mast, which makes the bot about 3.5 inches high. Overall, the Drene Companion application is solid, and although it does not have as much varnish as the Roborock applications, it effectively offers all the features that you could wish, in particular by controlling the bot remotely with the POV video, taking photos of your pets and fairly granular adjustments for all functionalities, as the quantity of water that mop should use, how the aggressiveness should be aggressive, etc.

In the end, the X50 Ultra is a very good vacuum / mop. Although it is slower than I wish, the real thing that prevents it from being great with capital G is its poor performance around the edges, corners and furniture. I would say, however, that this seems to be a limitation of the software rather than the hardware, which gives me a certain hope that it could be tackled in the future updates of the firmware. But for the moment, for a vacuum of the robot which is currently sold between $ 1,400 and $ 1,700, I expect not to suck / mop the edges by hand after doing its main cleaning.

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