XIAOMI robot vacuum cleaner 2 generations with Mopping and sweeping function APP Control 5200mAh battery 2000Pa sucking force

I had been looking at a robo vacuum for a while and yes it’s a luxury item no denying the fact. However this is great, I’m really pleased, it’s really easy to set up (10mins) there are a number of options and settings you can configure but it’s really intuitive and self explanatory. Before trying it out in the hallway in my flat I had gone over the carpet with a dyson with the brush attachment before trying the S50. It actually picked up quite a lot from an already cleanish carpet I was pleasantly suprised.I did quite a lot of research before deciding on the Xiaomi and I have to say as a mid priced robo vac (half the price of the dyson and roomba equivalents) There are plenty of YouTube reviews and it’s always up against more expensive brands, and seems to more than hold its own in a number of different tests. It has the added advantage of being able to mop too which non of the more expensive brands currently do.It really has saved a lot of time. In my opinion it doesn’t completely remove the need to do a manual clean every now and again, but it does reduce the number of times you need to do it.Value for money I would say this seems to be be the best example at the time of this review and I would recommend this to anyoneIt does integrate with Amazon echo but one wish would be that through the echo skill you could ask it to return to dock. Currently you can only command it to clean or stop. A small point but it’s annoying as it would not have been hard to implement. That aside I can’t think of anything else negative, I’m really pleased with it.

I purchased the Roborock s5 for my 80 year old mother. Bar a few annoying lacks of features and couple of situations where I had to give her some onsite support, it has really been a great little household application for her. She likes to follow the little sweeper on her mobile phone every time she orders it to vacuum her floor, and it has been a big relief for her to get this robotic help around the house.Before I installed it at her apartment, I also tried it out in my own home. My mums place is quite tidy, but in my flat the robot was put to test. Surprisingly it even handled the teenagers mess. Or handled is perhaps an exaggeration. But it passed the test of not getting itself tangled in school bags, clothes and stuff lying around the floor. It did vacuum one of the legs of a pant lying on the floor, sniffed around a bag, loose blanket, and a few boxes blocking it’s way, but soon found out that this room just isn’t for me, and skipped out of there. Who can blame Roborock? I sure don’t vacuum in there before the kid’o cleans up his mess a bit.Around the rest of the apartment this little piece of Chinese machinery handled it self quite impressively, navigating systematically around chairs, tables, pc-bags, and in and out of half open doors. I wondered if it would lock itself inside our bedroom if I only opened the door slightly, the theory was it would bump the door closed once inside the room, but it only braced the door ever so slightly and found it’s way out, no problem. Even around the rowing machine we never use, it vacuumed with no problem. A couple of slippers got moved around just a tad, but otherwise, it was more gentle around most of the obstacles then I ever have been, flapping the vacuum cleaner around.So what’s the cons?There are undeniably a few drawbacks you should consider, all thou not nearly as much as I had Imagined.Loose chords, long shoelaces and the like, may get wound up into its roller. At my mother’s place the Roborock grabbed a sewing thread and ran away with it. And thrust me, a sewing thread may be loooong. Also a loose Iphone charging chord got wound up and having grabbed tight, the Roborock tried to run away with the entire extension it was connected to. I also had to strap up a few chords from under her bed, and under the TV furniture, and she has to make sure a couple of corners with cable salad is blocked off by a chair before she starts the vacuum. So it’s not as if you can be a complete idiot about it and just let it run, with no preparation or adjustment of your home (although I did try, just to see what happened).A performance issue is the Roborock’s rather limited ability to handle thresholds and carpets. At both my own flat and my mother’s apartment, it struggled a lot with medium thick carpets. The trouble isn’t vacuuming them. Roborock vacuums carpets quite well. But the rather simple task of climbing on top a medium thick carpet is a problem.Although it should be an easy task based on the power of the drive, It seems the anti-crash software somehow prevents the Roborock from making a sufficient push to get on top the carpet. It circles around the edges and sometimes finds an angle where it is ok with making the climb up, and sometimes not. As the machine have no problem getting down from the carpet, it leaves the carpet only spot cleaned.Also the Roborock may get stuck underneath a sofa or a bed, if it climbs over a carpet to get there, but can not find a way back up on the carpet after having gotten down from it on the other side. Roborock got stuck under my mothers bed a few times because of this, and I had to move the carpet in front of the bed a bit away to make sure there was a passage out on the sides.At my home, the Roborock also crashed itself onto the floor-stand of a living room recliner. It climbed up the horizontal legs, and got stuck between them, making a nasty sound before it eventually stopped. It didn’t sound healthy at all.You may create a fence for the Roborock using some pretty nasty looking black tape rolls, but who wants that in their living room? I cannot understand why the makers of such machines have yet to come up with some sort of discrete tag to put on the base of, let’s say a chair or lamp, to signal that this particular piece of furniture is off limit.This brings me to a vital lack of feature in the programming. While the app is equipped with a “spot clean” function where you can draw a square in the electronic map and make the Roborock restrict it’s vacuuming to that specific spot, what you really need is the opposite. Draw a square or three, where it should not go. That would make a great feature, and I don’t really see how it would be a problem, given that the programmers already have implemented an ability to direct the vacuum to a certain spot in your apartment. Ad a feature for telling the machine where a carpet is (it's ok to go full throthle here, little fellah), and you would be a long, long way towards perfect.One more drawback, related to the same programing, is that the map of the apartment keeps getting blanked out, making the Roborock redrawing it again and again. E.g. when the dust bin is emptied, the robot is manually moved away from the dock or a firmware update is installed. This is no real issue in ordinary cleaning, but it makes the spot clean function pretty useless, as would it with my proposed “keep away” and "this is a carpet" functions. A function to save the map, is in other words much needed.Finally, the app itself sometimes causes a small headache. Installing it to a wireless router left bumps in my head … (the wall is not actually made for banging a head into, btw.). As the app sometimes loses connection with the Roborock (or actually the other way around) for no apparent reason, causing me to having to reconnect the Roborock to the router … leaving me with more bumps.My tip to anyone making household appliances or apps or both: Give it to your mother. If she can’t install or operate it, go back to the drawing board. Connecting a device to a router should be a really easy setup imho. Yet so many vendors fail in creating a simple GUI for that particular vital task.

I'm so glad I didnt buy a cheaper alternative. This is an excellent robo vacuum & mop.It is shocking how much it picks up when you're used to only vacuuming every week with a tradition vacuum compared to daily with this one.You can set a schedule and off it goes by itself. It's interesting to see the map it makes of your house and shows you exactly where it's been.The only downside is it doesn't come with a UK adapter, so you do need to buy one.

Review after 1 month of use.Easy to useGreat cleaning qualityVery good appEasy to cleanI was a bit sceptic before buying it but now I can recommend it to anyone.

I got a package today and just tried to use it immediately.Performance is very good, clean up very very well!I have had two other robot vacuum cleaners before, this is the best one ever.very clean, mob cleaning is also working very well,I am so happy that we meet this cleaner in my home, it will make my everyday with a baby much easier, I am very sure.Definitely, highly recommend!! 200%!