roborock Q7 M5 Robot Vacuum and Mop Combo, 10,000Pa HyperForce Suction, Robotic Vacuum Cleaner, Dual Anti-Tangle System, APP-Controlled Mopping, LiDAR Navigation, for Pet Hair and Carpet, White

SLMUnited States

Impressive upgrade from S5.

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.

B.I. BlackUnited States

Great for large amounts of pet hair

Unboxed it today and got it cleaning the main part of the house after just charging it to 51%. I am still having trouble believing how good it is, especially in cleaning up clumps of pet hair all over the place. We have multiple dogs and cats who shed constantly and copiously, and I have black floors to boot (pro tip: pets and black floors are a bad combination). In addition, the beasts keep tracking in mud/dirt from the backyard and leave muddy (when raining) and dusty (when dry) paw marks all over the place. So I set out to see how the S7 would deal with the worst of it. I decided to not manually vacuum first because I wanted to stress-test it with a week's worth of pet hair clumped all over the place along with a filthy floor. I installed the Roborock app on an Android tablet (with no Google account on it, got the app off apkpure, natch), created a Roborock account, and used the app to connect the robot to my Wifi and install a firmware update which was available. I then filled the water reservoir and snapped on the mop attachment with the mop cloth on it. Then as soon as the charge level hit 51% I pressed the "Clean" button in the app and waited to see how the robot would tackle the very unclean floor. The S7 was totally up to the challenge, and right out of the dock it left a strip of unbelievably clean floor. Now I wish I had taken photographs, because this thing just went gangbusters on all the clumps of hair and dust on the floor and I'm still pleasantly shocked by how good a job it did. The area mapping algorithm is pretty efficient and effective - it divided up non-rectilinear areas into blocks of rectangles, and after systematically cleaning the rectangular area it went to clean the irregularly shaped areas (of which my house has many; I think the architect hated 90-degree angles and liked conic sections). As the robot moves about doing its business, the app shows real-time progress of the robot's movement as well as new areas of the map appearing - if you've played an RPG computer game, the map update as the LIDAR refines the map and shows new areas is very like how games like Baldur's Gate, Diablo, etc uncover new areas of the map as you explore them. It did most of the main area in 34 minutes, using up 32% of charge. Just as it negotiated the tall bumpy threshold into one of the bedrooms, it decided it needed to return to the dock for charging. Now, that threshold between the bedroom and the main area is quite large, and I was expecting that I'd need to go help the robot back into the main area so it could go dock itself, but after a few seconds I heard it trundling back in and it headed straight to the dock and plugged itself in to charge. At this point I plucked it off the dock to see exactly how much trouble it had gotten itself into with all the pet hair it had sucked up so far. I expected that the roller would be wound solid with pet hair and that I'd need a session with scissors and patience. It was not needed - the roller was completely clean, and most of the pet hair it had sucked up was in the dust bin. One compressed clump of pet hair was up against a wall, but I think it got dislodged there as the robot cleaned the floor at the wall junction. The dustbin itself could be designed a bit better because it has a couple of baffles across the top of it (under a removable filter) which make it a little difficult to empty the dustbin of pet hair - I had to pick out clumps with my fingers and pitch them in a dustbin. No biggie, though. I then checked the state of the mop cloth to see whether the cleaned-up pet hair was felted to the cloth, and again I was impressed by how little pet hair was actually on the mop cloth; I expected lots but found almost none, which was further proof that the robot had vacuumed up whatever it encountered. The water reservoir was about half empty. Sound-wise, the robot is not that noisy when cleaning - to me it seems to be less noisy than a regular non-robotic vacuum cleaner. The robot is currently resting (charging) and I've refilled the water reservoir. Can't wait to see how the algorithm handles cleaning when it has to resume cleaning where it left off. One thing I have to mention: since Roborock is a Chinese company I had some privacy concerns regarding house maps etc (remember the Roomba scandal from a few years ago?) which remain to be assuaged, but the company's product page for the S7 MaxV Ultra (the S7's bigger better brother) states that they have privacy certifications from a well-known German arbiter whose name escapes me at the moment, so perhaps this is not going to be a problem after all. All in all, I am VERY impressed by this thing and will definitely be buying the AutoDock for it. Next year, I'll buy its bigger brother the S7 MaxV Ultra (with double the suction power, and a snazzy self-cleaning AutoDock) when I have some money to drop on it.

dannymightUnited States

Very good product with a poor ap **UPDATED TWO YEARS LATER** Please read for useful troubleshooting

OK, it has been two years and I am updating my review. I am keeping the 5 stars because the vac is working as good now as it was when new. But it has not been without its ups and downs. After about a year, I began to notice it wasn't picking up nearly as good as it once did and I started looking for new vacs. I stumbled across a review for a completely different product. This reviewer, having the same problem, different product, had found a "hidden" filter deep inside his vac. So, one day when using my leaf blower outside, I decided to use it to blow out the q5. Dust went everywhere and I was amazed at how much the vac quieted down and began suction like new! Apparently I hadn't noticed the increase in noise as the vac labored against restricted flow. It was nothing short of a complete renewal. But, I began to have problems with the cliff sensors. It would falsely sense a cliff and refuse to vac that area. I noticed a buildup of dust INSIDE the cliff sensors. (apparently they are not airtight) With a can of compressed air, I was able to blow out the sensors and it straightened right up, again to like-new efficiency. I have integrated the practice of blowing compressed air into the sensors as well as EVERY crevice that dust could accumulate into my cleaning/emptying routine and now, two years after purchase, I get like-new performance from the q5. I would still recommend this, just be prepared for a still-clunky app that you WILL become accustomed to. Good Luck!! OK, so I'm giving this five stars because it is so much better than I had anticipated and I want people to read this review. The product itself IS five-star. The ap, maybe two. Keep in mind that I haven't had it too long and maybe with a little more experience, the ap might be more palatable. But here goes: I use this in a basement where the floors are mostly smooth concrete, with one room low-pile carpet. As long as you keep the vac emptied, it works great. I have a husky dog and his undercoat shedding is a disaster of epic proportions. It sucks up his hair like a champ on both surfaces. When it gets pretty full, it will dump dog hair and dust at the edge of every rug it passes over. But that's my fault. The robot seemingly wanders around like a drunk, and somehow it unerringly chases after the dog wherever he goes, but it knows what it's doing once it maps out the area. The problems come when you want it to do something different, like just clean one of the rooms. Most of the time, the selection on the ap to select just one room simply doesn't work. Sometimes it does, so I know I'm doing it right. You can install an "invisible wall" but so far it has been impossible for me to put in a HORIZONTAL wall, so I gave up. Putting in a "zone" has been more successful, but still a pain. The only thing in my areas that it will not clean are the door mats, made of very thin carpeting. Hair gets stuck in there and the vac simply can't suck or scrub it up. But that's minor. I can scrape the hair off with a shoe and the vac obligingly sucks it right up. Overall, this was good purchase and I can't imagine dealing with "Operation Fur Drop" without it.

NikkiUnited States

BUY IT!!

Her name is Loba in our household, and she is my lifesaver. My sister & I even purchased one for my mom because it saves so much time everyday and picks up everything my broom won’t. Dog hair, cat hair, cat litter you name it. She has no trouble with any of it. I don’t have any rugs and I only use her on our hardwood floors so I don’t know how well she does on carpet or rugs. I vacuum every single day & mop 2-3 times a week with her and she yields some beautiful clean floors. Yes it is a drag behind mop but I honestly can’t tell a difference between when I use my bucket and mop and when I use her to mop. It feels clean under my feet and there is no residue or streaks. My toddlers feet are finally clean at the end of the day which they were turning dark brown/black before because I couldn’t keep up with the mopping schedule of the house. That’s all one can hope for. I am on a tight budget right now so I don’t use the floor cleaner solution from Roborock. I’ve heard that causes mold buildup anyways. Instead I -only- use lukewarm water in the tank & after soaking and ringing out mop pad, I spray the pad with a diluted MrClean floor cleaner solution I made and put into a spray bottle. Then I mist the floors with that same solution. Sit and watch magic happen 😊 I will mention that this particular model goes on sale often. I grabbed mine and my mom’s within a month of each other at $160/each. It takes 1-2 minutes to empty the dustbin everyday and I believe that it is well worth the trouble. Super user friendly, setup and mapping was easy and quick. Noise is better than my old rumba that broke down on me which prompted me to buy this fabulous one.