Roborock G10 self-cleaning sweeping and mopping robot: automatic backwashing, freeing your hands, you just need to press start

If you ask what consumers care about most today, the answer may be "experience". What is a "good experience"? In general, it is to achieve the most powerful function in the simplest way. If you explain it more popularly, it is to help people be lazy better.

Nowadays, people have higher and higher requirements for the quality of life, and their own health and home hygiene have become the focus of attention. But on the other hand, after a tiring day at work, many people do not have the energy to take care of these things, so various products that help people be lazy have emerged, and sweeping robots are a typical example.

Although people usually use "sweeping robot" to summarize this type of product, people's requirements for it are not just to be able to sweep the floor: mop the floor, throw the mop, take out the trash, change the water... The ideal sweeping robot should be able to solve all problems by itself like a cleaner, so that consumers can be completely liberated.

Unfortunately, such a perfect product does not exist, but nowadays, many high-end sweeping robot products on the market have begun to make a lot of achievements in the path of "liberating users' hands", such as the latest Roborock self-cleaning sweeping robot G10 (hereinafter referred to as "Roller G10").

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Like most similar products on the market, Roborock G10 adopts a round body design and has a mopping module. The machine does not occupy a large area, and a space at the entrance is enough to place it, without occupying any normal living space. There is also a cable management area on the back of the machine to avoid tangling.

Before talking about the cleaning performance of Roborock G10, it is necessary to first understand its pathfinding and obstacle avoidance capabilities. If a robot vacuum cleaner keeps running around the house, the mess it leaves behind after work may be more frustrating than a little stain on the floor.

Roborock G10 has upgraded its algorithm to RR mason 8.0 this time. In addition to route planning and intelligent zoning, it has also upgraded its obstacle avoidance and escape capabilities. In our test environment, the chair at home should be the most extreme. The space under it is basically enough for Roborock G10 to fit in, but it still escaped smoothly after some evasive maneuvers. It can be seen that as long as Roborock G10 can enter a place, it can basically get out. Therefore, Roborock G10 does not require user supervision or even rescue most of the time. It can be safely started when no one is at home, which really makes users worry-free.

Another clever feature of Roborock G10 is its ultrasonic carpet recognition technology. Most carpets are not suitable for getting wet, but if we specifically mark out a carpet area and let the robot run over the carpet area without using the mopping function, it seems to go against our original intention of being lazy. Roborock G10's ultrasonic carpet recognition function can automatically lift the mopping module when it encounters a carpet, and only sweep without mopping. From the design of this function, we can also see that G10 always implements the core concept of helping users free their hands.

In addition, for a sweeping robot, the convenience of APP control also has an important impact on the user experience.

Through the official Roborock APP, you can operate the Roborock G10 intelligently on your phone. After the Roborock G10 performs its first cleaning, it will draw a home map, and users can divide the rooms on the APP. After the division is completed, users can specify rooms for cleaning. In addition, users can also designate cleaning restricted areas so that the Roborock G10 will not enter areas such as the bathroom that are not suitable for machine cleaning.

Another benefit of dividing the map area is that it allows the robot to return to the charging station to clean the mop after cleaning each room, ensuring that the mop is in a clean state when it enters a new area to avoid cross contamination.

If you only want to clean a small area, you can choose to press the local cleaning button on the machine to clean the 1.5m x 1.5m area around the machine, or you can use a mobile phone remote control to improve the accuracy of the operation.

Finally, although it is a robot vacuum cleaner that helps people to be lazy, it is still an "electric dad" after all, with many parts, so users also need to keep track of the health of the machine at all times. The status of each part of the machine can be checked in the Roborock App, allowing users to replace the parts in time when they are aging or damaged.

The sweeping and mopping can also "clean yourself up", truly freeing your hands

High-end sweeping robots often use rubber brushes, and so does the Roborock G10. Compared to common bristle brushes, the biggest advantage of rubber brushes is that they are easy to clean and will not easily get tangled with a lot of hair like bristle brushes. Even if some hair is tangled, it can be removed by brushing it with your hands. Imagine if you have to fight with the hair on the brush for more than half an hour after sweeping the floor, then this laziness is in vain!

At the same time, the rubber brush is also more friendly to materials such as carpets, allowing the machine to adapt to different environments at home. In response to the problem of loud friction noise when most rubber brushes are used to sweep the floor, Roborock engineers have made multiple adjustments to the brush material and structural scheme, keeping the noise level of the G10 at 61 decibels when finely mopping the floor.

In addition to the rubber brush, the suction power of the Roborock G10 also reaches 2500Pa, which is absolutely sufficient for cleaning common garbage such as dust, hair and debris in life. After a round of cleaning, the dust box of the Roborock G10 is basically full. I am relieved that it has shown a strong enough cleaning ability, but the thought of having to deal with so much garbage still makes me feel complicated.

Cleaning the dust box is not difficult, but what is really annoying is the hygiene of the roller brush after sweeping, especially when we have a "furry child" at home.

Frankly speaking, after I finished cleaning and turned the Stone G10 over, I was a little nervous. I was worried that the situation described on the Internet where I needed to remove the hair from the roller brush bit by bit would happen, but after turning it over, I was completely shocked.

It can be seen that there is almost no garbage left on the roller brush, and the bearings on both sides are only entangled (or stuck) with one or two cat hairs. Netizens often joke that cleaning the sweeping robot is more troublesome than sweeping the floor. It seems that this situation will not occur on the Roborock G10.

In addition to sweeping the floor, mopping the floor is also a major feature of the Roborock G10.

The mopping module of the Roborock G10 does not look much different from most similar products. It also has a mop attached under the water tank. It uses a high-frequency sonic vibration design with a motor that can reach up to 3,000 rpm, which can effectively break down dirt on the ground. Compared with traditional mops, the Roborock G10's high-frequency sonic vibration mopping module fits tightly to the ground, directly hitting the deep gaps in the floor, and can handle uneven and complex ground environments such as rough ceramic surfaces. Its mop is made of antibacterial material, which can effectively avoid the odor problem that bothers many people even after long-term use.

In the test, we sprinkled some coffee and some cooking soup on the tile floor, which are two very common household stains. We turned on the local cleaning and selected the general mopping mode. We can see that after the Roborock G10 passed over it twice, the floor was basically as clean as new, and it didn't feel sticky when touched. If you increase the mopping intensity or turn on the fine mopping mode, the mopping effect will be even better.

But mopping the floor is just the beginning. If cleaning the roller brush after sweeping the floor is a challenge, then cleaning the mop after mopping the floor is definitely a nightmare. The picture below shows the condition of the mop after this test. I believe that not many people would be willing to touch and wash such a mop with their hands. But if you adopt the ostrich tactic or accidentally forget, then the musty smell and sticky floor next time you mop the floor will definitely make you regret it for the rest of your life.

In addition, the water tanks of these sweeping and mopping robots are generally flat, which makes it inconvenient to fill or pour water. These two factors combined make the mopping function of many sweeping and mopping robots seem a bit useless or even not worth the cost.

But don’t forget that the Roborock G10 has the word “self-cleaning” in its name. This self-cleaning mainly refers to the cleaning function of the mop.

The base of the Roborock G10 is equipped with a clean water tank and a dirty water tank. After the robot returns to the base, the mop device is connected to the clean water tank through a peristaltic pump, and the dirty water is discharged by "washing, brushing, and scraping" to achieve cleaning and water replenishment of the mop. The peak noise during the cleaning process does not exceed 63 decibels, which is also within the acceptable range.

After the cleaning is completed, it can be clearly seen that there is a lot of turbid sewage in the sewage tank.

The Roborock G10 is also equipped with a high-speed active self-cleaning module. The cleaning brush and mop scraper can clean the mop quickly and effectively. At the same time, the variable-direction rubber scraper at the bottom can also scrape the oil inside the base into the sewage tank, eliminating the need for users to frequently clean manually.

After such a cleaning process, the mop becomes like the picture below.

It can be seen that the oil stains from the previous mopping have basically disappeared. And during the whole process, all I had to do was fill some water in the clean water bucket.

In general, the Roborock self-cleaning mopping robot G10 simplifies the tedious steps of sweeping and mopping the floor into four steps: "start the machine, clean the dust box, fill in clean water, and pour out the dirty water". Each step does not require complicated operations, and it can basically stay away from garbage and oil. For users, this is convenient.

Among the high-end sweeping and mopping robots priced between 3,000 and 4,000 yuan, one of them has the automatic dust collection as its main selling point, while the other is the Roborock self-cleaning sweeping and mopping robot G10, which maximizes the convenience of mopping. Personally, I think the Roborock G10 is more convenient: after all, dumping the dust box is just one step, and it does not need to be cleaned every time after sweeping. However, washing the mop is more cumbersome and disgusting, and it needs to be done almost every time after mopping.

As it is difficult to have the best of both worlds at present, I think giving priority to solving the main problem is the choice that is suitable for more people. The Roborock self-cleaning mopping robot G10 is also the product that is currently closest to allowing users to truly "free their hands".

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.