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It has been 6 months since my last
robotic vacuum review, and it seems like
these companies are releasing new models
with flagship features every single
month. So, in this video, I've got six
new top-of-the-line models from Robbo
Rock, Narwhal, Dream, MUA, Eovax, and
3i, and we're going to see if any of
them are better than the overall winners
from February, which were the Robbo Rock
Sorrow 10R and the Dream X50 Ultra. And
as always, there are no sponsored
reviews on this channel. First, we'll
test vacuuming performance on carpet and
hard flooring. Then, we'll see how well
their mops work in different situations.
After that, we'll see how well they deal
with pet hair and long human hair. We'll
test their object recognition and
avoidance, mapping, and ability to clean
in ways that previous generations of
robotic vacuums couldn't. And last,
we'll evaluate their specific apps,
smart home integrations, and privacy
features. To test their vacuuming
performance, I prepared a mixture of 10
grams each of rice, flax seed husks,
salt, and flour to simulate differentiz
dirt and debris. And I ran each vacuum
on their maximum suction power using a
vacuum only two pass cleaning. I weighed
their dust bins before and after each
cleaning and then again after the auto
emptying process. And I thoroughly
vacuumed with a corded upright in
between tests. And we'll start out with
the least expensive vacuum in this
video, the $649 3i P10 Ultra. 3i
released their super unique S10 flagship
in 2024 that could pull water out of the
air to refill its mopping tanks. But the
P10 doesn't have any of that and it's
just a normal vacuum and mop with a
pretty standard set of features. And in
its 45minute vacuuming run, the 3IIP10
used 26% of its battery and it collected
25.6 g or 64% of the flour, salt, flax,
and rice mixture. And after the auto
empty process, there was 1.1 g left in
the bin. but its small air filter was
almost completely clean. After that is
the $899 Dream L40S Ultra, which is
considerably less expensive than their
flagship X50 and has almost all the same
features except for the retractable LAR
turret. And it only has 19,000
kilopascals of suction instead of
20,000. And in this test, the L40S Ultra
cleaned for 30 minutes and used 23% of
its battery to pick up 25.4 4 g or 63.5%
of the debris mixture, which is half a%
less than the 3II, putting it in second
place. And after the auto empty process,
the Dream had 4.8 g left in its dust
bin, and that was mostly caked into the
air filter. Next, for 1299 is the
Narwhal Flow, which is their highest
suction vacuum ever at 22,000
kilopascals. But in its 44-minute
vacuuming run on my high pile carpet,
the Narwhal was only able to pick up
16.2 2 g or 40.5% of the flour, salt,
flax, and rice, but it did only use 20%
of its battery. And after the auto empty
process, the Narwhal had 0.6 g left in
its bin with a surprisingly clean air
filter, indicating that its auto empty
system is very effective and this vacuum
should be less likely to lose suction
over time. After that, for $13.99 is the
MUA V50 Ultra Complete. And MUVA is
another newer company that debuted at
CES 2025, but it's definitely tied
directly to Dream. and you'll see that
they use a lot of the same technology
and have a lot of shared features. The
V50 advertises a massive 24,000
kilopascals of suction, which helped it
pick up 26.2 g or 65.5% of the debris
mixture in its 33minute vacuuming run,
putting it in first place. But all that
suction took a lot of power, using 44%
of its battery. And after the auto empty
process, the MUA still had a concerning
8.9 g of debris left in its bin, which
similar to the Dream was heavily caked
into the air filter. Next for $14.99 is
the brand new Eavax X11 Omnicyclone. And
I reviewed the Eavax X8 when it came out
just 6 months ago. And since then,
they've released the X9, skipped over
the X10, and now we're at the X11. And
the X11 Omnicyclone has 19,500
kilopascals of suction, which is 1,500
more than the X8. But the X11's carpet
test was kind of a disaster. first
getting stuck by wedging itself under my
couch, then telling me that it completed
its entire vacuuming task after only
doing a perimeter clean. And then when I
finally got it to do a full cleaning
run, it got stuck under the couch two
more times. And to top it off, in 36
minutes of cleaning, the X11 Omnicyclone
picked up just 20.5 g or 51.25% of the
debris mixture, putting it in second to
last place in this group, which is
especially surprising because the X8 had
the second highest carpet score that I
have ever recorded. However, the new
bagless auto empty system on the
Omnicyclyone was very effective, and the
bin and filter were relatively clean
with only one gram of leftover flower
dust. And last, for a staggering $2,599,
we've got the most technologically
advanced robot vacuum on the market that
vacuums, mops, and picks up after you,
the Robot Soros Z70. The Z70's 22,000
kilopascals of suction matches the
lowerpriced Soros 10R, but the Z70 has a
completely different brush roller system
that uses recessed blades to avoid hair
tangles instead of the popular and
effective Duo Divide brush that we find
on the Soros 10R. And in its 31minute
vacuuming run, the Z70 picked up 23.7 g
or 59.25%
of the mixture, putting it in fourth
place. And after the auto empty process,
the Z70s small dust bins still had 2.7
gram of debris in it, which was almost
all caked into the air filter. And that
means that the Mua V50 Complete had the
best score for this set of vacuums at 65.5%.
65.5%.
And the 3IP10 Ultra was close behind
that. But they were all significantly
worse than the X8 Pro Omni, Soros 10R,
and X50 Ultra from my February review.
Next, repeating that same vacuuming test
on my LVP hard flooring again on maximum
suction two pass vacuum only runs. All
the vacuums performed significantly
better with the Robbo Rock Saros Z70
recording a perfect 100% score. The MUA
came in second at 98.5%. The Dream had 97.5%,
97.5%,
the 3i had 96% and the Narwhal and Eavax
filled out the bottom two positions at
95.5 and 94.5% respectively. So that
means for combined vacuuming
performance, the overall top performer
was the MUA V50 Ultra Complete with 65.6
g picked up and the Dream was in second
with 64.4. 4. But as I said, those
numbers still don't really come close to
the Soros 10R, Dream X50 Ultra, or Eavax
X8 Pro Omni from earlier this year. In
this video, I also measured their corner
brush performance by putting a teaspoon
of dried breadcrumbs in four separate
locations in my kitchen and sending the
robots out on a single pass vacuuming
run. And to score them, I gave the
vacuums two points for cleaning up a
pile completely and one point for a
partial clean. And these results were
really strange because the top two
scores were the Robbo Rock and the 3II,
scoring seven points each, meaning they
completely cleaned all the piles except
for under the refrigerator. And the odd
part about that is that the Dream, MUA,
and Robok all have fancy articulating
side brushes that are specifically for
reaching into corners. And the Narwhal
has a new hinged side brush that extends
when it's spun in reverse to be able to
reach into corners. But the 3i just has
a fairly traditional side brush design,
and it somehow still ended up tied for
first place. Similarly, odd, Eovax has
switched to a front-facing lidar system
to avoid that top-mounted lidar bump.
And as a result, it should be able to go
under more furniture, but it decided for
some reason that it couldn't fit under
my stools, and it didn't even attempt to
clean that pile, even though it would
have had plenty of clearance. And last,
for vacuuming, I measured the noise
level at their highest suction power.
And here they are from the quietest to
Moving on to mopping performance. I like
to simulate a realistic test in my
house, which is when wet mud gets
tracked in on shoes and feet and then
dries on the floor. So to do that, I
spread 10 milliliters of Florida mud
over a twoft x two foot square. And then
I dried it with a haird dryer. Each
vacuum then gets set to maximum water
flow in two passes for a combined
mopping and vacuuming run. And after
each run, I spray the area with two
sprays of water and wipe it clean with a
paper towel. And then I set the paper
towel aside to air dry. And in between
each test, I mop the floor with a
traditional wet mop. And I hand dry it
with a towel. And this year I had a few
anomalies in this test. First, the MUA
V50 Ultra Complete is the first robot
that I've ever seen to decide that the
mud was too messy and chose to avoid a
large portion of it on its first run.
But it later decided that it was going
to clean the stain and it didn't do much
better in its second attempt. And the
Eavax also had some similarly strange
behavior, cleaning erratically on its
first pass, but then doing a completely
normal second pass. And in this group of
robots, there was really only one
standout mopping performance, which was
from the Narwhal Flow that not only has
the new roller style mopping system with
an onboard clean and dirty water tank,
but it also has a double wide roller.
And this is the first time that I have
ever had a completely clean paper towel
test. And I was so impressed with it
that I reran the test a second time just
to see if it could replicate those
results. And they were both equally
perfect. And maybe the most surprising
part about that is that all the other
vacuums have automatic detergent
dispensers that are supposed to help
with tough stains. But the Narwhal
requires you to add detergent directly
to the clean water tank if you want to
use it. And for these tests, I was just
using plain water with the Narwhal,
while the rest of the mops were using
their mopping solutions. A lot of these
models also make vague statements about
mopping with warm or hot water. So, I
recorded each mopping session with a
thermal camera. And while some of the
robots themselves were clearly warmer
than others, there wasn't any evidence
that I could see that the floors were
being mopped with significantly warmer
water than room temperature. However,
the vacuums do use heated water to clean
their mopping pads at the base, and they
dry their mops with hot air. And all of
that uses power. So, I measured the
energy required for each robot to mop a
100 ft space, wash and completely dry
their mop. And the Narwhal used the most
energy at 0.412 kwatt hours. The Eavax
and Robot Rock were around 0.3 kwatt
hours and the rest of the robots were
under 0.2 kwatt hours per mopping run.
All these robots also have the ability
to extend their mops to clean under
cabinets and close to the wall. So, I
tested those abilities by putting a
spear of hot sauce in five separate
locations in my kitchen and scoring each
robot's mopping performance by awarding
one point for a partially clean spot and
two points for a completely clean one.
And coming out on top again, the Narwhal
Flow used its extra- wide extending
roller brush to carefully hug the
corners and reach under the stool,
completely cleaning three of the spots
and mostly cleaning the other two. The
Dream also did very well, and it had a
new corner cleaning algorithm that
stops, rotates, and extends the mop for
maximum coverage. The Robbo Rock had
decent coverage, but struggled to absorb
the hot sauce on its mopping pads, and
it left a lot of streaks and smears. The
3II started out pretty well and then it
failed to clean under the corner cabinet
and it also missed the outside corner by
the stove. The Eavax kind of just looked
like it was cleaning randomly and it
didn't really make any effort to hug the
walls or corners. And the MUA had the
worst corner mopping score with a
combination of poor edge detection like
the 3II and poor mop pad absorption like
the Robbo Rock. And for the last mopping
test, I looked at whether the vacuums
could mop and vacuum a room with both
carpet and hard floors without getting
the carpet wet. And I found that despite
them being able to lift their mopping
pads, the MUA, Narwhal, and ThreeI all
got my high power carpet wet when doing
a combined vacuum and mopping run. The
Dream and Robarok were able to keep the
carpet completely dry by recognizing
that the room had both carpet and hard
flooring and then detaching their
mopping pads at the station to vacuum
the carpet first. And after that was
done, they returned to their base to
grab their mopping pads before cleaning
the hard floors. And oddly, the MUA also
has the ability to leave its mopping
pads at the station, but it isn't
programmed the same way that the Dream
and Robot Rock are. And it only detaches
its mopping pads when it's doing a
vacuum only run. And the biggest
surprise during this test was the Eavax,
which doesn't have detachable mopping
pads, but it somehow managed to mop the
floor and then travel directly onto the
carpet without getting the carpet wet.
So, I'm not sure if it can just lift its
mopping pad that high or if it's just
scraping all the moisture out of the mop
before vacuuming the carpet. But either
way, it was pretty cool to see. And that
means that overall for mopping, the
Narwhal was in a league of its own with
by far the best hard floor mopping
performance and the best corner mopping
with its main weakness being the
inability to cross high pile carpet
without getting it wet. However, while
roller style mops like the Narwhal Flow
and the Eavax X11 are significantly
better at cleaning up big messes, they
also require a bit more maintenance.
Specifically, you'll need to clean the
onboard reservoir where it constantly
scrapes dirty water off the mopping
roller with every revolution. And while
you can get away with just throwing
spinning mopping pads in the washing
machine, you will need to actually get
in and brush out the reservoir on the
roller mops about once a month to keep
them draining well. Another big problem
that these vacuuming brands have been
trying to solve is hair pickup and
tangle avoidance. And in this group,
there are four different potential
solutions. First, the Dream, MUA, and
Narwhal are all using tapered brush
rollers that are only connected to the
vacuum on one side. So any hair that
wraps around the roller will eventually
travel down the brush and into the
suction port. The Robot Rock C70 is
using recessed blades on two sides of
the rollers that have the function of
pulling in any tangled hair and cutting
it in half so that it can be more easily
collected in the bin. The Eavax uses a
detangling combined with their
anti-tangle brush roller. And the 3IIP10
Ultra actually has a blade on its base
that runs across the brush roller before
the auto empty process to hopefully cut
any tangled hair free. But the question
is, which of these solutions actually
works? And for the first test, I started
with a very realistic task of cleaning
up 30 individual strands of real 12-in
human hair from my bathroom floor. And
then after the auto empty process, I
carefully inspected each robot for any
hair tangles. And in this test, most of
the vacuums performed very well, with
the Narwhal coming in first with not a
single piece of hair tangled anywhere on
the robot. The Dream and Robbo Rock each
had one stray piece of hair tangled up
in their wheel axle. The Eavax had two
strands caught up in its wheels. The 3II
had a bit more than that all tangled up
in the brush roller itself. And the Mua
was mostly tangle-free, but it had an
issue with its auto empty system where
clumps of hair would get caught in the
back flap and then dragged around until
they fell off at random places in my
house. I also ran a second less
reasonable test, and I spread out 1 g of
synthetic 16-in blue hair and two cotton
balls separated into toughs to simulate
pet fluff on my high pile carpet. And
then I ran each robot on a one pass
vacuum only run. Afterwards, I collected
any unclean pet hair toughs and any
leftover synthetic hairs on the carpet.
And I inspected each robot for tangles
and clogs. And as expected, this test
was much more extreme. And starting with
leftover hair and fluff on the carpet,
the robot rock basically didn't clean
any of the pet fluff, and it just matted
it into the carpet. And there was also a
significant amount of synthetic hair
left over. The Dream also struggled to
pick up the fluff on the carpet, but I
think that it was mostly because it saw
them as obstacles that it needed to
avoid. And the 3II also had some erratic
behavior around those fluff balls. The
Eavax cleaned in a normal pattern, but
it still left quite a bit of pet fluff
and even more synthetic hair. The MUA
did a very respectable job with just a
couple leftover pieces, but the Narwhal
did a truly awesome job, and it cleaned
up 100% of the hair and fluff on the
carpet. And even more incredibly, the
Narwhal also managed to almost
completely avoid any tangles with just a
single strand of blue synthetic hair
stuck in between the rubber and the
plastic of the wheel, which as I said is
a ridiculously amazing performance on
its own and the best that any robot has
ever performed in this test. But it's
even more amazing considering how much
hair and fluff was on the other vacuums.
And overall, the tapered brushes seem to
perform significantly better than any of
the other methods of preventing hair
tangles. And the Robbo Rock cutting
brush was completely matted. The Eavax
brush had a large tangle in the center
of the roller. And the three-eyed hair
cutting system wasn't effective in this
test. And the brush roller was still
completely tangled. And here's an
overview of the amount of hair and fluff
each robot left on the ground. And these
piles represent what was tangled on the
robot itself. And that means that twice
now in this video, object avoidance has
stopped these robots from cleaning my
testing area completely. But now it's
time to see how well it works when it's
supposed to. So I set up my living room
with a pair of untied shoes, some rubber
dog poop, and a loose extension cord.
And I sent each vacuum on a one pass
vacuum-only run. And to score their
object avoidance, I gave them two points
for avoiding an object and one point for
moving it with no catastrophic outcomes
like getting stuck or running over dog
poop. And the only perfect score of six
came from the Movea V50, which kept
appropriate distances from each object,
meaning cleaning right up against the
extension cord and shoes, but keeping a
safe distance from the dog poop. The 3i
P10 Ultra earned five points, avoiding
the dog poop and shoes, but tangling
itself up on the cord, pulling it
several feet away before breaking itself
free. The Robbo Rock Saros Z70 also
scored five points, again, avoiding the
dog poop and shoes, but moving the
extension cord several times. The Eavax
scored four points, successfully
avoiding everything on the first part of
his cleaning task and then running
directly over the dog poop. And the
Dream knew that it shouldn't run over
the dog poop, but it got a little too
close with its side brush, ultimately
still scoring four points, but it would
have been a total disaster. And coming
in last with just three points total,
the Narwhal first got itself snagged on
the cord and then it completely
disregarded the dog poop, running it
over multiple times, and it really made
no effort to avoid it. Also, in this
test, we can talk about the main selling
point of the Robot Rock Z70, which is
the fact that it is the first robotic
vacuum to also have a five-axis
mechanical arm that can recognize and
move objects out of the way to clean
under them, and it can even identify and
sort objects into different locations.
And my impressions of the Z70s arm are
mixed. On the one hand, I love to see
new innovation enabling these vacuums to
become even more useful than they
already are. But on the other hand, the
advertised use cases like picking up
used tissues from the floor and throwing
them away and finding socks on the
ground and sorting them into a separate
bin really seem like personal hygiene
problems that shouldn't need a
state-of-the-art robotic vacuum to
solve. And the SRO Z70 seems like a huge
amount of technology to counteract what
could be a pretty simple lifestyle
change. And about the only real
application that I can think of is if
you had a dog that leaves stuffed
animals around, the SRO Z70 could put
them all away in some central location
before cleaning. But if it's your kids
leaving their toys around, the Soros Z70
is less likely to be able to pick up
non- stuffed animal toys. And as a
father myself, my personal opinion is
that teaching your kids to put away
their own toys is probably better than
relying on your vacuum to do it. That
said, these vacuums do have a couple
flagship features that I do find very
useful. And the first is being able to
climb higher than normal thresholds
between rooms. And to test this, I built
three different size thresholds at 13
mm, 30 mm, and 50 mm. And each of the
thresholds has both a ramp side and a
flat side. And in this test, all the
vacuums were ultimately able to cross
the 13mm threshold, but the Narwhal and
especially the Dream struggled quite a
bit more than I was expecting on the
flat side. At 30 mm, the Narwhal Flow
and Move V50 crossed both the ramp side
and the flat side with no issue. And the
Robbo Rock Z70 eventually crossed the
flat side after a little bit of
struggle. But the 3II, Dream, and Eavax
all failed to pass back over the 30mm
flat threshold. At 50 mm, the Narwhal,
Dream, and Eavax were able to cross the
ramp side, but not the flat side. The
Robbo Rock and ThreeI weren't able to
cross in either direction, and the Move
V50 was the only robot that was able to
cross in both directions using the same
technique and hardware as the Dream X50
Ultra from my last video. So, if you
have an abnormally large threshold in
your house, the Move V50 or Dream X50
Ultra are the most likely to be able to
handle it. The way that the robots
handle mapping and navigation is also
evolving quite a bit. And the Dream and
ThreeI are the only ones that still have
a traditional top-mounted LAR unit,
which in theory should give the other
robots a clearance advantage. But in
reality, the Dream L40S Ultra has a
total height of 95 mm, including its LAR
bump, while the Narwhal Flow is 95 mm
without a LAR bump. And the Eavax X11 is
3 mm taller than that at 98 mm. And
unfortunately, in my testing, switching
from 360° LAR to front or rear only
ultimately decreases mapping and
navigation efficiency, and it also seems
to affect the robot's ability to tell
which furniture items it can and cannot
fit under. And neither the MUA nor the
Eavax decided they would be able to fit
under my kitchen stools that have plenty
of clearance, but at the same time, the
Eavax continually wedged itself under my
couch until I set up a no-go zone. And
when it comes to navigation, clearance,
and correctly determining furniture
height, Robbo Rock's Starite navigation
is in a league of its own. And it seems
to know exactly where it can and can't
clean. And the fact that it's only 79 mm
tall means that it has an additional 16
mm of clearance over the Dream and
Narwhal, making it by far the best
option for cleaning under furniture. And
the last things we need to cover in this
video are their apps, smart home
integrations, privacy, and local
control. And while the apps from 3II and
Narwhal are definitely usable, MUA,
Dream, and Robbo Rock have nearly
perfected their apps with a delicate
balance of ease of use and customizable
features. And for me, the Eavax app
falls somewhere in the middle of that
with basically all the same features as
Dream, MUA, and Robbo Rock, but it's
just not quite as easy or intuitive to
use. I also really like to be able to
control my robotic vacuum with voice
assistance to tell it to clean up a
specific room without getting out my
phone. And while all the vacuums support
Amazon Echo integrations, the 3i doesn't
support room specific cleaning. And for
the rest, you just have to know the
right thing to say. I also tested Google
Home integrations and the only one that
I wasn't able to get working at all was
the Narwhal. And the robot rock, Dream,
MUA, and Eavax all support room specific
cleaning commands, while the 3i only
supports on andoff commands. If you are
a home assistant user, the robot rock
Z70 is the only one that gives what I
would call a fullfeatured integration,
and the built-in EVAX integration
doesn't support the X11. Dream's custom
integration doesn't support the L40S
Ultra, and the 3i and Narwhal don't have
integrations at all, but for the first
time in a very long time, I'm happy to
report that we do have some form of
local control by way of a matter
integration for both EVAX and Robbo
Rock. And I did check and this is a
completely local connection that allows
for some minimal amount of customization
and cleaning even when the vacuum is
completely blocked from the internet.
And impressively, the robot rock even
maintained all of its robotic arm
functionality without an active internet
connection, which means that all the
image processing and recognition is
being handled on the robot itself. But
for both the Eavax and Robbo Rock, you
will need to connect at least once
through the app to set up your map and
your preferences. So, looking at the
total scores for each vacuum, none of
them stand out as clear winners like in
my previous video, with four vacuums
coming in with an average score around
three. The MUA V50 Ultra Complete
finished in first with an average of 2.9
thanks to its object avoidance and
threshold crossing abilities. But at
$1399, that's $200 more than the Dream
X50 Ultra, which has the same threshold
crossing, the same object avoidance, and
the same mopping, but better overall
vacuuming scores. And the same is true
for the Robox C70, which had an average
score of 3.2. But if you don't need the
robotic arm, which is a cool concept,
but ultimately not ready for prime time,
then the robot rock 10R has all the
great parts of the Sorrow Z70, like low
furniture clearance, best-in-class
navigation, and excellent smart home
integrations, including matter support
for less money. And as a bonus, it also
had better vacuuming scores and much
better hair tangle avoidance thanks to
Robok's Duo Divide brush system. And 6
months later, I still think that the
Robok SORS 10R is the best all-around
vacuum and mop on the market right now.
However, as I mentioned earlier, the
Narwhal Flow is the best mopping robot
that I have ever tested by a fairly
significant margin. And even though its
overall score was just average at 3.0,
if your main goal is mopping and you
don't have high pile carpet that needs
to be vacuumed, then the Narwhal Flow is
an easy choice. And the fact that it has
great hair pickup and tangle avoidance
is just an added bonus. I also think
that the Dream L40S Ultra is worth
considering since it's basically just a
slightly more budget friendly version of
the X50 Ultra. So, if you don't need
things like the ultra high threshold
crossing ability or the first person
remote control, the L40S Ultra gets you
a very similar performance to the X50
for quite a bit less money. As always,
there are no sponsored reviews on this
channel, but I do have links to all the
vacuums down in the description. And as
always, I appreciate when you use those
links since as an Amazon affiliate, I do
earn a small commission on the sale at
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of my awesome patrons over at Patreon
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