X50 Ultra

I just got the Dreame x50 ultra- since the price has come down. The only thing you have to do frequently is empty and refill the water tanks and occasionally reposition the robot if it gets stuck somewhere. There is a way to get it plumbed so you don’t even have to fill the tank, not sure if there’s a way to make it so you don’t have to empty it.

Got it for less than that on boxing day in Sydney.

I stay away from dreame, had a similar experience as you & had four replacements all couldn’t hold a candle to my ecovacs X11. I have two dogs that frequently go in/out, one of them being a malamute so hair is a constant in our house. We have multiple levels & I keep a robot on each level, currently all of which are X11’s (one being the newest version with the sprayers in the front). I feel like such a product shill, but it’s by far the best robot vacuum I’ve owned for my use case. I used to exclusively stick with Roborock & would buy their flagship S series every year, but when I saw the X11 drop without a bag but still retain the features I was wanting I got it to try. Once you turn off the AI assist features the robot does a phenomal job cleaning, I’d say the Roborock S8 did a slightly better job at the corners, but it’s good enough to where I just lightly go over everything once every week or two with my own mop & it looks great. My only gripe about it is that you can’t tell it to just mop a room, it has to at least vacuum at its quietest setting while mopping (you can have it mop a small zone like for a spill, but that’s if). Not a huge gripe because it’s fairly quiet & helps keep the mop clean. I like how it has two seperate dosing systems for cleaning product & a bagless design for the dirt (still on my original filter for the base station, looks clean as well over a year old, switched out filters to see if it needed it & I just wasn’t noticing but it didn’t performing any better). Biggest thing for me (other than the bagless design) is how easy it is to clean. The base station has a tray you pull out where the mop gets cleaned, & the robot is fairly simple as well. My house would be called a very dirty house, & I just probably spend 5 minutes a week cleaning it (changing out the filters & mop on the robot & cleaning the mop tray). I used to go through a ton of bags every month, now I just buy a maintenance kit from Amazon for $10 each month where it comes with the filters, roller mops, & other parts for it. You don’t have to do this, but I run my robot two to three times a day so I just do it this way so I can ignore all the different maintenance reminders in the app (they’re staggered, ie 10 hours for this part 30 for this one). It’s GaN charging is also very nice, each robot cleans around 3,000 sq ft & I don’t think I’ve ever seen them under 60%. When it’s charging it actually has a counter where you can see the decimal points of the charging status & see it quickly charge in real time. I saw you mention clogs, the only one of mine that has clogged has been the one on the main level which is subjected to the most hair. Malamute hair is particularly clumpy so I fully expected it to happen. To date it’s only happened twice (not the base station but the robot itself). The only other brand I’d recommend is narwal, I was very happy with their product & still have mine but switched it out for the X11 simply because of the bagless feature.

Dual rollers is a big one. I got a Dreame X50 ultra and I have two long haired GSDs. My old Shark vacs would bind up every day. My Dreame is going on 12 days and 35 hours of run time without a stoppage due to dog hair. It runs like a champ.

I bought a Dreame X50 Ultra because it was good for long pet hair. It has a mop, I just never use it. If it didn’t have the mop it could have a bigger dust bin but mops seem to be the thing. The dual roller/brush design on the Dreame and the suction power are great. I have two long hair German Shepherd Dogs. They shed all the time.

Smart thermostat for sure, after that my “high end” robot vacuum dreame x50 ultra. Had a basic Roborock s5 Max before but it was bad at mopping and got stuck so often. The Dreame delivers big times. I some smart lights but they are not in the top tier list.