Narwal - Freo Z10
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Last updated: Jul 23, 2025 Scoring
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"I have been very impressed with its obstacle avoidance."
"For me obstacle avoidance tops everything, so I am very pleased with my Narwal Z ... A stuck robot is a useless robot no matter how water efficient it is or how high a treshold it can cross."
"Its obstacle avoidance is one of the best. ... Or at least was when I bought it, and it definitely has been really good in that regard. ... I rather have a so-so robot that doesn't get stuck than a top notch cleaner that invariably gets stuck before finishing even half of the job."
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"One of the other big bonuses I noticed besides the cat litter is that my floor is just not normally sticky in the kitchen. ... This is awesome because I have a kid and teenagers like to drip things absent-mindedly or maybe conscious-mindedly.... But the point is they don't often pick up their own spills. 😂 So it helps there."
"majority of my house is tile and they look amazing, i was mopping atleast 2/3 times a week and now i have the narwal going every morning and it does such a great job!"
"I also have the automatic water exchange unit for it. Absolute game changer."
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"The gals in my home shed 2' long hairs, that have brought every other vac to their knees. ... Haven't seen a single hair trapped on the roller of the Freo Z so far. ... And I did check the bin to make sure it was picking some up and it was full of hair."
"they do great with tangle-free tech ... My Freo Z never has this problem."
"My Freo Z never has this problem."
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"The time saved alone from not sweeping daily is huge for me, totally worth it."
"I usually run it in the mornings after breakfast right before I leave the house to take my kids to school. ... Love coming home to a clean floors."
"I also have the automatic water exchange unit for it. Absolute game changer."
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"The Narwal is pretty quiet when you have it on the lower settings. ... I run it all the time when my 3 year old naps."
"Narwal is quieter overall."
"not to mention how quiet it is!!!"
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"Toe kick cleaning is in my experience non-existent. Maybe mine are too low, I'll have to clean those 2 inches by hand."
"dustbin clogs of fur where there’s empty spaces on the side due to an inefficient dustbin design"
"Also treshold detection. It tends to ride up to them and not clean the inch next to the treshold because of that."
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"My firewall said the robot sent 2.5 GB to Narwal after a cleaning on Sunday. ... That bothers me, but I don't know that any of the Chinese manufacturers are strong for privacy."
"Also I didn’t like how much data the Narwal sent to servers. ... In the 2 weeks I had it, my firewall logs showed the Narwal sent over 20 GB of data. ... I had the remote video disabled so assume it was for vision AI analysis. ... Still, it shouldn’t need to send that much data."
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"Narwal Freo Z10 is a solid NO if you have pets. ... If has poor object detection and ran over my large dogs' paw."
"If it gets stuck long enough on a task, meaning it makes no progress, it will give up. ... If you rescue it after this happens, it will just reset back to the default vacuuming task. ... So if it was mopping, you have to restart the mopping task manually. ... This is dumb to me"
"I like my Narwal but it has gotten stuck on a pretty common Ikea chair. That really surprised me."
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"The vacuum chamber is not very large and thus i have to empty it every two runs. ... It doesnt have a sensor thats worth a damn, so i dont go by the app for fullness of the container."
"dustbin clogs of fur where there’s empty spaces on the side due to an inefficient dustbin design"
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"The current Narwal iOS app has a battery drain bug I told Narwal about."
"The iOS app has a pretty bad battery drain bug right now too."
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