Roborock - Q7+

I'll be real. I've owned 3 different Roborock products, 4 if you consider the auto empty stock separately from the vacuum. Every single one has had issues and every single one died before it hit 18 months of age. The Q7+ was replaced under warranty (which took a month of arguing with customer service and 6 weeks of sending it off to them to even get them to consider replacing it), and the replacement is still running... So I'll give it that, despite it refusing to navigate all that well.  The Q8 Max died at 18 months. The Q7's dock diedat 15 months. The mop does between 13 and 15 months.  Roborock makes it near impossible to repair them on your own. I replaced the motor in the floor mop, but it's just not the same and I've stopped using it.  My suggestion is just buy the one that fits your needs and buy a 3 year extended warranty. Then plan on anything you buy being dead after the warranty is done...you can't be disappointed that way. 

Thank you for this amazing info! I have the Q7plus, and have never used it for mopping. (just my own thing) lol I want to buy another robot vacuum but just for vacuuming as well. Is there one you can recommend? I have 50/50 carpet hardwood. I need a new vac for upstairs. Thank you!! = )

Bought the Roborock Q7+ for $500 NZD Then only two months later bought the ecovacs t50 Omni pro for $880 NZD Silly spending as I am 25 and in a small two bedroom 🤣

Yeah, it’s great for general use and I’d still recommend it to anyone look for a vaccum that does the job The Roborock app is better, and it does a really solid job for the price and features. I often take my Roborock to my parents’ place and let it run for a few hours while I’m there. The Ecovacs is also great and suits my place well, but it’s quite bulky to transport, so I’ve left the Roborock at my parents’ place.

I wanted to spoil myself with buying it but realized how good the Roborock is performance it provides

Also here in nz. How come you upgraded? I bought the q7t+ from pbtech and find it's fine for my place (180sqm of carpet but does staggered 1-2 times a week schueduled cleaning in common areas). Couldn't justify spending much more

I went for the Q7 S5+ rather than the Q10 (for strictly size reasons as I have some tight spots), and same - blown away.

If the Roborock has LIDAR (should have a short tower in the middle), then get that one. The G50 doesn't, and some kind of LIDAR is going to be better.

So an unknown brand just came out with a fairly pedestrian robot with stationary-pad mopping, and it has a higher rating than some of the highest-regarded robots on the market? Nope. If you really need mopping on a budget, take a look at the Dreame D10+, Eufy L60 Hybrid, or one of the Roborock Q series robots. For a big improvement in mopping for not much more money, look at the Eufy C20 or Dreame L10s Ultra series. Mova can be good, if they've solved their problem with fragile front wheels. If you don't care about mopping, look at the Eufy L60 SES or SwitchBot K10+.

We just got the q7 tf+ NZ variant of this. I only got it as my voimi v3 died. The suction is amazing but it drops it dirt as it rides along or goes over bumps and docking seems to be hit or miss, also removed the mop pad - it seemed worthless having a mop on that model. So far thoughts are that the voimi v3 was way better, even though it had only 2600k kpa vs 10000 kpa. Mind you it was only 499 nzd so 280 USD, maybe I should of got a better one!

To clarify my opinion at least, the 360 visnav is the best robot I've used vacuuming wise. Where it manages to vacuum, it does it extremely well. But the actual navigation efficiency and software parts are some of the worst, meaning it often wastes a ton of time or misses huge areas of the space. The vacuum part is amazing, the robot part is amazingly bad. Making a new robot to drive around the vacuuming parts would have been incredible. Roborock's current Q7 (the newest one, older Q7 versions were not. Gotta love roborock's confusing naming) is definitely made by Picea (I don't know about the q10). And it's mediocre at best. Vacuuming performance is poor, build quality is meh, navigation is adequate, bin design and filtration are absolutely awful IMO. I don't get the praise for the current Q7. Every Picea made robot I've tried has been mediocre at best.

These are inflated prices. SwitchBot was $359 and the Q7 was around $220 a while ago

I have the q7 tf, in Thailand and spent about £125 on it and it's been on sale cheaper for like £90. 10,000 suction LiDAR, crazy price.