Roborock - S5 Max
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Last updated: Dec 30, 2025 Scoring
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"A good robovac is a life changer. Even a $350 basic S8. It is a great place to start. ... I promise you that you will not be disappointed by a basic S8. It will change your life even if it can't fit under every piece of furniture you own. ... My two S8s just finished vacuuming our entire house in about 46 minutes. ... While my floors were being cleaned, I sat comfortably on our patio in the cool shade with a slight breeze and composed my far too long response to you while sipping a diet soda and relaxing. ... I will have to spend about four minutes maintaining my two S8s. This will be my entire contribution to my home floor cleaning effort for today. Four minutes!"
"Like 500$ these robots are currently the steal of the century ... You can get a mova p10 pro ultra (cannot remove its mops), equivalent to the l40/x40 for 500$ after a discount code"
"I got the Q5 Pro for $139. ... costs $450 less than what I paid for the S6 ... it is the best value option out there imo."
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"The roborock I have kicked and smashed with my foot so many times out of anger when it doesn't collaborate, and still he rocks 4-5 yrs later and no broken parts"
"they are extremely durable. ... I’ve got well over 1000 miles out of a pair and they still have grip and the uppers are in great shape"
"I've used them for 1500 miles of multi-day hiking with no issues!"
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"This was a game changer for me. Each night before I ran the S7, I had to manually move and rearrange items on the floor so it didn’t get stuck. With a kid and a dog, it’s easy to have toys under the rug, spoons in random places on the floor etc. My S7 would always get stuck on those and fire away an SOS in the app and I’d have to get outta bed and reset the robot clean cycle. The Slim has made me truly appreciate the *set it and forget it* style I prefer. Yes, I still do move/check for randoms but it doesn’t get stuck up on the stuff I’d miss. 3/4 score in my ultra scientific yet real world test! It even manages to dodge when my dog is sitting on the rug and shows a ‘Pet’ notification in the app! ... Wires - not a problem! ... It did manage to 'touch' the flip flops but didnt mess up ... Nudged the ball but didn't get stuck on it like my S7 did"
"cleaned it just as quickly. ... It navigates far more efficiently and cleans rooms in a fraction of the time it took my Roomba."
"They're awesome- LiDAR room mapping ... Um roomba doesn't use Lidar which is why it doesn't do a good job mapping the rooms. Or figuring out what floor it's on."
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"On hard floors it was as exceptional and never left a piece of cat litter in between the wood planks."
"And my dust bag was full the first month. ... We have 3 highly shedding dogs and the roborock qrevo master does well but evidently the p50 does better. The roborock bag wouldn't be full the first month like this."
"I’ve seen on the camera the poor guy making multiple trips to self empty while in one room but it’s cut the hair buildup tenfold."
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"If you look at it in sections it's no that hard to diagnose and do small repairs yourself if they for some reason should break. ... Don't be afraid of taking them apart, there's many repair guides available and most robots look 90% the same inside for the features they have. ... From what i can tell, the roborock robots today have nearly identical vacuuming fan as the old S5 ... Roborock... might be the easier ones to get second hand parts for as they're the most popular and share many parts. ... Yes, they are "easy" to repair, but it takes a little time. You will have small screws, ribbon cables and boards just like any other computer. Imagine it like Lego, have patience and don't rush it, and if you loose a screw or ten it probably doesn't matter as they are overengineered for the factory line."
"The S5 can be held alive forever with cheap original parts from AliExpress."
"I got more than my money’s worth out of the old Roborock S5’s. ... Spare parts were readily available, a big community, YouTube videos showing how to fix things…"
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"it is also way more prone to tracking pet messes about, that happened once with a pile of cat vomit and I was a little traumatized."
"if you take if off the dock yourself it loses the mop function unless you restart it literally 10 times"
"for the love of God please don get a roomba combo model. They don work… ever."
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"I really like the idea of the 2 rollers for the hair so it can’t tangle. HUGE problem in my household. lol."
"cleaning the brush roller often for the wife and dogs long hairs is very annoying and a bit gross"
"long hair will still tangle around the ends of them and eventually stop them from spinning. ... This happens every third run if i don't clear them after the second run."
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"Oh yeah, the 30 day bin does not apply to shepherd and husky owners in any way shape or form!!"
"The claim of 30-days before emptying is BS, as that’s based on a non pet hair household. ... I auto run it 3 times a week and empty maybe 1-2 times a week."
"I was constantly emptying the dust bin manually"
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"setting up and cleaning up the “mop” pad"
"constantly taking off the mop pads to clean them"
"having to unclip the mop so it can vacuum first without dragging the mop pad around and then forgetting to put the mop back in etc etc"
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"The vision system isn’t as accurate when mapping. ... Z70 is still learning and it ties rooms together through walls that don’t exist."
"When it got older it more and more often happened that it read the map wrong, couldn't find the rooms, couldn't find the station ... should have let it make a completely new map again I guess, but that took forever and a lot of supervision as well. ... So I often came home to a job half done."
"So apparently today it recognised the leg base of the piano and tried to automatically pick it up to sort but failed."
Still have a Roborock S5 I bought in early 2018. Once a year I break it down and get all the fur (cat and dog) out of its guts, it's a pretty wild amount that gets on the inside. Otherwise, keep filters, sensors and brush clean and the thing has been pretty bulletproof. Only issues I have had are software related with random wifi dropouts and refusing to connect to the App. But I've gotten used to just hitting the button (got tired of resetting wifi) on our way to work. We also have a Dreame S20 ultra that I've had for not even 2 years and it's been a less than stellar experience (battery doesn't last for the full clean anymore and needs to be piece-mealed, the hair cutting brush internal gearing mechanism siezed up and I had to open it up clean and lube, poor contact with dock resulting in slow or no charging, dock draining issues). It is significantly more complex than the Roborock S5 but I'm more confident than not that my next robovac purchase will not be a Dreame.
r/BuyItForLife • Can a robot vacuum be BIFL? My experience so far ->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.
r/smarthome • What smart home upgrade made you say “why didn’t I do this sooner”? ->Black friday is coming up and I'm considering upgrading my trusty Roborock S5 after 400 hours and close to 10k cleaning cycles. The mopping technology seems to have evolved quite a lot and I'm torn on that aspect. I'm used to having to tear and cut off pet hair from basically everywhere, main brush, side brush and wheels, after nearly every run. I understand the vacuuming maintenance has improved a lot, but I see a lot of complaints about the roller mops. Mainly with regards to the maintenance. Is it really that bad? I'm trying to get the best robot available in terms of reliability and ease of maintenance without sacrificing vacuuming performance, and ideally without a big sacrifice to mopping performance. Cost is not really a factor. The ones that seem to fit the bill so far are Roborock Saros 10R/Qrevo Edge/Qrevo Curv, and Dreame L40s/L50/X50/Matrix 10/Aqua 10. Input and suggestions by anyone with experience of these would be really appreciated.
r/RobotVacuums • Roller mop, maintenance & suggestions ->The CurvX is almost $1500 from the Roborock website where I live. They're probably not pushing it for the Swedish market... Funny though, I also returned an EcoVacs X11 just a couple of weeks ago. Honestly, anything would be an upgrade from my S5, but I feel like the price to performance is so random at times. I can get a Qrevo Edge 5V1 for $740 and a Saros 10R for $1540 right now. The Dreames are all over the place too.. I guess I'll see what black friday brings :)
r/RobotVacuums • Roller mop, maintenance & suggestions ->Same here my s5 !is 6 years old and still working good. Just replaced filters and brushes.
r/Roborock • It's Here! Excited to share my review soon! ->I'm on my second roborock, a Qrevo C. Had an S5 Max with a battery that wasn't holding charge well. It is over 3 years old. My first robot was an Ecovacs. Had pretty much constant errors, when I picked it up to clean sensors it wanted to remap again. I sent it for service, got it back 2 weeks later and it was worse. Got one minute off the dock, complained of dirty sensors, picked it up to clean it, started remapping again. I returned it, was only 4 months old. Just junk! Been with roborock since and the model I have now is amazing. I'll never change. Their app is far superior to what I had with Ecovacs, especially for map editing. I can't comment on the Dreame.
r/Roborock • Our first robot vacuum: Roborock Qrevo S or ECOVACS T20 Omni or Dreame L10s Ultra ->Then repair it yourself? I had a broken LIDAR sensor in my S5. I was allowed to keep it and still got a full refund. I bought a new LiDAR unit for 100€ and repaired the broken robot in 30 min. Roborock is so big that you can buy all the parts you need easily.
r/nextfuckinglevel • Effectiveness of a robot vacuum ->Sorry - I think I mean obstacle avoidance not navigation\*\*\* We have a Roborock S5. It regularly tries to break our electronics by grabbing cords or sucking up socks etc. As a result, we almost never run them and that defeats the point. We have a mix of carpet and hardwood flooring spread out about 3000sqft. What's the best vacuum for our use case especially knowing that there are frequently things that should be picked up but are not? I want it to automatically run and just not get stuck or try to break the house by grabbing cords etc. Also, is my dream just a dream or can today's vacuums actually achieve this kind of automatic cleaning without regular pickup?
r/RobotVacuums • Absolute best navigation system today? ->+1 voor Roborock! De S5 rijd hier al een jaar of 6 rond.
r/nederlands • Robotstofzuiger ->I have owned 2 S5 Max units for 5 years. The water pump broke on both within the first year, but that was ok because the "mopping" is the equivalent of dragging a damp wash cloth around and wasn't meeting my needs anyway. There are much better mopping options, but the S5 Max unit is a total workhorse for vacuuming. I have relegated mine to vacuuming up cat litter before I run a Dreame vac/mop.
r/Roborock • Roborock ->We have a RoboRock S5 and S7. They're solid and that S5 just keeps on chugging along. I don't know how BIFL any software dependent electronic machine can ever be, but these are pretty close to as good as you'll get in my opinion.
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