Roborock - S50

A little late for this but I would go with the V50. Any model can have problems. I haven't tried the curvx but I tried 3 regular curvs and had to send them back. They dragged the mops when going back to the base.  I haven't seen a lot of people mention that so maybe I was unlucky, 3 times in a row.  The vacuum performance wasn't great either. I always vacuum before mop and there would be lots of pet hair in the base after mopping.  I have the p50 and love it. Got it on sale for 799. I did have to send the first one back due to water pump issues, started in less than a week,  but the one I have now has been going 2 months with no problem. Hardly, if any hair in the base after mopping. 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.  And I have generic bags that work that are a lot less so it won't get so expensive  to change. I have had no front wheel problem at all. Every manufacture can have problems. But if you need to deal with the warranty every time I have emailed Mova with a question or when the water pump went bad, they got back to me the same day almost every time but always within 24hrs. And not during the middle of the night like Roborock then you have to wait until the next night to email you back. Roborock was never a problem with me for warranty work it's just the process takes a while due to the response email coming in the middle of the night. Sorry so long but hope this helps.

Roborock for sure . Mine is nearly 6 years old and only just recently did we get the poor thing some spare parts. It’s so solid and reliable , and the software performs brilliantly to navigate hazards. S50 was AUD469 in Nov 2018 (Parts were the under carriage, brush and roller , although only the former really needed it)

Our roborock s50 is 7ish years old if memory serves. Just over 1500 cleanups. Runa about every other day give or take. 45k m2 cleaned. Jist regular maintenance of main side brush, filters. 1 broken dirt tray, but that was due to me dropping it.

Tl;dr - upgraded from Roborock S50 (2019) to Dreame L40 Ultra, blown away by the tech improvements. I’ve been researching robot vacuum cleaners for a while now and even had a detailed spreadsheet of all the options. I have a Roborock S50 from 2019 that still does a half decent job vacuuming however its age is showing (we affectionately call it the grandpa). We have hardwood mainly, and we were looking for the next vacuum to mop as well. Budget wasn’t a concern, so I initially considered the Saros 10r and S8 MaxV Ultra, or even waiting for the next gen Roborock with the rumored roller mopping. The L40 Ultra didn’t convince at $1200, there were simply too many better options out there. However, at $474, it suddenly looked very different on my spreadsheet, and had features that none in its price class had. Took the plunge and got it delivered today, and my word, this thing is incredible. It vacuums better than the S50, extendible arms are grabbing dirt from everywhere, the leave-behind-mop for vacuuming trick is awesome, avoids most obstacles, auto empties to the docks (what! lol), so quiet even in turbo mode. Mopping is stunning, I mean I’m staring at our floor speechless. Granted the Roborock S50 is from a different era, but what the actual heck - clean/dirty water tank, washes mop with hot water, dries it, auto dispensers detergent, has a swinging mop, lifts the side brush during mopping (!), is dead silent when mopping only. My floor is cleaner than it’s ever been.. If this thing lasts a few years and delivers like this consistently, it’ll be a monumental quality of life improvement. I’ve not paid attention to the robot vacuum tech trends the past few years, but my word, this feels like a generational futuristic leap of technology. My one tip for others looking - figure out what you need and don’t get distracted by other features/gimmicks. For example I was so tempted by the level jumping function even though I had fully flat hardwood (lol), or spent countless hours agonizing over AI obstacle avoidance feature (I have no pets.. why care about fecal avoidance?!), or hot mopping function (it literally cools down in the robot, why bother?!).

Can echo the other posters. My S50 was loud, so I had very low expectations. In “Quiet” mode, the L40 is shockingly quiet.. to the point where I was worried it’s actually working!

Longtime roborock fan here. We still have out xiaomi mi, s50 and have ordered a Q revo which is on the way (black friday sale @899). The parts and consumables are cheap as chips on aliexpress. We've replaced the fan for $17, and batteries which last really well. One thing to consider regardless of what brand=model you get is to get them on an isolated wifi vlan with firewall eyles setup to prevent them snooping on your network. We have a network setup where all the untrusted network devices are connected. They can all connect to the internet and thats it. I call it our prison colony.

Hi, Had Roborocok S50 in the past with 2000 Pa, now have Roborock S10R (G30s Ultra China version). I am dissapoint. 20000 Pa is not better than 2000Pa. I thought maybe the problem what I got China version, and China version is not good compare to the one provide to western countries. But i see such problem noticed not only me, and not only for G30s Ultra, Saros 10R is observed same suction problem. It is really sad. I starting to think to skip to other brands. I see ECOVACS DEEBOT X9 PRO Omni can be really promising. If Roborock not stops to fake on numbers for marketing purpose - they will loose fans in near future! Me too.

I've had my Roborock S50 since 2019 and it's been absolutely problem-free. It's not, however, particularly brilliant at picking up visible dirt from carpets. Meanwhile I notice that advertised "suction power" in these robovacs has increased massively. My S50 is rated at 2000 Pa, while top of the range models are exceeding 20,000 Pa - must be 10 times as good, right? No, apparently not! I've read that airflow / cfm is a more useful metric, and my S50 is rated at 17 cfm (according to Vacuum Wars). Same as the Roomba 980 from 2015, and actually around the same as most flagship models from 2025. Of course there are many factors which determine effectiveness and cfm is just one, but at least it's something you can objectively measure. If robot vacuums have been in the range of 12-25 cfm for at least 10 years, does that mean that the major improvements have been in the automation fields (self-emptying, mapping, voice controls etc), brush design and mopping? Has vacuum performance reached a plateau, because the form factor limits how powerful you can make the motors? There are so much contradictory reviews out there that I genuinely have no idea what the state of the tech is in 2025.

Navigation is going to be the #1 biggest improvement, I expect. But even my old Roborock does that flawlessly. The thing that hasn't changed much is actual power. I wonder if battery improvements will lead to more powerful motors and therefore better suction in future. All these machines have tiny batteries, for some reason (5000-6000 mah - that's like my phone!).

I have a cat, no kids and a large house. It is my #1 most used thing. Saturday morning just head out for a coffee with friends and come back to a 90% clean floor without lifting a finger - vacuumed and mopped. After 6 years of service our Roborock s50 died and we replaced it immediately with the newer Roborock QRevo. Not even the latest one, but man what an upgrade to an already good robo vacuum

We’ve had a Roborock S50 running daily since 2018, it’s done a bit over 2000 hours of cleaning. That said in that time I’ve replaced battery, fan motors, LiDAR motor & belt alongside normal consumables like brushes. But it’s easily taken apart and repaired once you get the hang of it and parts are readily available.

Yeah I had an S50, amazing tankers, it still works

Roomba's have pretty subpar mapping & navigation compared to most other brands. We have one (older) Roomba that relies on VSLAM for navigation and one Roborock that uses LiDAR; the difference is night and day. I would avoid iRobot on that alone until they change their tech.

For the price (£250) I am very impressed with mine. Its got LiDAR, a mop, empties itself, etc. Its really neat to watch on the app as it goes about your house and maps it out. Its only gotten stuck twice, and both times were on the same chair that has horizontal bars at floor level that it can get over if it runs at it head on, but can high side itself if approaching from an angle. Definitely does not replace vacuuming as a whole though as it just cant physically get into the corners, and the vacuum itself isnt enough to really suck stuff out of the carpet, more just pick up things on top. I treat it more like a broom than anything else, but having a pet it helps me keep on top of things.