Roborock has rocked the robovac world by revealing its Saros Rover, a stair-climbing robot with extraordinary capabilities.
At IFA last year, we saw several stair-climbing robot vacuum systems that drew a lot of attention – positive and negative. The main issues viewers of our videos had were:
- Extra robot needed to carry the robo vac up stairs
- Speed of the system
- None cleaned the stairs
- Extra cost and space needed for both systems
I’ve always thought of the robot vacuum as the best option to develop a robotic home helper. All it takes is a bit of imagination. Well, the engineers at Roborock have imagined their brains out with the Saros Rover. It’s the world-first, two-wheel-leg architecture in a robovac. Each wheel-leg provides reach, lift, height, and imitates human mobility, enabling the robot to raise and lower each one of the wheel-legs independently, execute small jumps, agile turns, sudden stops, and directional
changes, all while maintaining a level body as the ground changes.
Saros Rover uses AI, complex motion sensors, and 3D spatial information to understand its environment and make its wheel-legs react with precision. The Saros Rover has been designed to excel in multi-storey cleaning, cleaning each individual stair with consistent performance while moving seamlessly to the second floor, dramatically reducing “no-go” zones and extending coverage to rooms in the home that may have been inaccessible with a single robovac.
The Saros Rover can negotiate curved staircases and carpeted staircases with bullnose fronts, as well as slopes or complex multi-level room thresholds requiring height and power, and doing so with ease and precision.
This is most exciting robotvac news in years, but we’ll have to wait and see when it will be available. It is “a real product in development” so it’s definitely coming.
