Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow Review: The Most Beautiful, Best Robot Vacuum
The Qrevo Curv 2 Flow is also optimized for hardwood floors. SmartPlan had no trouble automatically distinguishing the tiles in my bathroom and laundry room from the hardwood in my kitchen. However, this sometimes relegated my carpeted living room and den to a sad default status, rather than carpet, and didn’t lift the mop pad. In two weeks, I caught the Qrevo cleaning the carpet once or twice.
The internal path to the dock’s dust bag also appears to have been optimized for liquids, meaning that solids, like dog hair, tend to clump up inside. I forgot to check the garbage chute for a few days and it spat out a clump of dog hair the size of a small hamster. It’s been a while since a Roborock vacuum did this to me.
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SmartPlan’s occasional unreliability made me a little nervous about setting and forgetting the Qrevo by scheduling a cleaning time and letting SmartPlan decide everything, as I’ve done with Roborock vacuums in the past. However, I did like that there is now a dirt detection feature that Roborock confusingly calls DirTect. You can also personalize and improve cleaning with an animal detection function. It has a suction rating of 20,000 pascals (Pa), which, while not the highest suction power of the Robovacs I’ve tested, is high enough for most people. (You’ll probably bald your carpets if you go higher.)
Battery life is also not the best I’ve tested, nor is it the fastest to recharge. (For example, Ecovacs and its more affordable sub-brand, Yeedi, now both offer models with PowerBoost technology that can recharge to complete a cycle in minutes.) If I start a full clean at 9:30 a.m., it takes up to 15 hours to complete, with a three-hour recharge cycle mid-clean. It can clean for about 1.5 hours if it is necessary to perform tasks like mopping the floors. It takes approximately 140 minutes to clean 850 square feet.
Probably the most important consideration, however, is that the Qrevo Curv 2 Flow is brand new and costs $1,000. For several years, I’ve said that $1,500 is about the median cost of a brand new robot vacuum, and it’s well below that mark. And it’s currently on sale for $850 until February!
Although they are fun to test and make videos, I would avoid the flashier, more expensive models for climbing stairs and waving your arms for now. This solid mid-range vacuum is everything you really need, at a price you won’t have to refinance your home to afford.
