Robot vacuum cleaner Roborock Qrevo Plus with station in the test: Wipes well to the edge

The Roborock Qrevo Plus is comparatively cheaper, but still offers tech features like an almighty cleaning station, superb laser navigation and an extendable mop for edge-to-edge cleaning. Is the new Plus model a useful addition to the range? We’ve tested the Roborock Qrevo Plus extensively.

The Roborock Qrevo Plus robot impresses with its compact design and height of only 9.65 cm. This means that it fits easily under flat furniture. The robot vacuum cleaner and station are available in white and black and appear robust and durable due to their workmanship. A special highlight is the extendable mop, which is particularly useful when cleaning walls or the edges of furniture.

The Qrevo Plus docking station is well thought out. It measures 34 × 48.7 × 56.1 cm and has a dust bag and two water tanks (4 litre fresh water tank and 3.5 litre dirty water tank) with a capacity of 2.7 litres. Water containers are always ready to hand as Roborock has not provided any lids for the water containers. The robot and station are identical to other Qrevo models.

Putting the Roborock Qrevo Plus into operation is incredibly easy. The scope of delivery includes the robot vacuum cleaner, the charging station with cables, an access ramp, a replacement vacuum cleaner bag and operating instructions. After setting up the station and attaching the access ramp, you need to download the Roborock app.

The Roborock app, which the new user can easily find via the QR code on the device, guides you through the setup. The robot vacuum connects automatically and is ready for immediate use. If desired, an initial mapping of the apartment can be done immediately after commissioning, even before the battery is fully charged. However, we recommend that you first fully charge the battery and then explore. Direct cleaning is also possible without a previous exploration trip, but unlike usual, the robot does not clean room by room, but rather cleans sections of about 15 square meters. As usual with Roborock, the app offers countless features, there is nothing that is not present here.

Together with Dreame, Roborock offers the most comprehensive app on the market. The Roborock app is designed to be user-friendly and intuitive. The main view shows the current map of the apartment, the area cleaned, the battery level and the cleaning duration. The map can be displayed and customized in 2D or 3D. Settings can be used to specify vacuuming and mopping, smart plans (independent alignment of cleaning sequences and more) and other individual processes. The app also offers many customization options, such as the direction of the floor being cleaned, the schedule, the language and volume of the robotic voice and the mopping interval.

Lidar navigation (light detection and ranging) ensures optimal recognition of the surroundings and the Roborock Qrevo Plus reliably covers every corner using precise route planning. Reactive Tech obstacle avoidance prevents collisions with furniture and larger objects. However, Roborock’s slim version does not come close to Eufy’s almost perfect obstacle detection in models such as the X10 Pro Omni (test report) or the S1 Pro (test report). Small objects such as cat toys are easily overlooked and possibly vacuumed, which is why the floor should be cleaned before cleaning. The Smart Plan function optimizes the cleaning mode and room sequence in the rooms stored in the app to ensure efficient cleaning. The robot did not get bogged down in the test; Roborock’s navigation is one of the best on the market.

Before the cleaning process, the Roborock Qrevo Plus draws fresh water from the station’s tank and uses it to fill its built-in water container. During cleaning, it regularly visits the station to clean the mop pads with 45-degree hot water. Compared to water at room temperature, this improves cleaning performance, leaving the rotating mop pads cleaner. The Qrevo MaxV (test report) uses 60-degree hot water for even better effectiveness. At the end of the cleaning cycle, the mops are rinsed again, the dirty water is collected in the appropriate container, and the robot’s dust container is vacuumed into the station’s dust bag. The mopping pads are then dried with hot air – this also improves hygiene and prevents odors from forming.

The station requires minimal maintenance: the trays on the floor of the dock should be washed regularly, the dust bags replaced when necessary, and the dirty water tank emptied and the fresh water tank refilled. The suction bags should last at least 6 weeks without any human intervention – this depends on the size of the cleaning area, the degree of dirt and the frequency of visits.

The Roborock Qrevo Plus works quite quietly. Whether vacuuming, mopping or cleaning – all processes are only moderately audible. Even at close range, the noise level is surprisingly low.

The Roborock Qrevo Plus first cleans the edges and then moves around the rest of the room in optimally selected paths. The laterally extendable mop ensures that corners and especially edges are thoroughly cleaned. The mop rotates at up to 200 revolutions per minute and cleans the floor precisely. A small side brush brings thick dirt from the edges to the center, where the anti-tangle rubber brush moves the dirt into the dust container. The result is an almost perfect cleaning. The side brush cannot fully reach corners using the extension function; this is reserved for higher-priced models.

The Roborock Qrevo Plus has floor detection that increases suction power on carpets (Carpet Boost+). It raises the mopping plates by up to 10 millimeters to avoid soaking carpets and carrying dirt from mopped rooms to already cleaned rooms.

The suction and wiping performance is almost identical to that of the Qrevo MaxV (test report) – an achievement, after all, both models are technically identical in many respects. Accordingly, the cleaning performance is excellent when vacuuming on hard floors; the 7000 Pa ensures really good results here, but also on carpets. This also applies to mopping. It works almost to the edge, but the robot extends the right mop by a few centimeters. The difference to the much more expensive models of the vacuum robot elite (best list) is actually not that big – great!

The Qrevo models are in the upper middle class, so prices are around 750 euros. The price of the Qrevo Plus, which falls between the Qrevo S and Qrevo Pro, had not yet been determined at the time of the article. The Qrevo MaxV (test report) is the top representative of the Qrevo series.

The Roborock Qrevo Plus meets the expectations of an upper mid-range vacuum robot brilliantly. It works efficiently and quietly and leaves a clean home. The all-in-one dock relieves the user of a lot of work and ensures that the robot vacuum cleaner is always clean and ready for use. The only drawback: the differences between the Qrevo models are often minor and difficult for the end customer to recognize. Apparently the manufacturer is trying to cover every price range…

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