I let Roborock's first self-cleaning roller mop vacuum clean my hardwood floors, and it delivered

Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow

ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• The Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow is present disposable with an introductory connection of $849, and regularly priced astatine $999.
• This robot vacuum and mop features the champion mopping I've experienced from Roborock, 20,000Pa of suction power, and the company's signature dual roller brushes.
• The Qrevo Curv 2 Flow is built for mostly hard floors, particularly hardwood.

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My favourite diagnostic connected a robot vacuum is hands-down the roller mop. I bought my archetypal Roborock 7 years ago, and its microfiber mop pad was a game-changer for maine arsenic a engaged ma with a toddler and baby, adjacent if I had to lavation it a mates of times during a cleaning session. 

Little did I cognize that I'd trial Roborock's archetypal roller mop robot astir a decennary later.

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I've been investigating the Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow for the past month, which introduces the SpiralFlow mopping diagnostic to the market. This robot vacuum and mop performs similar a flagship device, with 20,000Pa of suction, a self-washing roller mop, and adjacent a shield that covers the mop erstwhile the robot goes implicit carpet. 

If you've utilized vacuum-and-mop operation robots, you're acquainted with the mop feature's shortcomings. This is existent whether they person a azygous mop pad, rotating pads, oregon self-washing features. Aside from the hands-free dock, the roller mop has been the biggest innovation successful the robot vacuum marketplace successful caller years, making a immense quality successful robot performance.

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The Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow, however, has a roller mop that continuously sprays cleanable h2o from a h2o vessel wrong the robot. At the aforesaid time, a scraper cleans the roller to region soiled water, which is past kept successful a abstracted wastewater vessel successful the robot.

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This isn't the archetypal roller mop connected the marketplace -- I've been investigating this benignant of mop since 2024. But the Qrevo Curv 2 Flow is Roborock's archetypal dive into the roller mop system, and it's a bully one. As a person successful the robot vacuum market, this is simply a beardown hint that Roborock is keeping up with the times, dissimilar different brands. 

After witnessing iRobot's demise, mostly attributed to its nonaccomplishment to support its hardware competitive, it's large to spot different brands keeping up with innovation. While Roborock has been a ascendant unit successful the robot vacuum marketplace successful caller years, companies similar Ecovacs, Dreame, and Eufy person been trendsetters. 

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While I was investigating the Eufy S1 Pro Omni with a roller mop successful 2024, Roborock didn't adjacent adhd rotating mop pads to its flagship robot until the Saros 10R successful 2025, alternatively keeping its vibrating mop pad. This was adjacent if the Qrevo bid has featured rotating mop pads for a mates of years. 

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Don't get maine incorrect -- Roborock is 1 of the biggest innovators connected the market. It's the institution that brought america the Saros Z70's mechanical limb and the Saros Rover's limb architecture, aft all. After investigating the Curv 2 Flow, however, I get the content that Roborock doesn't support up with the Joneses conscionable for the involvement of it. Instead, it lone releases a marketplace inclination erstwhile it's perfected it.

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The Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow's mop roller is 1 of the champion -- if not the best-- I've tested truthful far. It features 15N of downward pressure, which is implicit 3lbs to region spills and stains; the aforesaid arsenic the caller Eufy Omni S2. The Curv 2's roller mop is besides 1cm longer than the caller Ecovacs Deebot X12, which was just announced astatine CES 2026. 

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Sending the robot retired to vacuum and mop my location resulted successful immoderate of the cleanest hardwood floors I've seen a robot permission behind. My canine sheds a ton, but the robot didn't person issues tackling his fur. Pet hairsbreadth is easy removed with the dual brushwood rollers and beardown suction, adjacent connected rugs. And I loved that alternatively of conscionable lifting the mop, the robot besides automatically covers it erstwhile it goes implicit carpet to support it dry.

I tested the robot to cleanable up bedewed spills by sending it retired to mop only, and I was gladsome to spot it grip everything I enactment down -- literally. I tried the usual: soy condiment and coffee, past stepped it up with beverage and juice, yet the robot ne'er near down anything, not adjacent sticky residue aft the level dried. 

ZDNET's buying advice

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Thanks to its top-performing roller mop, I'd urge the Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow for homes with mostly hard floors, whether it's hardwood, tile, oregon vinyl plank. Its beardown suction power, dual roller brushes, and obstacle avoidance marque it a bully campaigner for homes with pets, portion its mopping features and cleaning powerfulness marque it cleanable for homes with kids. 

Priced astatine $999, the Curv 2 Flow isn't the astir affordable robot, but it's surely not flagship-priced, which would beryllium person to the $1,500 mark. But for what it achieves. I'd urge it to anyone who's superior astir getting their floors cleaned by a robot.