I once read a book titled “All the Dust That Falls.”
The protagonist, Spot, is a robotic vacuum with an extendable mechanical arm. After being accidentally summoned to a magical world, this arm helps it overcome challenges, adding a touch of magical realism.
Unexpectedly, a robotic vacuum equipped with a mechanical arm has arrived sooner than anticipated.
During CES 2025, Roborock held a global launch event to introduce their latest flagship robotic vacuum, the G30 Space. Its standout feature is the OmniGrip, a five-axis foldable bionic mechanical arm.
The OmniGrip arm is embedded on the top of the device and can unfold, extend, and bend both horizontally and vertically during operation. It can flexibly pick up items from various angles, helping the robot clear obstacles and improve cleaning efficiency.
While cleaning up debris on the floor sounds simple, for a robot, it requires a comprehensive system to achieve. G30 Space is equipped with a 3D ToF sensor and an RGB camera, which work together to identify the vacuum cleaner’s path and collect visual data from the sensors.
When the camera captures objects on the floor, the vacuum cleaner needs to recognize these objects to calculate the optimal grasping position for the OmniGrip robotic arm and store them in a designated area.
With the visual model trained by Roborock, the G30 Space vacuum cleaner can recognize over 100 common household items. Users can also customize and add items in the app, allowing the G30 Space to learn and recognize them through images, preventing mishandling.
In addition to the robotic arm, the G30 Space enhances its obstacle avoidance capabilities from flat surfaces to spatial environments with the support of the StarSight Roborock Navigation 3.0 system. When it detects that it is about to enter a narrow area, it will retract the LDS at the rear of the body, reducing the overall thickness to 7.98 cm, further cleaning hard-to-reach places like under the sofa.
As a flagship product, the Roborock G30 Space is also equipped with a chassis lift function, allowing it to overcome obstacles up to 4 cm high, adapting to thresholds, sliding door tracks, and shallow recessed designs in home environments.
Additionally, the vacuum cleaner features 22000Pa suction power, dual rotating mops, and an anti-tangle roller brush, aiming to maintain higher cleanliness for hair and other easily tangled items. It also has a strong vibration pressurized hot mop function at the mop position, applying 8N of downward pressure and maintaining a high-frequency vibration of 4000 times per minute, improving the efficiency of cleaning stubborn stains.
Along with the G30 Space, there is a corresponding all-in-one base station. After the vacuum cleaner stops working, the base station supports automatic dustbin emptying, water tank refilling, mop cleaning, hot air drying, and sterilization, further reducing the frequency of manual intervention and advancing the intelligence of cleaning robots.
In addition to the G30 Space, there is also the G30 in the same series. The G30 does not come with the OmniGrip five-axis folding bionic mechanical hand, but other specifications are the same as the G30 Space.
At the global launch event by Roborock, the G30 Space was also showcased at CES 2025. In just two days, the event has already featured various forms of robotic vacuum cleaners.
Besides the Dreame model with two “legs” introduced yesterday and today’s Roborock model equipped with a mechanical arm, there are other vacuum cleaners worth noting.
Another Chinese company, Ecovacs, chose a different approach by not making significant changes in form. Instead, they replaced the traditional lifting round mop with a roller mop. It aims for better cleaning performance with 4000Pa pressure and 200 rotations per minute. Anker’s smart home sub-brand, Eufy, although not equipped with a mop, features a modular design that allows the motor, dustbin, and battery unit to be detached and replaced with other cleaning accessories. This can transform it into a handheld vacuum cleaner with 30000Pa suction, making it a versatile product.
It can be said that at this year’s CES, attention has once again focused on the robotic vacuum market, which is beginning to show divergence in form.
These diverse innovations, whether mechanical arms or multi-form designs, are attempts to find the “best solution for robotic vacuums.” The ultimate goal is simple—to make household chores easier. Although this process seems to be just beginning, it doesn’t mean that the various robotic vacuums at this stage are meaningless. A wide range of products always provides consumers with more choices.
As for who will be the first to find the answer and become the ultimate winner, only time will tell.
Source from ifanr
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