roborock Q7 M5 Robot Vacuum and Mop Combo, 10,000Pa HyperForce Suction, Robotic Vacuum Cleaner, Dual Anti-Tangle System, APP-Controlled Mopping, LiDAR Navigation, for Pet Hair and Carpet, Black

I bought this vacuum for our vacation home which has about 70% hardwood floors and 30% carpet. I am not 100% tech-savvy, but I was able to get this charged and on a schedule. We had 3 dogs with us; two of which shed (1 golden retriever). I always hated the vacuuming and the mopping when I am on vacation. I set this schedule for 11 p.m. and every morning, the house floors looked great and the vacuum was full of dog hair and dirt, even though the two large dogs slept in the living area which was cleaned overnight I have not tried the mopping yet, as I am still in awe of the cleaning capability and the amount of dog hair it gets every evening. However, the mop is manual, in that you have to manually attach the mopping mechanism. I will try it next time we are at the vacation house. It also did not automatically unload the debris collected, but I think that is operator error. I am sure there is some button that I need to toggle to turn it on. I do think that it still requires some tech knowledge from the operator, which is a bit of a limiting factor for some folks, including me. If I can't get the mopping to work, or if it is not worth the hassle of manually adding it and removing it, then I would go with a model without the mopping capability. But for shear cleanliness and suction ability and ease of setting up to do the basic cleaning, this machine works great, especially with dog hair and the sand and debris that comes with the dog. I love getting a message in the morning that the vacuum has once again docked. It takes about 1.5 hours for it to clean the main floor - kitchen, living room, dining room, large hallway and bathroom. It easily goes from the hardwood floor to the carpet. I am very pleased.

If you’re upgrading from a Q5 Max+ or looking for strong suction performance without needing feature-heavy mopping automation, the Roborock Q7 M5+ is an excellent pick. It’s thoughtfully updated with serious suction, self-emptying convenience, and smart mapping—perfect for pet homes or those craving low-effort floor cleaning. Highly recommended.

For context, my house is a battlefield between white tiles and two animals who shed like crazy. It doesn't help that it often rains and gets muddy where we live, and I love cooking and baking, which creates all sorts of messes in the kitchen. This is an environment for a professional cleaning crew coming in every other day (or every other hour) rather than a $400 vacuum-mop combo. Perhaps I should not have expected this robot to leave my house sparkling clean. This model may be better suited for less demanding homes, but it still performs an acceptable job with everyday cleaning.Pros: very, very quiet compared to our old Roomba. Self-emptying dust bin function during vacuuming (very helpful with all the pet hair). No issues connecting to wifi (Roomba decided to be feral and never connected). Once my geriatric millennial mind figured out the app, dividing rooms, and different cycles, it was easy to use. It does a decent job when it comes to everyday cleaning.Cons: battery life -- at full charge, the robot will mop in the deep clean mode about 100m2 (1076 square feet). It also needs to be fully charged to vacuum the same surface in balance mode. This means I cannot vacuum and mop in one go. It's okay for mopping casual messes, but I still need to use Swiffer for any tougher stains. No alert that the water tank is empty.

We have this robot's dock in our kitchen, and off of the kitchen, 12 feet or so to the left of the dock, there is a step down into the family room. Even though the dock has been in the same location since we first unboxed this robot, and the robot knows it has not moved from the dock since it last "went home," the robot does an "establishing location" every time it leaves the dock for a new mission. More than half the time when it does this, it makes a beeline directly towards that family room step, and careens off of it. We've set up "no-go" zones, and an invisible wall, and everything else we can to make it avoid this hazard. As soon as it leaves the dock, it announces "establishing location", and proceeds to launch itself directly over the step. My wife has commented that we don't know why it's lost its will to live, as it certainly seems to attempt to self destruct regularly. I've had to rescue it from the bottom of the step so many times, emptying the dust bin on the cheap robot honestly feels like less work. When it does stop at the top of the step, and realizes it where it is, it announces "invisible wall or no-go zone detected. Please move robot." We'll take the robot back to the dock, restart it, and...there it goes again right off the step.Our other complaint is how buggy the phone app is. Often times we'll have to completely close out of the app and reopen it multiple times to get the control screen of the robot to load, and things like selecting 1 or 2 passes, or the vacuum level, requires you to swipe to a different screen and back to be able to adjust the settings. Modifying the map to add no-go zones, pops a box somewhere far off the screen, requiring you to zoom way out, find it, and carefully drag it to the location you'd like it. If you happen to accidentally tap outside of the box, the box locks, you're no longer able to edit it, so you must delete it and start over again. It's like playing the old Operation board game. The Tuya Smart app that the cheap robot uses always worked flawlessly. You also can't disable its tendency to try to "jump" obstacles. We have a stationary bouncer for our child, with a flanged outer ring on its base. The robot will run up on this ramp and get stuck. It will then back up and Dukes of Hazard itself over the ring into the inner space. Once there, it can't get out, due to the vertical inner edge of the ring, so it cries for help after moving around under the bouncer for 20 minutes, trying to find an exit. I've established no-go zones for this, but we tend to move the bouncer to different areas in the house, depending on what we're doing, so we're left with sections of floor that don't get swept, and a stuck robot.A firmware update to make the robot trust that the dock location, which is saved in the generated map, is valid until proven otherwise when leaving the dock would alleviate 99% of our frustration. The robot knows if it's been picked up or moved. Why it has to establish its location every single time a new "mission" is initiated, when it returns and leaves from a fixed point on the saved map every time makes zero sense. When my wife's frustration leads her to donate this to the local thrift store, we'll be looking at a different manufacturer than roborock.