Mova, a Dreame sub-brand, has released the V70 Ultra Complete, a robot vacuum with a reaching side brush and mop pad designed to get into areas normal robot vacuums simply can’t fit. This self-cleaning, self-emptying robot is available now from Mova’s website, as well as Amazon and other retailers for $1,300.
The V70 Ultra Complete seems like an amalgamation of a number of other robot vacuums that have come out in the last year or two, with some improvements. Its reaching mop pad is a similar idea to the roller mop or pad that slides out from beneath the Ecovacs Deebot X12 OmniCyclone or the Narwal Freo Z10 Turbo, respectively. But instead of just barely peeking out, the V70’s mop pad stretches 6.7 inches, almost totally clearing its body from the looks of images on Mova’s website. And its spinning side brush extends close to 5 inches, seemingly farther than the Dreame X60 Max Ultra Complete, the side brush of which sticks out far enough to get into corners but would still leave dust between chair legs. Both the mop pad and side brush are close to the figures Dreame gives for the X60 Pro Ultra Complete, which followed the Max model.
Using stumpy little legs tucked in by its wheels, the V70 Ultra Complete can also climb up to 3.5 inches high to mount things like short thresholds. Dreame’s X60 Max Ultra Complete and UltraRoller vac-bots can do the same. Of course, like both of Dreame’s products, the V70 Ultra Complete can’t do that in a single bound; rather, they’re each rated to climb two shorter step-ups in a row. Also like Dreame’s robots, the V70’s LiDAR sensor disc retracts into its body to help it get under low furniture. Like just about every spendy robot vacuums these days, the V70 Ultra Complete has a self-cleaning dock that empties the robot’s dustbin and cleans its mops, in this case with 212-degree Fahrenheit water. But this base has a bagless, cyclonic dustbin, a much rarer feature. I like not having to buy replacement dust bags every few weeks or months.
Lastly, Mova says the robot vacuum generates 42,000Pa of suction, which is… a lot. By comparison, the Eufy Omni E28 sucks at up to 20,000Pa, the X12 OmniCyclone reaches 22,000Pa, and the Dreame Aqua10 Ultra Roller can hit 30,000Pa. Don’t get too excited, though; suction isn’t everything when it comes to robot vacuums. I found that the Matic robot vacuum, which creates a piddly-seeming-by-comparison 3,200Pa, picks up more debris with its oversized roller brush. Also, I worry about too much suction damaging my rugs by yanking out their fibers.
All of the V70 Ultra Complete’s features create a sort of Voltron of modern robot vacuums, but the biggest question is how it will actually perform in an average home. I’ve found the priciest models can still struggle in the ever-morphing human home, where neatness is no guarantee. Some get easily clogged, others have very noisy self-emptying docks, and object avoidance can be a crapshoot, especially if you have lots of cables tucked behind furniture or even out in the open in your home. Given how especially disappointing I’ve found both of the Dreame robot vacuums I’ve tested to be, I’m leery that this robot that clearly shares a lot of its DNA with them will have the goods.
Still, the $1,300 Mova V70 Ultra Complete is priced well. (The X60 Max Ultra Complete and the Aqua10 Ultra Roller launched at $1,700 and $1,600, respectively.) Yet even $1,300 is a lot of cashola to plunk down if the thing can’t do its job well.