A robot vacuum’s 42,000 Pa suction rating didn’t survive two carpet tests
Two reviews tested the same $1,299 robot vacuum on carpet this week, using different methods, and both found pickup fell short of its rated 42,000 Pa suction.
The MOVA V70 Ultra Complete carries a rated 42,000 Pa of suction, one of the highest figures published on a robot vacuum sold in 2026, and lists for $1,299 on the maker’s own site. Two independent reviews ran it over carpet this week, by different routes, and reached the same place: the number on the box did not hold.
One review scattered oats, tea leaves, chia seeds and freeze-dried berries across a mid-pile carpet and ran two passes on the robot’s second-highest suction setting. The debris stayed in the fibers, and switching to the single highest setting only cleared most of it.
The mixture of pantry essentials, however, still remained and I needed to use my Dyson V15 Detect to clean up the leftovers.
A second, separately run test measured pickup by weight rather than by eye. On hardwood the V70 recovered 93 percent of a sample of chia seeds and 84 percent of a sample of hair. On carpet those figures fell to 36.5 percent and 54 percent, with seeds working into the fibers rather than lifting free.
The two accounts disagree on navigation. One found its obstacle avoidance strong, recognizing up to 300 objects, yet needing two or three tries to dock on every run. The other clocked mapping at about fifteen minutes, slower than other robots on the same floor, and saw it flag furniture that was not there.
Both reviews remarked on the air the robot pushes out as it runs. One measured it under 66 decibels at maximum suction, quieter than the roughly 80 of other robots it tested. The other, while praising the hard-floor pickup, found the exhaust stream annoying at close range.
The V70 Ultra Complete is on sale now, at $1,099 on Amazon or $1,299 directly from MOVA. Both reviews tested the version currently shipping, the same hardware and firmware you would receive if you bought one today.
Both tests ran on mid-pile carpet. Neither published a low-pile or looped-weave result, so that 36.5 percent describes mid-pile only, and whatever carpet is in your home went untested.
So what does a 42,000 Pa rating describe once the nozzle meets carpet? Neither review pins that down. The motor may lose pressure as the nozzle seals against the pile, or the brush roll may fail to free debris before the nozzle reaches it, and no published test separates the two.
