DJI’s Romo P2 robot vacuum goes on sale in South Korea, without the privacy mode it promised
The Romo P2 is now sold directly in a third major market. The privacy feature DJI announced at its global launch in September still has not shipped.
DJI’s Romo P2 robot vacuum went on sale in South Korea on October 28, 2026. A water tank version starts at 1.84 million won, roughly $1,300; a direct drainage version with DJI’s slimmer self-emptying dock starts at 2.09 million won, about $1,500, according to Korean retail reporting. DJI sells both through its own store and Naver, with a two-year warranty.
The Romo P2 is the flagship of DJI’s second Romo generation, which first launched globally on September 3, 2026. DJI rates its peak suction at 36,000 pascals, up from the first Romo’s 25,000. A German hands-on review of the new model called that jump “considerably less dramatic” in daily use, because the earlier generation already cleaned hard floors and carpet well.
DJI says front and side LiDAR sensors let the Romo P2 spot objects as thin as 2 millimeters, including cables, pet waste pads and glass. A French hands-on review in October found it rarely got stuck. A German one confirmed it reliably caught light-colored cables, but needed a manually drawn no-go zone around a wall-mounted toilet, whose sloped base confused the sensor.
Both reviews credited DJI’s 123-degree swinging mop arm as the generation’s biggest improvement, reaching 7.8 centimeters further and 4.5 centimeters deeper under furniture than the first Romo.
DJI also advertises the Romo P2 climbing a single 4-centimeter step, or two stacked steps up to 8.5 centimeters. The French review confirmed steps “higher than 4 cm,” though it noted few homes have an 8.5-centimeter threshold to test the claim against.
South Korea is the newest of several markets now selling the Romo P2 directly to owners, after China in May and the United States and Europe in September. DJI has not said whether its direct drainage dock will reach every market the robot sells in, or when.
DJI promised a Local Data Mode at the same September launch. The company says it will cut the Romo app’s connection to the internet, so no photo or video the robot records reaches DJI’s servers, with the camera and microphone disabled on request. One report tied the feature to the Federal Communications Commission’s new limits on foreign-made robotic devices.
Nearly two months later, on the day the robot reached a third market, DJI still has not shipped the firmware the mode requires. Neither review tested it, because neither reviewer could.
