RELEASED 2024.09REASSESSED 2026.09.15

Roborock

Roborock Qrevo Slim

Name: Roborock Qrevo Slim
Brand: Roborock

The 8.2cm height fits under most furniture, unblocking homes no other self-emptying vacuum can clean. StarSight LiDAR is capable. But slim form trades capacity for fit.

Autonomy Ladder

Why Level IV.

One five-rung scale, every category, from acting only on command to working unsupervised anywhere.

VGeneralized AutonomyAny task, any setting. No consumer robot has reached it.
To reach Level VWorks across task types and environments it was never configured for.
IVEnvironmental AutonomyThis robot

Roborock Qrevo Slim sees ordinary obstacles before contact, copes without the space being cleared, and frees itself when stuck.

Navigation and control

StarSight solid-state LiDAR + camera + obstacle avoidance
Why this level
- TechRadar's multi-week test found it drove into every room and returned without being checked on, and when it briefly stuck on a raised threshold it freed itself by reversing and retrying.
- Trusted Reviews saw it skirt fake pet mess and cables left on the floor, using its camera and ToF sensors before contact.
- Notebookcheck noted narrow misses on a Lego brick and a thin cable.
Autonomy dimension 78 / 100 · 3 sources reviewed
IIIConditional AutonomyFinishes whole jobs in familiar spaces; struggles at the edges.
IIAssisted AutonomyRuns preset routines; stalls at anything new.
IManual AutomationOne action on command; no independent operation.

How we assign a level →

Behind the classification

Sources we reviewed.

Pending3 sources reviewed

Evidence is still being collected for this product.

Sources reviewed

Firmware release notes2 sourcesOngoing

Roborock publishes firmware releases and software notes through its support portal; reviewed on an ongoing basis.

Specification sources2 sourcesReviewed

Pages the published specifications were read from.

Monitoring record1 sourceReviewed

Sources behind the tracker entries following this robot.

Roborock Press ReleaseRoborock Press Release

Also monitored, nothing listed yet

Manufacturer documentationPending

Product specification sheet, StarSight LiDAR documentation, installation guide, and slim-form factor clearance guidelines.

Press & video reviewsPending

Third-party reviews of the slim form factor and StarSight LiDAR performance in furniture-dense environments.

Owner reportsOngoing

Reddit vacuum forums and product reviews documenting real-world furniture fit, tank capacity challenges, and navigation reliability.

Longitudinal signalOngoing

Firmware updates and reliability tracking since June 2024 launch.

How we evaluate evidence →

Human Readiness

Ready Now.

One question: what does buying this robot today walk you into? The state is computed from the record, and recomputed daily.

Ready NowThis robot

Roborock Qrevo Slim is on sale, assessed, and nothing on its record argues for waiting.
How this was derived
- Shipping past the first-90-day ownership window with a published assessment, no documented issues on record, and no announced successor.
Notes on the record
- Shipping globally since June 2024.
- Standard retail availability.
- Slim profile is the primary differentiation; core autonomy and reliability track the Qrevo S.
- Owner reports span 5+ months of field performance.
On the record
- Shipping since September 2024 · 24 months on the market
- Retail listings on file: Amazon, Manufacturer
- No successor announced
- 3 sources reviewed
What would move it
A documented problem, an announced successor, or a withdrawn listing moves it out; the rating recomputes daily.
New to MarketOn sale under 90 days; the ownership record is still forming.
WaitA successor is announced and has not shipped; re-read the decision when it arrives.
Known IssuesDocumented problems stand on the record; read the case before buying.

How we assess readiness →

Robovations Score

How this number was reached

78of 100

StrongAt or above 92% of the 436 robots we scoreand 87% of the 217 scored robot vacuums

DeficientLimitedCapableStrongExemplary

What moved itpoints gained or lost against a typical robot

Carried by

Support longevity88+2.6
Coverage and navigation94+2.4
Field failure rate85+2.4

Capability40% of the score76What it does without you.

Task completion16% of the score72

Evidence

Tech Advisor (Rachel Ogden, Foundry) finished a vinyl-floor run with "a line of oats that hadn't been picked up" plus missed flour, and found mopped areas "still felt sticky underfoot" once dry; Trusted Reviews needed the dedicated mopping mode plus two Deep Clean+ passes before a ketchup stain came up, so the machine covers the job but a person routinely finishes the harder soils.

Coverage and navigation10% of the score94

Evidence

StarSight solid-state LiDAR with camera fusion, multi-floor map support and scheduled runs without intervention, which is systematic coverage retained between runs. The 8.2 cm height is scored here rather than treated as a novelty: owner reports confirm reliable access to spaces standard vacuums cannot reach, which is coverage of floor area the category otherwise leaves permanently uncleaned. Held below the top by the runtime, since 110 minutes covers roughly 1,500 to 1,700 sqft and anything over 2,000 sqft needs two cycles a day.

Edge-case recovery10% of the score66

Evidence

Tech Advisor called it "particularly good at finding its way back to the dock", saying it always found the dock quickly and directly from wherever it was placed, but in the same test it "sucked up and became clogged with a small scrap of paper" and swallowed a large feather, both needing a human to clear it; The Ambient reported it fitted under a corner sofa "without getting stuck (a task that many other robots fail at)".

Operating envelope4% of the score75

Evidence

Trusted Reviews ran it on both hard floor and carpet, where two passes only "greatly reduced" the mess and a vacuum-only run at highest power was needed to finish, so carpet is the one documented degradation; TechRadar's unit mapped and auto-labeled a whole flat on its first exploratory drive and its low body let it work under furniture.

Dependability40% of the score82Whether it keeps doing it.

Field failure rate16% of the score85

Evidence

Roughly two years on sale since the June 2024 launch, with owner reporting on Reddit tracking real-world furniture fit, tank capacity and navigation reliability, and no recall or systemic defect on the line. Isolated failures without a pattern is the honest reading. A modest credit for the solid-state LiDAR, which is a substituted mechanism that still performs the mapping rather than an omitted subsystem, so removing the rotating turret's wear mode is an engineered gain rather than the vacuity rule 1 forbids paying for. Held at the isolated-failures anchor because the press-review channel is marked pending at two items.

Software stability14% of the score74

Evidence

Roborock publishes firmware releases and software notes through its support portal and the channel is live for this model across two years, with no regression pattern reported by owners. There is no independent analysis of what any update changed, so this asserts neither stability nor instability. A point above the ordinary case for the length of the channel rather than for anything demonstrated.

Support longevity10% of the score88

Evidence

Scored as commitments, and this is the machine's strongest input. Roborock publishes a software and security support policy, which is a dated update commitment rather than an implied one, and sells the wear parts first-party with intervals and prices: rotating pads at $25 to $30 a pair and a primary-plus-side brush kit at $20 to $25, both at three to six months. The model is current. It also carries Matter and HomeKit alongside Alexa and Google, so control survives through a standards layer Roborock does not solely control.

Ownership burden20% of the score74What it asks of you.

Routine maintenance12% of the score72

Evidence

Sits between the two bands because the dock does one half of the work. It washes the pads and refills the robot's tank mid-run, so the water side needs no attention during a cycle. The owner still empties the dust bin weekly in pet or high-debris homes because there is no auto-empty, swaps or washes the pads monthly, descales the water chamber monthly with the provided solution, and tops up the 4 L clean tank and empties the 3 L dirty tank, more often on larger homes where a mid-cycle refill is required.

Consumables8% of the score77

Evidence

(priced by the consumables engine): rotating mop pads at $25 to $30 a pair and a primary and side brush kit at $20 to $25, both every three to six months, plus descaling solution. Against a $1,399.99 machine that is 6 to 9 percent annually, a good ratio, though largely because the purchase price is high rather than because the parts are cheap. No credit is taken for the absence of dust bags, since that follows from the dock not emptying the robot.

middle half of the databaseits medianthis robot

Reported, not scoredneither measures how well the robot works

Five-year cost$1,950

Upper third for robot vacuums. $1,399.99 at list, roughly 75 percent above the Qrevo S, plus about $110 a year in rotating mop pads, brush kits and descaling solution. No subscription, and no feature is gated behind one. The premium buys the 8.2 cm chassis and StarSight solid-state LiDAR rather than dock automation, and the dock does not empty the robot, so there are no bag costs in the running figure.

Data postureCloud-linked

Account required. Maps and telemetry leave the home; core function survives an outage.

What leaves the homeNot documented

Read the full methodology →

FIT CHECK

Will the Roborock Qrevo Slim work in your home?

Describe your home using the controls. Each choice reads the spec sheet for you, flagging where the Roborock Qrevo Slim is built for your space and where it isn’t.

Home size

Primary floors

Mopping needs

You want to…

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A classification of fit for the conditions you set, not a recommendation. Verdicts describe engineering design intent, not test results.

SPECIFICATION

The full spec sheet.

Priced above the category median, with every figure charted against the category below.

Dimensional drawing

Key specificationsManufacturer-published

Footprint: 13.39 in dia · 3.23 in tall•
Weight: 9 lbs•
Battery: 64 Wh · Li-ion
Wi-Fi: 2.4 GHz only✓
Voice: Matter, Apple HomeKit, Alexa, Google Home✓
Onboard dustbin: 220 mL•
Water tank capacity: 72 mL•
Dust bag capacity: 2.7 L✓
Mop lift: 10 mm•
Dock type: Auto-empty, mop washing

Where it lands · ranked across 243 robot vacuumsThis robotMedianTypical range

Suction11,000Pamax mode

1,000 Pa42,000 Pa

Near median

Runtime180min

60 min360 min

Near median

Price$1,399

$160$2,599

Above median

Noise66dB

43 dB80 dB

Near median

Charge time180min

90 min420 min

Near median

Weight9lbs

3.6 lbs25 lbs

Near median

Position shows where the figure sits across the tracked category, not a quality judgment. Suction in Pascals has no standard test method, and the published figure is a peak-mode claim, so it is comparable only within a brand and generation.

Official referencesManufacturer support Product page

OWNERSHIP

Living with it.

Solid-state LiDAR shows no mechanical failure patterns. Form-factor engineering is sound after 5+ months of field reports.

Owner reports document stable performance across compact homes. No durability concerns specific to the slim design. Motor and sensor performance track the Qrevo S baseline.

Owner effort~1.7 hrshands-on per month

Consumables$22replaceable parts / yr

Reliability trend Stableowner-reported arc

What goes wrong · not yet documented independently

The independent record is still forming. Failure modes are listed once an outside source reports them.

Upkeep routine

Weekly52×/yr

Empty dust bin on pet-hair or high-debris homes; clear wheel debris.

Monthly12×/yr

Swap or wash mop pads; descale water chamber with provided solution.

Seasonal4×/yr

Replace rotating mop pads (~$25-30 OEM per pair on pet homes). · Replace primary brush and side brush (~$20-25 for kit).

As neededno fixed schedule

Top up the dock's 4 L clean-water tank and empty the dirty-water tank. The Multifunctional Dock 3.0 refills the robot's onboard tank during a run, so there is no mid-cycle handling.

Cost over time · past the sticker

PurchaseRunning cost

Year 1

$1,421

Year 3

$1,465

Year 5

$1,509

$1,399 to buy, then about $22 a year for the replaceable parts below. Over three years that is roughly $66 past the sticker price. Excludes electricity and any repairs.

What you replace

Mop pad
Brush

Replacement cadence from the maintenance schedule; prices shown where the source documents them.

Safety notes

CautionTight furniture clearance risk: At exactly 8.2cm height, the robot may catch on low-clearance furniture. Measure clearance before deployment.

NoteHot water in dock wash cycle: Dock heats water to 113°F. Avoid touching mop pads or dock chamber immediately after wash.

RECORD

How the assessment has moved.

Every announcement, release and reassessment behind the current classification.

Coming soon

Just launched

Active updates

Settled

Discontinued

Sep 2026 · AssessmentAutonomy Ladder reclassified III → IV
Sep 2026 · AssessmentRecord status: Provisional → Pending
Aug 2026 · AssessmentRecord status: Pending → Provisional
Aug 2026 · AssessmentRecord status: Verified → Pending
Aug 2026 · AssessmentRobovations Score revised 80 → 78
Aug 2026 · AssessmentRobovations Score rescored under v4.2: 77 → 80
Aug 2026 · AssessmentRobovations Score rescored under v4.0: 72 → 77
Jul 2026 · AssessmentRobovations Score revised 70 → 72
Jul 2026 · AssessmentRobovations Score recorded at 70 of 100
Jun 2025 · NewsRoborock expands Qrevo Slim availability to additional retail channels
Sep 2024 · ReleaseLaunches at IFA 2024 with StarSight solid-state LiDAR

Editorial comparisons

How Roborock Qrevo Slim compares.

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Common questions

What people actually ask.

5 answered

ComparisonHow does StarSight solid-state LiDAR compare to rotating-laser LiDAR?

StarSight is a solid-state design with no moving parts, reducing mechanical failure risk. Mapping accuracy is equivalent to rotating LiDAR per manufacturer specs and owner reports. The trade-off is no measurable range advantage; the navigation type does not set the Autonomy Ladder level on its own.

OperationDoes the Qrevo Slim fit under my bed if it is 8 inches off the ground?

Yes. The robot is 8.2cm (3.23 inches) tall, so an 8 inch (20.3cm) gap leaves roughly 12cm of clearance. Measure the lowest point of the frame rather than the mattress edge, since bed rails and center supports usually sit lower than the visible line.

OperationHow long can the Qrevo Slim run on a single charge?

Max runtime is 110 minutes in default mode, which covers roughly 1,500-1,700 sqft depending on floor type and furniture density. Homes larger than 2,000 sqft typically require two cycles per day.

OperationDoes the slim design reduce suction power?

No. Suction is rated at 11,000 Pa, above both the Qrevo S at 7,000 Pa and the Qrevo Master at 10,000 Pa. The slim form affects tank capacity and height, not motor performance.

OperationWhat is the water tank capacity in the Slim's dock?

The dock holds 4 liters clean water and 3 liters wastewater. Runtime on a single tank fill is roughly 1,500 sqft. Larger homes need mid-cycle refilling on the free-standing dock unit.

Availability

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Roborock Qrevo Slim

Will the Roborock Qrevo Slim work in your home?

The full spec sheet.

Living with it.

How the assessment has moved.

How Roborock Qrevo Slim compares.

Self-washing vs charge-only robot vacuum docks: what changes?

Slim and low-profile robot vacuums: cleaning under furniture without losing the dock

What people actually ask.

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Where it's sold

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