Roborock has gone rather large at IFA 2026, unveiling new flagship robot vacuums, wet-dry cleaners, a robotic lawn mower and its first-ever robotic pool cleaner.
But if there is one machine likely to stop people walking past the Roborock booth in Berlin, it’s probably the Saros Rover.
First shown globally at CES, the wonderfully strange wheel-legged robot vacuum is making its European debut at IFA and is designed to do something conventional robot vacuums simply can’t: clean stairs and move between different floors of your home.
Meanwhile, Australians have something rather more imminent to look forward to.
Roborock is entering pool cleaning with the new RockAqua P1, and Australia and New Zealand will be the first markets in the world to get it, with launch scheduled for January 2027.
Roborock Saros Rover wants to climb your stairs
Robot vacuums have become very good at navigating around furniture, avoiding obstacles and crossing increasingly ridiculous thresholds.
Stairs remain something of an immovable object.
The Roborock Saros Rover is Roborock’s answer.
Rather than simply sitting on wheels, Rover uses what Roborock describes as the world’s first wheel-leg architecture for a robot vacuum.
Its legs can raise and lower independently, allowing the robot to adjust its height, negotiate slopes and obstacles and even perform small jumps.
More importantly, Roborock says it can climb and clean staircases one step at a time, allowing it to move between different levels of a home rather than living its entire robotic existence trapped on one floor.
The system combines motion sensors with 3D spatial data to understand its environment and coordinate the robot’s movement.
It remains very much a showcase of where Roborock thinks autonomous home robotics is heading rather than something Australians can run out and buy tomorrow.
Roborock hasn’t announced local pricing or availability for the Saros Rover.
But if it ultimately does what Roborock is promising, solving stairs would remove one of the biggest remaining limitations of robot vacuum cleaners.
Roborock RockAqua P1 takes the robots underwater
Roborock is also moving into an entirely new cleaning category with the RockAqua P1.
And this one is coming to Australia.
The RockAqua P1 is Roborock’s first robotic pool cleaner and has been designed to clean the pool floor, walls, waterline and shallow platforms down to around 15cm.
Pool geometry can be considerably more complicated than the nice rectangular diagrams you see in brochures, so Roborock has equipped the P1 with adaptive navigation and vision-based obstacle avoidance.
Its camera system can identify features such as drain covers, stairs and other obstacles while ClearVision Smart Patrol Cleaning identifies dirtier areas and prioritises them rather than repeatedly cleaning sections that don’t need attention.
Cleaning power comes from 6,800 GPH, or approximately 25,738 litres per hour, of suction, with debris collected inside a 4-litre basket.
Dual filtration uses 180μm and 70μm filters, allowing it to collect larger leaves as well as finer debris and sand.
Interestingly, its suction doesn’t simply run flat out all the time.
Roborock says the P1 can reduce suction around larger debris to prevent water movement pushing that dirt away, then ramp the power back up as it approaches.
Runtime is rated at up to 3.5 hours when cleaning the pool floor.
Retrieval also appears to have received some thought.
When cleaning finishes, or the battery reaches a critical level, the RockAqua P1 automatically returns to the waterline and waits to be collected.
A quick water-release system drains the robot as you lift it from the pool, while the Roborock app can be used to check its status and configure cleaning routines.
The Roborock RockAqua P1 will launch first in Australia and New Zealand in January 2027, although exact timing, retailers and pricing are still to be announced.
Saros 20 Flow gets 36,000Pa suction and a self-cleaning roller mop
Back on dry land, the Roborock Saros 20 Flow becomes one of the company’s new flagship robot vacuums.
It packs a substantial 36,000Pa of suction and uses Roborock’s RetractSense LiDAR navigation combined with Reactive AI.
Roborock says the system can recognise more than 300 different types of obstacles, working in both bright and dark environments.
Despite everything squeezed inside it, the Saros 20 Flow stands just 8.98cm high, which Roborock claims makes it the slimmest roller-style robot vacuum currently available.
Its upgraded AdaptiLift Traverse 3.0 chassis is also capable of negotiating double-layer thresholds up to 8.8cm high.
That is a potentially much more useful development than another headline suction figure if your robot regularly becomes stranded between rooms.
Mopping comes courtesy of Roborock’s new SpiraFlow 2.0 Self-Cleaning Mop system.
Rather than twin spinning pads, it uses a roller mop operating at 240rpm with 15N of downward pressure.
Sixteen pressurised water outlets continually feed the roller while cleaning.
The Saros 20 Flow also gets dual lifting arc side brushes, with Roborock claiming 100 per cent edge sweeping coverage.
Once it gets back to the dock, the automation continues.
The dock washes the mop with 100°C pressurised hot water and automatically dispenses detergent, reducing how frequently you’ll need to get involved yourself.
The Roborock Saros 20 Flow will cost $2,799 in Australia, with availability expected from late September or early October 2026.
Qrevo Edge 3 Pro gets serious about thresholds
The Roborock Qrevo Edge 3 Pro shares that enormous 36,000Pa HyperForce suction figure but takes a slightly different approach.
Roborock is pitching it particularly at more complicated home layouts.
Its AdaptiLift Chassis 3.0 can once again tackle double-layer thresholds of up to 8.8cm, while the robot itself can squeeze beneath furniture with clearance as low as 7.95cm.
A Dual Anti-Tangle System is designed to keep long hair and pet hair from wrapping around the cleaning hardware.
For mopping, the Qrevo Edge 3 Pro uses warm water and applies up to 14N of downward pressure to the floor.
Its dock subsequently washes the mops at 100°C.
Battery life is another highlight, with Roborock claiming the Qrevo Edge 3 Pro can clean nearly 350m² on a single run.
The Roborock Qrevo Edge 3 Pro will arrive in Australia from mid-to-late September for $2,799.
Both the Qrevo Edge 3 Pro and Saros 20 Flow have also received Allergy Friendly certification from the European Centre for Allergy Research Foundation, along with selected products in Roborock’s F25 range.
Roborock gets Allergy Friendly certification
There is also some independent recognition behind Roborock’s latest cleaning hardware.
Both the Qrevo Edge 3 Pro and Roborock Saros 20 Flow have received Allergy Friendly certification from the European Centre for Allergy Research Foundation (ECARF), along with selected products in the Roborock’s F25 range. [Updated 5/9/2026]
ECARF is a non-profit organisation that assesses products against scientific criteria designed to determine their suitability for people with allergies. Its certification program includes testing around allergen removal and reducing exposure to substances that may trigger allergic reactions.
For Roborock, it’s a useful distinction given how much of the pitch around increasingly autonomous cleaning is not simply about getting visible dirt off the floor, but maintaining a cleaner home environment with less intervention from the people living in it.
Roborock RockNeo Q2 LiDAR heads into the garden
Roborock’s outdoor ambitions aren’t limited to the swimming pool.
The company has also unveiled the RockNeo Q2 LiDAR, another robotic mower joining its rapidly expanding lawn care range.
Unlike older robotic mower systems, it doesn’t require perimeter wires or an external RTK positioning station.
Instead, Roborock’s Sentisphere LiDAR maps the garden and allows the mower to navigate autonomously.
It can handle slopes of up to 45 per cent and passages as narrow as 60cm.
A three-blade cutting system tackles the lawn itself, while Roborock claims edge cutting to within approximately 3cm, depending on the physical lawn boundary and software behaviour.
Different lawn zones and mowing routines can be configured through the Roborock app.
The charging station incorporates a Wi-Fi amplifier to improve connectivity out in the garden, while the mower carries an IPX6 water-resistance rating and supports Alexa and Google Home.
Australian pricing and launch timing haven’t been announced for the RockNeo Q2 LiDAR.
It comes as Roborock begins a much broader push into Australian lawn care, with its existing RockMow and other robotic mower ranges now heading into Bunnings.
F25 Ultra Steam Gen 2 turns up the heat
For people still willing to push their own floor cleaner around, there’s also the new Roborock F25 Ultra Steam Gen 2.
Its Turbo Steam Mode produces up to 2.5 times more steam than the previous generation, according to Roborock.
After a roughly 30-second warm-up, it can output steam at up to 180°C, designed to loosen dried-on and greasy messes before they’re lifted from the floor.
The machine automatically adjusts its cleaning performance depending on floor conditions, while its flat body lets it get underneath lower furniture.
A SensEdge Robotic Arm adjusts as you clean to get right alongside walls, with Roborock claiming 0mm triple-edge cleaning.
Once you’re finished, the machine automatically washes and dries its own cleaning components.
The F25 Ultra Steam Gen 2 will arrive in Australia in October for $1,599.
Roborock clearly doesn’t want to be known only for robot vacuums
There is a fairly obvious theme running through Roborock’s IFA announcements.
The company isn’t content simply building another robot vacuum with slightly more suction than last year’s model.
Robot vacuums remain at the centre of the business, but Roborock is steadily pushing its navigation, mapping and automation technology into the rest of the home.
We’ve now got machines that vacuum and mop floors, wet-dry cleaners, lawn mowers, a pool cleaner and an experimental robot that can climb the bloody stairs.
Some of those ideas are considerably closer to becoming everyday products than others.
The Qrevo Edge 3 Pro arrives from mid-to-late September for $2,799, followed by the Saros 20 Flow in late September or early October for the same price.
The F25 Ultra Steam Gen 2 arrives in October for $1,599.
Then in January 2027, Australia and New Zealand will become the first markets to receive the RockAqua P1.
Pricing for the pool cleaner, along with local availability for the RockNeo Q2 LiDAR and Saros Rover, remains to be announced.
The days when the robot vacuum’s biggest challenge was finding its way back to the charging dock suddenly seem rather quaint.
