The Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Pro offers you a new friend to roam around your house and delivers powerful, adaptive and thorough cleaning across both carpet and hard flooring. It vacuums, it mops, it avoids obstacles and climbs stairs (to a point). It’s slim, nimble and slick, and its hygienic dock handles everything from emptying dust to washing and drying the mop.
Before this cleaner, I was using a Roomba j7+, but it was severely limited for my home layout. To access most of the house from the laundry and back lobby, there’s a 4cm step into the kitchen and then a 1cm step into the dining. As such, the Roomba had to live in the spare bedroom and couldn’t help with the kitchen or back lobby, leaving it only useful for the bedrooms and main living area. Having lived with Rocky for the last 4-6 weeks, how am I finding life? And are my floors clean?
Features of the Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Pro
The latest offering from Roborock is a beast of a robot vacuum cleaner, or robovac, and advertises plenty of impressive features. A few highlights before I get into the review: 25,000 Pa suction, dual spinning mops that hit 200RPM and detach and lift to keep carpets dry, a FlexiArm Arc side brush to get right into corners and edges, and a 7.98cm ultra‑slim design. The multifunction dock acts as a charging station, houses disposable vacuum bags, washes the mop pads with 100°C hot water, dries it to prevent odours and mould, dispenses detergent, and looks pretty clean to boot. The robovac also has an adaptable lift chassis, which I’ll get into later.
With a 6400mAh battery, you can get around 290 minutes of runtime in quiet mode, and it takes roughly four hours to recharge. At 63dB in balanced mode, it’s reasonably quiet — not much louder than a normal conversation — though it can get a little louder on max suction. For basic cleaning, though, you won’t need to turn the TV up or worry about disturbing neighbours if you send it out at midnight. The below video is the vacuum in “Quiet” mode; the iPhone video has amped the volume a bit, because, well, I find it pretty quiet in person!
Roborock also advertises that it can “cross thresholds up to 4cm, including a 3cm threshold plus an additional 1cm track on top for double‑layer thresholds, or up to 3cm for single‑layer thresholds.”
Naturally, it’s packed with smarts too: LiDAR, cameras, AI and a very slick app.
But enough of that. Let’s get into it.
First Impressions: Lifting the Box
First thing’s first, and it cannot be ignored.
If there’s an elephant in the room, it’s the Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Pro itself. This sucker (excuse the pun) is heavy.
HEAVY.
When it was delivered, it was left safely in my garage as I was out of town. The next day, carrying it inside, I genuinely almost did my back in getting it up the stairs. This is a two‑person lift. Don’t muck around with that.
Individually, the components are manageable. The dock has some heft, but isn’t too bad (unless the water tanks are full, but you can lift them out). The vacuum, Rocky, itself is surprisingly stocky for its short stature. Add the very secure, solid cardboard packaging and the whole thing is not light. Just exercise some care.
Initial Setup
Pulling everything out of the box, things were taped and covered where they needed to be. The white finish (the only colour available) looks clean and sharp; I do wish it came in black as it’d be easier to hide in some spaces, but the white still looks good and it currently lives in my laundry.
Setup was straightforward. The robot came with brushes and mop pads already attached, and a disposable dust bag already installed in the dock. The dock required the only bit of DIY: find a good location with some clearance, attach the dock base (the ramp), plug in the power cord, fill the clean water tank, add detergent, and turn it on.
I plugged it in, and away I went.
After installing the Roborock app on my iPhone, I tapped “Add device,” scanned the QR code under the robot’s top cover, and followed the prompts. It was extremely easy. So easy, I disconnected everything and did it again because I thought I must have missed something.
I had not.
The First Mapping Pass Experience
Rocky lives in my laundry. From there, it goes down a tiny step into the back lobby before climbing a step into the kitchen. That step is 4.5cm tall.
I knew there was no chance it would make it without help, but I tried anyway.
On the first pass, it stopped at the step. It didn’t even attempt it. It knew it was too high and backed away.
The Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Pro handles changes in floor levels well, but 4.5cm is a step, not a threshold. Not as bad as the 20cm step into my office, but still.
So, a quick trip to Bunnings for a heavy rubber mat, some creative knife work to square it up to the step, and I was ready to go again.
The Real First Mapping Pass by the Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Pro
I cleared the floor (chairs on the table, laundry basket shifted, slippers picked up), drew the curtains and turned on lights. Then, via the app, I sent Rocky on its first real discovery mission.
Unlike my Roomba j7+, which bumped its way around to find room boundaries, the Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Pro expertly navigated itself. Using its camera and LiDAR, it worked its way through each room, poking into nooks and crannies. It even made a decent attempt at identifying each room type in the app.
Was the first pass perfect? Nope.
But it was impressive, borderline scary, how it identified the kitchen and bedrooms. It mapped flooring types (carpet, tile, boards), room edges, and even pantry cupboards. It spied through glass doors and mapped the outside area, and from the top of the step it identified the office.
Each run updates the map, identifying furniture and adding detail as it learns.
Map editing is easy. I’ve marked no‑go zones, such as an area in the spare room where I have boxes stashed, beside the couch (where I sometimes leave a drink bottle), and near dark cables (more on that later). I also marked the bathroom as a no‑go zone because I clean that myself.
The map editing can be done at any point. A fun example: after a few weeks, I left my wardrobe doors open. Rocky wandered in and vacuumed. Next time, with the mirrored doors closed, it was utterly confused, trying repeatedly to access from the bedroom and lounge. By editing the map, marking it as a no‑go zone, it’s been flawless ever since.
Reactive AI Obstacle Recognition and Vertibeam Lateral Obstacle Avoidance: Success and Failure
Before I get into how it cleans, let’s talk about one of its big selling points. Obstacle recognition and avoidance.
For the most part, Rocky does a great job with and around obstacles.
The Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Pro uses a popup “RetractSense” LiDAR device to aid in its navigation around your house. Between this and its cameras, it remaps constantly. It identifies things on every run it does. As mentioned before, it will identify room types and the kind of flooring, spot furniture and skirting boards, and adjust its cleaning style along the way. With its FlexiArm Arc Side Brush, it sweeps debris into its path, even tight along edges and into corners, to vacuum up.
As for more actual obstacles, I’ve seen it skilfully duck and weave around shoes, chairs, table legs, my clothes hoist, and even me.
But it’s not flawless.
Its biggest weakness is when things ‘blend’ in with the flooring, like dark objects on my dark floors. I mean, I’m not surprised. There was a reason I missed the dark boxers I’d dropped while in a rush. When I got the notification while out that Rocky was stuck, I had no idea why. I returned home to find that it had run over them and they got stuck.
I also learned early that my dark grey mobile phone charge cable blends in with my dark grey carpet. I found Rocky dragging it around like a trophy. Thankfully, Roborock’s anti‑tangle tech meant the cable wasn’t damaged in any way.
With that all said; White cables, extension cords and light coloured lamp cords? No problem.
Stepping Up and Getting Down; Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Pro has the moves
Rocky roams about the house and does a really good job of getting places he is meant to (and sometimes not meant to).
As I mentioned in the earlier section on the initial first pass, a 4.5cm step was a bit much for Rocky to mount and get over. With the rubber mat, the 2.5–3cm threshold into the kitchen is now manageable. Sometimes it takes a couple of attempts, but it gets there. The <1cm thresholds are nothing; my Roomba couldn’t even manage those. So, overall, this has been great.
One of my favourite features is its ability to lower itself. The LiDAR module retracts, the chassis drops, and it slides under my bed (just under 9cm clearance) without getting stuck. My previous robovac couldn’t do this. It can squeeze into spaces less than 7.98cm, so it has room.
Compared to others I’ve used, the manoeuvrability is excellent. It gets around my house from a location that suits me, and is no longer awkwardly housed in the spare room when I have guests.
Setting Up Jobs for the Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Pro
There are several ways to set Rocky off on a cleaning adventure.
One way is just talking to it. Yup, it has voice recognition. You can literally talk to it: “Hello Rocky, clean the kitchen” and off it will go.
In the app, you can choose:
- Full and it is set to clean the whole house
- Room and you can select one or multiple rooms
- Zone allows you to draw a box (or multiple boxes) to just do those specified areas
- Routine will allow you to select one of the pre‑designed sequences
After you’ve selected where you want, you can then choose vacuum only, mop only, vacuum and mop, or vacuum then mop. You can customise suction, water flow, number of passes, and cleaning patterns.
I’ve set up routines, too: vacuum only for two passes through the carpeted rooms, vacuum once over the timber and tiles, and then a vacuum and mop over the timber and tiles. Scheduling is easy, too. Perfect if you want it to run while you’re out.
Cleaning Carpet
Carpet cleaning is important to me. I suffer from sinus issues, so pulling out the stick vacuum all the time is a lot. Using Rocky to do regular maintenance cleans help a lot. Rocky now handles almost everything between my cleaner’s fortnightly visits.
I have a combination of timber, carpet and tile floors through my house. Depending on the job, the robovac ventures out with or without its mop pads. This means it leaves the mop pads behind, which means there will not be any accidental transference of water / moisture onto the carpet.
The Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Pro moves through carpet well. You can choose suction levels (quiet, balanced, turbo, max, MAX+), number of passes, and route type (fast, standard, deep). More suction and tighter routes use more battery.
On thick carpet, you’ll see some wheel tracks, but far less than my previous vacuum.
If it spots heavily soiled areas or obstacles, it flags them in the app with photos.
As an accidental test, I spilled shredded paper everywhere in the lounge while watching TV. Tiny pieces embedded deep in the carpet. I sent Rocky out for two deep‑clean passes on max suction. It did a great job.
A little remained, but I could have set it to MAX+ suction. Even my Dyson V8 stick vacuum needed multiple attempts and some manual picking to finish the job.
If it can handle that, dust is no problem.
Cleaning Hard Floors
Hard floors are a breeze for the Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Pro.
The extendable FlexiArm Arc side brush shines here, pulling debris from edges and corners. Rocky glides around my timber dining room without fuss.
I tested it with flour. I created a zone and set it to “quiet.” It cleaned almost everything, leaving only a tiny bit in the gaps between boards (more a flaw of my floorboards than the vacuum). A balanced clean afterwards removed the rest.
Beyond the test, I’m constantly impressed with how it goes about vacuuming up the tiny bits of grass, leaves, even dropped ‘stuff’ in my kitchen (like when I dropped a few grains of rice, or swept the bread crumbs off the chopping board).
Vacuuming, be it carpet or hard floors, it does a great job.
Mopping
I usually vacuum and mop together. With my back door constantly bringing in leaves to my kitchen, plus my messy cooking habits, my kitchen floor needs regular attention. Rocky handles water drips, leaves, dropped food, and even vacuumed up a dead cockroach. (I swear I’m not a slob; it’s part of the hazard of testing!)
To test mopping capabilities, I poured orange juice on the floor. Probably not my best idea. At first, it seemed to spread it around, but by the end the floor was clean and already drying. Impressive.
Would I normally send it to mop a spill like that? Probably not. I’d normally at least do the initial clean with a cloth or some paper towel, and THEN send Rocky out to mop the floor. But I was impressed with how it managed a reasonably significant spill.
With detergent in the system, the floor is left clean and fresh.
A feature I’d LOVE to see added to the Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Pro for mopping
Within the dock of the Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Pro, you will find a little tank you can fill with detergent to help your mopping runs.
Within the app, you can adjust the levels of detegent it adds from none, standard or high volume.
I note that this is a dock setting and applies to all mopping run once set.
For me, personally, I would love to see more customisation with mopping. When setting up a run, for the house, room or even zone, I can adjust the flow rate (i.e. how much water winds up on the floor when Rocky does it’s thing) and I can adjust the route to ensure a deep clean. But there is no where I can find that allows me to adjust the detergent use per run easily.
This also means that I can’t set up a routine where I mop some rooms with just water and others with detergent. That, to me, is a shame. Because, honestly, if I could, I would send Rocky out to wash my tiles with detergent every time but just do water-only over my timber boards. Yes, I’m sure you can get safe detegents for timber boards, but frequent mopping with detergent will never be good long term.
Would love to see Roborock push a software and firmware update sometime in the future. Sure, the detergent is in the dock. But, if I set up a routine to wash one room with detergent first and then another without, Rocky can just go back to the dock between rooms, wash the pads, dump the soapy water and refill with water-only. I’m sure I make it sound easier than it is, but, pretty please?
Emptying and Self‑Cleaning
After any job, Rocky returns to the dock, empties its dustbin into the disposable bag and, if it mopped, washes and dries the mop pads.
My old Roomba j7+ was loud when emptying. Loud enough that I refused to use it after 8:30pm.
The Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Pro, on the other hand, is much more acceptable. You can set a “do not disturb” mode so it doesn’t empty after a certain time if you do send it out to vacuum, but even if it did empty, you won’t get noise complaints.
After mopping, it sucks dirty water into the tank, washes the pads with 100°C water, and dries them with warm air. It’s quiet, but it takes a while. But it ensures the mop heads are clean and not growing any nasties.
Just remember to empty the dirty water tank regularly. Especially if, you know, you had it mop up half a glass of orange juice for a test…
Battery Life
Battery life is solid. I can do a balanced vacuum of every room of my house, and mop of all hard floors on one charge.
I pushed it during one test: MAX+ suction, deep clean, two passes everywhere, then mopping. It had to recharge twice mid‑clean, before I stopped the clean, but that clean was going for hours. It was an extreme test. In normal use, the battery life of the Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Pro will get you through most cleans of your average house. And, if it runs out of battery, it simply returns to the dock, charges, and resumes.
(Bonus feature, not related to battery life, but you can tap into Rocky’s video feed and watch it drive around your house / drive yourself…)
Final thoughts on the Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Pro
At work recently, someone asked what modern tech convenience we couldn’t live without. Three of us answered at the same time: my robovac.
Having used a few robovacs, I can safely say the Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Pro is a step ahead of anything I’ve tried.
Now, the newest addition to their range, the Roborock Qrevo Edge 2 Pro isn’t an entry‑level model with an RRP of AU$2,799. It’s a premium product. But it delivers premium performance. But right now it is got a nice 18% discount on Amazon Au bringing it down to $2,299.
I’ve been genuinely stoked (and often surprised) by how well it performs. As life gets busier and I juggle home‑owner responsibilities, work and downtime, Rocky gives me back time in spades. That alone for me makes the price tag worth it. It keeps my house tidy (both in terms of cleaning dust and dirt, but, also, by making me stay vigilant with keeping clutter off floors). I have also noticed a reduction in my sinus symptoms.
Yes, I still clean (or my cleaner does), but the in‑between work is dramatically reduced. Regular routines, edge‑to‑edge cleaning, mopping tile floors, and finally being able to include the back lobby and kitchen in the automated schedule has been life‑changing.
If you’re looking for a new robovac and it’s within your price range, I highly recommend it. Thanks to Roborock for letting me give the unit a thorough workout.
