The Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow Is Gorgeous and Reasonably Priced

"The Qrevo Curv 2 Flow is also optimized for hardwood floors. SmartPlan had no trouble automatically distinguishing the tile of my bathroom and laundry room from the hardwood of my kitchen. However, it occasionally relegated my carpeted living room and den to a sad Default status, rather than Carpet, and did not lift the mopping pad. In two weeks, I caught the Qrevo mopping the carpet once or twice."

"The internal routing to the docking station's dust bag also appears to have been optimized for liquids, which means that solids, like dog hair, tend to clump up inside. I forgot to check the disposal chute for a few days, and it spat out a clump of dog hair the size of a small hamster. It's been a while since a Roborock vacuum has done that to me."

"SmartPlan's occasional unreliability made me a little nervous to just set and forget the Qrevo by scheduling a cleaning time and letting SmartPlan decide everything, as I've done with Roborock vacuums in the past. However, I did like that there's now a dirt-detection feature that Roborock calls, confusingly, DirTect. You can also customize and boost the cleaning with a pet-detection feature."

The Qrevo Curv 2 Flow is optimized for hardwood floors but sometimes misidentifies carpets, leaving carpeted rooms on a Default status and failing to lift the mopping pad, resulting in occasional carpet mopping. The docking station routing favors liquids, causing solids like dog hair to clump and sometimes eject large clumps. SmartPlan mapping can be unreliable, though new features include DirTect dirt detection and a pet-detection cleaning boost. The vacuum delivers 20,000 Pa of suction, sufficient for most users. Battery life and recharge speed are mediocre: about 1.5 hours when mopping, three-hour mid-clean recharge, and roughly 140 minutes to clean 850 square feet. The model retails at $1,000.

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