A robot vacuum with an arm is the first mass-market home robot that does not just drive around but picks things up. The Roborock Saros Z70 clears socks and small items out of its way with a folding mechanical arm, then vacuums and mops the floor. You no longer have to get the apartment ready for cleaning: the robot clears its own path without prompting.
How it works
At the front, the robot has a camera with its own light and a neural network trained on images of home floors. It tells a sock from a cable and a toy from a cat’s bowl, and decides what it can pick up and what it should go around. The light lets it see under the bed, where it is dark. Laser distance sensors build a map of the apartment, and the items it finds go on the map as markers: the app shows what is lying where.
The arm folds into the body under a lid and extends only when needed. It has several joints and a gripper: the robot drives up to a sock, lowers the arm, closes its fingers and checks with the camera whether it has a grip. Then it carries the item to a set place — the laundry basket or a corner of the room — and puts it down. The joint motors work from the camera image, so the gripper hits its target precisely.
The routine is simple: first the robot goes around the rooms and clears the floor, then it vacuums and mops. The station empties the dust from the bin into a bag, washes and dries the mop pads and refills the robot with water. In the app you set which items must not be touched and where to put what it finds — after that, cleaning runs on schedule while the owners are at work. In the evening, all that is left is to collect the socks from one place.
Where it already works
- Apartments with children, where toys on the floor are business as usual.
- Homes with pets: the robot tells a bowl from a sock and goes around it.
- Russia: in the first half of 2026, robots took 29% of the vacuum cleaner market by value.
- Vietnam: the robot vacuum market grew 137.6% in a year — to $92.5 million.
What to consider
- The arm is designed for light small items like socks; heavy and fragile things are still put away by hand.
- The price depends on timing: $2,499 list price and about $950 in the October 2026 sales.
- The neural network can get an unfamiliar item wrong: for the first few weeks, it is worth watching what the robot carries off and where.
- A camera drives around your home: check the privacy settings and where the images are stored.