Aside from iRobot’s ongoing financial crisis, the world of robot vacuums is still humming along. At CES 2025 on Sunday, Roborock announced the Saros Z70.

A robovac company has unveiled a new Roomba that comes with a robotic arm designed to assist with house cleaning chores such as picking up rubbish.

It turns out that Roborock isn’t the only company that brought a robot vacuum with a mechanical arm to CES 2025. Rival company Dreame, which unveiled its stair-climbing robot vacuum earlier in the week,

Everyone is really excited about Roborock’s Roomba competitor with a robot arm. The robot vacuum cleaner won so many awards at CES, you can barely see through the top of its display case. Roborock also made a giant version of its vacuum that looks big enough to pick up people,

Robot vacuums already take one of the most tedious household tasks off your hands, and with Roborock’s latest innovation, they’re now poised to tackle another chore: picking up after oneself.

Every year the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has some delightfully silly products, but sometimes you get a device like the Roborock Saros Z70, which sits on the line between "that's silly" and "I need it".

Roborock unveiled a feature that it hopes could help its vacuums dethrone the Roomba: an arm. This is Saros Z70, the autonomous vacuum that comes equipped with a five-axis arm that unfolds from the top of the vacuum to pick up obstacles using onboard cameras and sensors.