okay so this gadget is my new best friend and that's not just because i
don't have any real friends this thing is absolutely amazing this is the robo rock
q7 max plus now this is a robot vacuum from robo rock and it is amazing now roborock are one of the
leading names in robot vacuums and some of their robo vacuums are absolutely mental with some of
the features and crazy things that they can do now today we're going to be looking at one of
them more affordable but still pretty awesome robot vacuums and we're going to be testing it
using it so thank you to roborock for sending me this vacuum i have not been paid for anything and
i don't have to say anything all i'm going to do is test it and show you the results
now the gauntlet is a series of tests designed to push this robot vacuum to the max it's a bunch of
scenarios that ultimately this vacuum should never actually have to do but if it can do it well then
it can do anything but before we go into it let's have a look at the contender so with the q7 max
plus we have a few different components to look at so first of all we have the robot vacuum itself as
you can see on top of the vacuum you do have some control buttons you have this protrusion
which holds the lidar sensor used to scan the room you have a bumper and some sensors at the front
designed to be able to detect obstacles you have this little whirring blade thing that's designed
to sort of push things into the path of the vacuum and then you have this flap at the back which
holds the dust canister as well as the water component all in one oh yeah did i not mention
it's not just a vacuum it mops as well now taking a look at the bottom of the vacuum you can see the
wheels and the sort of rugged suspension that this thing has there's a couple more sensors as well as
a component to attach the mop also in the middle we do have the roller which is removable so if
there are any blockages you can open that up and clear it out now moving away from the vacuum we do
have the base station now the base station serves two functions firstly is a charging dock so every
single time the hoover starts and finishes it will be at that base station it charges up it still
looks clean and once it's finished it's clean it comes back to the base station now when it turns
up at the base station you can have it turned on so that it will automatically empty out the dust
canister and that is our second function once it's back at the charging plate this big unit here will
suck through all the stuff inside the robot vacuum out of it into a dust bag in the base station and
it does it all automatically without any input from yourself and after about a month or two
you can then replace that dust bag with a new one depending on how horrendously messy your house has
been so over there's just over a week now and i've been using it as any normal person would have not
been doing anything ridiculous with it it's been set up the base station has been put in our living
room slightly out of the way so the kids aren't going to walk into it and i haven't scheduled
that every single evening after we finished our sort of targeting after dinner it should go round
and hoover up now because i have two young kids the house does get quite messy quite quickly so
things like crumbs tend to appear almost instantly so as and when needed i also just occasionally
switch it on and it goes off and does its thing and i've got to say this thing is amazing it's
absolutely changed my life now i review a lot of tech and a lot of gadgets and this is something
that i haven't had before and ultimately it is so good genuinely my flaws have never been cleaner
but that isn't a good enough test in my opinion yeah sure someone who's not had a robot vacuum and
suddenly now has a robot vacuum obviously is going to make a massive difference but i want to know
how good is it what can it handle on a day-to-day basis it's been picking up dust and crumbs and
the odd little bits and the sort of day-to-day dirt from walking across the hard floors
gets taken care of by the mop but can it do better than that what else can it do and ultimately with
this robot vacuum there's not a lot you need to do it charges itself it empties itself you have
to clean up the mop and refill the water but ultimately from the test of the gauntlet we'll
have to find out how much more you'll have to do so without further ado let's begin the test
so ladies and gentlemen welcome to test one today we're going to be cleaning a carpeted floor
compromised with cheerios and white powder so we are underway and the robo rock is getting to work
mapping out the area it does a quick loop around and it just starts cracking on trying to pick up
as much stuff as humanly possible now being that this is more than you expected the vacuum to clear
up on a normal regular basis we will allow it to make a couple of passes obviously more than
two or three and it's going to be a failure quite impressively the robo rock is making
light work of these cheerios a few are getting left behind however i can't imagine a couple
of passes he's going to hop this one back now it seems to be getting up all of the powder as
it approaches this corner oh let's just flick some cheerios off the path now whether it's going to go
back and collect those i do not know now it does seem rather impressively it has got pretty much
everything other than those cheerios is knocked out of the way so the round one i will give it
a pass now we did miss a couple of things now a few cheerios were left behind i will be completely
honest this thing shouldn't be hoovering up cheerios so the fact that only three were left
blows my mind it did fantastically well upon closer inspection the carpet did have a little bit
of powder residue but compared to what was that before it made a massive difference and if we gave
it the opportunity to have another few goes around then maybe we would have had different results but
there's not time for that onto round two so once the vacuum's gone around your house and mapped
out all of the different rooms using the sensors on board you can then go into the app and you can
set zones so if you have a room that is carpeted and you don't want that to be mopped obviously
you can set it as a no mop zone if there's an area where the vacuum's gonna get stuck or clean up
some stuff that you don't want it to clean up then you can set up no-go zones on the app too and in
order to do the test instead of selecting a full clean or a particular room clean i did another
thing you can do which is select a zone clean so you can map a particular zone on your device and
you can select it to clean that particular place so we've had some spillages here and i selected
that area to be cleaned we have four substances that have made their way onto the floor we have
hard undiluted children squash we have a residue of a good old cup of english breakfast
tea exhibit c is what happens when you've had one too many glasses of wine and our fourth substance
is some vegetable sauce now in order to make this test slightly more lifelike i wanted to make
sure that these substances weren't freshly added because then they'll clean up straight away so i
allowed them to sit and ponder their own existence and once they dried it was time to begin the test
so straight into the second test and the rover rock is not messing around it quickly maps out
the area it's going to clean and then cracks onto work with just one pass it makes a pretty
good effort on the first two areas but it takes out the squash and the tee in one swoop now you
can set the vacuum to do the zone you select multiple times in a row and i did that here and
as you can see it's cracking straight back on with the next go and it's taken off most of it and then
with a third pass that's pretty much cleared the entire area and ultimately as i'd already
set up to keep going that is exactly what it did but it didn't really need to is sort of that now
with not much fuss onto round three now in theory round three is simple similar to what happened in
our carpet test all we have to do is collect the residue that's been left however despite
our white powder being dispersed fairly thinly across the floor once that's piled into one place
it's a surprisingly large amount of powder so how well is it gonna go we'll have to see ladies and
gentlemen welcome to the living room the venue for our third test as you can see the judges
have gone around and inspected the test thoroughly to make sure the powder has been spread evenly now
the rubber rock commences its cleaning protocol jumping straight out of the gates he heads on
and tries to map the area it approaches the first obstacle and quite easily works its way around so
far so good the large obstacles have been taken care of and very very little power to be seen on
the places where the robot rock has been after completing its first loop of the area it begins
its side to side cleaning now it is certainly worth mentioning that initially the vacuum is
only going to be using the vacuum element of its arsenal we will then move on to a mop later on
once the majority of the debris has been cleared so the q7 is approaching the first obstacle and
takes a bit of a hit but keeps going notices is way in the way and decides to move around it in
fact it's pushing it out of the way just try and clear underneath it nothing is standing in
the way between the q7 and the clean floor now it doesn't look like we're starting to see the signs
of some tiredness here from the q7 as it whips around the corner and decides
to pick up a few more of the hard cheerios and we are seeing a little bit of debris
being left but it is still making a pretty good effort and still picking up quite a bit
maybe its tank is full we are right in the thick of it now the robo rock q7 max plus is not leaving
any tracks it does not want to be seen that it's been here another obstacle which is easily moved
out the way by the vacuum now that it's got it out the way is back to work getting and cleaning up as
much as it possibly can you can see the whirring spinning blades getting involved as much as they
possibly can flicking that flower into the chamber now here we have another obstacle expertly dodged
around by the vacuum and it goes around and picks up the remainder of that massive pile of white
flour now honestly after the first round it wasn't looking too promising but after a quick rest stop
we were ready to crack on and finish the job now with an empty dustbin we were steaming ahead
nothing was stopping us and one last final spin with the mob was enough to clear out any remaining
debris and at the end the floor was considerably cleaner than how it was when we started on
to the final test now we needed a real-life scenario that was going to really challenge
this robot vacuum and it needs to be something that if it succeeded i knew that this robot vacuum
would not be something to be messed around with and luckily i have children and my wife
knows how to make spaghetti bolognese and anyone who's had a two-year-old and a three-year-old
knows that they can be particularly messy eaters so luckily without fail my kids stepped up to the
occasion and created a challenge for the robot vacuum something that i personally probably
wouldn't have allowed the robo vacuum to go but i'm not here to have fun i'm here to test gadgets
and the test was ready and ladies and gentlemen our final test in the kitchen the aftermath
of a meal with my two children is an absolute disaster in here spaghetti stuck to the floor
cheese bolognese here we go the robo rock here to do the job so we are straight in
solo vacuum mode no mop trying to get as much debris in as possible before we start
cleaning the floor the vacuum expertly navigating the legs of the table and chairs and we are going
around the room trying to map out the area we need to clean now as a surprise to me
the vacuum is absolutely smashing the spaghetti even though it is wet and stuck to the floor
is picking it up with no issue it's going expertly navigating around all these legs getting
every little last piece of debris it can get its hands on now i've got to say personally
food and vacuums don't normally go hand in hand i'm not that much of a fan of putting
something that can go moldy inside a vacuum but when needs must now here just narrowly avoiding
that little piece under the door what a shame didn't quite get there but it's still going
around maybe we can get back on a second pass now that the first pass is over it has done a
very impressive job the job isn't done yet there is still a fair bit of debris but as you can see
inside the container is collected a significant amount of spaghetti cheese and other things
so there is no time to waste straight on with the mopping now i could go in and mop at the same time
as vacuuming from the start but i wanted to clear most of the debris but here on the second pass
the vacuum is vacuuming any leftover debris and mopping at the same time now amazingly the only
residue left after this clean cycle was a small stain on the tiles here and what was
this crime scene at the brush has now been reduced to just this so ultimately i think the results
speak for themselves this robo rock vacuum is absolutely amazing and normal day-to-day use
this thing is fantastic it's made my life so much easier it's made my wife's life
so much easier and i'm so looking forward to the bright future that we have ahead of
us and ultimately i've tested this to the max and i know on a rainy day i can rely
on this robot vacuum guys if you want to check this out for yourself the link is down below
in the description thank you very much for watching and i'll see you in the next one