Expert’s Rating
Pros
- Cleans well
- Cleans itself
- Leaves no cloud of dust when you empty it
- Automatically dispenses the right amounts of detergent
Cons
- Tall, can’t reach everywhere
- Notch between its two front brushes is a dirt trap
Our Verdict
This machine vacuums and mops at the same time, but it’s not quite as handy as that sounds. It’s easy enough to use, despite its bulk, and the accompanying app provides meaningful customization options. It comes with multiple attachments, too, so you can clean most of your home. But there’s one major drawback: It has a very tall brush head–the component that vacuums and mops–which prevented it from cleaning the toe-kick spaces under my kitchen cabinets and several pieces of furniture.
Price When Reviewed
$659.99
Best Prices Today: Roborock Dyad Pro Combo
$659.99
Roborock tries to deliver an all-in-one cleaning machine for your home, but unlike the company’s robot vacuum cleaners, this stick vac leaves a lot of the cleaning to you.
The Dyad Pro Combo vacuums and mops at the same time, and when you need it, it can easily be converted into a handheld vacuum cleaner. It comes with several attachments to deal with the dust on your blinds, keyboard, and car. There’s also a handle with a smaller brush head that reaches under furniture and tackles your carpets.
The Dyad Pro Combo slurped up everything I threw in its path: Sticky sauces, larger items like rice and cereal, and even dried stains.
Battery life
The Dyad Pro Combo’s battery should last up to 43 minutes vacuuming and mopping at the same time, enabling you to tackle up to 3,230 square feet on a charge, according to Roborock. The test home cleaned for this review is half that size, and I found the battery to be sufficient for cleaning the entire home along with several smaller cleaning jobs.
The vacuum cleaner comes with a floor stand with an integrated charger. You can store its accessories here, which is practical, but you’ll probably want to to hide this away because it’s not pretty to look at. The upright vacuum cleaner itself is white with two dark containers: One in the back, which you’ll fill with clean water, and one on the front for collected debris and wet messes.
Easy to use
Roborock’s app is simple and easy to use. It allows you to customize the cleaning and self-cleaning processes, and you can download firmware as Roborock fine-tunes the vacuum’s features. The app will also report when the time comes to replace or clean the different parts of the vacuum. The vacuum itself has a few buttons on its handle to initiate cleaning, change cleaning modes, and to start self-cleaning.
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The Dyad Pro Combo will also talk to you, informing you when something gets stuck in its brushes, when you need to refill its water tank, and so on. There’s also an onboard display that shows you how dirty the area you’re cleaning is. The meter turns red if there are a lot of particles and blue if there are few, so you’ll know where you need to do some extra cleaning and when you can move on to the next part of your home.
In auto mode, the machine adjusts its suction and how much detergent it should apply to the floor. Detergent is dispensed from a tank that’s separate from the water tank, which is a very smart design: If you won’t be using the machine for a while, you can empty the clean water tank without wasting any unused detergent.
An all-in-one solution
“Combo” is an appropriate name for this smart appliance. You not only get different nozzles, but you can reassemble the vacuum according to the task at hand: You can remove the motor unit from the larger wet/dry head and mount it to a secondary tube with a multi-surface motorized brush head for vacuuming up only dust. Or you can remove that head and replace it with other accessories, including a crevice tool and a dust brush.
As versatile as this vacuum is, it still doesn’t do everything I would like.
Ida Blix, Foundry
Should you buy the Dyad Pro Combo?
The Dyad Pro Combo slurped up everything I threw in its path: Sticky sauces spilled on the floor, larger items like rice and cereal, and even dried stains. It impressively tackled most clean-ups in a single go. Those dried stains required multiple passes more turns, but that’s not surprising. Although the machine is quite heavy–weighing more than 13 pounds–it’s self propelled and easy to maneuver. Roborock didn’t supply its own detergent for this review, so I used only water.
There are three motorized brushes in its primary head–two in front and a third one behind those. The brushes extend all the way out to the left- and right-hand edges of the vacuum’s head, which means they can clean as close as 0.4 inches from the wall. The two sets of rollers rotate in different, which enhances their scrubbing power.
There’s a small notch between the two front rollers, however, so if you run the vacuum straight over a stain, it sometimes leaves a small trace where the groove is. Fortunately, all you need do is take a swipe from a different angle to clean that up. A bigger problem with that notch is that the vacuum’s self-cleaning mode often left dirt stuck in that void.
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The vacuum’s primary head is quite tall–around 3 inches–which means it might not reach into the toe-kick space of your kitchen and bathroom cabinets or underneath your sofa, bed, or other raised furniture. While you could switch its motor to the other wand and use one of its other accessories, you’ll only be able to vacuum, not scrub the floor or clean up wet messes.
Needing to mop a hard-surface floor under a sofa isn’t the end of the world, but needing to get on my hands and knees to clean the floors under my kitchen cabinets is a drag considering how much my family tends to spill while cooking.
The Dyad Pro Combo comes with a lot of accessories for a variety of cleaning jobs. It’s self-cleaning mode is a plus, and it quietly dries its brushes when you’re not using it, so you don’t get any bad odors. It will leave your floors clean and tidy–at least wherever it can reach. But don’t buy one before measuring the vertical spaces where you want it to mop, to ensure it will fit.
Specifications
Model: Dyad Pro Combo
Manufacturer: Roborock
Battery life: up to 60 min (43 min when mopping)
Charging time: 4.5 hours
Tank capacity: 0.77 litres (dirt), 0.95 litres (clean water)
Air filter: HEPA
Number of speeds: 3 (eco, auto, and max)
Max suction power: 17,000 Pa
Weight main unit: 6.4 kg
Other: 5 nozzles and a floor stand for charging
Price: From $659.99
This review was originally published by TechHive’s sibling site, M3.se, and has been translated from Swedish.
