The Roborock Saros 10R aces one thing that most other robot vacuums cant

The robot vacuum with a grabby arm from Roborock's showing at CES 2025 has been hogging all of the attention, but that one wasn't the new Roborock vacuum that I wanted to test the most. Though I'll still get my hands on the Roborock Saros Z70 at some point, I was personally more interested in the Roborock Saros 10R: a way more practical robot vacuum from the 2025 fleet that still goes hard on premium upgrades. What's special about the Roborock Saros 10R? As Roborock's thinnest robot vacuum ever, the Roborock Saros 10R may not seem like it has room for a big navigational tech upgrade — or Roborock's second-most powerful suction power yet. But somehow, both of those are packed into a body that's barely more than three inches tall. The Saros 10R clocks 20,000 Pa of suction power, only to be beaten by its sibling, the Saros 10's 22,000 Pa. Still, 20,000 Pa is a level that very few other robot vacs in the market even come close to. To put it in perspective, that's double the whoosh of my favorite robot vacuum from 2024, the Roborock Qrevo Master. The other main grab here applies to how perceptive the vac is as it's maneuvering around your home. Compared to the typical LiDAR system, the Saros 10R axes the circular laser tower atop most robot vacs you're probably picturing. Instead, the Saros 10R is able to have that thin, flat top design due to its implementation of StarSight 2.0 with 3D ToF (Time of Flight) technology. That's some fancy NASA-coded terminology for a more precise sense of location within your walls and more precise detection of small objects. The sticky crevice under the fridge is a horrifying place that most taller robot vacuums can't reach. Credit: Leah Stodart / Mashable Rather than just relying on laser sensors as traditional LiDAR does, StarSight takes it a step further with 3D scanning of 21,600 sensor points around the room. With that, the Saros 10R can sniff out upwards of 108 different objects (that's up from the 73 objects that the first version