CES 2025: Industry first OmniGrip tech goes live on Saros S70 robo cleaner
Roborock has used CES 2025 to unveil a barrage of new tech, the most notable of which is – without doubt – is the Roborock Saros Z70, which features a robotic arm.
The Chinese robot vacuum specialist is claiming it’s a world’s first, and who are we to argue eh? Although CES normally throws up similar trends so we wouldn’t be surprised to see other brands offering up something similar.
But for now, at least, Roborock has introduced something that we haven’t seen before.
The technical term for that robo-claw is OmniGrip and it’s a foldable five-axis robot arm that uses the Z70’s onboard AI to determine if there are things that need picking up and putting away.
It’s not going to put your furniture back in place, or anything like that, but it it will be on hand to collect stuff like tissues, waste paper, socks and even lightweight shoes.
In the Roborock app you’ll be able to set a place you’d like these collected items put, such as a bin on a laundry pile.
The Ambient was lucky enough to get a teaser of the Saros Z70 in action at a briefing at the end of last year, albeit a prototype model that still had a few bugs to iron out.
It was a very hit and miss affair, truth be told, but we’re told that this was quite an early prototype model – as it was the only one that would work on non-Chinese servers.
We’re promised that by March 2025, when retail samples start to land, the tech will be a lot more polished.
By default, the OmniGrip is turned off in the Roborock app and it’ll stay tucked away in it’s little box up top unless you enable its use. In the app you’ll be able to choose what sorts of items you want the robotic arm to target and what areas to use it in.
Aside from the main event of the S70, there’s plenty of cutting edge tech on board for the more traditional robo cleaning tasks.
Taking the StarSight navigation system that we saw introduced on the Roborock Qrevo Slim up to version 2.0, it doesn’t need a LiDAR tower because it uses next-gen, dual-light, 3D Time-of-Flight sensors instead.
There’s also new tech by way of the VertiBeam Lateral Obstacle system, which will help it avoid cables and irregular furniture.
Throw in a whopping 22,000Pa suction rating and dual spinning mops that can lift by 2.2cm and you’re looking at a super high-end robot cleaning machine.
The Saros Z70 is joined by Roborock’s latest top-dogs in the newly named series, the Roborock Saros 10 and 10R.
The Saros 10 is the first robot from the brand to feature its new RetractSense Navigation System; so it’s got a traditional LDS laser tower on top but it can retract it to fit under low clearance furniture and use a Time-of-Flight sensor instead for these areas.
With the sensor retracted, it’s less than 8cm tall.
It also boats the updated Vibrarise 4.0 mopping module, the same 22,000Pa suction rating as the Z70 and that VertiBeam Lateral Obstacle system too.
Like last year’s flagship – the S8 MaxV Ultra – there’s also the FlexiArm side brush too, for getting into those corners.
The Roborock Saros 10R was also on the CES reveal list, the difference being with the non-R variant, is there’s no retractable LiDAR, instead it uses the StarSight 2.0 Time-of-Flight sensors.
Like the Saros 10, it’s incredibly thin at just 7.98cm tall.
There’s no word on pricing on any of these new robot cleaners yet, but we’ll update this story once there is.
The Saros S10 duo are scheduled to go on sale later this month, the Z70 will land later in the year.
Aside from Robot Vacuum Cleaners, Roborock is also launching a new range of hand-held wet-
dry vacuum cleaners, with the F25 Series, and there’s also some news on the Roborock Zeo One – which was launched back in 2023 at IFA but never went widely on sale outside of China.
The Roborock Zeo One is now joined by Zeo Lite, Zeo Mini and we’re told these will all get a much wider global release in 2025.
