DREAMEX50 Ultra White Robot Vacuum and Mop with Auto-Empty and Mop Self-Cleaning, 20,000Pa Suction, Obstacle Avoidance and 360° Navigation, Corner to Edge Deep Cleaning, Detangling BrushClimatePartner certified

The choice was between this and well-regarded RoboRock. They are effectively the same, though RoboRock uses a slightly more sophisticated navigation system, the benefits of which are marginal.The threshold-climbing of the X50, if you need it, is unbeatable. I see that robot arms will be the next big thing, but color me skeptical on those.The vacuuming and mopping are what I am looking for, now that navigation issues are largely solved for higher end models of top brands. The comparison I have is an iRobot J7+, which vacuums and empties into a home station, but which does not mop. That device delivered, and continues to; but I wanted a mopping robot for my hardwood and stone floors. The iRobot J7+ will move to another floor for duty.Speaking of floors, the X50 will handle multiple floors in its mapping system. Which brings up the Ultra X50 smartphone app. IMO, it is a bit of a hot mess on usability and organization. Once you figure it out, it works fine. But golly is it confusingly put together. And the Chinglish doesn’t help, either. They couldn’t afford a translator for their flagship product?I belatedly discovered that, while you can use custom names in the map, the voice control does not recognize them (unlike the iRobot, which does). So then you have to go spelunking in the app to figure out where it is that you change room names — it’s not obvious.The Lidar device which lowers into the unit is useful, but I’ve found that it does not recognize a dark brown leather chair for some reason, even though the room is very well lit. I tried putting a zone under the chair to force it to go there to vacuum and mop, with limited success.Placing artifacts on the map is limited. It does a very good job, thanks to Lidar, of mapping your rooms. And it even discerns some furniture like beds, nightstands, couches, and dining tables, and automatically puts them on the map. The X50 automatic recognition and naming of room was 90%+ accurate, which was surprising.After mapping the house, I did a standard cleaning, ensuring that the floors were clear of obstacles. I did this to give the device a baseline. Then, after a couple of runs, I switched to the “Genius” mode, and that has been successful. As to “genius”? First Apple’s “Genius Bar” and now Dreame. Don’t these guys ever learn? Cuz it is not “genius.” It’s adequate.Battery life is meh. I have not been achieving the length of operation suggested, even on the most basic, non-genius runs. But this is not an issue for me, as it is fine if the unit returns to charge and then continues. YMMV.The floors do get nicely scrubbed. I am a believer in the rotating pads vs the vibrating pads. A simple pad, vibrating or not, may work well on meticulously even floors; less so if natural stone is uneven, or other artifacts of your floors. And the cleaning of rotating pads is mechanically an easier thing to do well.The pad cleaning is effective, as well as the drying. Cleaning just takes a minute, and is audible, but not what I would call “loud.” Just a little slurpy, and it’s done. The drying, though? 3 hours. Which, again, is not a particular inconvenience, for the pads only dry after it is completely done.Unlike iRobot, the app has no geo-location function. So you cannot direct it to start cleaning when you leave, or on particular days when you leave. This is a pretty big app oversight, IMO, and should be fixed.That being said, the Ultra X50 produces ~60dB of noise when vacuum-mopping, which is roughly low-conversation levels. And when mopping and not vacuuming? Pretty much silent. And the floors dry very quickly, within just 1-2 minutes with the app’s water setting at around medium.The extendable mop pad and side brush extend as expected, and do work more effectively in corners than any robot vacuum I’ve had before. Because the pads are round, there’s a limit to getting all the way in a corner, but better than nothing. The edge work is very good, hugging baseboards. I did notice one or two times that it was further away from the baseboard than it should have been, but this does not seem to be consistent nor a big issue.Which brings us back to navigation and efficacy. While I have not watched it work the entire job, if the reports from the app are accurate (and I believe they are), the Ultra X50 thoroughly covers every room. Being able to designate the direction of the wood flooring was nice; the unit will go perpendicular to the flooring direction on a secondary or intensive mopping/vacuuming.Should you get this? I think, with all these robot floor devices, you should if having small detritus accumulate on the regular is a pain to manage. This will take care of virtually all of it. Pet hair? Yes, it will work for that too. The side brush is susceptible to hair tangles (unlike the Roborock’s currently superior design for the side brush), but the double rollers for the main intake should handle all kinds of hair, human or pet, without issue. The design of the main rollers on the Ultra X50 seems to have solved that problem, altogether. Now they just need to go steal the RoboRock design for the side brush.Small carpets, like for a bath or an entry, are not well handled by the Ultra X50; no robot vacuum I’ve owned ever has. It’s a shame that the Ultra X50 does not use its extends-legs to get on to a small carpet, but it instead ends up bunching one end, which creates a “wall” from the unit’s perspective. Larger carpets, though, or installed carpeting, likely will be no problem. The ability for the Ultra X50 to leave the wet pads at the base station before vacuuming a carpet is an ideal solution, for the 10.5 mm raising of them when they are still installed will likely get your carpet a bit damp on the surface. Not awful, but why not just leave the pads off altogether if you have the option?Is this thing worth the price I paid, around $1550, including tax? For me, yes. But that is a steep price. It seems to be very well built, and most of the things that I think could be better can be handled entirely by software updates.My ideal robot floor cleaner is one I do not have to think about much. I have yet to see if it will remind me to change the dust bag, or alert that more water is needed. I have been emptying the dirty water tank after every use, which has been very easy. Personally, I like the design of the Ultra X50 base much, much more than the RoboRock look. Silly, mebbe, but I think the RoboRock looks, and perhaps is, less expensively made. RoboRock’s base, to me, looks cheap, and if you examine things like the hinges on the top access closely, you’ll see that Dreame took more care in manufacture and design than did their most direct competitor.The replacement cleaning fluid, pads, filters, etc. from Dreame are a bit expensive. But then, if I were worried about that, I wouldn’t have bought a $1500 vacuum mop, now would I?

I have only had this a few days and have yet to find anything I don’t like. Set up was very easy, mapping was automatic. Very user friendly for those who are tech challenged (like myself). My house is tiled in smooth tiles except for the bedrooms. The tile floors passed the white rag test when this little guy was done and I feel like my carpeted bedrooms are less dusty. It picks up all the long hair that I shed without tangling and the included solution leaves no streaks. I will be purchasing extra pads but the self clean and dry feature seems to work extremely well. At the end of the clean, I just dump the water, rinse, spray with some all purpose cleaner and wipe the dirty water tank dry. I vac out the filter with a small hand vac and give the vac a quick wipe. The noise level is extremely quiet - you can definitely watch tv, talk on the phone, be in a meeting, etc. while it’s running. It gets a bit louder while it’s emptying but it’s a quick process. I haven’t used the voice command much so I can’t speak on that. The navigation is perfect. I’ve had no issues with connectivity and it seems sturdy. Best purchase ever!!!

We’ve only been using this a few days and I can already tell that it’s a game changer when it comes to keeping our floors clean and improving the overall cleanliness of the house. I thought I was doing a decent job sweeping and mopping the floors beforehand, but after 37 cycles and over 500 minutes of use, we are still emptying the gray water chamber with dirty looking water. The floors feel a lot better to walk on and look shiny (laminate floors with rugs).There has been a few issues. One time it ran over my feet as I was standing in its way. Sometimes it seems confused and will rotate randomly or it may miss a spot on occasion. We decided to remove a rug from the kitchen after it did the initial mapping and I wasn’t able to figure out a way to manually remove the rug from the map, so the vacuum kept thinking the rug was still in center of kitchen and wouldn’t mop that area. I finally just remapped the house, which took about 10 minutes or so, and that seemed to fix it. Aside from minor quirks, we are very pleased with its cleaning performance. I can have it clean certain areas whenever even remotely through the app. There is also a handy feature where you can see a live video through its onboard camera as it cleans, or via remote control.It’s fairly easy to dump dirty mop water and add more water to the chamber. I’m curious how long the dust bag will last before we need to replace it. We do have pets that like to leave lots of little hairs on the floor and sometimes there were little hair balls in the corners prior to us owning the Dreame, if we didn’t sweep in two or three days.I’ll try to update this from time to time but so far we are pleased.