Eat your heart out Daleks: Dreame’s latest robovac can climb stairs
A major robot vacuum trend over the past twelve months has been bots that can climb over particularly high thresholds. And while the dream of a robovac that can climb stairs on its own is still just that, developments have taken a significant step forward with the launch of a robot vacuum cleaner with tiny legs.
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Launched at CES 2025, the Dreame ProLeap system’.
Before this, even the best robot vacuums were pretty useless if you had a house with high partitions or small steps between rooms. Such developments are also useful if you have furniture with bars that run across the floor, as these can also quickly beach traditional robot vacuum cleaners.
Whether Dreame’s little stilts prove to be a more effective approach than Roborock’s quadbike-style suspension setup or the Shark PowerDetect roovac that twerks itself over high speed bumps remains to be seen – we have a review in progress and will report back .
The X50 Ultra Complete seems to be part of a new trend for robot vacuum cleaners with limbs. Elsewhere at CES, Roborock unveiled the Saros Z70, a robot vacuum cleaner with a mechanical arm that can tidy up your socks. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the competitiveness of the robovac industry, Dreame is using the event to show off its own experiments in robo-arm technology, although its own ‘Bionic Multi-Arm Joint Robotic Arm’ appears to still be in the experimental stages to be found, and that is true. Not included with the X50 Ultra Complete.
What else do we know?
The small feet are the obvious main feature of the X50 Ultra Complete, but other notable additions include a shock absorption system that softens impacts and absorbs noise for quieter operation. There is a suction force of up to 20,000 Pa, which is not the case rather as high as the 22,000 Pa offered by another new model shown at CES, but it’s still a huge step up from most brands’ previous flagships (the Dreame L40 Ultra has ‘only’ 11,000 Pa ). An extendable side brush And The extendable mop pad provides a more complete edge cleaning.
While we don’t have much information at the moment, the navigation system also looks interesting. Dreame says the X50 Ultra Complete can raise or lower its radar to get an accurate 3D perception of its surroundings, using something called VersaLift navigation.
The Dreame X50 Ultra Complete is expected to go on sale in the UK in early February, with a list price of £1,399. We don’t have details yet for other areas.