Not every robot vacuum is suited to every type of home. Some specialise in different types of cleaning, or perform better in one layout but not another. Roborock’s Qrevo Curv 2 Flow is a good example: it’s a capable automatic cleaner, albeit better at maintaining hard floors than dense carpets.
As a cat owner, random tufts of fluff and fur are a daily part of my life. My efforts to keep a pristine floor keep coming undone by the (adorable) menace of a silver tabby we call a family member. Cleaning up my four-legged friend’s fur is sometimes easy, sometimes tricky, depending on where she sheds.
On tiles, the Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow, has no problem gobbling up any fluff in its way. It’s on these hard floors that it gets to flex the latest roller mop technology, maintaining a nice level of cleanliness.
But on carpets with thick fibres that act as a magnet for hair and fur, Roborock’s robot isn’t as impressive. It’s still a good robot vacuum cleaner: you just might have to give it a helping hand along the way.
Table of contents
- Qrevo Curv 2 Flow compared to other robot vacuums
- Design
- Specifications and price
- Early navigation hiccups
- Vacuuming and carpet performance
- Tiles and mopping performance
- Who is the Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow for?
Qrevo Curv 2 Flow compared to other robot vacuums
With quite the mouthful of a name, you might find it tricky to determine where this model sits in the overall range. At its full price of $2,499, the Qrevo Curv 2 Flow is one of Roborock’s more premium-level robotic appliances. If the price tag wasn’t a giveaway, the next identifier is its roller mop technology.
In recent years, higher-end robot vacuums have moved away from the spinning mop pads in favour of a roller design. The idea behind this design tweak is to exert more downward force and clean up more messes. In reality, most robots — the Qrevo Curv 2 Flow included — still can’t scrub away super crusted-on spills and greasy stains. There’s only so much power the low-profile form factor can apply, after all.
Ironically, the $2,999 Roborock Saros 10 — one of the best robot vacuums of 2025 — would be considered the next step up from the Qrevo, yet it uses a mop pad, instead of the newer roller technology. However, the Saros 10 does have slightly more powerful suction power (22,00Pa), and a larger battery.
Spend a bit less on the $1,799 Qrevo C Pro, and you return to the spinning mop pads, and less suction power (18,500Pa). Looking at similarly priced competitors, the previous-gen Ecovacs Deebot X8 Pro Omni is reasonably close in specs, while the Dreame Aqua10 Roller also has a roller mop, albeit with a higher 30,000Pa claimed suction power.
In terms of cleaning and navigation technology, the Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow provides a similar set of features compared to other robots in the same price bracket.
Design
This is quite the cute robot cleaner, and it starts with the included docking station. Rather than the tall and boxy shape of most docks, this one is petite and rounded. With a glossy white finish, it looks like a little igloo for the robot to live in, which I find charming.
Compared to some docking stations I’ve installed in the past, the Qrevo 2 Flow’s station is even simpler. Built into the dock is a small ramp, leading to a small alcove the robot neatly nestles into in between cleaning runs. On top is a lid that opens easily, revealing clean and dirty water tanks, plus the dust bag compartment the robot empties its dry waste.
Roborock gets my approval for the dock’s relatively ergonomic design. Every compartment is easily accessible, and the water tanks have large carry handles to make removal, refilling, and reattaching simple. There are no awkward latches or pressure needed to open the lid; a small recess under the lid means you can open it single-handedly without much force.
As for the robot, it doesn’t depart from classic conventions. Matching the dock’s glossy white finish, it shows up dust and debris that accumulates over time, which serves as a reminder to wipe it over semi-regularly. At least it doesn’t show fingerprints and scuff marks like many darker appliances.
Two spinning brushes adorn the side, helping the robot direct dry messes into its path. They’re an important part of the Qrevo Curv 2 Flow because of the robot’s circular shape. Robot manufacturers dabbled with some square-shaped appliances in recent years, but it seems that round robots are here to stay. So, the side brushes help clean tight corners, while the mop roller also extends outward to get as close to walls as possible.
Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow specifications and price
| Vacuum suction power | 20,000Pa |
| Mop type | Self-cleaning adaptive roller mop |
| Battery capacity | 5,200mAh |
| Size | Robot: 353 x 353 x 119mm Dock: 450 x 450 x 450mm |
| Dock features | 75°C mop cleaning 55°C air drying Auto-empty dustbin |
| Price (RRP) | $2,499 |
| Official website | Roborock Australia |
| Warranty | Two years |
Early navigation hiccups
From my experience, Roborock’s robot cleaners tend to be the fastest to set up and navigate homes more smartly than most. That view was challenged by the Qrevo Curv 2 Flow, which got a bit hungry for small objects the first couple of times I used it.
Near the front door is a water dish for our beloved cat, Billie. The dish sits on a silicon mat, so it doesn’t slip around when it’s drinking time. However, because of its low height, it’s one of the trickiest obstacles for any robot vacuum to detect.
Once again, that proved to be the case. On the Qrevo Curv 2 Flow’s first run, I returned home from a shopping trip to find the mat disturbed and the water dish upturned, water splashed everywhere. I’m pretty used to this by now — I should’ve remembered to move the drinking station off the floor and added a no-go zone via the Roborock app afterwards.
Except that the robot ignored much of the no-go zone on the next run, making another watery mess. $2,000 can’t get you a robot that avoids a pet’s water dish, it would seem. My theory is that the dish and mat sit below the robot sensors’ line of sight, so it tries to treat them as a threshold to be climbed over
Billie loves leaving her toys in random places throughout the house. Try as I might to keep them off the floor, feline friends have a way of defying decluttering efforts.
Some of these toys are small plush mice with short strings as tails. I thought the size of the mice would be large enough for the robot to detect and avoid.
I was wrong.
Midway through one of the robot’s first cleaning runs, a notification alerted me that a foreign object got stuck in the vacuum. I found the robot under the kitchen table, but it wasn’t immediately obvious what was wrong. Upon turning it upside down, I saw that it tried to inhale one of Billie’s toys. The toy’s string had been completely devoured, and the body of the mouse was trapped halfway through the robot’s suction port.
Thankfully, it was easy to yank the toy free and set the robot back on its path. Larger cables didn’t present an issue; they remain untouched, and the app correctly identified a power board, knowing to avoid it on future cleans.
Early misdemeanours aside, the Qrevo Curv 2 Flow avoids larger obstacles easily. It doesn’t collide with much, slowly coming to a stop and redirecting before bumping into walls and furniture. Just make sure you keep the small stuff off the floor.
Vacuuming and carpet performance
As I’ve mentioned in past robot vacuum reviews, the carpet in my house is notoriously tricky to clean. It has plenty of loop fibres that hair, fluff, and particles can’t help but get stuck in. A lot of vacuums struggle to dislodge particles from the forest that is my home’s carpet.
On tiles, the Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow has no problem picking up fur, fibres, and fluff. I’ll get to that in more detail in the next section. On carpet, the Qrevo proves itself to be more of a hard floor specialist.
After cleaning the carpets, the floor does look visibly cleaner. The robot picks up little bits of dirt, skin flakes, and other visible particles. It doesn’t quite get rid of cat fur, which sticks out like a sore thumb, trapped within the carpets’ fibres.
As if to help me test out the robot, my cat went on a zoomies run, almost a day after I’d used the Dyson Big Ball to do a deep clean of the carpet. She left tufts of fur in her wake, keen to prove herself as the ultimate lab assistant.
After one cleaning run, the Qrevo Curv 2 Flow picked up some of the fur, but not all. Setting the robot to its maximum suction power and a deep cleaning route — which does a lattice pattern to comprehensively cover more ground — picked up most of the fur, but left some small fibres behind.
You can still spy some signs of my cat’s warpath if you look closely, but the robot did much better compared to the first attempt. But even though the Curv 2 Flow automatically adjusts suction power when it detects carpet, I still needed to manually change the settings to get the best results.
Fortunately, not once did the Qrevo Curv 2 Flow get tangled. A combination of cat fur and my partner’s long hair wasn’t enough to trip it up, so the anti-tangle technology passed the test.
Tiles and mopping performance
On tiles, the Qrevo Curv 2 Flow is great. It comprehensively cleans up dirt, dust, cat fur, and even slightly bigger particles like bits of cat litter tracked throughout the house.
A big part of this robot’s vacuuming prowess stems from its dual spinning brushes. Some cheaper models have over-exuberant side brushes that flick fluff and debris out of the robot’s reach. Frustratingly, even when something is right in front of them, there’s a chance the mess will get flung across the room.
With the Qrevo Curv Flow 2, the brushes don’t rotate at full speed all the time. Instead, they intelligently adjust speed as needed. As a result, the brushes gently caress clumps of dust into its gaping maw, readily accepting the dirty snack.
It doesn’t take long for our household to accumulate patches of fur and fluff — our cat sees to that quite prolifically. So, after a few days in between cleans, there’s a clearly observable difference after the robot finishes a run. The tiles look and feel pleasantly clean.
Even the robot’s mop makes a nice difference, mainly as a form of regular maintenance. Despite the stronger roller mop design, it’s not powerful enough to dislodge anything too deeply stuck on the tiles.
To simulate some stickier messes, I spread some margarine and Nutella on the floor, along with a sprinkling of flour. As expected, the robot cleaned up the thinner margarine spread on the first attempt, while devouring the flour in a single pass.
But the brown stuff is where it came undone. To be clear, every robot vacuum I’ve tested has not been able to clean up thicker spreads, like Vegemite or Nutella, without some assistance. This proved to be the case again with the Qrevo Curv 2 Flow, which gently smeared the hazelnut spread instead of cleaning it up.
After three attempts at removing the Nutella, a smidge still remained. I wiped it up with some damp paper towel, applying more pressure than any robot vacuum on the market can.
A point in favour of Roborock was its self-cleaning technology. Despite not cleaning up the Nutella, the robot didn’t spread it throughout the house. After the robot returned to the dock and completed its hot water self-cleaning cycle, I couldn’t spy any visible residue on the roller mop.
Who is the Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow for?
Best suited to homes with hard floors or low pile carpets, the Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow continues robot manufacturers’ forays into roller mop technology. It’s a decent all-rounder but struggles to fully clean pet fur from denser carpets.
The cute, compact, and ergonomic docking station is a highlight, reducing hands-on maintenance. Roborock also shows its edge-cleaning prowess with the Curv 2 Flow; the extendable mop roller and adustable speed side brushes get into tight spots as well as any robotic appliance.
Some patience is required early on, with thin cables and pet toys proving difficult to detect. In a relatively non-cluttered home without thick carpets, the Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Flow is a nifty hands-free cleaner.
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