The future of floor cleaning just got grabby. Roborock’s new Saros Z70, showcased at CES 2025, features a telescoping robotic arm that can actually pick up your socks, small towels, and other floor-dwelling items. This AI-powered machine assesses objects, repositions for better angles, and lifts items up to 10.5 ounces. No more pre-cleaning rituals before running your robot vacuum—this little helper’s ready to do the dirty work you’ve been dreading.
Imagine never having to bend down to pick up that lone sock again. The Roborock Saros Z70, revealed at CES 2025, is making this seemingly trivial dream a reality with its telescoping robotic arm. Finally, a vacuum that doesn’t just navigate around your floor debris but actually picks it up and puts it away.
This isn’t your mother’s Roomba. The Saros Z70 features a foldable five-axis “OmniGrip” arm that extends from its body when it spots something that doesn’t belong on your floor. Socks, small towels, errant pieces of paper, even your beach sandals—all within its grasp, literally.
During demonstrations, the vacuum showed off its sock-snatching prowess by traveling in straight lines, spotting objects, and delivering them to designated baskets. It even successfully nabbed a wool beanie. *Not bad for a device whose ancestors would helplessly tangle themselves in charging cables.*
The AI technology powering this little cleaner represents a significant leap forward. Rather than merely avoiding obstacles like traditional robot vacuums, the Z70 assesses items, decides if they’re pickup-worthy, and sometimes even strategically repositions itself for a better angle—like a tiny mechanical butler with OCD tendencies.
Of course, it’s not perfect. Sometimes objects slip from its grasp, and the prototype occasionally went rogue during demonstrations. There are also limitations to what it can lift based on size and weight. Your teenager’s abandoned sneakers might still require human intervention. The vacuum’s weight capacity tops out at 10.5 ounces per object, explaining its focus on lighter items like socks.
What makes this truly revolutionary is how it eliminates the annoying “pre-cleaning” ritual that robot vacuum owners know all too well. No more scrambling to pick up floor clutter before your robot can actually clean.
With its Best of CES recognition from CNET home editors, the Saros Z70 has already garnered attention as a groundbreaking addition to smart home technology.
This innovation represents a practical example of how AI adoption is fundamentally changing our daily routines and home maintenance activities.
While the technology continues refinement, one thing is clear: we’re entering an era where our vacuums don’t just clean our floors—they tidy them first. And in the great tradition of technological advancement, we’ve solved yet another problem we didn’t know we had.
