Roborock used IFA 2026 in Berlin to unveil a genuinely wide spread of new robots — vacuums, a lawnmower, and even a robotic pool cleaner all showed up at once. None of them fold your laundry, but one has an odd, almost animal-like way of getting up a staircase that’s worth knowing about.
The Saros Rover Walks Up Stairs on Wheel-Legs
The headline device is the Saros Rover, which actually first showed up at CES back in January before making its IFA appearance. Instead of wheels alone, it uses two extendable wheel-legs that can raise and lower independently, letting the robot roll onto a step, then pull its second leg up to join it — a slow, deliberate climbing motion rather than a jump or a hop. Roborock says the design is built to handle real architectural quirks like spiral staircases and carpeted bullnose edges, which matters most for split-level homes where a normal robot vacuum simply can’t follow you between floors without being carried.
Two More Vacuums Round Out the Saros Line
Alongside the Rover, Roborock introduced the Saros 20 Flow Complete and the Saros 20 Neo. Both stick to more conventional vacuum-and-mop functionality, but add improved handling for double-layer floor thresholds — the small transition strips between rooms with different flooring that have historically tripped up robot vacuums or forced owners to set manual no-go zones around them.
An Upright That Hits Steam Temperature in 30 Seconds
Roborock also showed off the F25 Ultra Steam Gen 2, an upright cleaner rather than a robot. It preheats its internal tank the moment you start cleaning and reaches a stable 180°C (roughly 365°F) of steam output in about 30 seconds — fast enough that the usual wait-around-for-it-to-heat-up complaint largely disappears. It also automatically adjusts its cleaning mode based on the floor type it detects, without asking you to switch settings manually. A second new upright, the F25 Pro Turbo Combo, trades some of that automation for physical flexibility: a detachable drive module and multiple swappable brush heads.
Roborock Is Going Outdoors Too
Two announcements pushed Roborock well outside its usual living-room territory. The RockNeo Q2 is a LiDAR-guided robotic lawnmower rated IPX6 for water resistance, capable of handling slopes up to a 45% incline and squeezing through gaps as narrow as 60cm (just under 2 feet) — and it works with both Amazon Alexa and Google Home. The RockAqua P1, meanwhile, is a robotic pool cleaner with roughly 3.5 hours of runtime and a smart motor that adjusts its own energy use depending on how much debris it’s dealing with and the specific conditions of your pool.
Pricing, and a Quiet Nod to the US Robot Ban
Roborock didn’t share pricing for any of these devices ahead of the event, and the company has historically staggered US releases well after European launches — a pattern it says will continue here. More notably, Roborock stopped short of directly addressing the FCC’s recent ban on foreign-made advanced robotic devices, saying only that US availability for the RockNeo Q2 mower and RockAqua P1 pool cleaner is “to be confirmed.” Two vacuums appear to have already cleared that hurdle: the Saros 20 Neo is set to launch in the US under the name Qrevo Edge 3 Pro, and the Saros 20 Flow Complete is expected to arrive there in October — timing that suggests both had already made it through FCC approval before the ban took effect.
Bottom Line
IFA 2026 made clear Roborock isn’t content staying in its lane as a vacuum brand — lawnmowers and pool cleaners are now part of the pitch, alongside genuinely novel hardware like the Rover’s wheel-legs. Whether stair-climbing robots become a mainstream category or stay a flashy CES demo largely depends on price, and Roborock isn’t saying yet. The clearest signal of what’s actually launching soon in the US is the Saros 20 lineup — everything else is still riding on regulatory approval that hasn’t been confirmed.
