Narwal just sent me their Narwal T10 robot vacuum and mop. The T10 has been recognized by other reviewers as the best mopping robot out there. I’ve got a lot of hard floors to clean so I’m very excited to try it out.
I’ll give it a thorough test over the coming weeks and months and report back with a full review. Here’s what I know so far:
Other robot vacs with a mopping function look like robot vacuums that have a mopping attachment forced into it by desperate engineers. Essentially, they are robot vacuums that also do a little mopping.
However, the T10’s mopping feature is more than “just an attachment”. In fact, the T10 looks like it was designed from the ground up with mopping in mind. I think it’s fair to say that the T10 is a robot mop that also does a little vacuuming.
It has these dual rotating scrubbers that act as the main mopping scrub brushes. These brushes look like they can really give a floor a good scrubbing, especially when compared to the wet cloths that other robovacs drag across the floor.
It also comes with this big docking tower. At first glance, I assumed the T10’s docking tower was just another automatic dustbin emptier. But, the docking tower is actually a mop brush cleaning station. When the T10 senses that its mops are dirty, it will go back to the tower for a cleaning. Water from the clean bin flushes the dirt from the dirty mop pads. Then, the resulting dirty water is collected in the dirty water bin. Once the mops are clean, the T10 resumes cleaning where it left off.
My current robovac is a Roborock S6 Pure. It does a great job as a vacuum (my review). However, the mop feature is basically useless. It just drags a wet cloth pad across the floor. The cloth pad does pick up a little of the fine dirt/dust that the vacuum misses, but it has no chance of removing any stain that is stuck on the floor even a little bit.
Ever since we got the robovac (we call her Helen), we almost never have to do any floor cleaning. It constant sweeps the floor and keeps it clean enough that we rarely feel the need to get out the mop and do a deep clean. Therefore, our floors tend to be clean enough, but never super sparkly clean. I’m looking forward to seeing what the Narwal can do to change that.
