CES 2025: Dreame’s X50 Extremely can climb stairs. Form of.

CES 2025 is crammed with bizarre, new robotic vacuum improvements. Dreame, a Chinese language tech firm, has unveiled its new X50 Extremely, a “stair-climbing” robotic vacuum. However earlier than you begin dreaming (pun supposed) of a bot that may clear your steps, right here’s the truth: the X50 Extremely doesn’t really climb stairs.

Properly, not precisely.

The X50 Extremely can “climb” provided that your stairs are about two inches tall, which could make it extra correct to name it a threshold-hopper. Dreame’s North American PR crew is advertising and marketing it because the “robotic vacuum that may actually climb stairs” (their emphasis, not ours). That declare feels a bit overblown, contemplating the X50 Extremely’s precise functionality is extra about navigating small obstacles like cords or the lip of a doorway — duties powered by Dreame’s ProLeap System expertise.

Even so, two inches is greater than double the brink clearance top of most robotic vacuums available on the market. It is probably not sufficient for a full step, nevertheless it’s nothing to sneeze at.

Sadly, we weren’t in a position to take a look at the X50 Extremely’s capacity to deal with thresholds because of Wi-Fi points. Nonetheless, regardless of its exaggerated advertising and marketing claims, the X50 Extremely appears to be like like a stable contender based mostly on its specs. It boasts as much as 20,000Pa of suction energy, a HyperStream Detangling DuoBrush for tangle-free cleansing, and a 360-degree scanning sensor for clean, environment friendly navigation.

You’ll nonetheless must manually carry your robotic companion up stairs contemplating that its navigational talents are restricted to thresholds simply over two inches excessive. However in the event you’re after a premium robotic vacuum that’s nice at dealing with obstacles on flat flooring with out getting caught, the X50 Extremely is likely to be value contemplating.

The Dreame X50 Extremely can be accessible for pre-order on Jan. 7 for $1,699 and launches on Valentine’s Day 2024.

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