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This robot vacuum has a transparent chassis and is designed to make floor and house maintenance significantly less stressful.
"Hello everyone and welcome to another Gamereactor Quick Look.
The manufacturers that have dominated their respective product categories are ever so slightly expanding what they do in order to appeal to a broader customer base and also just to challenge the established status quo."
"However you feel about Chinese manufacturers in general, it is very good to see increased competition in the market.
That is not just in electric vehicles, but it is also in home tech, for instance.
So DJI, you might know, as pretty much the de facto manufacturer for drones and other sort of semi-pro camera equipment, such as the Osmo, if you want a mobile gimbal, for instance, or yeah, as I said, the drones."
"So they were pretty, they made headlines when they said, we can use some of that equipment that we have designed and calibrated over the years to make a pretty good robot vacuum cleaner.
And this is what it looks like."
"This is the Romo P. I should stress that if you look at this nothing phone-like transparent design on the base and on the vacuum cleaner itself, then this is only the highest tier Romo P.
There are other Romo variants, which does not have this transparent design."
"You also sacrifice some features by downgrading from this transparent P version, but it should be said that having this striking design profile in the middle of your living room or wherever you choose to place this is going to be top of mind.
So if you like it, and there might be reasons why people like the nothing phone, for instance, well, then the Romo P is available for you."
"But if you like the feature set and the idea of bringing DJI into your home, but don't like the transparent design, you can have it with a regular sort of plastic solid finish.
Do I like the transparent design?
I definitely like when people challenge our beliefs and in the framework with which we understand consumer electronics."
"That was the case with the nothing phone one as well.
I like transparent tech as well.
I think the small nothing ear one, for instance, was pretty revolutionary for its time.
Do I like it on a robot vacuum cleaner and mop?
I'm not sure."
"When I saw the initial photos, I thought that is striking that they're doing something new.
That's cool.
Then I showed it to my girlfriend and she had a completely different sort of perspective.
She said, these things need to be subtle."
"They need to be anonymous.
I don't want to have my eye drawn to it.
I don't want guests in my home to look and say, what a special robot vacuum cleaner you have."
"It's just a fundamentally difference of perspective.
She wants it to blend in.
Some people want it to stand out.
And this does the second option."
"Regardless, you will get a pretty good robot vacuum cleaner if you go for this Romo P.
It is 25,000 pascals of suction power from here, from the bottom here.
It's dual blades.
So that means less entanglement here."
"And these really thick mopping pads should do a good job of scrubbing in general.
25,000 is next highest, I believe, because you do have the Matrix 10 Ultra from Dream, which advertises 30,000 pascals.
25K is nothing to scoff at."
"And also, while it might be striking to look at, it is not really as big as other robot vacuum cleaners.
In fact, both the base and the unit itself kind of emulates the Krivo Curve from Roborock, but with better specs than the Krivo Curve."
"So that is actually a pretty good way to look at it.
But there is a problem here.
There is a state-of-the-art LiDAR array, which is lifted directly from some of DJI's drone technology.
It can detect objects down to less than two millimeters."
"And it has multiple wide-angle solid-state LiDAR sensors here.
So it should be very good at navigating, particularly if you don't clean up your house before you set this to mop and vacuum.
But what has also come to dominate in this particular genre is clearance."
"Now what I mean by that is that it is the angle with which a robot vacuum cleaner can charge at, say, a door sill, and how high the wheels can take it to force itself up from there.
So some of you out there watching may have a perfectly level floor all throughout your house."
"No sills, meaning no catches with which the robot vacuum cleaner can sort of force itself on and then, for instance, get trapped.
But a lot of you, I reckon, does not have perfect level floors.
There are sills on the doors that will prevent robot vacuum cleaners from getting over them and actually cleaning said floors."
"The Dream variant, for instance, the X50 Ultra, which costs less than this, can force, they say, around 60 millimeters of clearance.
This only does 25 millimeters.
There is no lift."
"I know it looks like there's a lot of give here, but that means that the door sill is going to be pretty low for this to get over it and continue its cleaning cycle, which might be a problem for you if you have those high sills.
Still, it's pretty good on most specs, 164 millimeter onboard water tank, which is great."
"They say that it is much quieter than regular robot vacuum cleaners.
I don't know whether that's true or not.
They say it can run for three hours on one charge.
That sounds really promising."
"And they say that it's, again, less maintenance than with regular.
They advertise 100 days maintenance free before you start to have to do things like clean in here or something like that.
So it seems that it's a bit of a mismatched product."
"It is by far the most expensive robot vacuum cleaner that you can buy, apart from the Matrix 10 Ultra.
And there's no gimmick here.
It doesn't have a vertical takeoff like you would expect from a DJI product."
"And it's just a good robot vacuum cleaner, but you would expect it at that price point and this design profile to be the best.
We'll review this in full and get back to you soon.
See you on the next one."
