【【【Foreword: Sweeping robots are becoming more and more high-end】】】
Nowadays, in the field of smart home appliances, "sweeping robots" are undoubtedly the fastest growing and most drastic changes in recent years.
In 2021, the relevant white paper released by the affiliated institutions of the China Home Appliance Association shows that in just one year from 2019 to 2020, the main sales price segment of the sweeping robot industry has changed from an entry-level product of 1200-1999 yuan to a high-end flagship product of 3000-5000 yuan.
Why has there been such a big change? On the one hand, the vigorous development of the "home economy" and the heavy pressure of young people have prompted more and more consumers to replace manual labor with automated smart cleaning tools, liberating "people" from housework, resting and enjoying life.
On the other hand, it is not difficult to find that although the sweeping robot has been available as early as the 90s of the last century, its real practicality is actually what has happened in recent years. When it comes to the key technologies that promote the "practicalization" and "popularization" of sweeping robots, they are lidar, visual navigation, sweeping and dragging integrated design, and self-cleaning base stations.
【【【Product analysis: The most comprehensive flagship of stone ever】】】
Interestingly, in the entire industry, Stone Technology has led the popularity of almost all of the above technologies. As early as 2017, they launched a laser navigation sweeping robot in the price segment of 2,000 yuan, almost single-handedly bringing a price revolution to the entire industry.
In 2020, Stone launched the T7 Pro equipped with binocular visual obstacle avoidance, taking the lead in exploring the AI visual navigation algorithm, and also making it fashionable to "remotely suck cats with sweeping robots".
In early 2021, stone's T7S and T7S Plus were launched, pioneering the acoustic vibration flooring design when competitors generally used a rotary flooring design, and were also equipped with a dust collection base that was probably the best material at that time. It is equivalent to directly stuffing a multi-cone cyclone vacuum cleaner into the dust collection seat, and brings amazing dust collection suction and dust separation effect.
The G10 will be released in the second half of 2021, and this time they will focus on automatic mop washing and automatic replenishment. However, this also brings "choice difficulties" to some consumers, T7S Plus that can automatically collect dust and G10 that can automatically wash and mop and replenish water, which is better?
Fortunately, in 2022, Stone finally gave the ultimate answer to the G10S Pro. To some extent, this product can be regarded as the master of all the technology and functions of the stone's previous sweeping robot, and it has also brought about a significant upgrade.
First of all, the biggest feature of the G10S Pro is obviously this huge "5+2" high-energy base station. The reason why it is called "5 + 2" is because it has 5 standard functions in the base station at one time, that is, automatic dust collection, automatic washing of mop cloth, base station self-cleaning, automatic (to the robot's mopping water tank) water replenishment, automatic bacteriostatic.
On this basis, the base station of the G10S Pro also has a modular design, which can be additionally added by means of optional additional modules, plus two functions: mop hot air drying and automatic water exchange (water purification tank and sewage tank).
As a result, from the perspective of base station functionality alone, the G10S Pro has actually achieved the most complete, or even one of the most complete, in the current industry. And its standard and optional functions are also very scientific, after all, the water tank water supply and sewage function needs to be reserved in the wall, which is more in line with the needs of most users; and the stone's own patented mop lifting structure and fuselage layout also determine that its demand for "drying" is not as urgent as other models. And the content of this part, we will describe in detail later in this article.
Secondly, from the perspective of the body function of the sweeping robot, G10S Pro also uses their latest multi-link floating brush design, while raising the suction power from the previous generation of 2500Pa to the level of 5100Pa. And it is worth mentioning that the indicator with the highest suction power in the industry before was 5000Pa, so the significant increase in the suction power of G10S Pro is obviously targeted.
In addition, in the navigation and positioning related hardware configuration, G10S Pro this time is the use of lidar + 3D structured light + monocular AI camera + independent fill light + side ultrasonic sensor + bottom carpet and height sensor luxury configuration.
To some extent, G10S Pro is basically equivalent to the navigation obstacle avoidance scheme of several generations of flagship products such as T7Pro, T7S Plus, and G10, all of which are integrated, plus the new generation of RR mason 9.0 algorithm developed by Stone Technology. It is not difficult to see from this that stone is determined to build the G10S Pro into the industry's strongest configuration sweeping flagship model.
Of course, in addition to the above new features, the G10S Pro also basically continues all the previous existing technical features of the stone. These include the acoustic vibration mopping unit that can be automatically lifted and lowered, the built-in electronically controlled water tank, the LED light strip that can intuitively see the current working state, the support for automatic recognition of multi-floor maps, and the four major control platforms that are compatible with the small love speaker, the small degree speaker, the Tmall genie, and the Siri shortcut, etc., which can be described as "no one has me, and people have me excellent".
【【【Software experience: details are full of functions, use fun enough】】】
After looking at the full stack of functional specifications, let's take a look at the G10S Pro software experience.
As we all know, Stone's sweeping robot has always supported two sets of APP control, that is to say, it can be paired with the Mijia APP to achieve linkage with other smart home devices, and can also be paired with Stone's own Roborock APP to unlock more exclusive functions. We will show you the Roborock APP today, but we will also mention the differences between some of the two apps.
First of all, in the most basic sweep mode control, whether using Mijia or Roborock, G10S Pro supports whole house, selection and district cleaning. And the cleaning mode can choose to sweep and drag synchronization, single sweep or single drag, and even customize different modes for each different room.
And if you want to focus and deeply clean a certain area, then the G10S Pro can also support three consecutive cleaning of selected areas. And interestingly, in this "repeated sweeping" mode, its navigation path is actually different from a single sweep. As you can see, the G10S Pro uses a fully intersecting path with the first sweep for better detail coverage. Obviously, this design is really practical.
Secondly, thanks to the iteration of the algorithm, G10S Pro can support intelligent arrangement of cleaning orders and cleaning modes in different rooms, which is obviously meaningful for users who are accustomed to letting the sweeping robot clean the whole house after going out. Especially when there is a need for mopping, the cleaning order determines the order in which the floor is dried, and being able to prioritize automatic cleaning of the rooms that may be the most commonly used will be much "smarter" than foolishly cleaning room by room.
As we mentioned earlier, G10S Pro has piled up multiple solutions of structured light + lidar + AI vision in one go on the navigation-related hardware. And this is also very obvious in the software experience. As you can see, the G10S Pro has re-added the "real-time video" function on the T7 Pro, so in theory it can be used as a home video surveillance terminal, and let it patrol the home through remote control operation.
Of course, the role of this camera is not only to shoot video while cleaning, it itself is driven by AI functions, it can also automatically identify various small objects on the floor, so as to achieve a better intelligent obstacle avoidance effect. At the same time, this also allows the G10S Pro to automatically identify large pieces of furniture, resulting in a more accurate and "immersive" drawing effect.
Not only that, G10S Pro also allows users to edit the map more finely this time, users can set the floor material of different rooms, and place the furniture in the room according to the actual situation. And these more granular data, in turn, will promote the "evolution" of the sweeping robot AI, thus making it more intelligent to determine the cleaning strategy.
If that's not "cool" enough, the Roborock APP's unique 3D map feature is definitely enough to make people shine. As you can see, it can generate a fully 3D, zoomable, rotating indoor map, and you can see the details of the whole house in this map like a 3D game. And as the number of sweeps increases, the 3D map will theoretically become more and more accurate.
【【Cleaning test: super cleaning ability, detail experience worry-free】】
Finally, we naturally want to carefully test and summarize the cleaning ability and actual use experience of the G10S Pro.
First of all, in terms of sweeping ability, the performance of the G10S Pro is completely and completely unnecessary. After all, it has the largest suction force on the market at present, and it also has the stone's own patented full rubber brush design. Compared with traditional brushes, the full rubber brush can better adhere to the floor, and it is also less likely to appear hair entanglement.
In contrast, we would like to mention the dust collection performance of the G10S Pro in particular. As you can see, in the intelligent dust collection mode, its ability to empty the dust box is basically satisfactory. However, it should be known that compared with the previous generation, although the base of the G10S Pro is larger, the specifications of the dust collection part are actually smaller, so it is not easy to maintain the same dust collection capacity.
Secondly, different from the multi-cone cyclone + dust box design of the previous generation of vacuum cleaners, G10S Pro uses a more mainstream dust bag dust collection scheme this time. The biggest advantage of the dust bag is that it is more sealed and discarded immediately, which can avoid the trouble of cleaning the dust box and feel more convenient for the user.
Incidentally, compared to other similar products on the market, the G10S Pro's dust bag workmanship material is indeed much better. It can be seen that it uses a plastic handle and seal design instead of the usual kraft material. If you get water on your hands and then lift the dust bag, is there a "tragedy" that can happen to the other products? However, the same problem does not exist at all on the G10S Pro.
In terms of mopping, due to the use of the patented ultrasonic vibration mopping unit, it can be seen that the water stains of the G10S Pro are significantly slighter than those of other flagship mopping robots, and there will be no splashing droplets outside the mopping track.
Not only that, but we also used aged vinegar and blood stains to investigate the G10S Pro's mop cleaning ability, and in order to increase the difficulty, all the liquids were deliberately dried on the ground all night, making them sticky, even completely dry stains, and then using the G10S Pro's "strong wipe" mode for single mop testing.
The results showed that under the power of 3,000 vibration mop, these dry stains were disintegrated almost instantaneously, and the effect was even better than manual wiping.
After the mopping is complete, the mop is not cleaned
A mop since cleaning
Sewage collected in sewage buckets
Finally, the G10S Pro's self-cleaning effect of the mop cloth is also quite good. As you can see, it almost completely washes the mop, and the amount of water used is not large.
Machine orientation in the wash cloth and automatic hydration state
And it is worth mentioning that the ultrasonic mopping unit of the stone has an exclusive upgrade structure, and also adopts a very clever design, charging (including dust collection) ports and mop cloth just at both ends of the fuselage. This means that when the self-cleaning is over, on the one hand, the mop unit will automatically rise and will not touch the "floor" of the base, on the other hand, the sweeping robot will also rotate 180 degrees to enter the charging state, at this time the mop is equivalent to being "dried" in the outer position.
The machine orientation in the charging (and dust collection) state
That's right, that's why we said earlier that the G10S Pro doesn't really need drying. After all, it is not like other sweeping robots, the mop has been "nested" inside the base, and has been in contact with the wet self-cleaning components.
【【【Summary: Stone technology set the perfect choice for obsessive-compulsive disorder】】
Overall, the G10S Pro, as Stone's flagship product in 2022, has the intent to be fairly obvious. It is to pile all the specifications and functions to the strongest, so as to set a new benchmark for the experience of the sweeping robot industry in one fell swoop.
From the actual use experience, this design goal of the stone has indeed been achieved. On the cleaning ability, the current strongest suction and exclusive vibration mop design, so that it has no opponent in the "job"; and in terms of the degree of ease of use, the compatibility of double APP and four major voice platforms is also unparalleled in the industry.
Not to mention that through the navigation design of the extreme stacking material and the self-cleaning base design with sufficient materials, the G10S Pro has "perfected" many competitors while also showing a wave of technology in a down-to-earth manner.
That is to say, for Stone Technology, which has always been showing its "technical power", G10S Pro is indeed a super flagship that can reflect their product design ideas. And for those who are entangled in the various shortcomings of existing products and want a perfect high-performance sweeping robot "obsessive-compulsive" users, the stone G10S Pro is tantamount to their "savior".