The S10 features 6,500 Pa of suction power, and it did an excellent job picking up all the dust, cat fur, and debris around my apartment.
When I first ran the S10, only three days had passed since I last vacuumed, and yet, its dustbin was fully packed after cleaning on the Low suction power setting. In fact, it was so packed that it wasn’t able to auto-empty the dust on its first clean. On all subsequent cleans, the vacuum was able to completely empty the dustbin with ease.
The S10 is equipped with an anti-tangle rubber brush, and it works extremely well. The only other robot vacuum I’ve tested with a “Hairodynamic” roller brush is Narwal’s Freo X Ultra, and while these two brushes look different, they function similarly. Any hair sucked up simply glides into the dustbin, rather than getting tangled around the brush.
To test the S10’s AI-powered obstacle avoidance capabilities, I put a pair of shoes, a small stuffed animal, a wrapped-up charging brick and cable, and a small cat toy in its path. As expected, it avoided the shoes well, although it moved them a little while initially getting around them. It realized the small stuffed animal was there, but ended up pushing it out of the way when turning around to leave the area.
I was most impressed by its careful navigation around the wrapped charging brick and cord. The vacuum turned around and backed into the cable slowly, seeming to recognize something small, and avoided it completely while it finished vacuuming. It doesn’t do well with loose cables — no robot vacuum really does right now — but it’s good to know that it can avoid smaller, contained items well.
