Dreame has debuted its new X50 Ultra Complete robot vacuum cleaner at CES 2025. The new robot vacuum has retractable legs and arms so it can climb the stairs and clear clutter.

While the Dreame X50 Ultra, announced today at CES, is being written about as the stair-climbing robot of our dreams, it turns out this is only true if the steps in question are under 2 inches tall. Rather,

It turns out that Roborock isn’t the only company that brought a robot vacuum with a mechanical arm to CES 2025. Rival company Dreame, which unveiled its stair-climbing robot vacuum earlier in the week, is also working on a robot vacuum with an arm for picking up objects.

Robot vacuums already take one of the most tedious household tasks off your hands, and with Roborock’s latest innovation, they’re now poised to tackle another chore: picking up after oneself.

Roborock unveiled a feature that it hopes could help its vacuums dethrone the Roomba: an arm. This is Saros Z70, the autonomous vacuum that comes equipped with a five-axis arm that unfolds from the top of the vacuum to pick up obstacles using onboard cameras and sensors.

Every year the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has some delightfully silly products, but sometimes you get a device like the Roborock Saros Z70, which sits on the line between "that's silly" and "I need it".