Taking on the second level of your home is not something the current crop of robo-vacs can do without assistant. But a new model from Dreame aims to rise to the occasion.
Robotic vacuums may well be a solid option for maintaining the cleanliness of your home’s dust and debris, and even handle a bit of mopping, too, but there’s one area they tend to really struggle: stairs.
If your home has more than one level, or it happens to have a few steps separating a room or two, your regular everyday robotic vacuum these days is probably going to hit the step and say a big “nope” to anything beyond it, compared to the old days of trying to throw themselves from the porch. You can thank a combination of sensors for the fix, as well as a good dose of AI, but the hardware hasn’t been quite as developed as a pair of legs to lift them up the stairs.
Until now, that is.
Over at IFA in Germany, robo-vac maker Dreame has showed off what it calls the industry’s first stair-climbing robot vacuum in the Cyber X, a rather ambiguous name that blends a few components together to make it a robotic vacuum that can climb stairs.
The system includes a robotic vacuum itself, as well as a stair climbing system Dreame calls the “Bionic QuadTrack”, a mechanism that includes four legs with notched rubber treads that can use AI and a laser system to analyse the stairs, and angle the legs accordingly to roll the mechanism and the robotic vacuum it carries up and down the stairs.
In essence, Dreame’s Cyber X robotic vacuum isn’t going up or down the stairs as a vacuum, but rather as a passenger on the Bionic QuadTrack system, carried up so it can do its job, before being carried back down to the base station once again.
It’s worth noting that this isn’t Dreame’s first attempt at legs on a robotic vacuum. Earlier this year, the robo-vac maker showed its experiments using a little retractable leg system that could see it go up minor steps, such as the step separating rooms in your home. It wasn’t quite the flight of stairs being mentioned or talked about here, but it was a step to being a less dependent robo-vac.
The stair climbing robot is just one of a handful of gadgets Dreame showed at IFA, including a new variation of a robotic vacuum with an arm (the Cyber10 Ultra) which can pick up objects weighing as much as 500 grams and can use cleaning tools like brushes and vacuum nozzles on the arm.
There will also even be a robotic arm on a stick vacuum, the V20 Pro and V30, which will uses infrared sensors to extend to the very edge of a room if needed.
Dreame also talked up a unique robotic mop solution, the Matrix10 Ultra, a robotic multi-mop dock that can hold different mop types and switch them on the robotic cleaner for different rooms.
For instance, you might need to use a sponge-style for bathrooms, a nylon-bristled stripping pad for the kitchen, and a thermal mop in other rooms. This model can automatically change the mop type dependent on a room, making it that little bit more controllable.
Interestingly, this model does have a price set for Australia, with the Matrix10 Ultra set for a release at the end of September from $3499. Meanwhile, Cyber10 Ultra and its 500g-ready robo-arm is expected in Australia early 2026, and that stair climbing vacuum doesn’t quite have a price yet, but we’ll let you know if and when that changes.
