Mova's $1,300 V70 Ultra bets that reach, not suction, is the robot vacuum's remaining gap

Mova, a sub-brand of Dreame, has put the V70 Ultra Complete on sale for $1,300 through its own site, Amazon and other retailers ^[1][2]. The selling point is not the suction figure on the box but geometry: a mop pad that extends 6.7 inches from the body and a spinning side brush that extends close to 5 inches ^[3][4].

That targets the failure everyone with a robot vacuum already knows. The Verge's Jennifer Pattison Tuohy frames it as the kitchen stool problem: rows of stools and chairs tucked under tables that the robot cannot get into or around, in exactly the part of the house where crumbs collect ^[5]. After a day of testing, she reported the V70 reached the edges of each stool leg with its mop arm and swept debris out from under the stools, clearing dust bunnies in about five minutes on max suction with its dual roller brushes ^[6][7].

The reach numbers are what separate this from the last round of edge-cleaning attempts. Gizmodo notes that the Ecovacs Deebot X12 OmniCyclone and Narwal Freo Z10 Turbo both slide a mop out from beneath the body, but barely peek out, and that the side brush on Dreame's X60 Max Ultra Complete gets into corners while still leaving dust between chair legs ^[8][9]. Dreame pioneered the mop-split idea in the first place ^[10], and showed its own X60 Pro arm earlier this year with what appeared to be a larger mop and a more maneuverable arm, according to The Verge, which has not launched in the US ^[11]. The sub-brand is shipping the feature in the US before the parent brand does.

Which makes the 42,000Pa headline the least informative spec here. For comparison, Gizmodo puts the Eufy Omni E28 at 20,000Pa, the X12 OmniCyclone at 22,000Pa and the Dreame Aqua10 Ultra Roller at 30,000Pa ^[12]; the V70's figure is roughly 1.4 to 2.1 times those ^[13]. The same reviewer found the Matic, at 3,200Pa, picks up more debris with an oversized roller brush, and raised the risk of high suction pulling fibers out of rugs ^[14][15]. The V70 claims about 13 times the pascals of a machine that outperformed pricier rivals in that reviewer's testing ^[16].

The rest is the current premium checklist: a dock that empties the bin and washes the mops with 212-degree Fahrenheit water, a bagless cyclonic canister you dump into the trash rather than a bag you re-buy, a lidar disc that retracts so the robot fits under low furniture, cameras for obstacle detection, mop removal on carpet, and legs that lift it over thresholds of about 3.5 inches in two shorter step-ups rather than one ^{[17][18][19][20][21][22]}.

On price, Gizmodo says the X60 Max Ultra Complete and Aqua10 Ultra Roller launched at $1,700 and $1,600, putting the V70 about $400, or 24 percent, below the flagship ^[23][24]. The Verge describes that same X60 Max as Dreame's $1,500 flagship and says the V70's build quality is not as premium ^[25][26]; the two accounts differ by $200 on the flagship's price ^[27]. Gizmodo's reviewer, having been disappointed by both Dreame robots tested, is openly skeptical that a machine sharing this much DNA will deliver ^[28].

Watch whether the X60 Pro reaches the US with its bigger arm ^[11], and watch longer reviews for the ordinary failure modes Gizmodo lists: clogging, loud self-emptying docks, and obstacle avoidance around cables ^[29]. One day of hands-on time is not a verdict on a $1,300 appliance ^[6].