MOVA Z60 Ultra Roller Complete
£959.00
Pros
- Strong 28,000Pa suction
- Anti-tangle DuoBrush for hair
- Roller mop rinsed with fresh water as it goes
- Dock washes roller in 80°C water and dries with hot air
- Mop extends sideways to reach edges and corners
Cons
- Premium price
- Big dock to find space for
Robot Vacuum and Mop with Auto-Empty and Mop Self-Cleaning
I’ve been a fan of robot vacuums for a long time. My Dyson 360 Eye has been going for many years, and in all that time it’s only ever needed its filters cleaning. But it only vacuums, and I can’t map out rooms for it to avoid areas to vacuum. Anything that needs mopping is still down to me, a cuban mop and a bucket.
Since moving into a new house a couple of years ago, we’ve had laminate flooring in a large proportion of the downstairs rooms. Whilst I have been using a cuban mop to wash the floor on occasion (rarely!) it has been looking very dirty, when you look closely. Seeing as I haven’t been making time to clean the laminate floors regularly, I wanted to get a robot vacuum that had excellent mopping capability.
After extensive research, I settled for the MOVA Z60 Ultra Roller Complete.
MOVA describe the Z60 Ultra Roller Complete as their flagship roller mop robot. 28,000Pa of suction is amongst the highest available. The roller mop is rinsed with fresh water while it works, so it isn’t just pushing dirty water around – unlike spinning pads that many mop robots use. A dock that washes the roller in hot water and then dries it, to ensure it stays clean and not smelly sitting in the dock.
Note that this is the Complete version that I’m reviewing, which is the top of the range. There is also a cheaper Z60 Ultra Roller SA, with 26,000Pa suction that gives up the Complete’s ability to tackle higher thresholds. Also note that I purchased this (like all the products I review), so I haven’t been influenced by receiving a gift from MOVA.
MOVA Packaging
The box housing the MOVA Z60 is strong and has stylish product photography. Each side has some visually striking images and details about the product.
Inside the outer box, the MOVA Z60 Ultra Roller Complete is tightly secured with extensive cardboard cushioning and soft material covering some of the delicate items. For example, the baseplate (photo, right) is secured in cardboard and also covered in a small soft bag to protect it.
What’s in the Box?
MOVA Z60 Ultra Roller Complete
The baseplate itself has ridges to help with traction when the vacuum is climbing up and down. Plus there are lugs underneath that help site it into the dock.
The MOVA Z60 itself is really well cushioned in cardboard, protected by a soft cover. It also has a protective plastic cover, and several other protective additions which need to be removed before use.
The robot is a round, black vacuum with a slimline body that is designed to slip under furniture. It manages to fit under several of my furniture items, but at around 96mm with the turret retracted, it couldn’t fit under all of them. But there is a limit as to how small these things can get without being effective!
The retractable turret on top houses the laser navigation. It uses dual lasers with 3D structured light, an RGB camera for AI object recognition, and a side-edge laser.
Underneath the Robot Vacuum Body
Underneath, the roller mop is grey and white in colour, and over 25cm wide. MOVA’s MaxiReach feature can extend it a further 4cm to the side, to get into corners and right up to the wall. In action this extends quietly and swiftly. I was surprised just how frequently the vacuum moved the mop in and out as it was going.
Alongside it is the TroboWave DuoBrush, which combines a rubber brush for hard floors with a rubber-bristle brush for carpets. It’s an anti-tangle design, so it should cope with hair far better than a traditional bristle brush. I’ll be watching that claim closely. We have a lot of long hair on our floors, from both my wife and our cat, which it needs to cope with.
Plus at the edge is a rotating brush with three heads. This doesn’t excessively spin all the time, as I expected. Instead it just comes on and off when the vacuum spots debris to pull into its range for vacuuming.
The main wheels on either side have the capability lift up so that the robot can go over large thresholds. As I don’t have any of those in my house, I can’t comment on how effective it is.
But what I can say is that the robot is highly manoeuvrable. The front roller wheel, coupled with the two large wheels at the side, enable the vacuum to spin on a sixpence. It easily gets in and around my dining room chairs, an area I was concerned it might not be able to clean effectively. I needn’t have worried.
Docking Station
The docking station was well wrapped in a protective sleeve, and was quite a lot lighter than I anticipated. That’s not a bad thing- the build quality appears good (although largely plastic, of course).
The dock houses the dust bag that the vacuums dust bin gets emptied into. It also contains a 4 litre reservoir of clean water that is used to refill the robot’s clean water container, and a 3.5 litre reservoir that the dirty water from the robot gets emptied into.
When the MOVA Z60 returns to the docking station it also washes the roller mop with water heated to 80°C, and then dries it with hot air to keep mould and odours at bay.
There are two solution compartments, for a pet odour liquid and a general cleaning liquid. MOVA recommend that you only use their cleaning fluids (of course!).
Accessories
The ‘complete’ part of the product name comes from the extensive set of accessories that this set comes with.
There are:
- Two spare rotating brushes
- Three replacement filters
- Two vacuum brushes
- Three spare roller mops
- Three dust bags
- 200ml bottle of pet odour solution
- 1 litre bottle of multi-surface cleaner
To my mind, this really added great value to the package as a whole. The spares will last some time.
The MOVAhome App
It took me a frustrating while to get the MOVAhome app up and running on my phone, owing to a code supposedly being sent to my email address, but nothing being received. After about 15 minutes of trying, an email did come through and I was able to complete the setup. The app pleasantly surprised me. It didn’t appear to be a Chinese app translated, but rather an English app for a Chinese product. The app is available for iOS and Android.
Within it you can set a vast range of settings, including pet care. If you have a pet, it will avoid an area it believes may be poop, to avoid making a worse mess by trying to clean it. It can also be set to snap photos and videos of your pet, whilst the clean is underway.
You can view the cleaning history, schedule cleaning, and take on board suggestions for alterations to mapping. The mapping is set via an initial first run of the robot vacuum. It will traverse the house, around room edges, to get a full map of the environment. Once compete, you can then set boundaries to rooms, type of flooring, mark where rugs are etc.
Home Assistant
The MOVA Z60 has voice assistance, responding to “Hey MOVA”. It also works with Google Home and Amazon Alexa. But I can’t comment on its effectiveness as I’m not using any of those voice features.
I automate my house with Home Assistant, so I wanted to know whether I could get the robot into that too. There’s no official integration, but a community-built one, Dreame Vacuum for Home Assistant, lists the Z60 Ultra Roller Complete among its supported devices. It’s installed through HACS, and set up with your MOVA Home account and region. It works through MOVA’s cloud, rather than locally.
Once it’s in, you get around 200 entities. They include the robot’s state, battery level and error codes, how much life is left in the brushes, filter and roller, the status of the water tanks and dust bag, and cleaning history for area, time and count. There are also switches for things like carpet boost and the AI obstacle settings, plus buttons to empty the dust bin, self-clean the dock and dry the roller manually. You can also pick the suction, cleaning mode and mop wetness per room. That gave me everything I needed to build a vacuum dashboard, with a map, buttons to clean individual rooms, and phone alerts when it finishes or something needs attention.
Note: It’s a community project rather than something MOVA support, so it could break if MOVA change something on their side.
Using the MOVA Z60 Ultra Roller Complete
Vacuuming
The MOVA Z60 produces 28,000Pa of suction from MOVA’s TurboForce 9 motor. Pa figures are a manufacturer’s number and you can’t compare them directly between brands, so I’d rather judge it by what ends up in the dust bin. I was certainly happy with the level of dust, dirt and larger debris that was being picked up by it. It’s great to hear it increasing the vacuum power when it needed a little more suction.
It was about as loud as I expected, similar to my Dyson 360 Eye when it’s running. It does vary depending on the strength of suction needed. But it certainly didn’t disturb my TV watching!
Mopping
This is where the roller makes the difference. MOVA’s HydroForce system sprays clean water onto the roller through 12 nozzles as it works, and pulls the dirty water out at the same time. The roller is pressed down at about 4,100Pa, or roughly 1.7kg, so it scrubs rather than wipes. The dock then washes the roller in 80°C water and dries it with hot air. Because the water is fresh all the time, the idea is that you’re not smearing dirt around.
I was impressed with the low level of water left after the robot had passed by. It seemed very effective at mopping whilst not leaving a large trail of water behind it. And it was very quiet, I couldn’t hear the mop at all. Some of the long-living stains were not picked off during the first run. But I firmly expect a regime of regular mopping will remove these over time. The very nature of a robot vacuum and mop is that its route varies every time it runs, so areas missed this time will likely be covered in a future run.
Carpets and Thresholds
When the robot detects a carpet it lifts its chassis, keeps the full suction and side brush running, and stops the roller from getting the pile wet. MOVA say the StepMaster 2.0 system also lets it climb thresholds of up to 8cm. That’s much higher than most robots manage, but I couldn’t validate this as I have no raised thresholds for it to overcome.
It did traverse my rugs reasonably well. Heavy rugs were no problem, but one lightweight one was lifted at the edge, which wasn’t ideal. It didn’t impact the first run, but it may impact future runs if the rug is flipped in a corner.
Edges, Corners and Obstacles
The extending mop and the side-edge laser are aimed at the places robot vacuums normally leave a line of dust along the skirting boards. The AI camera is meant to spot and avoid obstacles like cables and shoes. It appeared to work quite well, getting close to edges and bringing debris into range with the rotating brushes. There was very little debris left behind, as far as I could see. Again, with the regularity of cleaning it should get to most pieces of debris on a future run at some point.
The MOVA Z60 Ultra Roller Complete is a robot vacuum that takes mopping seriously. The roller mop, the continuous clean-water rinse and the hot-water dock are what set it apart from the cheaper spinning-pad robots. Independent testers rate its cleaning highly, and it does a lot without you having to do anything. My experience is that this is the case – the mopping is very effective.
It isn’t cheap, it is a serious outlay, and the Complete is the version with all the extras. I had concerns prior to purchasing about the navigation capability, but I’ve found it to be extremely effective at finding its way around and avoiding unexpected obstacles that it finds in its way. It will be interesting to find out how it copes when my cat has been sick on the floor or carpet. I’m expecting it to fully avoid – time will tell.
The Home Assistant support is a real bonus for me, even though it’s a community integration rather than an official one.
MOVA Z60 Ultra Roller Complete Specifications
- Suction power
28,000Pa (TurboForce 9 motor) - Brush
TroboWave DuoBrush, anti-tangle (rubber brush plus rubber-bristle brush) - Roller mop
25.6cm wide, extends a further 4.1cm to the side (MaxiReach) - Mopping
HydroForce, 12 spray nozzles, continuous clean-water rinse, about 4,100Pa downward pressure - Threshold climbing
Up to 8cm (StepMaster 2.0) - Carpet handling
Chassis lifts on carpet, keeping full suction and side brush - Navigation
Dual laser with 3D structured light, RGB camera for AI obstacle recognition, side-edge laser - Battery
6,400mAh - Dust bin
210ml - Robot water tanks
110ml clean, 110ml dirty - Dock
Auto-empty, water refill, 80°C hot-water roller wash, hot-air drying - Dock water tanks
4L clean water, 3.5L dirty water - Smart features
MOVA Home app, “Hey MOVA” voice control, Google Home and Amazon Alexa - Height
Around 96mm with the turret retracted - Colours
Black (a white version is also sold in some markets)
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