Dreame has just unveiled a new product for 2024 – the Dreame X40 Pro Ultra. The new robot vacuum cleaner belongs to the family of X40 series. Currently this is the brand’s frontrunner, and has received a number of changes and upgrades never seen before, for Dreame and other brands. Now, let’s break down the Dreame X40 Pro Ultra.
The first and most important addition was the dynamic Lidar. The company developed its own technology aimed at getting the areas that were too low for the robot. This vacuum can hide its Lidar in its body if it needs to go under something low to the ground. The height of the robot with the lidar tucked away is 8.8 cm (3.4 In.).
So a question comes up: “How’s it going to move around without the Lidar?”. Dreame X40 Pro Ultra has been equipped with VSLAM technology, which lets the robot use the obstacle detection camera to build a map when the Lidar is hidden.
The Lidar itself has also been redesigned, with the robot now being equipped with a DToF Lidar. This not only added an “elevator” design, but also allowed the robot to build a map of the room faster. The robot also has binocular depth cameras which help it determine an object’s size and tell when the Lidar needs to be hidden.
I’ll add that Dreame X40 Pro Ultra can recognize more than 70 objects, as well as extra dirty areas, puddles or spilled liquids, take a picture of them and mark them on the map. Photos of the objects can be viewed directly on the map.
The second addition is a brand new cleaning module. Dreame X40 Pro Ultra is the first robot from Dreame to have double rollers (hey, iRobot!).
The side brush has also been updated. The robot can extend the side brush forward out of the body to get the corners 100% clean.
Like all X40 series robots, it can lift not only the center brush unit, but also the side brush. Dreame X40 Pro Ultra will automatically lift the side and center brushes while mopping, or if it sees a liquid spill on the floor while vacuuming or vacuuming and mopping simultaneously. plus, it can lift the rotating mops or unhook them at the station. When returning to the station, the robot will pick up everything at once: the side and main brushes, as well as the cloths, if it didn’t leave them at the station or if it’s simultaneously mopping and vacuuming. .
Let’s stop and talk about how the power was upgraded to 13000 Pa. It’s currently the most powerful robot vacuum on the market, if we’re using the power given by the manufacturers.
The station also got an update. It looks identical to the Dreame Bot X30 Pro station, i.e. the robot self-cleans itself from debris, as well as washes cloths and dries them with warm air.
While it washes its cloths now, it gradually increases its temp from 45 to 75 degrees celsius (113-167 F.) The cloths are washed in 3 stages:
- Stage 1: 45 degrees/113 F. The first stage is the “soaking” mode. The station washes out part of the dirt from the cloths, and washes out the stains.
- Stage 2: 60 degrees/140 F. The station washes out all of the dirt and rinses the cloths.
- Stage 3: 75 degrees/167 F. This is the last stage. The station washes out any remaining dirt and sanitizes the wipes.
The new wipe washing system not only washes the wipes better while the robot is working, but also before and after.. There is also a cartridge for disinfecting dirty water so that it doesn’t smell. A noise isolation system has been added, which lowers the volume of the self-cleaning by 10 dB. The active scrubbers washing the station have been redesigned and now the station is more self-sufficient. They’ve added a UV lamp for disinfecting the station and wipes while drying.
And lastly, they’ve added an AI voice assistant – DreameGPT. Now the vacuum can understand not only basic commands, such as: “return to station”, “increase power”, etc., but also inaccurate, mumbled and incomplete commands. You just tell the robot to clean the kitchen and that its dirty, and it’ll tell you exactly what to clean and how based on the needed settings. Now you won’t have to resort to a manual or the internet to figure out exactly how to fix a problem. The robot itself will tell you everything step by step. You can also give descriptions of the area that needs to be cleaned and tell the robot what you want it to do, and it will adjust everything itself.
Sales started in China at the beginning of 2024. The price of the robot will be about 6299 yuan, which at the time of writing is about 866 USD.
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