Dreame X50 Ultra Review: A Robot Vacuum and Mop that LEAPS

Introduction

As much as robot vacuums and mops have improved over the years, there are some fundamental things that hold them back from being a complete cleaning solution for your home.

One of those is the inability to climb over raised thresholds. Well this robot is quite literally making a leap forward in this area, able to climb over higher thresholds than any other robot vacuum in the industry. It also makes itself more compact to fit into low height areas, eliminates the hassle of tangled hair, and reaches into corners for both vacuuming and mopping.

I’m taking a look at the Dreame X50 Ultra, including its features, setup, and smart home integration. I’m also going to put it to the test to see how effective it is at vacuuming, mopping, and obstacle avoidance.

I’ve tested many robot vacuums and mops over the years. The X50 Ultra is the newest flagship on the market right now, and it packs some of the most tech I’ve ever seen in a robot cleaner.

Main Points

Unboxing

Inside the box you’ll find a large quick start guide, docking station, robot vacuum and mop, entry ramp for the docking station, user manual, brush, two mop pads, an extra dust bag, cleaning solution for mopping, and a power cord.

Robot Features

Let’s take a look at all the tech the X50 Ultra has to offer, starting with a world’s first: retractable legs that lift the robot up and over 6 cm thresholds, or about 2.4 inches. Dreame calls this feature ProLeap, and says it is the highest leap in the industry. And leap is the right word - it raises up on its legs and then leaps up and over the threshold.

It has a built-in shock absorption system to prevent a harsh collision and to keep noise at a minimum. If you’re worried about the retractable legs breaking down, Dreame says they are rated to last 30,000 cycles, so you shouldn’t have to worry. The idea is to make this robot as unstoppable as possible when cleaning your home.

Part of that means it has to see its surroundings really well. It has Direct Time-of-Flight, or DToF, LiDAR technology that scans the environment in 360-degrees. This allowed it to create a detailed map of my home in less than five minutes, and without the need for the robot to spin around in order to see in every direction.

The sensor retracts into the body of the robot when it approaches low clearance furniture, dropping its height to 89mm, or 3.5 inches.

It uses 3D structured light and AI to identify up to 200 types of objects, allowing it to not only create detailed maps, but also to avoid debris and navigate close to large obstacles to maximize cleaning coverage without damaging anything or getting stuck.

It’s able to detect dirt and stains, and distinguish between solids, liquids, or dreaded mixtures, and give a deeper clean accordingly.

If navigating in the dark, built-in LED lights automatically turn on, like a car driving at night.

The X50 Ultra offers five cleaning modes: vacuum, mop, vacuum and mop, mop after vacuuming, and custom room cleanings. Vacuum suction power ranges from quiet to max, clocking in at 20,000 Pa of suction power, a huge jump from the 12,000 Pa of the X40 Ultra.

Debris is sucked up through what Dreame calls the HyperStream Detangling DuoBrush, which they claim delivers 100% anti-entanglement, managing hair up to 30 cm or 11.8 inches long. Dealing with tangled hair on any vacuum can be a nuisance, so eliminating this would be a huge win. There is a bristled rubber brush for hard floors, and a TPU rubber brush for carpet cleaning.

The spinning side brush extends into corners and hard-to-reach places around furniture. The spinning mop pad also swings out up to 4 cm, or about 1.6 inches, to also clean in tight corners.

When mopping, the robot lifts the brushes up to keep them dry. When vacuuming, it lifts the mop to keep carpets dry.

The top of the robot is held on by magnets, and may be easily removed to access the dust box. The 6,400 mAh battery provides up to 220 minutes of continuous cleaning, covering up to 205 square meters, or 2,200 square feet, on a single charge.

Dock Features

The robot’s docking station is also stacked with tech. The top opens to reveal a 4.5L clean water tank and a 4L dirty water tank, which are used to clean your floors and the robot. There is a pre-installed scale inhibitor in the clean water tank.

The dock fires 20 high temperature spray nozzles to clean off the mopping pads, automatically washing when needed at temperatures up to 80 degrees Celsius, or 176 degrees Fahrenheit. Hot air then dries the mop pads to prevent odors. During the mop washing process, the dock gets up to 59 decibels for brief moments, similar to the robot’s volume when vacuuming in Turbo mode.

There is built-in cleaning solution tank that automatically dispenses so you don’t have to think about it, and the 3.2L dust bag should last 100 days with normal vacuuming.

For high pile carpets, the robot automatically detaches the mops at the dock to ensure your carpets stay dry, or you can tell it to do this every time regardless of your carpet height.

You can purchase separately a water hookup kit for auto-refilling and draining.

App and Voice Control Features

With the Dreamehome app, you can choose from preset cleaning modes, get reports on each cleaning session, or check the progress of a currently running cleaning session. A little icon shows you the real-time position of the robot.

CleanGenius will intelligently recommend the type of cleaning, or you can create a custom clean based on the mode, such as vacuum and or mopping, the suction power level, the wetness of the mop, the mop wash frequency, and the route that the robot takes when cleaning.

You can choose to clean the entire floor, a specific room or combination of rooms, or drop a zone for a targeted cleaning, like where my kids just spilled their snacks.

The app also gives you information on the dock status, including the water tanks, dust bug, and cleaning solution, and you can initiate a cleaning of the robot.

While not unique to the X50 Ultra, you can remotely operate it using the built-in camera. This turns the app into a live view of what the robot sees, so you can drive it around and check-in on a pet or monitor the security of your home. This feature requires an activation code to start it each time, and by default the robot will announce that a live video is playing every 15 seconds so you can’t sneak up on someone, though you can change this in the app.

Honestly there are too many features and customizations in the app to cover in this video.

To keep it simple, you can also use your voice to start and stop a cleaning session. Just say, “Okay, Dreame” — which is fun to say — followed by your request, such as, “Start cleaning” or “Clean the kitchen.”

Setup

To setup the X50 Ultra, connect your phone to a 2.4GHz WiFi network, download or open the Dreamehome app, scan the QR code printed on the robot, press the clean and dock buttons on the robot for three seconds, join the hotspot, and it will be connected and ready to use in the app.

Before you send it out on its first cleaning mission, you’ll want to initiate fast mapping. The robot will drive around the floor creating a detailed map of the environment. Thanks to its 360-degree vision, this is accomplished super quickly - about five minutes for my floor.

After the map is created, it will intelligently divide rooms and label them in the app. You can edit room boundaries or names as needed, and create no-go zones, label furniture, and more. This is pretty standard robot vacuum stuff, but the speed and accuracy of map creation is outstanding.

Vacuum Test

The X50 Ultra has the feature list and specs of a flagship robot vacuum and mop, but does it perform like one? To understand, I put it through a series of tests to determine its vacuuming, mopping, obstacle avoidance, and hair detangling capabilities and noise levels. And given the standout feature is ProLeap, I wanted to put it through a climbing test as well.

For the vacuum test, I scattered two saltine crackers weighing a combined 0.3 ounces on our hardwood floor, and measured what percent of that debris found its way into the robot’s dust box.

As the robot drove over the cracker bits, I could only describe the crunching that ensued as agonizing. It went around the perimeter, and then back-and-forth in a deliberate pattern. Upon emptying the dust box, it showed all 0.3 ounces being returned, although there were a couple visible crumbs still on the floor. Had I told it to do a second pass, I suspect it would have finished the job.

Mop Test

For the mop test, I smeared about a teaspoon of ketchup on the hardwood floor, wondering why I was subjecting my home to such abuse.

I sent the X50 Ultra out on a mop-only deep clean, and it easily cleaned up the mess in a single pass without leaving any sticky residue behind. It did roll over some of the leftover crumbs from the vacuum test, and splintered those into even more pieces. In it’s defense, I told it to only mop on this pass, and not vacuum.

Obstacle Avoidance Test

For the obstacle avoidance test, I placed our children’s toy blocks, socks, and a phone charger on the our high pile carpet to see how the robot would respond. Let’s just say it was either very thoughtful or very confused.

The area that I asked it to vacuum was quite small, but it spent a long time just spinning in circles, presumably taking in its surroundings to determine a safe, navigable path. It eventually made its way through the debris without sucking up the charging cord or socks, although it did move the charging cord around. At one point, I even threw the socks in front of it, but it paused right away and was not tempted to suck them up. This is not something I can say about other flagship robot vacuums that I’ve tested.

Hair Detangling Test

For the hair detangling test, I had it pick up three 11” strands of thin yarn used for bracelet making. Well, I tried to make it pick them up. These were thicker than human hair but the best I had, and it seemed to detect them as obstacles to avoid rather than debris to suck up. Honestly I’d say that’s a good thing since these are technically part of my daughter’s arts and crafts — just don’t tell her I used them this way.

Eventually I fooled it by throwing the strands right in front of it before it could see them. All three were sucked into the dust box without any tangling whatsoever.

Climbing Test

The climbing test was a struggle for me since I don’t have any meaningful raised thresholds in my home. I tried to trick it into climbing over an appropriately-sized box, but it wasn’t fooled and avoided it like the plague. I then directed it on to our sump pump, which is about an inch below the tile floor. It climbed down and back out without needing to go into full ProLeap mode.

I did see it climb serious thresholds in person at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, so I’ll have to let that suffice for now as the climbing test.

Noise Test

For the noise test, I measured the decibel level on Quiet, Standard, Turbo, and Max suction power modes.

Quiet was 53 decibels. Standard was 57 decibels. Turbo got up to 59 decibels, and Max was 65 decibels.

Smart Home Integration

The X50 Ultra will support Matter, and it integrates with voice assistants from Amazon, Apple, and Google.

Unfortunately, at the time of my testing, Matter Protocol support was not yet available, but Dreame says it’s coming via an over-the-air software update.

There is a custom HACS integration in Home Assistant called dreame-vacuum that bills itself as a complete Dreame app replacement. However, the X50 Ultra was not yet a supported device at the time of my testing, even under the latest beta release.

Final Thoughts

The Dreame X50 Ultra has all the bells and whistles you’d expect from a flagship robot vacuum and mop. There are endless settings and customizations in the Dreamehome app to get just what you want out of it. I particularly like the dual spinning mop pads as I find them faster and more effective than a vibrating mop pad.

The Dreame X50 Ultra is available on Dreame's official website and Amazon starting February 14 for $1,699.99.

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