MOVA V70 Ultra Complete Review: Extending-Mop Robot Vacuum

The MOVA V70 Ultra Complete is the new flagship from MOVA, the spin-off brand of Dreame, and it follows a V50 Ultra Complete that was already highly convincing. Shown at CES 2026 and rolled out from May 2026, it brings two genuinely unusual ideas to the premium robot vacuum market: a mop that swings out through 134° and travels up to 16 cm beyond the chassis, and a side brush that can be pushed out as far as 12 cm. Together they let the machine clean far more thoroughly in corners, around furniture legs and along kitchen skirting boards, which are often the hardest places to reach.

The station innovates too, dispensing entirely with the dust bag and replacing it with a bagless bin system, similar to the approach used by the Ecovacs Deebot X11 OmniCyclone, the first model to popularise it. MOVA is not the first to drop the bag — Ecovacs already offered the system on the Deebot X11 OmniCyclone in 2025 — but the brand promises up to 100 days between interventions on the bin, and the design avoids disposable dust bags entirely.

Everything else expected of a premium model is present: 40,000 Pa of suction, mop pads washed at 100°C, a retractable LiDAR dome so the robot can pass beneath low furniture, and a manufacturer-claimed maximum threshold crossing of 9 cm. The question is whether all that engineering translates into a genuinely successful day-to-day experience.

Aesthetically the V70 Ultra does not assert its high-end positioning, at least not in the station. Its base looks almost indistinguishable from the V50 Ultra's: a white unit in unflattering plastics that sit awkwardly against the way the product is pitched.

Under the top panel it houses two substantial tanks — 4.5 litres for clean water and 4 litres for waste water — while a removable brushed-metal-effect panel conceals the twin detergent reservoir and the EcoCyclone bin. The lower section takes the robot and handles mop care, using a washing plate angled at 40° combined with targeted jets.

The robot itself is more carefully designed, with glossy white plastics and decent assembly. The finish is good and the panel fit inspires confidence. On top, MOVA carries over the retractable LiDAR turret from the previous generation, which drops flush with the chassis and brings the machine's total height below 9 cm.

Underneath, the mechanics are dense. This is where the MaxiReachX system sits, physically extending the right-hand rotating mop up to 16 cm outwards and swinging the side brush out to 12 cm to chase debris and dirt into the back of right-angled corners. For the main suction block, MOVA opts for a twin rubber brush arrangement, a formidable technical choice for breaking up and channelling dirt without hair winding around the axles.

As this is the Complete version, the V70 Ultra ships with several spare brushes, filters and mop pads, plus a bottle of standard detergent and a second formulated for households with pets.

Pairing with the MOVA app is done by showing the robot a QR code displayed on your phone. Mapping then takes a few minutes and is carried out in disconcerting near-silence. Thanks to its sensors, the robot automatically recognises room types, telling a living room apart from a kitchen and a bathroom. It did include a terrace in the map even though the patio doors were closed, though it correctly named it "Balcony".

Once mapping is complete, the map can be edited to merge, split or rename rooms, add no-go zones, set floor coverings, place furniture, rugs and curtains, and even customise the cleaning sequence and the location of thresholds to be crossed.

The home screen shows the map and recent usage statistics, and it is from here that a cleaning cycle is launched, whether whole-home, by room or by zone. As on most robot vacuums, the cleaning parameters can be adjusted to vacuum and mop, to do only one of the two, or to do one then the other. The app also adjusts suction power, mop wetness and the robot's travel speed for deeper or lighter cleaning, and all of these settings can be tailored per room. The V70 Ultra also carries the CleanGenius mode found across Dreame and MOVA robots, which automatically adapts cleaning settings to the room type and the level of dirt.

Depth of customisation is where the app really shines, to the point of occasionally flirting with over-complication, so dense are the menus. You can set the quantity and temperature of the water used for washing and drying the mop pads, enable or disable drying of the dust bin to head off unpleasant smells, set how often the bin is emptied and how often hair is compressed, and configure the detergent behaviour. You can, for example, choose to add detergent to the floor or to the mops, and specify which type of detergent sits in which compartment.

The app also governs the wall-cleaning strategy, either maximising the mechanical extension of the articulated arm on every cycle or leaving the algorithm to judge when it is worthwhile. Obstacle sensitivity is adjustable, as is whether the robot insists on stubborn stains or heavy dust, and how much risk the LiDAR dome is allowed to take.

Rug handling is just as precise. You can enable an automatic suction boost while lifting the damp mops to avoid wetting the fibres, skip the area altogether, or send the robot back to the station to magnetically detach the mop pads before tackling the carpet. It is exhaustive and genuinely reassuring in use, even if it is easy to spend ten minutes working through every setting. Charging can also be scheduled for off-peak hours, softening the effect of recharging on an electricity bill.

There is a dedicated mode for homes with pets as well, which can take photographs of an animal during cleaning or go looking for it using the robot's on-board camera. Finally, there are native integrations with Google Assistant and Alexa, plus a built-in "Hey MOVA" assistant that saves reaching for a phone every time the robot needs to start.

On paper the V70 Ultra impresses with 40,000 Pa of suction and extending brushes designed to dislodge dirt from every last recess. In practice, the robot has no trouble at all with crumbs, dust and small debris on hard floors. It also lifts dirt out of tile grout, leaving floors clean behind it. The side brush works wonders, genuinely pulling dirt out of angles and corners, including places that are difficult to reach. Crumbs and scattered salt left along kitchen skirting boards were vacuumed up completely, where many other models struggle badly.

On rugs, the robot automatically raises its cleaning power and lifts or removes its mop pads. The twin rubber brushes combined with the herculean suction let the V70 pull deep into the fibres and clear ingrained dirt, helped further by its ability to make a cross-hatched second pass over textiles.

Floor washing relies on two circular pads spinning at 300 rpm and applying constant pressure of 15 N to the floor. The robot can wash its own mops with boiling water and even clean floors with hot water, automatically adding the detergent of your choice — conventional detergent on tiles, a parquet-specific product in rooms that need it. It can also detect stubborn stains and run a more intensive pass over them.

Day to day, it handles most everyday marks such as footprints and soil very well. Fresh coffee, mud and fruit juice spills were cleaned impeccably on the first pass. The MaxiReachX system is spectacular to watch: the side brush deploys to sweep around a furniture leg, scrubs right up against the skirting board and even cleans beneath the leaves of a patio door, which is not something seen before.

Not everything is perfect, though. On heavily ingrained stains left to dry overnight — sticky fizzy drink, coffee splashes and dried tomato sauce — the robot was sometimes a touch too cautious. Its optical dirt sensor tends to read a large dried pool as dust, forcing a heavy vacuuming pass over an area that needed intensive washing instead. Conversely, it settled for a single pass over a fresh ketchup stain, although that pass did remove it.

Dried coffee was not fully dealt with by a single pass in CleanGenius mode, but a manually launched clean with intensive settings and a cross-hatched pass erased it without difficulty. That confirms CleanGenius is enough for moderately dirty floors, while a manual configuration is often more effective on floors that are particularly grubby.

Despite all that power, the V70 Ultra runs at a well-contained noise level of barely 65 dB. It is little bother day to day, although the mops do produce a fairly audible high-pitched sound. Battery life is roughly 2 hours 15 minutes on a single charge, which is ample for most homes, and the robot returns to recharge automatically when the battery runs low before resuming work on its own. Unlike the very latest rival models, however, the V70 Ultra has no boosted charging function while the mops are being washed.

Spatial navigation is particularly reliable. The V70 Ultra plans its routes faultlessly, outlining zones before covering them in a grid pattern, without needless repetition and without getting lost. Its LiDAR can drop as it approaches low furniture, bringing the machine below 9 cm so it can pass underneath.

Obstacle detection is handled by two forward-facing cameras, backed by an automatic supplementary LED for night-time work. It picks up obstacles of every size without difficulty, from small cables, shoes and toys to furniture legs and pets.

Finally, the StepMaster 2.0 system crosses thick door thresholds and small interior steps using retractable feet that literally lift the robot's chassis; MOVA claims a maximum obstacle height of 9 cm for it.

However autonomous a robot vacuum is, manual upkeep remains unavoidable. Fortunately, the V70 Ultra's Omni station takes on most of the thankless jobs.

On every return to the base, and during a cycle where necessary, the mops are cleaned with hot water at up to 100°C. Water is driven through nozzles and jets set at a 40° angle, injecting the heated flow directly into the rotating fibres to lift out impurities rather than simply wetting the surface. That high temperature helps dissolve grease and lift residue out of the pads. Once cleaning is finished, the station runs an automatic hot-air dry, which helps keep the smell of stagnant damp at bay. Emptying the dust is equally straightforward, with the station sucking the contents of the robot's bin out over a few seconds with a noise like an aircraft turbine.

For the owner, upkeep comes down to emptying the waste water tank and refilling the clean water tank. Both are easy to carry thanks to integrated handles, and their large capacity means they do not need handling often. The dust bin can be pulled out and emptied into the bin, a more sustainable approach that removes the need to buy disposable bags, though it does need cleaning from time to time.

To save you contorting yourself, a dedicated mode drastically simplifies cleaning the washing plate. With a single command, the robot drives out of the station to free up access to the back of the bay. The base then injects a shallow layer of clean water so you can dislodge the last deposits of grime, before purging and instantly vacuuming the dirty water back into the collector above. A quick wipe with a sponge and it is done.

On the robot itself, changing the filter takes seconds, by removing the dust bin accessible from the top of the machine. The anti-tangle design of the main brush also limits the build-up of pet hair and human hair, which simplifies daily upkeep.

MOVA positions the V70 Ultra Complete as a direct rival to the top-end competition. Among its direct rivals, the Dreame X60 Max Ultra Complete — from MOVA's parent company — plays in the same league with equivalent suction and an extending mop, as does the Roborock Saros 20, though both use more modest extension strokes of roughly 3 to 8 cm where the V70 claims 16 cm.

The MOVA V70 Ultra Complete finally delivers a robot vacuum and mop that cleans the smallest recesses. The MaxiReachX extending mop and side brush make a visible difference in corners and along skirting boards, the 40,000 Pa suction and twin rubber brushes clear hard floors and rugs convincingly, and the bagless EcoCyclone station does away with disposable dust bags, while 100°C mop washing and hot-air drying help lift grease and residue from the pads and hold back damp odours. The app is among the most complete available, if occasionally overwhelming. The reservations are the station's disappointing plastics for a flagship, a CleanGenius mode that can misjudge heavily dried stains where manual settings succeed, and the absence of boosted charging during cycles.