Review: Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat Robot Vacuum

Robot vacuums these days are getting better with each iteration, making cleaning and maintenance more fuss free than ever. The new Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat follows the same footstep as the flagship L20 Ultra to offer improved features for both cleaning and maintenance for an automated experience, while keeping the form factor compact. The new Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat retails for S$1,399.

Unboxing

Inside the box, you’ll find the following items:

• Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat Robot Vacuum
• Base station
• Base station ramp
• Side brush
• Power cord
• Dirt bag x2 (one stored in the dust tank)
• Main brush (pre-installed)
• Mop pad x2 (pre-installed)
• Cleaning solution
• User manual & quick start guide
• Dust box filter (pre-installed)

Comparisons

The Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat Robot Vacuum is released as an upgrade to the L10s series of robot vacuums. And with these upgrades, it got me thinking if it is now as good as the L20 Ultra.

As you can see above, the Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat gets very close to the L20 Ultra in terms of features. The only key differences that the L10s Pro Ultra Heat lacks vs the L20 Ultra are:

• No LED illumination
• Smaller battery
• No mops removal

As a result, the Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat is priced lower than the L20 Ultra. But there are aspects where the L10s Pro Ultra Heat fares better, which is in terms of a more compact size – which could be a key decision factor for most HDB homes in Singapore, and ability to wash the mop pads with hot water.

Design and build quality

One of the biggest strength of the Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat is its design. I don’t mean the aesthetic look of it, but more of the size and shape of the overall machine. The Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat together with its base station is incredibly compact for the features that it can offer. Measuring at 59cm * 34cm * 26cm / 43cm (H * W * D), the Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat looks much more compact than the L20 Ultra (61cm * 43cm * 27cm / 48cm).

This compact size is appreciated especially for Singapore homes where space is typically a constraint. Especially if you plan to put the robot vacuum in the service yard so that have access to water point, the amount of space can be limited once you factor in a washer next to it.

When it comes to aesthetic looks, the Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat has a clean look overall with soft curved edges from its white body with light gold accent from its dust box cover. As for the robot vacuum itself, the L10s Pro Ultra Heat has a clean design with three buttons on the top, and a flap to access the dustbox filter.

Build quality of the L10s Pro Ultra Heat is solid. Buttons are tactile and overall machine has a good heft to it. The front of the robot vacuum employs a suspension gasket system to cushion any potential collision impact with your furniture. The mop pads are attached to the vacuum magnetically.

Cleaning effectiveness and user experience

Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat uses LIDAR to navigate and map out place place, or what Dreame calls its Pathfinder Smart Navigation technology to move from place to place. During my testing, the L10s Pro Ultra Heat moves in a straight up-down motion, and did well moving under the sofa but got stuck a bit in back and forth motion at the dining table area due to many chair legs involved.

Having said that, the L10s Pro Ultra Heat did not collide to any furniture during its cleaning task. This is largely due to L10s Pro Ultra Heat‘s AI Action + 3D structured light technology which identifies objects such as shoes, cables, etc and learns how to avoid them when they are in the cleaning path. This helps to reduce any collision, but can delay the overall cleaning time. It is always a good habit to move away things on the floor before activating any robot vacuum for cleaning.

7,000 Pa suction power

Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat outclasses its siblings in the L10 series (5,300Pa) with its 7,000Pa suction power, joining the ranks of the L20 Ultra at being 32% stronger. This extra boost in suction will come in especially handy when you want to clean carpets.

During normal cleaning you wouldn’t want to use the maximum suction strength of 7,000 Pa as the noise is quite loud, reminiscent of traditional vacuum cleaners. You can choose up to 4 different suction settings – (1) Quiet, (2) Standard, (3) Strong, and (4) Turbo. ‘Standard’ setting is usually enough to rid my house floor of any dirt.

Mopping smart features

As a robot vacuum with both vacuum and mopping features, it is imperative that the Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat employs features so that mopping is effective and that it does not impede with the vacuum job.

MopExtend technology

We’ve seen this feature on Dreame’s flagship L20 Ultra, and boy are we glad to see this on the L10s Pro Ultra Heat too! L10s Pro Ultra Heat has several edge sensors on its body to sense when it’s near corners and edges. Once it senses it is near and edge, it will automatically extend its dual mop pads so that it is able to deep clean right angles of walls and edges of walls, which traditional robot vacuums good at due to their round design.

When testing the Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat, it had no trouble detecting wall edges, and smartly extended the mop pads accordingly to perform cleaning. You can take a look at the below video to get a better understanding of how it works.

Customized carpet cleaning

Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat is not able to deposit its mop pads at the base station like the L20 Ultra, so it adopts four different carpet cleaning modes in order to deal with them during its cleaning:

1. Mops raising: Lift mop pads up to 10.5mm (similar to L20 Ultra’s “Carpet Adaptation”)
2. Carpet avoidance: Robot will avoid the carpet during cleaning
3. Carpet boost: Robot will increase suction to vacuum once
4. Intensive carpet cleaning: Robot will vacuum twice at reduced speed

As the base station is unable to remove the mop pads, you do have to plan accordingly when setting up a cleaning routine if you choose to performing mopping.

Maintenance

One of biggest benefit of the L10s Pro Ultra Heat is its ease of maintenance. This is all thanks to the All-in-One base station, where most of the manual chores required are automated. Here’s the list

• Automatic hot water mop wash & hot air dry
• Automatic dust collection (up to 75 days)
• Automatic water refill
• Automatic detergent refill
• *If install water hookup kit: Automatic water refill & drainage

Getting the Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat up and running is straightforward. All you need to do it fill up the clean water tank and insert cleaning solution. And you can perform all your cleaning tasks without needing to do maintenance for at least 75 days (when the dust bag is full). If you don’t have the water hookup kit installed, then time to time you’d have to fill the clean water tank and empty the dirty water tank. You can read more about the requirements of the water hookup kit installation on the L20 Ultra review.

The last bit of maintenance work is also to clean the washboard (preferably every month) so that it is not so dirty. The washboard is also detachable from the base station. This means that you can easily rinse the whole washboard under the tap rather than bending down to clean if it is fixed at the base station.

Hot water washing & drying

One of Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat‘s key feature is its hot water washing & drying of the mop pads. After mopping is completed, the mop pads are automatically washed in the base station with 58ºC hot water which helps to better remove heavy oil stains and dirt. Once washing is completed, the mop pads are dried with hot air of 45ºC to prevent any odour.

Dreamehome app features

You will need to download the Dreamehome app to setup the Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat. Once the app is downloaded, simply follow the directions guided by the app to get the robot vacuum paired to your Wi-Fi.

Mapping and room management

The first thing you’d need to do is to map out your house, which should take 5 to 10 minutes. Once the mapping is complete, Dreame automatically sections the map into different rooms. You can edit the map by dividing and merging different areas, rename or give it a room name. There is also a 3D map which offers a nice visualisation when you start adding a limited range of furniture from the app, but that’s about it – nothing really useful at this point.

During the mapping, Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat is also able to carpeted areas and mark it on the floorplan. As part of room management, you can join or split different zones into rooms. For areas that you want to the L10s Pro Ultra Heat to avoid, such as toilet – you can set virtual walls or no-go zones to prevent it from entering the area. This would be especially helpful for large houses with more than one storey to prevent the L10s Pro Ultra Heat from falling down a staircase. You can setup multi-floor maps as well.

Camera monitoring mode

Like the L20 Ultra, the Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat also has a camera monitoring mode, where you can remotely control the movement of the L10s Pro Ultra Heat and see in real time where it is heading.

You also instruct the robot vacuum to go to a specific point in your house by tapping a marked point on the map. When this mode is activated, L10s Pro Ultra Heat will have a voice prompt to announce that the camera monitoring is active for privacy reasons.

Cleaning presets – All / Zone cleaning / Room cleaning

Whether or not you are deciding to clean the whole house or selected zones/rooms, you can setup customised cleaning settings so that Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat does exactly what you want it to do. You can choose from four different cleaning modes. There is a “Mop after Vac” mode which is very convenient as this is likely how most cleaning would be done.

If you simply want to clean a particular part of your house, you can opt for Zone cleaning by drawing a zone on the map. After which the L10s Pro Ultra Heat will navigate to the zone and start cleaning. Alternatively, you can also order the L10s Pro Ultra Heat to clean specific rooms as well. All of which can be performed with customised cleaning settings.

Scheduled cleaning

Lastly, you can convert all these customised settings into a schedule so you can free up ever needing to press a button to clean. You can use either a customised cleaning format which you’d setup or rely on CleanGenius. CleanGenius is Dreame’s advanced dirt detection technology that identifies how dirty the floor is and can smartly perform re-mopping to ensure the clean.

Voice Assistant integrated

Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat can be controlled via your voice through Google Home or Alexa. For Apple users, Dreame offers support for Siri shortcuts so you have some way of integrating it into your smart home ecosystem.

Conclusion

If you have limited time for household chores and value convenience and efficiency when cleaning your home, the new Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat is a solid option for you. Or if you wanted the flagship L20 Ultra but don’t have the space for it, then the Dreame L10s Pro Ultra Heat is a natural second choice without compromising on the features that the L20 Ultra has.