MOVA P70 Pro Ultra

What testers say about the MOVA P70 Pro Ultra

For anyone whose floors are mostly hard and whose children leave things lying about, the MOVA P70 Pro Ultra fits better than it does a carpeted home with long-haired pets.

Vacuum Wars left 24 objects on its test floor and the MOVA P70 Pro Ultra steered around 22 of them, six more than the average robot clears on that course. Just A Dad Approved agreed: clutter earned the P70 a 9 on that tester's ten-point scale, a point and a half over its middle mark. In practice that means less tidying before a run.

Hair is where the two testers part. Just A Dad Approved put its hair result at 8, against a midpoint of 6.5, while advising owners of long-haired pets to buy the anti-tangle brush MOVA sells separately. Vacuum Wars pressed pet hair flat into carpet and the P70 lifted 49 per cent of it, with 82 per cent the average in that test, and long hair wound around its single rubber roller. With a shedding dog and rugs, that is hair left in the pile and a brush to cut free. The 30,000 Pa on its data sheet, half as much again as the 20,000 Pa usual for its kind, did not show on Vacuum Wars' bench, where suction came out below average.

Pads get a 212 °F wash, against the 167 °F its peers usually manage, and stay behind in the station on vacuum-only runs, so no damp pad travels over a rug.

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