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Mova V70 Ultra Complete: Two-minute review
If you’ve never heard of Mova as a brand, you’re not alone as it was initially only available in select European and South-East Asian countries. The brand, which is owned by Dreame Technology, is now expanding and is supposed to be value-focused side of the company — although you’d be hard pressed to believe that when its latest flagship robot vacuum costs upwards $1,000 / £1,000 / AU$3,000.
However, the Mova V70 Ultra Complete brings everything you expect from such an expensive robovac, including some industry-first features that are now being adopted by other brands. This includes suction that’s a whopping 42,000Pa at its maximum, as well as the impressively long reach of the side brush and mopping arm (12cm and 17cm respectively). I even love the fact that it eliminates the need for dust bags by using a tank you can clean out every now and then while still remaining as hands-free as possible.
It’s also arguably the quietest robot vacuum I’ve tested, even at maximum suction — so quiet, in fact, that I had to check it was actually cleaning during my testing. Yes, it was.
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It’s vacuuming prowess, however, isn’t a good reflection of its listed suction power, particularly on carpets. Case in point: it failed to pick up a mix of oats, tea and chia seeds from a mid-pile carpet even after two passes on its Max (or second-highest) suction setting. Hair pickup at the same setting is also not that great, but bump it up to Max+ (which significantly impacts battery life) and I found my carpets looking a lot better, with even bits of thread cleaned up. The mixture of pantry essentials, however, still remained and I needed to use my Dyson V15 Detect to clean up the leftovers.
Moreover, the extra reach the side brush promises isn’t consistent. For example, I expected it to remain extended as long as the V70 was traversing along a room edge, but it repeatedly retracts, leaving dirt along some sections of a room edge. The timing of the extension while cleaning around furniture legs is also off, with the side brush opening up either just before or just after it gets to a chair leg.
The extending mop arm, however, performs better, but even it retracts along some sections of a room edge, but the bot is close enough for edges and areas around furniture to be mopped, if not vacuumed.
The Mova V70 Ultra Complete uses dual rotating mop pads that, in my opinion, aren’t as good as rollers. It made a bigger mess of some spilled soy sauce in my kitchen, which a roller mop doesn’t as these are constantly washed with fresh water while the robot vacuum is cleaning. I also found that for hard floors to even seem damp, waterflow rate needs to be set to high.
It’s also disappointing that, for an expensive robot vacuum, the docking sequence takes a few tries. In the four weeks of testing, I had to replace the bot in the dock manually twice, but at all other times, it took 2-3 attempts to correctly roll itself back in for self-cleaning and charging.
The companion app is near identical to the Dreame one, but can be slow to load and respond (at least on iOS, which is what I use). And, like its counterpart, some settings are tucked away in submenus, so you need to spend some time going through it all.
While there are features to love here, it’s disappointing that they don’t really come together well enough to make a complete package, especially when it has to the potential to be one and blow the competition out of the water. For its high asking price, it’s a hard one to recommend.
Mova V70 Ultra Complete review: Price & availability
- First unveiled in May 2026 in Europe, followed by an August launch in the US
- Available in bigger markets, like the US, UK, Europe and Australia
- Investment pricing of $1,299 / £1,219 / AU$3,299
The very high $1,299 / £1,219 / AU$3,299 retail price of the Mova V70 Ultra Complete might make you balk but, given its feature set, it shouldn’t be all that surprising.
Then again, it’s a competitive price when you take into account other flagships recently released, including the $1,699 Roborock Saros 20 Flow (which is unavailable in the UK at the time of writing, but is a lot cheaper at AU$2,499 in Australia) and the Dreame Aqua20 Ultra Roller going for £1,299 / AU$3,299 (unavailable in the US at the time of publication).
All the aforementioned new flagships have different feature sets to justify their high asking prices, but we’re yet to try the last two competitors ourselves. Given the results of my testing in this review, however, the Mova V70 Ultra Complete doesn’t deliver on its promises as it should, making it a tough sell at its very high price point.
Instead, opting for slightly older models like the Roborock Saros 10 or Saros 20, even the Dreame Aqua10 Ultra, would be the better buy, especially if you can get them at a discounted price.
However, I should note that the Mova V70 Ultra Complete doesn’t use dust bags, minimizing your ongoing costs. Plus there’s a complete set of replacement brushes and three additional pairs of mop pads in the box, meaning you can go a very long while without needing to buy any replacement parts, adding some additional value to the initial cost.
The only ongoing purchase, if you wish, would be a mopping detergent and/or wood floor-care solution. Only the former is supplied, but Mova recommends you only purchase its proprietary detergents to avoid damaging the appliance and voiding warranty.
• Value score: 3 / 5
Mova V70 Ultra Complete review: Specs
Max suction: | 42,000Pa |
Robot size: | 13.8 x 13.8 inches (35 × 35 × 8.8 cm) |
Robot height: | 3.4 inches (8.8cm) |
Dock dimensions (W x D x H): | 16.5 × 18.0 × 18.5 inches (42 × 45.8 × 47 cm) |
Mop type: | Dual spinning discs |
Max threshold clearance: | Double layer thresholds up to 3.5 inches (9cm) |
Dust bin volume (base): | 2L |
Water tank volume: | 4L (clean), 3.5L (dirty) |
Base functions: | Charge, empty dust, wash mop pads, dry mop pads, self-clean |
Mova V70 Ultra Complete review: Design
- Clean, modern design with no dust bag
- Retractable LiDAR turret
- Extending side brush and mop arm with industry-leading reach
These days, if you’ve seen one premium robot vacuum, you’ve essentially seen them all. The Mova V70 Ultra Complete isn’t, at least at first glance, very different from nearly every other set-and-forget alternative on the market, although there are some design elements you won’t find elsewhere just yet.
Robot design
The first, and arguably the Mova V70 Ultra Complete’s headline act, is on the bot itself — the MaxiReachX mechanism for the side brush and a mop arm. What this means is that for both vacuuming and mopping, the bot has quite the reach, extending 12cm and 17cm respectively. This is not only good for edge cleaning and sweeping into room corners, but it also allows the bot to clean around furniture legs that most other robovacs don’t necessarily do well.
The efficacy of the cleaning, however, is a different story, with the side brush extension not quite timing itself right when around furniture and not remaining fully extended when traveling along a wall (or room edge). As you can see from the video clip below, the side brush opens just before it actually gets to the chair leg — when the bot ‘sees’ the furniture’ — then retracts.
I do worry about the longevity of the side brush arm, though, as I found it often scraps against a wall or skirting board, which means it could suffer from wear and tear with constant use, potentially cracking or breaking. While it could still be usable, any jagged edges of the broken plastic could scratch walls. In the four weeks of almost daily use I put the Mova V70 Ultra Complete to, there has been no issues, but the sound the extended side brush makes while scraping has often made my jaw clench.
The mop arm, however, does often stay extended longer but, again, not as consistently as I had expected, retracting when the bot gets close enough to a skirting board to not need the extension.
Mova promises that the dual circular mop pads can apply 15N of downward pressure and, in combination with their spinning, should apply a little elbow grease when mopping but, in reality, that’s asking for too much from any robot vacuum cleaner.
What I do appreciate is that the mop pads attach magnetically and they’re left behind automatically in the dock whenever the V70 needs to vacuum, so there’s no fear of dirty dampness transferring on carpets. That said, you can set the bot to vacuum carpets first anyway, so it really doesn’t matter either way.
(Image credit: Sharmishta Sarkar / TechRadar)
Most of its other features are similar to what you’ll get with other premium bots, including its retractible navigation turret that allows it to roll under low-lying furniture. However, I should note that I often found the turret elevated when it was knocking against the underside of cabinets, and the bot itself isn’t the thinnest on the market — at 8.8cm, it doesn’t have as good a clearance as, say, the 7.98cm of the Roborock Saros 10R.
The Mova V70 Ultra Complete also features robotic legs that allow it to climb up to 9cm in two shallow steps, plus dual anti-tangle bar brushes that definitely don’t require manual intervention to keep clean. I should mention, though, that during my testing, hair got badly entangled with the large wheels and the side brush, which were difficult to cut away.
One small point of difference on the bot compared to others is that along with lit buttons on the turret, the Mova V70 features a thin bar of blue light when it’s powered on. It gives the otherwise white bot a slightly ethereal look in my opinion.
Dock design
The white and silver dock is quite standard on the outside but, instead of housing a dust bag inside, there’s a 2L box with a filter that holds up to 100 days’ worth of dirt. This means there are no ongoing costs for replacing bags and you’re also reducing waste in the bargain. The dust tank, as Mova calls it, is washable, but it also gets dried out after every use, thus reducing the build up of odors and a bacterial or fungal ecosystem within.
Like the Dreame Aqua10 Ultra, the dock also houses a detergent dispenser with two compartments — one for a standard mopping soap, the other for either a pet odor neutralizer or a wood floor-care solution. You will need to use the app to enable the use of these as they’re not set to flow into the clean water by default.
Both water tanks are under a lid, keeping them out of sight. Moreover, the lids on each tank clip on tightly, so odors from the dirty mop water don’t escape in case you forget to clean it out regularly.
• Design score: 4.5 / 5
Mova V70 Ultra Complete review: Performance
- Hard floor cleaning is good, but carpet vacuuming is disappointing
- Excellent navigation and obstacle avoidance
- Auto docking requires multiple attempts
Say what you will about the Mova V70 Ultra Complete — and I do have a lot to say about its performance — but the one thing I love about it is how quietly it goes about its work. When vacuuming, even at its Max+ (its highest suction setting), the V70 did not hit more than 66dB on the Decibel X app, when others can average around the 80dB mark at similar settings. Understandably this isn’t a very scientific method of measuring sound, but it’s a good way to compare.
Even the dock isn’t as loud as similar models, with auto-emptying of the onboard bin being easily be missed if you aren’t paying attention.
How does it actually clean, though? Let’s get into the crux of the matter.
Vacuuming
With up to 42,000Pa on tap, the expectation that the Mova V70 Ultra Complete would be able to ace my tests was high. And while it does vacuum well, especially hard floors, its edge cleaning isn’t as good as I hoped it would be. That’s due to the fact that, during use, the automatically extending side brush doesn’t remain stretched as the bot is rolling along a room edge but, instead, retracts after a few seconds.
In fact, at one point in my tests, the bot moved away from a room edge, leaving behind dirt — a mixture of oats, tea from a tea bag, chia seeds and freeze-dried raspberries to emulate different debris sizes — that most other premium robovacs I’ve previously tested have successfully cleaned up (see video below).
Otherwise, it tackles regular daily vacuuming well enough on hard floors even at mid-suction settings, but it’s a different story on carpets.
While I don’t expect side brushes on any robovac to be as effective on carpet as on hard floors, I had hoped that on Max suction, the same mixture of oats, tea, chia seeds and bits of fruit would be easily tackled but, as you can see from the photos below, the V70 left behind a lot even after two passes. Bumping up to Max+ helped only marginally, but debris still remained on the carpet and I had to use my cordless vacuum to clean up the rest.
(Image credit: Sharmishta Sarkar / TechRadar)
Hair pickup on carpets in the Max setting also wasn’t as impressive as I had hoped — around 80% — but it was about 98% when bumped up to Max+. Given this performance, I found leaving the vacuum setting at Max worked best for regular jobs, but occasionally used the Max+ setting when a carpet needed a little extra work. And that’s disappointing from such a premium flagship that boasts high suction.
Mopping
The Mova V70 Ultra Complete, however, is slightly better at mopping room edges as I found the extending mop pads stayed open for longer periods of the bot sensed room edges, corners and furniture legs.
Mova says it applies a downward pressure of 15N but, in real-world use, that doesn’t translate for any robovac as there’s never enough vibrations to emulate ‘scrubbing’. So I can’t blame the V70 for not being able to clean up a drop of dried up curry on my kitchen floor.
The same downward force also doesn’t work along room edges, which I tested by sprinkling a few crystals of charcoal-infused sea salt under my kitchen cabinets and moistening by adding a few drops of water. The tiny black spots remained where they were even after two mopping sessions at high waterflow rates.
Where other premium robovacs have been able to successfully clean up small spills of liquid, like soy sauce, I found that the V70 made more of a mess, spreading the dark liquid across a larger section of floor until I ended its task to prevent the stain from expanding further (see video below).
That said, I was impressed by how well the bot identified furniture legs while mopping and the extending mop pad was able to clean a full 360º around each leg in both my dining and living rooms.
It doesn’t, sadly, negate the overall performance of the mopping which, like the vacuuming is disappointing. If you don’t have a messy household, though, what the V70 does do will leave you with clean floors — something a far less expensive robovac will also give you.
Navigation and obstacle avoidance
Here’s the good news: the Mova V70 Ultra Complete has impeccable navigation skills with very good obstacle avoidance. Throughout the four-week testing period, not once did the Mova V70 Ultra Complete deviate from its prescribed path, whether that was a quick clean with wider zig-zags or a tighter grid for deeper cleaning.
It also never got lost when told to do a room or zone cleaning, finding the path of least resistance wherever it needed to go, even if there were obstacles in its path.
Speaking of which, the Mova V70 Ultra Complete promises to recognize up to 300 different obstacles, and that includes cables and your pets. For the most part, it gets them correct, although there were instances when it didn’t quite recognize some items. For example, a large charging brick on the floor was picked up as a shoe, and that’s OK.
All obstacles, even smaller pieces of furniture that you may not have added to the map get picked up and they’re marked in the app. Just tap on any of these grey icons and a small diagram and name of the item is shown, along with accuracy of recognition.
The one thing it definitely struggles with is docking on its own — every single time, it took the bot two to three attempts to automatically engage docking. In the four weeks of testing, I was asked to manually replace the bot back in the dock for charging and self-cleaning.
Self-cleaning
Dock performance itself isn’t bad, with self-emptying of the onboard bin into the dust tank quite good, leaving only the barest layer of very fine dust sticking to the plastic sides of the smaller box inside the bot. And, as I’ve previously mentioned, this self-emptying isn’t as loud as I’ve experienced with other robovacs, and I appreciate that.
Like the Dreame Aqua10 Ultra where the dust bag is dried with warm air, the Mova V70 Ultra Complete also dries out the dust tank. However, it takes 5 hours to do so compared to just 3 hours on the Dreame. It’s also a lot longer than the V70 takes to dry out the mop pads, which is 3 hours as well. I’m not entirely sure why the dust tank requires more time, and while the additional power consumption is unlikely to make a significant dent in your energy bills, it could become inconvenient if you run the robovac daily.
Mop pad washing is impressive as well, with even dark soy stains being 95% scrubbed away. The good thing is the circular pads can be removed and washed in the machine or soaked in a stain-removing solution to return them to pristine condition.
The wear and tear on the pads, however, is a little more than on other robovacs that use spinning pads. I’ve spotted bits of fiber stuck on the textured wash tray after only five mopping runs, so it’s a good thing that Mova supplies three additional pairs in the box.
Dock maintenance is very easy as well, with the dust tank easy to empty and wash, and access to the tanks is minimal effort.
Battery life
The Mova V70 Ultra Complete uses a 6,400mAh battery pack like many premium robot vacuums and its runtime is quite standard, depending on the suction setting, of course.
For example, when doing a full-home clean on the Max (penultimate) setting in an area approximately 45sqm / 484sq ft, it drops from 100% to 44% when vacuuming only, and 100% to 32% when vacuuming and mopping at the same time. In both cases, dynamic suction was engaged when it detected carpets (which automatically boosts suction slightly).
When I ran it on Max+ (its highest suction) for approximately 20 minutes, battery life dropped from 100% to 82%, but that was nonstop cleaning with no dynamic suction engaged and no need to return to the dock for self-emptying.
This is, of course, based on a smaller test space, so bigger homes might not get a full clean on a single charge, and the one time in my testing when battery dropped off entirely with a task incomplete, the bot didn’t pick up where it left off once there was sufficient battery even though I made sure it was toggled on in the app.
• Performance score: 2.5 / 5
Mova V70 Ultra Complete: App support
- Almost identical to the Dreamehome app with similar navigation and setup
- Mostly easy to understand, but some settings need a little digging
- App can be slow to load and respond
Given that Dreame Technology owns Mova, I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised to see that the MOVAHome app is identical to Dreamehome, with only minor differences, like the color scheme on the home page.
And I do mean identical as the entire bot setup and the settings, plus all the navigation, is the same. Since I’ve previously used a Dreame robovac, the learning curve needed for me to get around the MOVAHome app was small, but first-time users will need to spend a little time going through every setting to ensure they’ve got the V70 set up to how they want it, including toggling carpet-first for a ‘global clean’ and selecting detergent use if necessary.
However, the MOVAHome app is a little slower compared to the Dreame one, and that includes editing the map as well which, on iOS, was a little tedious to do. So much so, that I decided to not divide the study from the entry hallway in mine. Adding the rug to my living room was a heck of a lot fiddlier than on the Dreamehome app, while it took three attempts to add wall-to-wall carpet to the bedroom on the Mova app.
Once everything is set up just the way you like, though, the MOVAHome app becomes easy to use, and you’ll only likely need to select the cleaning type and the space. Setting up scheduled runs isn’t hard either, as is creating custom cleaning routines. All in all, it’s a clean app, just one that might require some initial time investment to wrap your head around.
• App support score: 4 / 5
Mova V70 Ultra Complete review: Score card
Attribute | Notes | Score |
|---|---|---|
Value | As one of the most expensive models in the market, and given its performance issues, it’s hard to recommend. | 3 / 5 |
Design | It’s a good-looking appliance with an easy-to-maintain design. | 4.5 / 5 |
Performance | It can handle daily hard floor cleaning, but the tougher jobs are, well, tough for it. | 2.5 / 5 |
App support | It’s not a bad app, but it will require a little time investment up front to find all the right settings. | 4 / 5 |
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Mova V70 Ultra Complete review: Alternatives
I like that the Mova V70 Ultra Complete brings some good features to the market but, given its performance during my testing, there are other models I would consider instead.
How I tested the Mova V70 Ultra Complete
I used the Mova V70 Ultra Complete three times a week for four weeks in my one-bedroom apartment that has mixed flooring and an internal cleaning area of approximately 45sqm (484sq ft). The mixed flooring includes wall-to-wall mid-pile carpet in the bedroom, tiles everywhere else, plus a mid-pile rug in the living room.
While many of the cleaning runs were for regular upkeep of the floors, I put the Mova V70 Ultra Complete through some of TechRadar’s standard tests. For vacuuming, this included sprinkling oats, tea from a tea bag, chia seeds and pieces of freeze-dried berries on carpets and hard floors to emulate different debris sizes.
Since I don’t have a pet, I collected strands of my long hair and spread them on the bedroom carpet, walked over them for a couple of days to ensure they were embedded in fibers, then ran the V70 on two different high suction settings to test results. I even used pieces of thread on carpets to enhance visibility of pickup.
For mopping tests, I poured a little soy sauce and dropped a dollop of mustard on my kitchen floor, but kept the waterflow rate high.
I regularly checked the onboard dustbin to ensure self-empty was good, while also washing the dust tank once. I tested the wash-board cleaning feature once during this time.
I also ensured I went through everything the app had to offer, comparing it to the Dreame alternative which I use regularly anyway.
I’ve tested several robot vacuums in the last 10 years and, having witnessed their rapid evolution, I’ve built a solid knowledge base to help me compare different models.
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[First reviewed October 2026]
