CES 2025 – Tapo RV70 Pro Ultra: a robot that recycles water to wash floors at TP-Link
Between the Saros Z70 at Roborock Or the K20+ Pro at SwitchBotrobot vacuum cleaners are making a show at CES. And it's not over yet. TP-Link also presents an innovative model with the Tapo RV70 Pro Ultra. Certainly, this model is limited to washing floors, but it should be particularly autonomous thanks to a station capable of emptying its collector and, above all, washing its mops and supplying it with water without a tank to fill and empty or pipes to be connected to the water network.
A station that draws water from the air and recycles it
For this, the Tapo RV70 Pro Ultra station integrates a recycling system. The water used for washing the mops is then vacuumed and, rather than ending up stored in a tank until the user decides to throw it away as with most competing stations, it is filtered and purified to be reused. TP-Link doesn't actually detail the process, but one video notably appears to show water boiling in the station. In any case, it must heat the water to wash the robot's mops, before drying them with hot air. And if recycling the washing water should not be enough to make the robot completely self-sufficient in water since it also uses it to wash the floor in the house – with detergent automatically distributed as a bonus – the station does not stop there. It is also equipped with a system which should allow it to capture humidity from the air to compensate for this “loss”. The station will probably still need to be filled initially, but the user should then have peace of mind for several weeks.
TP-Link does not mention a duration, but the dust bag offers a rather comfortable capacity of 2.5 liters for automatic emptying and, although there is undoubtedly a filter to be washed in the water circuit, it should be able to last a while. Especially since the station is also equipped with an ozone-based odor neutralizer – the famous technology used by Bosch in its…. The height of luxury, an integrated tablet should allow access to all the robot's functionalities without taking out your smartphone, even if it can of course also be controlled remotely with a mobile application.
On the robot side, the Tapo RV70 Pro Ultra is a little more classic, but TP-Link still announces powerful suction (18,000 Pa) coupled with a brush supposed to prevent hair from rolling up. And if it doesn't have arms to sweep in the corners, it can however shift one of its two small mops to wash along the walls. Like a Dreame X50 Ultrahe can also leave them in his station to vacuum the carpets without contaminating them. The carpets are also detected automatically, and the latest Tapo robot must also be able to detect – and recognize – numerous obstacles thanks to an integrated camera on the front and artificial intelligence. A LiDAR is finally provided on top for mapping.
For now, the Tapo RV70 Pro Ultra unfortunately has no price or release date, but we hope to be able to say more quickly.
