I’ve never been the type to shell out hundreds of dollars for a robot vacuum. It just never seemed worth it. The Narwal Freo Z10 has changed my mind completely. Never before have I been so impressed with a robot vacuum—it’s efficient, it’s reliable, and it’s constantly surpassing my expectations.

Narwal Freo Z10

$770 $1100 Save
$330

This combination robot vacuum and mop is mostly self-reliant, capable of cleaning hundreds of square feet on a single charge while navigating efficiently, quietly, and cleaning and wetting its mop pads without human aid.

Pros & Cons

• Extremely quiet, can easily be ignored even in the same room
• Long-lasting battery allows cleaning of large areas in a single charge
• Intuitive app provide many functions and allows map customization
• Excellent object detection allows cleaning extremely close to obstacles
• Self-maintaining means the product is mostly self-reliant and needs little human input

• Base station is very tall and can be visually obtrusive
• Robot occasionally misses hair around the edges of carpets

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Price and Availability

You can get the Narwal Freo Z10 in any color you want… as long as it’s white. For a regular price of $1100 from Narwal’s official website, it’d be nice to have some color options, but it is what it is. There are no specific accessories included in your purchase, though Narwal does currently have a deal running until May 4th in which you can get a coupon that bumps down the price by $330 and includes a free accessories pack.

Unfortunately, I can’t tell you what exactly is in that accessory pack since Narwal itself hasn’t shared that information, but it appears to be extra parts like mopping pads, brushes, and detergent canisters. Presumably, you’ll be able to buy these accessories on their own at a later date. This deal is limited in both time and supply, so if you’re interested, you’ll need to take advantage as soon as possible.

Excellent Performance and Robust Features

The Narwal Freo Z10 is honestly the best robot vacuum I’ve ever had the pleasure of using. This thing has every feature you could possibly want, and it executes those features well. For starters, the Z10 is both a vacuum and a mop, and it can perform either function alone, one after the other, or at the same time.

This gives you a lot of freedom in determining how it cleans your house, limiting it to only what you need or making the whole process much quicker.

Along the way, the Z10 will maintain itself completely without your help—it will return to its base station to empty its dust container, refill on water and detergent for the mops, and clean those mops as needed, to ensure it’s not scrubbing your floors with filth. It does all of this without any input from you, meaning you can set it and forget it even to clean incredibly large areas, such as the over 2,000 square feet of flooring that I tested it on personally.

That’s a pretty large space, and it took the Z10 quite a solid 20 minutes to map it all out, though that was mostly due to furniture, some odd room placement, and some windows that stretched down to the floor. Admittedly, those windows were the only problem for the mapping, as the Z10 constantly tried to scan the area beyond them, thinking they were rooms. This was no big deal in the long run, for reasons I’ll explain later.

The house I tested the Z10 in was large, had both wooden flooring and carpet, included accessible stairs and a lot of nooks and crannies, and is also home to people with long hair and two dogs that shed the equivalent weight of a chihuahua seemingly every day. The Z10 excelled in absolutely everything related to these problems.

This little guy is incredibly thorough. Its sensor is very sensitive, allowing it to clean right up against every object in its way and reach under counter overhangs with ease. It’s also precise enough to clean right up against the lip of my stairs without actually falling down them. When there is a section of the floor it can’t reach directly, the Z10 can actually extend the mopping pads outward to get into that cranny.

It also uses a thorough matrix pattern to ensure it covers every inch of your floor and is capable of identifying areas that are still dirty and need a second or even a third visit, without you having to instruct it at all. It’s capable of detecting the difference between carpet and hard floors, and will actively raise the mops to avoid touching the carpet with them.

The Z10 is advertised as being tangle-proof, and that’s… not entirely true. Nothing is really foolproof, but the Z10 does get pretty close. I’ve been using it for about two weeks, and it’s only gotten tangled to the point of being inoperable once, when it snatched up a loose cord I had lying on the floor. There have been times when a huge wad of hair or even some leaves got stuck in the roller brush, but it didn’t actually stop the Z10 from working.

Finally, this robot is extremely quiet. So quiet that I’ve turned it on to clean around the house while I’m sleeping and haven’t heard a single thing. You can be in the same room as it while it’s working and completely forget it’s even there. Compared to some other robot vacuums I’ve used in the past, which can be heard from across the house, the silent operation of the Z10 is one of the most awesome things about it.

The only bad thing about the Narwal Freo Z10 is the size of the base station, which is the size of an ottoman. But it is a mop and it’s got to keep the water somewhere, so the size is a given. Even compared to other Narwal robot vacuums in the Freo lineup, the Z10 really shines overall.

A Multi-Functional App and Simple Maintenance

You can use the Z10’s basic features from the base station, pressing buttons or using a voice assistant like Siri to command it. But the Narwal app is the much better option, giving you a huge array of useful features to control the Z10. With it, you can save several maps of your home, customize those apps with furniture and carpet markers or even the direction of the paneling for wooden floors, and dictate which sections of the maps to clean.

You can also schedule the Z10 to clean at certain times, get an estimate on the remaining lifetime of its individual parts, track its tasking progress, set modes and parameters, get notifications about any problems, and much more. All of these features are included in an intuitive package that’s easy to navigate—a few minutes is all you need to figure out pretty much everything, and there’s a search feature if you need to find a certain setting.

The app lets you know when certain parts or accessories need to be replaced, and actually replacing them is quite easy. The brushes, canisters and containers are all easy to access and remove on both the robot and the base station, and there are even little stickers in relevant locations with simple diagrams showing you how to do this if need be. You do not need anything other than your bare hands to access almost every accessory of the Z10.

Should You Buy the Narwal Freo Z10?

I’m not going to lie, $1100 is a hefty price tag. But the Narewal Freo Z10 is genuinely worth it, in my opinion. It’s actually cheaper than a lot of mop-vacuum hybrids offering similar features. The exact value of the Z10 really depends on the type of space you need it to clean. If you have a whole lot of space, with various floor types and lots of clutter, the Z10 is an amazing robot that can clean everything efficiently and without your help 99% of the time.

If you have a much smaller space to clean, the Z10 might be too expensive for the level of service and productivity you need. But I can genuinely say that the Narwal Freo Z10 really does have the features, convenience, reliability, and cleaning efficiency to be worth the $1100 price tag.

Narwal Freo Z10

$770 $1100 Save
$330

This combination robot vacuum and mop is mostly self-reliant, capable of cleaning hundreds of square feet on a single charge while navigating efficiently, quietly, and cleaning and wetting its mop pads without human aid.