--- title: This new robovac has an arm and can phone home | daily.dev description: Roborock has launched the Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra, a robovac with an arm, a new voice assistant, AI-powered obstacle avoidance, and video calling. The robot's... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/this-new-robovac-has-an-arm-and-can-phone-home-w1moovf7k twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: This new robovac has an arm and can phone home | daily.dev og:description: Roborock has launched the Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra, a robovac with an arm, a new voice assistant, AI-powered obstacle avoidance, and video calling. The robot's... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/this-new-robovac-has-an-arm-and-can-phone-home-w1moovf7k og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/W1MoOVf7k.png og:image:alt: This new robovac has an arm and can phone home og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # This new robovac has an arm and can phone home **[The Verge](https://daily.dev/sources/theverge)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Roborock has launched the Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra, a robovac with an arm, a new voice assistant, AI-powered obstacle avoidance, and video calling. The robot's mopping system has also been upgraded. Roborock is also launching the S8 Max Ultra, a similar model without a camera and lower suction power. The new features will be also available in the midrange Q line models. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#ces](https://daily.dev/tags/ces), [#tech-news](https://daily.dev/tags/tech-news) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/this-new-robovac-has-an-arm-and-can-phone-home-w1moovf7k) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"This new robovac has an arm and can phone home","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/this-new-robovac-has-an-arm-and-can-phone-home-w1moovf7k","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/this-new-robovac-has-an-arm-and-can-phone-home-w1moovf7k"},"datePublished":"2024-01-08T15:01:34.266Z","dateModified":"2024-01-27T02:20:57.363Z","description":"Roborock has launched the Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra, a robovac with an arm, a new voice assistant, AI-powered obstacle avoidance, and video calling. The robot's...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/c765b472c8bf96dcd55cd42526723673?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/c765b472c8bf96dcd55cd42526723673?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Verge","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Verge","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/eacb57b3570d4f04b1f0dc8f834d8135","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/theverge"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/this-new-robovac-has-an-arm-and-can-phone-home-w1moovf7k","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai,ces,tech-news","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Verge","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/theverge"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"This new robovac has an arm and can phone home"}]} ```