Month: September 2025

Roborock Launches Upgraded Qrevo Curv 2 Pro with Enhanced Suction Power

Roborock has introduced the Qrevo Curv 2 Pro, featuring an impressive suction power of 25,000Pa, surpassing the 18,500Pa of last year’s model. This robotic vacuum also includes a dual-spinning mop system that autonomously detaches when transitioning over carpets, ensuring they remain dry, reports 24brussels.

At a thickness of just 3.14 inches (7.98 cm), the Qrevo Curv 2 Pro is one inch slimmer than its predecessor and includes a retractable LiDAR tower, allowing it to navigate under low-clearance furniture. Despite these new features, the device retains its AdaptiLift Chassis, enabling it to lift itself and clean carpets up to 1.18 inches (3 cm) thick.

The Qrevo Curv 2 Pro employs an RGB camera combined with AI-powered obstacle recognition to identify and avoid clutter, while also featuring an anti-tangle brush and an improved dock that uses hot water for mop washing at 100 degrees Celsius (212°F).

Currently, the Qrevo Curv 2 Pro is exclusively available in the European Union priced at €1299 (approximately $1,514). There has been no announcement regarding its release in the United States.

Roborock Launches New Robot Lawn Mowers at IFA 2025

Roborock, renowned for its robotic vacuum cleaners, has ventured into a new arena with the introduction of robot lawnmowers at IFA 2025. The flagship model, the RockMow Z1, boasts an all-wheel drive system capable of tackling gradients up to 80 percent, equating to approximately 38.66 degrees, reports 24brussels.

The RockMow Z1 features independent hub motors on each wheel, complemented by an independent steering motor for the front wheels, ensuring smoother turns and enhanced traction on steep surfaces. Additionally, the mower is equipped with a suspension system designed to maintain stability during operation, facilitating even cuts and allowing for blade capabilities that enable cutting within 3 cm of walls.

Incorporating a state-of-the-art navigation system, the RockMow Z1 utilizes satellite-based real-time kinematics (RTK) in conjunction with visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM), equipping it to navigate gardens effectively. According to Roborock, this model can cover up to 5,000 square meters in a single 24-hour period, and users can even customize mowing patterns and messages in their lawns via an associated app.

Alongside the Z1, the company also unveiled the RockMow S1, which offers fewer features but includes AI-powered smart mapping and can manage slopes of up to 45 percent (24.2 degrees), navigating through passages as narrow as 0.7 meters. However, it operates at a slower pace, handling up to 1,000 square meters within the same time frame.

The RockNeo Q1, designed for standard lawn upkeep, includes AI smart mapping and can cut edges up to 3 cm. It also has a unique “wildlife-friendly” feature that avoids nighttime operations to minimize disturbances to nocturnal animals. However, it’s yet to be clarified if this feature extends to the other models as well.

As of now, Roborock has not disclosed pricing details or availability dates for its new line of robotic mowers.

Models for reconnaissance, rescue, interception and attack are changing the way both sides operate

“It’s more exhausting,” says Afer, a deputy commander of the “Da Vinci Wolves”, describing how one of the best-known battalions in Ukraine has to defend against constant Russian attacks. Where once the invaders might have tried small group assaults with armoured vehicles, now the tactic is to try and sneak through on foot one by one, evading frontline Ukrainian drones, and find somewhere to hide.

Under what little cover remains, survivors then try to gather a group of 10 or so and attack Ukrainian positions. It is costly – “in the last 24 hours we killed 11,” Afer says – but the assaults that previously might have happened once or twice a day are now relentless. To the Da Vinci commander it seems that the Russians are terrified of their own officers, which is why they follow near suicidal orders.

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Steve Jones was hundreds of miles away in Maidstone arranging family funeral at time of alleged offence

A non-smoker was convicted at a magistrates court after Manchester city council accused him of dropping a cigarette butt in the city centre – even though he was hundreds of miles away, arranging a family funeral at the time.

Steve Jones, a 53-year-old teacher, lives 200 miles away in Teddington, Greater London, has only been to Manchester three times, and doesn’t smoke.

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Rayner has quit not only as deputy prime minister but also deputy leader of her party. We examine the potential candidates for that role

Angela Rayner’s resignation not only as deputy prime minister but also as deputy Labour leader has triggered a fierce internal election battle to find her successor, and potentially a simultaneous battle for the soul of the party … again.

Rayner, who was seen by many across the party as a future leader, dramatically quit her two government positions and the party’s deputy leadership on Friday after the independent adviser on ministerial interests concluded she had breached the code by underpaying stamp duty on her seaside flat in Hove.

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