MOVA V70 Ultra Complete Review: This Robot Vacuum Climbs, Scrubs, and Cleans Like It Means It

MOVA is Dreame‘s sibling brand, and the MOVA V70 Ultra Complete looks like an attempt to put every feature the robot vacuum category has invented into one machine. Bagless auto-emptying, boiling water mop washing, a dual-compartment cleaning solution dispenser, extending brush and mop arms, and wheels that climb a three-and-a-half-inch threshold. It lists at $1,299, with introductory pricing of $1,099 through September 1, and either way that’s premium money. I’ve been running the MOVA V70 Ultra Complete across hard floors, carpet, and a lot of furniture legs to see what that buys.

The MOVA V70 Ultra Complete Base Station

We’ll start with the MOVA V70 Ultra Complete’s base station, because that’s where most of the money went, and it’s the most complete one I’ve used.

Dust collection is bagless, using a reusable filter instead of a consumable bag, which is both cheaper over the life of the machine and one less thing to remember to order.

The cleaning solution tank is split into two separate compartments, so you can keep a general-purpose floor solution in one and a specialty solution in the other and let the robot pull from whichever the job calls for. And the clean and dirty water tanks, at 4 liters and 3.5 liters, are large enough that I got at least three full mopping sessions out of a fill.

Quick Specs

• Model: MOVA V70 Ultra Complete
• Suction: 42,000 Pa, motor spinning up to 150,000 RPM
• Main brush: TroboWave DuoBrush dual roller with triple anti-tangle design
• Side brush: extends up to 12cm (MaxiReachX), anti-tangle eccentric design
• Mop: dual spinning FlexiPress pads at 300 RPM, extends up to 17cm, 15N downward pressure, 10.5mm lift
• Navigation: retractable DToF LiDAR with 360-degree scanning, plus AI camera and LED light
• Obstacle recognition: 300+ objects, pet waste detection
• Obstacle crossing: up to 4.5cm in a single step, up to 9cm (about 3.5 inches) in two, via StepMaster System 2.0 retractable legs
• Sensors: carpet detection with automatic mop lift, cliff sensors
• Battery: 6,400 mAh
• Robot dimensions: 350 x 350 x 88 mm (89.5mm profile)
• Base station dimensions: 420 x 458 x 470 mm
• Dust collection: EcoCyclone bagless with reusable filter, up to 100 days hands-free
• Clean water tank: 4.0L
• Waste water tank: 3.5L
• Mop washing: 100C (212F) PTC heated washboard
• Mop drying: 70C hot air, about one hour
• Cleaning solution: DuoSolution dual-compartment auto dispenser
• Mapping: multi-floor, zone cleaning, scheduling via app
• In the box: extra main brush, extra side brush, six extra mop pads, washboard filter, dust tank filter, 1L and 200ml cleaning solutions
• Warranty: up to 3 years
• Price: $1,299 ($1,099 introductory pricing through September 1)

Mop Washing and Mopping Performance

The mop washing is the part I keep coming back to. The station heats water to 212 degrees and scrubs the pads against a heated washboard, which is a meaningful step up from the lukewarm rinse a lot of docks call washing. Pads come out of it genuinely clean rather than merely wet, and then get an hour of 70 degree hot air drying so they don’t sit damp and start to smell.

There’s also a small quality of life feature that more manufacturers should copy: you can leave the mop pads at the base station entirely when you only want to vacuum. No detaching, no storing them somewhere, no forgetting to put them back on.

Extending Arms and Obstacle Avoidance

On the robot itself, both the side brush and the mop arm extend outward, and this is not a gimmick. The side brush pushes out to 12 cm, and the mop reaches out to 17cm, which means corners and the perimeter along baseboards get cleaned rather than approximated.

I watched it work around chair and table legs repeatedly, and the combination of good obstacle avoidance and those extending arms is the most impressive thing about how it cleans. It doesn’t just steer around an obstacle and leave a dirty ring behind it; it steers around the obstacle and then reaches back in to get what it just went around.

The mop pads press downward with 15 newtons of force rather than simply resting on the floor under their own weight, and you can see the difference in dried-on spots. Combined with the 300 RPM spin, it scrubs instead of smearing. This is the single biggest differentiator between mopping robots that are useful and mopping robots that just push a wet cloth around, and the MOVA V70 Ultra Complete lands firmly in the first category.

The MOVA App and Vacuuming Performance

Check out some screenshots from the fantastic app:

Dry vacuuming is equally strong. The dual-roller design and 42,000 Pa of suction pick up what you’d expect at this price, and the anti-tangle geometry keeps hair from wrapping the rollers. Carpet detection works; the mop pads lift when it crosses onto carpet, and the cliff sensors have kept it off the stairs without incident.

StepMaster System 2.0 and Navigation

The other headline feature is the leap wheels, or as Mova calls it, StepMaster System 2.0. The robot has motorized retractable legs that let it climb up to 4.5cm in a single step and up to about 3.5 inches when it takes the obstacle in two.

In practice, this means transitions and thresholds that would strand most robots simply aren’t obstacles. If you have a house with raised transitions between rooms, this alone may be the feature that decides it, because a robot that can’t get into a room can’t clean it.

Rounding out the package: an onboard LED light and camera for navigation and obstacle identification in the dark, 300+ object recognition, and multi-floor mapping so you can run it on more than one level of the house.

What Could Be Better

The complaints are short. The auto-emptying cycle is loud. Not unusually loud for the category, since forcing debris up a tube with a vacuum motor is inherently noisy, but loud enough that you’ll notice it from another room. The saving grace is that it’s over quickly, and you can schedule cleanings so the emptying doesn’t happen during a meeting or a nap.

The other is price, and it’s less a complaint than a fact. Even at the $1,099 introductory price, that’s real money for a robot vacuum, and there are perfectly competent machines for half of it. What’s hard to argue is that the MOVA V70 Ultra Complete doesn’t deliver value for what it charges.

Every dollar shows up somewhere on the machine: the bagless dock, the dual solution compartments, the boiling-water washing, the extending arms, the climbing legs. There’s very little here that feels like it was added to lengthen the spec sheet.

Who Should Buy the MOVA V70 Ultra Complete?

You’ll probably be happy with the MOVA V70 Ultra Complete if you want one machine that vacuums and mops well enough that you stop doing either by hand, if your home has thresholds or transitions that have defeated other robots, and if you’d rather buy the fully loaded version once than upgrade in two years. The extending arms and the 15N mop pressure are the two features that most change what a robot vacuum can actually accomplish.

The view from the robot’s built-in camera

You might regret buying it if you’re shopping primarily on price, if you have a small, single-level apartment with flat transitions where most premium features don’t come into play, or if a noisy dock in an open floor plan will bother you.

The MOVA V70 Ultra Complete: The Bottom Line

The MOVA V70 Ultra Complete is a premium robot vacuum at a premium price, and it earns it. It cleans well dry, it cleans well wet, and the base station handles everything you’d otherwise have to handle yourself. The auto-empty is loud, and the price is high, but neither is a reason to skip it.

The MOVA V70 Ultra Complete retails for $1,299, with introductory pricing of $1,099 through September 1; it is available directly from the manufacturer and other retailers, including Amazon.

Source: Manufacturer-supplied review sample

What I Like: The base station has every feature you could ask for; Bagless auto dust collection with a replaceable filter instead of consumable bags; Floor cleaning solution tank has two separate compartments for basic and specialty solutions; 4L clean and 3.5L dirty water tanks last at least three moppings; Heats water to 212 degrees and washes pads on a heated washboard; Hot air pad drying; You can leave the mop pads at the base station when you only want to vacuum; Extending side brush and mop arm clean corners and around furniture legs properly; Mop pads press down with 15 newtons of pressure for real scrubbing; Climbs a 3.5-inch threshold thanks to the leap wheels; Dual brush roller design with anti-tangle geometry; 42,000 Pa suction; LED light and camera on the robot; Carpet sensor and cliff sensor; Maps multiple floors; Excellent obstacle avoidance that still cleans around what it avoids

What Needs Improvement: The auto-emptying cycle is loud, though it’s over quickly; Premium price, even if the value is there