At its Dreame NEXT event in San Francisco, Dreame made clear it wants to be a lot more than a vacuum company. The event covered everything from smart home appliances and TVs to smartphones, wearables, and even a concept jet propulsion electric vehicle.
But the product that really caught my attention was in the category Dreame knows best: robot vacuums.
If you've ever run your robot vac and still found dust hugging the baseboards or collecting around chair legs, you're not alone. Even the best models I've tested tend to miss those tight, awkward spots where dirt likes to hide.
Dreame's new X60 Pro Ultra is built to fix that. The centerpiece is the Dual UltraExtend Arm, Dreame's second-generation Robotic Flex Arm, which extends an 18cm mop and a 12cm side brush to clean right up against edges and into the tight spots most robot vacuums skip entirely. It's not flashy, but it's exactly the kind of improvement that means your floors actually look clean, without you having to go back over them yourself.
In the demo, I watched it circle tightly around the base of a dining room chair, staying close the whole way instead of cutting corners or skipping the spot entirely. It's a targeted fix for a specific, annoying problem, and one I pay close attention to whenever I'm testing a robot vacuum.
The rest of the specs are solid. Suction hits 42,000Pa thanks to a fan motor spinning at 150,000 RPM, among the highest I've seen. There's 10cm of step-climbing clearance for tackling higher thresholds and room transitions, along with stereo vision obstacle avoidance.
Beyond floor care, Dreame also pulled back the curtain on some bigger bets. The Nebula Next Jet Edition is a futuristic concept EV meant to showcase its engineering ambition, and the new Aurora smartphone lineup includes a modular camera system and luxury-leaning designs. There were also automated washing and drying systems aimed at cutting down on hands-on laundry time, plus an expanding line of beauty and personal care devices. Not all of it feels close to market-ready, but it gives you a sense of how aggressively Dreame is pushing beyond floor care.
Still, to me, the updates that matter most are the ones that make your home cleaner, and that's where the X60 Pro Ultra delivers.
It's expected to hit the U.S. next month, starting at $1,400. Dreame tends to offer introductory pricing at launch, so it's worth keeping an eye out for a lower opening price.
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