If you love thick carpets, Roborock's new hovering robot vacuum is about to become your new cleaning BFF

Traditionally, robot vacuums (and manual vacuums, for that matter) tend to struggle to clean thick carpets and rugs. The tall fibers, combined with upward suction, is a recipe for getting stuck. It's slightly ironic, because that's exactly the kind of flooring that would really benefit from a thorough vacuum.

In two of its new launches – the Saros 20 and Saros 20 Sonic – Roborock has come up with a solution. And ingeniously, it uses a feature that was originally designed to solve a completely different kind of problem.

Let me back up a bit. Like a number of last year's best robot vacuums, the new Saros 20 bots have little feet that extend to help lift them over small steps or tall room thresholds. They're a little less flashy than the long stilts that feature on the Roborock Rover, but they ...