A few days ago, we obtained our first official look at DJI Romo, the first incursion of the brand in the robots vacuum cleaners, and the more information you get about this new and surprising addition to the DJI alignment, more intrigued I am on how it will take shape when it comes to launching.
It certainly looks great. Both the video clip shared by the filtration of Igor Bogdanov technology (also known as @quadro_News) and the advance of Toice Trailer Dji Leaker @jasperellens show the curvilinear dock with a transparent plastic cover, and if you look more closely, you can see that the bot itself also seems to have a clear cover. It is an unusual design option and that will certainly stand out against the models of the competition, even if I have my concerns about how the pristine appearance will remain over time (it may be good that DJI seems to be offering a version that does not have its interior in exhibition as an alternative).
Although a DJI logo is not found in the product and it is the first white plastic that I have seen since the #Mavicair … the official #Djiromo Chino account showed this small teaser video today, showing that they will launch their first vacuum cleaner on August 6. Cheers pic.twitter.com/zbseu9pfcdJuly 23, 2025
What is particularly interesting is that this look inside the dock does not reveal any water tank. Almost all the best robot vacuum cleaners have cleaning capabilities these days. You don’t need A water tank on the dock so that the bot can be mimicated: some models will only have a small integrated tank on board. However, these tend to be cheaper and more basic robovacs.
The average range bots will often have a clean water tank on the spring and fill the tank on board automatically. Change to the Premium category and you can expect an additional dirty water tank and automatic traper washing capabilities. Unless there are some hidden tanks of the view, it seems that the romo will not offer either.
I suppose that cleaning and self -limited technology are not areas in which DJI would naturally have experience. The brand is known for doing almost all the best drones on the market, and there is no crossing there. That is in contrast to, for example, the navigation and avoidance technology of objects, which is vital both in drones and robots vacuum cleaners. I would expect Romo’s navigation skills.
A premium proposal?
We still have no price information for the DJI Romo, but I assumed that DJI would position its Robovac debut as a premium option, with characteristics and specifications to coincide.
That might not be the case. We have a precedent for a great brand that tries to make waves in the robot vacuum market with a relatively basic model: Dyson and its 360 Nav. It was not Dyson’s first robovac, but it was an important launch in this area and seven years in creation. In this case, Dyson offered limited capabilities, without stirring to talk about, and without emptying automatic dust, but anyway he decided to continue with a premium price label.
Dyson is a firmly premium brand, so it was not necessarily a surprise (although it usually does more to justify its high price). With DJI, things are more in the air … Without playing play. On the one hand, we have the AMFLOW, the first and only Ebike of DJI, which is largely a premium proposal.
However, the drones are known by the range from Ultra-Cheap (in their Ryze Tello line) to extremely high, but the constant at all times is that they always have a great quality ratio (I asked the editor of Techradar Chambers and an expert in Drones resident Tim Coleman for his opinion and he said: “I would expect the price to be Romo, it will be an excellent value.
Then, the jury is about where the romo could sit on the market. We may not have too much time to wait to find out in any way. Teaser’s last advance suggests that DJI Romo will be launched on August 6. That would be in China: I hope the Romo can take time to reach the United Kingdom abroad, and the launch of the United States is very uncertain given the possible prohibition of DJI drones. But that is a completely separate problem …
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