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The Dreame X60 Max Ultra Complete has a name you can’t say out loud without smirking, a price that makes your eyebrows climb, and a dock roughly the size of a hotel minibar. It is also, in the ways that matter most on a Tuesday night when the kitchen floor is a crime scene, the most capable floor-cleaning robot I’ve spent time with. It lists at $1,699.99 and currently sells for $1,529.98, and after living with it, I understand where the money went.
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Positioning
This was Dreame’s CES 2026 headliner, and it replaces the X50 Ultra at the top of the X-series. The jump in raw output is not subtle: the X50 topped out at 20,000Pa, and the X60 claims 35,000Pa. Its natural rival is the Roborock Saros 20, which claims 36,000Pa at $1,599.99 – close enough that the spec sheets cancel out and the testing decides it.
There’s also a cheaper sibling. The plain X60 Ultra runs $1,499.99 and has dipped to $1,349.99 at Amazon. The Max adds the dual-detergent pet system, multi-spectral dirt detection, and a retractable vacuum pressure chamber; otherwise they’re close cousins. You also can’t buy the Max on its own – it only comes as the “Complete” bundle, which is where a chunk of the sticker price lives.
Design
The robot is a 350mm disc that stands 79.5mm – 3.13 inches – with its navigation turret retracted, and 103mm with it up. That number is the whole pitch. The laser array sinks flush into the body, so it slides under sofas, beds, and cabinets that stop other flagships cold, and watching it disappear under the couch and come out the other side genuinely does not get old. A magnetic top cover hides the removable dustbin, the side brush extends into corners, and one of the two mop pads swings out to hug edges.
Underneath are the party trick: dual retractable legs driven by a swing-arm motor rated for 30,000 cycles, officially good for 45mm single-layer steps and 88mm double-layer thresholds.
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The dock measures 390 x 423 x 499mm and weighs 10.6kg (23.37 pounds), with a 4.2-liter clean tank, a 3.0-liter dirty tank, and a 3.2-liter dust bag behind the front panel. A two-compartment tray holds standard and pet-formula detergent, and the robot picks which one to mix based on where it’s headed.
Specs
The main brush is the HyperStream Detangling DuoBrush 2.0, with 60 percent thicker rubber than the X50’s, paired with a retractable pressure plate that drops to form a semi-sealed chamber against carpet. Mopping is dual spinning pads at 230RPM with 15N of downforce, an extending edge mop, and full pad removal for vacuum-only runs. The pads lift 10.5mm on their own, or 21.5mm of ground clearance with the chassis raised as well – unusually high, where roughly 10mm is typical. Thermal pads hold water at 40°C (104°F) using a phase-change layer, and the dock’s AceClean DryBoard scrubs them with 20 nozzles of 100℃ (212°F) water before hot-air drying. Auto-empty is rated for 100 days, and the 6,400mAh battery goes from 9 to 80 percent in 80 minutes with an adjustable 80–100 percent charge ceiling.
Navigation runs on two 120-degree AI cameras plus an LED, recognizing 280 object types down to 10mm. Recognition happens on the robot itself with no cloud image storage, certified under UL Solutions’ Diamond Mark and TÜV SÜD’s ETSI EN 303 645 standard – a rare thing to be able to say about a camera on wheels. Alexa, Google, and Siri work. Matter is listed as arriving via a future OTA update, so treat it as a promise, not a feature.
Performance
This thing cleans. Not in the hedged, well-for-a-robot way – it cleans like something you’d be happy to hand the job to permanently. Carpet is where most robots quietly give up, skimming the surface and calling it done, and the X60 goes after the grit that’s worked its way down into the pile. The pressure plate dropping to seal against the fibres makes an audible difference in tone as it crosses onto a rug, and you can see the result in the pile afterwards. Pet hair is its party piece. Long hair, flattened hair, hair that’s been walked into the carpet for a week – it lifts it, and more importantly, the brush stays clean afterwards. I’ve pulled it apart expecting the usual matted spiral around the roller and found nothing there.
Mopping is where it won me over, though. Dried salt and slush residue by the front door is the sort of mess most robots turn into a wider, greyer version of itself, and this one just took it off, first pass, leaving a floor that actually looked wet-mopped rather than damp-wiped. The warm water and the weight behind the pads do real work. Ketchup is still beyond it, as it is for basically everything on wheels, but day to day it leaves hard floors with a genuine sheen and no streaking.
It isn’t flawless, and the flaws are all of the boring, forgivable kind. It’s not the fastest planner in the world, so a whole-home run takes a while, and it won’t cover an enormous floorplan on one charge – it goes back, tops up, resumes, and you stop noticing. The onboard bin is small, which is the toll for that low body, so a heavy-shedding house will want the dock emptying it often. Wound up to maximum suction, it’s loud enough to leave the room; anywhere below that it’s easy to talk over, and mopping is close to silent. None of it undoes the basic impression, which is that the floors are cleaner than I would have gotten them myself.
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App
Dreame’s app is a cathedral of settings, and I mean that as roughly 70 percent compliment. Per-room suction, per-zone water, carpet behavior, chassis-lift sensitivity, obstacle-avoidance aggressiveness. You can treat high-pile and low-pile rugs differently, rotate rug outlines to any angle for recognition, and it’ll spot tassels and route around them. Buried deeper are a manual drive-around mode and a Wi-Fi signal map that correctly pinpointed the router.
The catch: defaults aren’t your friend. Tune it for half an hour and it runs brilliantly; leave it alone and the chassis lift may raise on a thin kitchen runner, where lifted, it’s a mediocre vacuum. Setup takes about twenty minutes on 2.4GHz Wi-Fi, and the software has quietly gotten smarter – best addition being that when a pet or person blocks a patch of floor, it remembers and comes back for it. Minor quirks: the AI occasionally reads a knot in hardwood as a stain until you tell it to ignore that spot, and the rear-wheel placement that enables the climbing can leave a faint center track on carpet.
Verdict
Buy Dreame X60 Max Ultra Complete if your home is the hard case: mixed flooring, tall thresholds, low furniture, shedding animals. Nothing else combines this profile with this much climbing ability, and the pet-hair result is genuinely category-leading. Save the money on the plain X60 Ultra if you don’t need the pet detergent, and wait for a discount either way – the price moves constantly.
