DREAME L40 Ultra Gen 2

The innovative extendable side brush reaches [music] deep into 90° corners, ensuring no hidden debris is left behind in those hard-to-reach areas.

Setup was quick, mapping was fast, and its movement throughout the home felt smooth and controlled.

Like most rubber rollers, we did notice some hair tangling at both ends during testing, but the removable end caps make clean up simple.

For mopping, the L40G2 uses dual rotary pads, and they perform very well on our LVP floors, leaving them clean and streak free.

The base station fully automates mop washing, water, and solution refilling, and hot air drying, which keeps maintenance minimal.

the fact this thing doesn't have hot water mopashing sets it below the MOA P10 Pro for me.

The obstacle avoidance on this thing is also subpar.

It took 6 minutes for what you see right here.

simple and straightforward to change the vacuum bag on the Dreame L40 Ultra Gen 2.

Below the eyeball map icon is a map with a pencil icon, and from here, this is our map editing options.

I didn't have any hair get tangled up in the brushes of either the T50 Max Pro Omni or the L40 Ultra Gen 2.

led out a lot more from carpet than I expected, especially fine dust and hair that didn't look obvious at first glance.

The main trade-off is that it still benefits from a home that's a little prepared for a robot, especially where cables and small objects are involved.

The dock removed a lot of the annoying upkeep.

Some other models I've tried were a bit more cautious, but they also didn't clean carpets as well.

If you want the dock to do most of the dirty work, this makes sense.

By the second pass, it was completely gone.

if object avoidance is important to you, um, just keep that in mind that there's only a few models in the L series that have a camera, which is going to give you all those extra features and great object avoidance.

But you can wash and rinse and reuse this for a very, very long time if you desire.