When technology is at its best and focused on improving our lives, like a great-sounding pair of wireless headphones or a really good computer mouse, it can be indispensable. But when the companies making our gadgets drift away from the user experience and start checking off boxes and publishing bigger numbers, the basics can get lost in the mix.

That’s exactly what’s happening with the Dreame Aqua10 Ultra Roller , a premium robot vacuum with perhaps too many ideas. Which is not to say the ideas are bad. In fact, the Aqua10 Ultra Roller is gadget-y in ways that I always hoped robots would be when I was a kid in the ‘90s, all whirring motors and parts that pop out of its body to do things. Its mop roller juts out of its side for better edge mopping, the periscope-like sensor array sinks

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