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Dreame makes robot vacuums, cordless vacuums, and other smart cleaning machines for homes around the world.
Dreame is a Chinese home-cleaning company. It sells robot vacuums that drive themselves around your floor, cordless stick vacuums you hold in your hand, and a growing pile of other smart cleaning gadgets, all aimed at people who want their homes clean with less effort. You charge the thing, press a button, and it does the work. That simple promise is the whole business.
The company is based in Suzhou, an industrial city near Shanghai, and it sells widely outside China, especially in Europe. Its robots have grown more capable over time: they vacuum, mop, and — on the fancier models — lift themselves over small obstacles and climb steps, and they can extend a robotic arm to pick up socks or tissues. Some models empty and wash themselves at a dock, so a person can go days without touching them. Each new trick is a way to stand out in a crowded market and justify a higher price. Dreame is not the only player. It fights for shelf space and online reviews against iRobot, the American maker of Roomba, and against Chinese rivals like Ecovacs and Roborock. The competition is fierce, prices fall fast, and the difference between a great robot and a mediocre one often comes down to software and small mechanical details. Dreame spends heavily on research and engineering to keep up, and it holds many patents on things like motors and navigation.
There is a surprising twist: Dreame started inside another company. It grew out of a project at the Chinese tech firm Xiaomi, which backed it and sold its early products under the Xiaomi brand. Dreame later built its own name and now sells mostly under the Dreame label, while still counting Xiaomi as an investor and partner. That origin explains how a young company got big fast: it borrowed reach from a giant, then learned to stand alone.
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