Although vacuums seem fairly complicated, particularly robot vacuums, almost every smart home company makes one.
Take Eufy, for instance, a company generally known for security cameras.
This model will begin shipping this week.
The bases clean mop heads and dry them.
Matte molded plastic and lots of soft corners make the tower un-intimidating.
Robot apps have a wealth of functionality, and Eufy Clean is no different.
In the same panel, you could direct the robot with a joysticka surprisingly useful and fun feature.
The LiDAR is amazingly functional in mapping your room, and being able to set up zones is critical.
Without landmarks, it’s hard to set up a zone.
A robot that wont shut up
The X10 is a noisy roommate.
In its passive state, moving around, I noticed it was louder than other bots.
Moreover, the sucker talksall the time.
While other bots do communicate “starting or returning to station, the X10 was wau more chatty.
The X10 had trouble recovering from errors
And unfortunately, I did need the alerts.
This was also the first floorbot where I had to do work on the dock.
The noise works as its own alert so you know to stop and fix the problem.
Cords were no problem; small radius turns around table legs did not deter it.
Remembering the narrow passage to get out from under the couch did not seem problematic for the Eufy.
If youve got a complicated layout, this is an important consideration.
Overall, I thought the vacuum functioned fantastically on rugs.
Still, thats not a usual test case for a vacuum.
When I repeated the experiment with dry couscous, it had no problem completing the job.
Theres a setting specifically in the mop panel called edge hugging, and it worked.
Usually, bots leave a band of un-mopped space around objects and the wall, but not the X10.
The chambers just are slightly smaller than high end models.
