eufy Clean - X8 Pro Robotic Vacuum with Self-Empty Station - Black

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• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  NOW… make it do stairs! Only one thing it can't do

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  Finally… a robotic vacuum that cleans effectively enough to stay in my home. One that isn't just a surface duster or dirt spreader like the vacuums used previously. The Eufy X8 Pro w/ Self-Empty Station is the best robotic vacuum I've tested in the last eight years. Five different robot vacuums later, I thought it wouldn't be a viable way to vacuum, and my Dyson and I would still do work. NOW, every morning, it is like a cleaning service came overnight! The X8 Pro's suction, AI performance, and efficiency are mind-blowing and unmatched for this price. I now spend less time vacuuming because it VACUUMS and doesn't get stuck! No need to watch stairs; it sees them! I do stairs and touch up corners where I block it from going. My carpets are always clean and refreshed, with carpet lines in a logical pattern I would leave behind. The AI running the vacuum, combined with the LIDAR and IR sensor arrays, makes this perform like no other robot vacuum on the market. It does not just haphazardly bounce all over the room like some vacuums I've tested. It, quite frankly, would vacuum like a human that could not move furniture. All three levels of vacuum suction perform well, but the max setting could be loud if people are sleeping nearby—otherwise, low and medium work well while you sleep. Setup The setup is intuitive and straightforward. Everything arrives tightly packaged, protected, and delivered quickly to my door. Unpack it to reveal the Base Station, X8 Pro, plastic pad, and power cable. Next, find a flat, hard surface near an outlet to place your plastic mat and base station. Once the base station is plugged in, please turn on the vacuum and align it to charge. Download the Eufy Clean app and create an account (if necessary). Follow the app prompts to add it to your account and TRULY unlock the full potential. Link your favorite voice assistant for automation, schedules, and voice commands making life SUPER SIMPLE in the chore department. You can use its simple three-button functionality to send it home, spot clean, and power down, but the BEAST is unleashed in the Eufy Clean app! Once setup is complete, let it map by scanning your home to build a floor plan. It will go around the perimeter of your walls, flinging LIDAR beams to create a blueprint. In the app, you can watch it draw and follow the paths it took to get there. Be sure to clear loose objects from the floor to ensure perfect mapping. After the scan, place virtual boundaries and no-go zones to lock down your requests further. Eufy Clean offers options for setting schedules customized for cleaning by room, zone, or the whole floor. You are in control of how much cleaning is done and when. You can also mop and vacuum with different settings. Vacuum first, then clean - now my floor washer is getting nervous. From start to finish, I was up and running about 35 minutes after account linking, updates, and setup was done. I don't see many hiccups in the setup process and this passes with flying colors. Mopping It functions very well as a mop and is similar to using a Swiffer Wet mop. You are essentially getting a single pad wet and cleaning the floor. It does not vacuum the floors dry, so you have to wait for the floor to air dry. The X8 Pro will release the right amount of water into the pad based on your settings, and when you finish, you can wash the pad and use it again. I like how my kitchen floors are vacuumed first, then wet mop all in one cleaning. This vacuum helps around the house, and vacuuming is almost wholly checked off the chore list. Performance and Observations The X8 Pro is punching above its weight class in performance and effectiveness. However, the base feels light and slides around if not set correctly against a wall or immovable object. I have thick carpets with thick padding. I say it isn't a good choice without using a wedge to compensate and lean it forward. After trying to place the base on the carpet, the vacuum often had issues aligning in the dock to charge and empty when finishing. On hard floors where the rubber feet can grip, it will give the best experience. Another thing I found when relocating the base is to remap it, or it will return to the previous location docked in the room. Self-empty works well with the vacuum bag located inside the base station. It clears the X8 Pro entirely and ensures it is always ready for the job. The onboard vacuum speaker helps provide voice prompts that I find helpful when I don't have my phone. For example, it announces when it is charging or heading home and brags about detangling the roller. PASSES WITH FLYING COLORS, it does an EXCELLENT job of keeping my wife's hair out! The air filter is catching drywall dust from previous vacuum sessions, which is a testament to the impressive suction. Maintenance and Upkeep The app offers gauges and bar indicators with remaining life for components in the vacuum, like the roller, brushes, and vacuum bag. **TIP** I recommend a weekly inspection of the air filter inside the dustbin. It is good at catching dust particles; they don't come out of the filter screen! This means you must keep filters on hand to ensure suction remains optimal over time, and they are not washable! I use another vacuum to clean the filter, which does a great job of clearing it. I also recommend removing the roller if you have carpet because fibers will build up at the base of the roller, and you may want to pull it out. It will tell you when it is time to replace components in the app using indicator gauges for maintenance. It easily vacuums cereal, dirt, grass, and other things and even picks up hair without getting tangled on the roller. I am shocked by how well this performs going between carpet and floors with Boost IQ by reducing suction like more expensive handheld vacuums. Final Thoughts This vacuum I will highly recommend for its power, ease of use, effectiveness, and features ESPECIALLY for the price. You will be hard-pressed to find another vacuum in this price range with the features this has. This should be your first look before look at the others SIMPLY because of the suction alone. Hands down, this is the best and I highly recommend!

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  Posted 1 year ago by nkpstudios

• Rated 4 out of 5 stars

  Great Vacuum, Okay Dust Mop

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  We are not new to the robotic vacuum world, but it has been amazing to see the progression. This guy here is definitely at the top of the list in terms of functionality, ease of use, and technology. The self emptying bin is a huge time saver as our dog sheds and the bin fills up pretty quickly. It requires emptying twice in a normal run downstairs and 3-5 times upstairs. Not having to find it, empty the bin, and then restart means we can run it while we're at work and not worry about coming home to a half vacuumed house. The emptying is quiet too, which is not something I expected, but I've yet to see it get caught on anything and not empty completely. The app is easy to use and useful. We have 3 levels on the main floor (just a few stairs between each level) and the app allows you to identify and map out individual rooms and label them. Nice, but expected in my opinion. However, it does a an auto location process at the beginning (she'll say "Positioning" which threw me off at first) and then recognize the room once it's been mapped. I am thoroughly impressed by this as it means the smart pathing can be utilized without manually telling the app which room the vacuum is in every time. You can do everything you'd expect to do with the app otherwise: schedule cleanings, get status of the vacuum, manually start or send it home, etc. The mapping feature is excellent and intelligent. You can watch it on the app as it follows the map as well as view the historical data. No more randomly bouncing around until it tries to hit every spot. It takes the map and does a systematic sweep in as efficient pattern as it can discern. Cuts down the amount of time it needs and ensures you have those nice vacuum lines instead of the sporadic randomness. The vacuuming itself is very good as well. You can control the amount of suction (up to 3 levels) and the amount of water while in mop mode. We run them both at max generally and have had great results from it. Likewise, when it hits cords or curtains, it is smart enough to quick trying to vacuum and reversing itself to minimize tangling/dragging cords around. It will still grab a stray charging cable that is hanging down too low, but most of the time it keeps itself out of trouble and the detangling works as designed. The mop function is more of a dust mop function even though it uses water. It'll do a decent job on hardwood floors of cleaning and mopping, but is by no means a substitute for true mopping. It might buy you a little time between, but definitely does lend itself to the shine or heavy duty scrubbing clean. The bin is relatively small and I've run it every other day for nearly two weeks without changing the bag so it has more capacity than it looks. We have it tucked between a library table and a hutch and you wouldn't really know it was there unless you were looking or it started talking/vacuuming. A couple knocks on it. It has a circular sensor on top that extends above the body of the vacuum which means it can't fit under some furniture. Our dining room table is just barely too low for it to fit under because of this thing. I don't get the point of it extending like it does though I do understand it's design. Probably asking too much, but if it could pop up and down when it feels or sensing something it would certainly be able to reach a lot more locations. It backs into the base (charging station/emptying bin). That means it has to find the base, then back up, rotate 180 degrees, and then back into position. Not a huge deal because it does it automatically it just looks weird. However, when it is dead (like when we run it in another room without the base) and you have to manually put it on it is very awkward and can take shuffling to get it aligned properly. I know twice now we've put it on thinking it was charging when it wasn't. It will tell you it's charging when it's aligned, but not until there's enough power in it to turn itself on which is how we missed it. Otherwise, I am very impressed with the quality of the cleaning, the depth of technology, and the ease of use of this vacuum/mop combo. I could certainly justify having one on every level and cut out a lot of the manual vacuuming even with an older, heavy shedding dog.

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  Posted 1 year ago by kcdragon

• Rated 4 out of 5 stars

  Easy setup; Dust bin is disposable

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  The eufy X8 Pro Robot Vacuum takes around 53 minutes to clean my living room, kitchen, one bedroom, and hallway all adding up to 430 sq ft. As a rule of thumb, the more often you run the vacuum, the less debris there is to clean up each time. Overall, this robot vacuum does a good job of cleaning debris, mapping your house, and letting you set schedules and zones in the app which I think is pretty easy to navigate. While the robot works well for its main vacuuming job, the point of a more automated system is to maximize convenience. Admittedly, I don’t favor the docking station’s dust bag system because of its disposable nature. Having used different robot vacuums, I know some docking stations have a removable receptacle that is easier to dump out, however the X8 Pro uses dust bags that are meant to be replaced every 45-60 days. The eufy Clean app is convenient and intuitive enough for me to use all the features like accessing the home map, scheduling, and performing all the robots actions. Once my home map was ready, I designated restricted areas and no-mop areas because I personally don’t want the robot to go into my bathrooms or two offices and I don’t want it to mop my area rugs. The app lets you run a “brush cleaning” mode that’s supposed to help detangle hairs that get caught in the brush. It doesn’t work perfectly and if there’s too much hair, it may not work at all. I’m used to needing to cut the hair out of my vacuum brushes anyway. Here are a couple of tips after my experience this week: - Before running the robovac, pick up any loose items off the ground like socks and charging cables. - When connecting the robot to my home Wi-Fi, I had to refresh the networks list a few times to get mine to show up. To get an idea of how I’m using the eufy X8 Pro, my household consists of two adults and one dog. There’s plenty of long hair, short fur, and dog toy stuffing all over the floor for the robot to pick up. The very first clean caused a clog during the self-empty run. This is because the robot was cleaning hard to reach areas that had accumulated a lot of dust bunnies. In tending to the robot’s dust bin (not the bag in the dock), I noticed that my dog hair gets stuck in the filter easily, but I’m able to pull most of it out by hand if needed. The mop feature is okay, but unless you’re using an approved cleaning fluid, it’s just doing a pass of water all over the floors. I probably won’t use the mop feature moving forward because I don’t want to deal with the water tank or mop attachment but it’s there if I want it.

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  Posted 1 year ago by Sophia