Eufy X8 Pro review

If you would like a robotic vacuum that does all of it – high-quality mapping, first rate mopping, self-emptying – it’s an costly proposition. However these options will make an enormous distinction to how a lot work it could possibly tackle, and the way a lot much less you’ll must do day-to-day, each in phrases retaining your private home clear and the way hands-on that you must be along with your robotic vacuum.

Enter the Eufy X8 Professional. It’s not at all low-cost however for £599/$649.99, or simply £449.99/$499.99 for those who forgo the self-emptying station, it does quite a bit for its value level.

Design & Construct

• 9.5cm/ 3.75in excessive (approx.)
• 270ml dustbin
• Station pretty compact at 38 x 19 x 13cm

The X8 Professional has a well-recognized construct, with a round physique and a raised Lidar tower that enables its laser navigation system a large sight view. Together with the tower, it’s solely 9.5cm/ 3.75in excessive, giving it an excellent likelihood of it getting beneath the mattress and couch to wash.

It’s round 34cm/ 13.4in in diameter and has a gray cowl and black sides and bumpers.

The X8 Professional has a spinning sweeper on one aspect, which helps it to wash alongside edges and in corners however, inevitably, you probably have objects alongside your partitions that it must keep away from, it received’t attain each spot.

Onboard, there’s a 270ml water tank and a 335ml dustbin. It’s a reasonably small bin however for those who get the self-emptying station, that’ll be moot.

That’s as a result of contained in the station is a a lot bigger bin, within the type of a 2.5 litre antibacterial mud bag. Relying on how typically that you must vacuum, you’ll possible get round a month and a half of use earlier than that you must empty it.

As for the station itself, it’s in discreet black and is pretty compact (38 x 19 x 13cm), which suggests it’s simpler to put than mammoth rivals. A bag is already in place if you unbox it, so all that the station set-up includes is to discover a spot for it and plug it in.

One of the best residence for it’s in an uncarpeted room, as when the mopping pad is hooked up, you received’t need it to cross any carpet.

There are drawbacks to a self-emptying dock, other than dimension. You’ll want to purchase alternative mud baggage, plus the self-emptying course of isn’t precisely quiet. When the robotic docks, there’s a number of seconds of loud noise because the onboard bin is emptied by way of vacuum suction.

You may, nonetheless, swap this setting off for some time through the use of the Do Not Disturb mode within the app. And total, a self-emptying station is properly value it for the power to schedule cleansing and neglect all about it.

Setup & Mapping

• Editable maps for customized cleansing
• Voice management
• Eufy app properly laid out and simple to make use of

Setup is simple. One the robotic has charged, you’ll have to obtain the Eufy app, which is free and out there for iOS and Android, and it’ll stroll you thru the Wi-Fi connection course of. It was fast in our check and when you come to make use of it, you’ll discover that the app is solely laid out and simple to make use of.

On the X8 Professional’s first sortie, it’ll create a map of your private home. The map was correct however pretty fundamental – there’s no 3D possibility and you’ll’t add objects of furnishings the way in which you may with pricier fashions (just like the iRobot Roomba i7+) – however as soon as it’s full, you may edit it. There’s additionally the choice to save lots of a number of maps.

If the robotic hasn’t received your map fairly proper, you may merge and part rooms. As soon as it’s to your liking, you may then set customized cleansing settings for every room, selecting the water degree (when mopping), suction energy, and whether or not it cleans the room a couple of times.

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You too can ship it out to wash a single room, which is beneficial if you would like the lavatory mopped after a bathe, or the kitchen cleaned after dinner prep.

The X8 Professional may also be used with Alexa or Google Assistant, so you may set your robotic off with a voice command. I examined it with Alexa, and linking it to my Amazon account was fast and simple.

Vacuuming & Navigation

• 8,000Pa suction
• Can’t spot low obstacles
• Good with pet hair however nonetheless tangles

This mannequin is supplied with twin generators, every with 4,000Pa suction, giving it a whopping 8,000Pa total. It’s spectacular, on paper. However how does it carry out in actual life?

The X8 Professional is an efficient vacuum that may convincingly clear each carpets and laborious flooring. It’s not the very best at edge cleansing however that’s by no means actually a robotic vacuum’s sturdy swimsuit: the heavy site visitors areas of a room are the place it performs greatest.

It’s significantly good at choosing up pet hair. One in every of its promoting factors is its self-cleaning brush bar. This characteristic ought to, theoretically, imply that you just don’t have to wash it by hand. It did work on pet hair however as soon as this was mixed into an unholy tangle with lengthy human hair, it was the identical previous story and I needed to tear strands of hair from the comb bar – and the spinning sweeper.

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However cleansing is simply half the story with a robotic vacuum. Navigation is simply as essential. If it typically will get itself caught, it makes scheduled cleansing pointless as you’ll must be round to rescue it.

The X8 Professional’s navigation is nice – total. It stopped wanting obstacles and cleaned rigorously alongside them. However there’s an exception. It frequently charged into low objects, like pet bowls, mats and cables after which dragged mats behind it or turned tangled in cables.

Low objects and wires are a typical blind spot with robotic vacuums. So long as you arrange no-go zones round apparent bother spots like nests of cables and pet bowls, it received’t be an issue.

The X8 Professional has an on-paper potential to cross a 19mm threshold. Throughout testing, it was capable of cross a taller and wider 22mm threshold, though not with out some Austin Powers-style backwards and forwards manoeuvring.  

Mopping

• Three ranges of water circulate
• Mops can’t be raised on carpet

The X8 Professional isn’t a totally hands-off robotic vacuum. If you wish to mop, you’ll have to fil the water tank and fasten the mop pad (after which empty and clear it afterwards).

As soon as the mop is fitted, the mopping possibility will seem within the app and you’ll customise water ranges for every room. It’s best to word that after it’s mopped the ground, it can go away a barely damp path behind it. So, if the quickest method for it to return to its charging station is throughout a rug or carpeted space, you’ll want so as to add a no-go zone on the map.

Though you may’t specify that it mops some rooms and solely vacuums others on the identical outing, you may schedule or ship it to solely mop a particular room, like a rest room or kitchen.

The mop can exert 0.6kg of downward strain, which is sufficient to clear up dried toothpaste or tea stains. It received’t carry extra cussed gunk and it received’t clear proper to the partitions, however for day-to-day mopping, it really works properly sufficient to be helpful.

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I discovered it to be higher than another fashions that use the identical drag-across-the-floor technique of cleansing and that are fairly feeble. Dearer fashions now have a tendency to make use of spinning mops, which do a way more thorough job.  

Value & Availability

The Eufy X8 Professional is obtainable for £599/ $649.99. Within the UK, you should buy it direct from Eufy, from Amazon or Argos however on the time of writing, there’s no value benefit from any retailer.

US readers can get it from Eufy, Finest Purchase or Amazon. At present, Finest Purchase has the very best deal at $599.99.

Relying on the place you’re and what the competitors is, the X8 Professional seems to be a little bit completely different.

Within the UK, when in comparison with rivals with the same characteristic set, the Eufy X8 Professional may be very properly priced. The iRobot Roomba i7+, which additionally has automated self-emptying, prices £799. (The i7+ has higher, extra in-depth mapping however it doesn’t mop.)

It’s a special story within the US, the place you may choose up the i7+ for $399.99 (see it on Amazon) and there’s additionally competitors from Yeedi, whose Dice robotic vacuum is great worth.

In case you’re pondering of shopping for, in addition to changing mop pads and the spinning sweeper, you’ll additionally have to think about the price of alternative baggage for the station.

Within the UK, you may get a six-pack of alternative baggage from Amazon for £29.99. US readers should purchase a ten pack for $29.99, additionally from Amazon.

Nonetheless, as soon as the X8 Professional is about up, you’ll get a code by way of the app inside 20 days that’ll entitle you to 2 free mud baggage for the docking station. The code should be redeemed earlier than the top of the 12 months and we don’t know if later purchases can even obtain one.

Must you purchase the Eufy X8 Professional?

It’s not a flawless robotic vacuum however for its value level, its characteristic set and high quality make it a tempting bundle – particularly for those who’re within the UK. We wouldn’t advocate attempting to economize by shopping for the robotic vacuum with out the station: it’s actually the mix of the 2 that makes such an excellent deal.

However, you probably have pets and long-haired members of the family, don’t consider the hype: there’s no method to utterly escape the depressing activity of coping with hair on the comb bar. However for those who purchase the X8 Professional, at the least you’ll realize it’s not in your flooring.

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Specs

• 8,000Pa suction max
• Top: 9.5cm (approx.)
• 270ml water tank
• 335ml onboard bin/ 2.5l in dock
• Lidar navigation
• Mopping: Sure
• Auto emptying: Sure – with station