Eufy X10 Pro Omni is a great review that shows how great Artificial Intelligence is
The X10 Pro Omni, a Clean, Low-Energy Robot Vacuum with Self-Efficient Frequency
My house is so clean that this morning my 6-year-old walked through the kitchen, knelt on the floor, and looked up at me sternly. He told me that the spot was sticky. He didn’t like the idea of a sticky spot where he had thrown a banana. (In his defense, I find it abhorrent too.)
This year’s Eufy X10 Pro Omni is so much of an improvement over last year’s X9 Pro (6/10, WIRED Review) that I can hardly believe it. It has a self-emptying bin, which is important, but there are other small changes that make it easier to use.
The only bad thing about the X10 Pro Omni is the price. The price is $800. This is the cost of a vacuum-mops today. I apologize, but the market is this way, but most vacuums that work this well cost around $1,200 to $1,400. I have been saying for two years that it might be worth it for a $700 robot vacuum that can’t even mop.
The first and most obvious change between generations is that the docking station now has a self-emptying bin. If you want your robot to empty the bin when it is full, you need to know how to do that. It drags dirt around your house. The app allows you to change the Frequency on the X10 Pro. The emptying function was effective, and at 75 decibels it’s as loud as a dishwasher, but it lasts only for a few seconds.
Instead of disguising the dirty and clean water tanks inside a housing that is trying to look like a spaceship, the tanks just click on top of the base. The base is an inch higher than it was last year, but it looks smaller because the space is being used more efficiently.
Changing the Vacuum and Cleaning Settings of My Living Room with the X30 Ultra: A Case Study on Dusting and Mopping in a Noisy Environment
The X30 Ultra is an exciting device because it can drop the mop pads. The mops and vacuums can be great, but dragging them around can cause your carpet to be damp. The X30 Ultra solves this by dropping the pads when it senses it’s in a room with only carpet, and reinstalling them when it returns to the base.
The robot vacuum has an in-app map where you can see how the vac will go and what order it will go. You can also reorganize the sequence in the cleaning settings under that in-app map. I had the two linoleum areas of my home first, so the X 30 Ultra started cleaning with mopping, and returned to the base to vacuum everywhere else.
