The Hybrid Robot Vacuum of Eufy’s X10 Pro Omni: A New All-Over Robot for the Cleaning, Cleaning, and Mopping of My House
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. “This spot,” he informed me, “is sticky.” He disliked the idea of a sticky spot, where he threw a banana minutes earlier. I find it distasteful in his defense.
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. Most importantly, it now has a self-emptying bin, but there are other small redesigns that make it much easier to use—and make my floors nearly spotless.
After a few weeks of letting X30 Ultra take over vacuuming duty (and mopping my floors for the first time in … too long), I found it’s a great all-around hybrid robot vacuum that doesn’t let complicated table legs or high-pile rugs slow it down. The ability to ditch the damp mop pads is fantastic. It’s on the pricey side, though, so you really have to need its standout features to make it worthy of the investment.
The most obvious change between generations is that the docking station has a self-emptying bin. The robot you use to clean the kitchen needs to be able to empty the bin, if you really want it to be self-automated. Otherwise it just drags dirt around your house. I set the X10 Pro to empty every 20 minutes, but you can change the frequency in the app. The function was effective, but only at 75 decibels and only for a short time.
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 height of the base is actually an inch taller that last year’s model, but it looks and feels smaller because the space is being used more efficiently.
Dreame X30 Ultra: a Hybrid Robot Vacuum Mop for Noisy Snack-littered Floors
Do robots dream of a perfectly vacuumed floor? Dreame’s X30 Ultra has me enjoying clean floors without lifting a finger. The hybrid robot vacuum mop was first shown to the public at the Consumer Electronics Show in Kyoto, but it made an impact thanks to the self-re moving mop pads and flex arm. Since we’re big robot vacuum fans around here, I put it to the test on my cat-hair-and-baby snack-littered floors.
If you want mop pads removed if the carpet senses it, you have to go into the settings and choose the option. The menu on the robot vacuums you use allows you to change the order of rooms the X30 Ultra clean, as well as adjust the cleaning settings.
