Like last year’s model, it also meets the TÜV Rheinland privacy and security certification. This is important because it navigates via AI.View—a “visual recognition technology.” Basically, you use a camera to move around your house. She is not looking up and Eufy assures its customers that the photos are not stored on a server and are deleted before the next cleaning cycle. However, Eufy also does not offer additional security features such as two-factor authentication. This is something to keep in mind if you are worried about having a camera in your home.
AI.See is interesting. Your estimates of his own accuracy seem generous: I forgot to take screenshots of all the instances in which he identified various items in my daughter’s hair as poop and warned me for her to “clean this area immediately.” I thought it helped the robot navigate my house smoothly. The few times it got stuck, I found that the brush roll had gotten caught in either my daughter’s long hair or my own. Understandably, it’s much harder to see hair than it is to identify and avoid shoelaces, which tend to trip up even the best robot vacuums.
My first floor has five bedrooms totaling about 800 square feet of cleanable space, depending on how spread out my kids’ stuffed animals are at any given time. The mapping function works quite well; Stored multiple maps on multiple floors without issue. Battery life is decent: You can finish a full first-floor vacuum in about an hour and a half, using about 75 percent of the battery life. You can also raise or lower the cleaning intensity, from fast to deep, and the suction power ranges from Quiet to Maximum.
Photography: Adrienne So
At Max, it has a suction power of about 8,000 pascals. I have a theory about suction power. As I learned from the founders of the Matic robot vacuum, the level of suction power may matter less than whether its brush roll is capable of agitating the carpet well. In any case, I didn’t notice a big difference in the level of cleaning on the most frequently walked on areas of my carpet when I increased the suction power from Standard to Maximum.
The price is good
The mopping is particularly good. The X9 Pro was able to clean up half a jar of spilled syrup and the X10 Pro performs just as well. Like last year’s model, it exerts about 2 pounds of downward pressure with two mops that spin 180 times per minute. When my kids inexplicably decided to throw bananas on the breakfast table and leave sticky mashed banana on the floor, the X10 Pro cleaned it up in minutes.
Mopping is the most disgusting household chore and the one I would do less often if I could. Mopping the hardwood and tile areas of my first floor (about 230 square feet) takes about 30 minutes, including time spent washing the mops. An integrated water tank keeps the mops continually wet throughout the cleaning time. The dirty water tank should be emptied and rinsed every three or four cleanings. Emptying and rinsing the tank is, as always, a vile and terrible task, but at least it doesn’t happen that often.