Eufy X8 Pro Review: Powerful edge cleaning

Verdict

Out there with and with out a self-empty dock, the Eufy Clear X8 Pro is a robust robotic vacuum cleaner that cleans brilliantly, proper to the sides of the room. Its anti-tangle design is helpful, stopping hairs from clogging up the comb curler. Mopping is primary, and there’s no computerized carpet detection or avoidance, so those that want deeper laborious ground cleaning could desire an alternate.

Introduction

In a home with pets or individuals with lengthy hair, there’s often one dreaded job: turning the robotic vacuum cleaner over and slicing away the tangled hair.

With a built-in comb and a particular detangling possibility by way of the app, the Eufy Clear X8 Pro guarantees to not get twisted up with hair.

Good navigation, wonderful edge cleaning and highly effective suction make this a fantastic mid-range vacuum cleaner, however the floor mop system doesn’t clear as deeply as a robotic that may scrub.

Design and options

• Out there with and with out a self-empty dock
• Laser navigation and sensible mapping
• Detachable mop pad

An improve on the Eufy Clear X8 Hybrid, the X8 Pro provides double the suction energy and has the selection of a normal model with a daily charging dock or, for £150 extra, the identical robotic with a self-empty station.

I’ve bought the self-empty model of the robotic on overview. I discovered the dock properly designed: it’s fairly slim and never too tall, so the X8 Pro will slot in many of the similar gaps because the common model, though you’ll need a bit extra headroom.

Flip open the lid and the docking station takes disposable 2.5-litre baggage, with replacements costing £29.99 for a field of six. Eufy estimates that every bag will final for 60 days, so a pack is roughly a 12 months’s price of mud assortment.

Is it price paying the additional for the model with the self-empty station? Properly, sure, I’d say so. Pulling out a dirty bin from a robotic isn’t the nicest of jobs. And, because the X8 Pro has solely a 335ml bin, it realistically wants emptying after every clear.

It’s straightforward to overlook to do that, which frequently finally ends up with a robotic not cleaning as properly. Improve to self-empty, and that upkeep job has gone (though it nonetheless is smart to take away the bin and filter and clear them month-to-month).

On prime, the Eufy Clear X8 Pro has three buttons: begin a clear, return to dock and spot clear. The latter helps you to place the robotic anyplace after which get it to scrub a small space round there.

I’ve actually by no means used that button on any robotic vacuum cleaner, because it’s far simpler to make use of the app to inform the cleaner the place to go.

Flip the robotic over and there’s a single side-sweeper brush, plus a twin ground brush, constructed to work on carpet and laborious flooring alike.

There’s a comb within the robotic, which is constructed to cease hair from getting tangled across the brush head. For an additional clear, there’s a button within the app that allows you to run a detangle routine whereas the robotic is charged.

Successfully, this mode activates suction and lets the comb head spin round, in order that the X8 Pro can take away any remaining hairs and suck them away. When you have the self-empty model, the robotic is emptied mechanically on the finish of a clear.

There’s a removable mopping bracket that locks into place, and a separate 270ml water tank, which is sufficient water to scrub a mean ground. The mopping system makes use of floor strain solely, relatively than a sonic scrubber, similar to on the Roborock S8 Pro Extremely, and doesn’t have an computerized elevate to let it keep away from carpet.

In truth, the S8 Max Pro will fairly fortunately run over carpet in mopping mode, except a no-mop zone is ready within the app. If you wish to run in vacuum-only mode, then you must take away the mop pad completely.

How your own home is laid out will decide how a lot of a difficulty, if any, that is. In case your robotic has to maneuver over a carpeted space to achieve a tough ground space, then there’s no means for the X8 Pro to do that with its mop pad hooked up, with out getting the carpet moist. For houses with extra complicated mixed-floor layouts, a robotic that may take care of carpet by lifting its mop pad makes extra sense, such because the iRobot Roomba Combo J7+.

A dome on prime of the robotic provides away that this one has LiDAR, which suggests quick and correct mapping. On first use, as soon as the robotic had been related to the Eufy Clear app, I used to be prompted to carry out a mapping run.

This was performed rapidly, and the app quickly got here again with a accomplished view of my home, break up into recommended rooms. When you don’t like how the robotic has break up up the map, then there’s an choice to merge or break up areas, after which to call them.

Maps might be marked up additional with digital boundaries, say to cease the X8 Pro from coming into a room, no-go areas (helpful if the robotic will get trapped beneath some difficult furnishings), and no-mop areas, which solely apply when the mop bracket is hooked up.

Rooms are helpful when it comes right down to setting how the X8 Pro cleans. The default possibility is to scrub all over the place within the order that the robotic desires to make use of, utilizing the ability mode you need (quiet, customary, turbo or max), and, if the mopping bracket is hooked up, the water stage (low, medium or excessive). BoostIQ is an non-obligatory swap that can flip up the suction energy when carpet is detected.

Nonetheless, it’s also possible to customise how the X8 Pro tackles cleaning in your house, setting the order that it tackles rooms in. And, I may set the cleaning mode and water stage on a per-room foundation, say utilizing extra water and better suction within the kitchen, and dialling again within the utility room.

For smaller spills, a customized space might be drawn on the map, with the X8 Pro scuttling off to scrub simply the chosen area.

Amazon Alexa and Google Residence expertise can be found for beginning and stopping a clear with voice instructions.

Efficiency

• Fundamental mopping
• Wonderful suction
• Superb edge cleaning

As with the older X8 Hybrid, the X8 Pro has Eufy’s twin-turbine expertise to extend suction energy, delivering 2x 4000Pa of suction (double that of the X8 Hybrid). To see what this meant in the actual world, I arrange my customary checks.

First, I sprinkled a teaspoon of flour onto my check carpet, after which let the robotic do its job. After a single move, many of the mess was gone, however there have been areas of mud, the place the robotic didn’t fairly handle to seize every little thing.

After a second move, just about every little thing was collected, exhibiting that this robotic can clear in addition to fashions that value much more.

Transferring onto the laborious ground check, I sprinkled a teaspoon of flour in the midst of the ground. This proved no downside for the X8 Pro, and it collected every little thing with ease.

For a tougher check, I sprinkled a teaspoon of flour up in opposition to the kitchen plinth. I used to be impressed with the way in which that the X8 Pro moved, gently nudging in opposition to the plinth to deliver its side-sweeper brush into contact with the mess. It took two passes, however the mud elimination was wonderful.

I examined the mop with a contemporary mud stain. As there’s no agitation, and the robotic can’t return to its dock to scrub its pads, mopping is sort of primary. On the finish of two passes, set to most water circulation, the mud was largely gone however the ground was nonetheless a bit of soiled.

I feel that the Eufy X8 Pro is nice for light mopping, however when you have fairly soiled flooring, similar to as a result of you will have pets, then a robotic that may agitate its mopping pad could also be a better option.

Testing with human hair, I discovered that the X8 Pro picked up every little thing. Turning the robotic over, there was a strand or two of hair left round it, however the detangle possibility within the app eliminated these.

When it comes to noise, I measured the Eufy X8 Pro at 66dB, which is consistent with rival cleaners. That’s, the robotic is loud sufficient to listen to, however not so loud that it’s annoying.

Battery life is rated at as much as 120 minutes on the bottom suction mode. Even on the best energy mode, I discovered battery life greater than ok for the X8 Pro to deal with my downstairs ground.

Navigation is superb, and the robotic didn’t fall down my small step or get itself caught across the workplace chairs. It’s a delicate robotic when approaching obstacles, because of the sensor on the entrance, though the X8 Pro won’t keep away from smaller obstacles, similar to pet mess or cables.

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