Like last year’s model, it also meets TÜV Rheinland’s privacy and security certification. This is important because it allows you to navigate via AI.View– “visual recognition technology”. Basically, it uses a camera to move around your house. This is not upward facing and Eufy assures its customers that photos are not stored on a server and are deleted before the next cleaning cycle. However, Eufy also doesn’t offer additional security features like two-factor authentication. It’s just something to keep in mind if you feel rushed to have a camera at home.
AI.See is interesting. His estimates of his own accuracy seem generous: I forgot to capture all the instances where he identified my daughter’s various hairs as poop and warned me to “clean that area immediately.” I thought this helped the robot seamlessly navigate my home. The few times it got stuck, I found that the roller brush got stuck in my daughter’s hair or my long hair. It’s naturally 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 rooms with a total of about 800 square feet of cleanable space, depending on how scattered my kids’ stuffed animals are at any given time. The mapping function works quite well; it stored multiple cards on multiple floors without issue. Battery life is decent: it can finish a full first-floor vacuum in about an hour and a half, using about 75 percent of its battery life. You can also increase or decrease the cleaning intensity, from quick to deep, and the suction power ranges from quiet to maximum.
Photography: Adrienne So
On Max, it has a suction power of around 8,000 pascals. I have a theory about suction power. As I learned from the founders of the Matic vacuum robot, the level of suction power may be less important than the ability of your roller brush to properly agitate the carpet. Regardless, I didn’t notice a huge difference in the level of cleanliness on frequently trodden areas of my carpet when I increased the suction power from Standard to Max.
The price is right
Cleaning is particularly effective. The X9 Pro was capable of cleaning up half a jar of spilled syrup, and the X10 Pro performs just as well. As with 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 at the breakfast table and leave sticky mashed banana on the floor, the X10 Pro cleaned it up in minutes.
Mopping the floors is the most disgusting household task and the one I would do least frequently if I could. Cleaning the hardwood and tiled areas of my first floor (about 230 square feet) takes about 30 minutes, including time spent washing mops. A built-in water reservoir keeps mops continuously wet for the duration of cleaning. The dirty water tank should be emptied and rinsed every three or four cleanings. Emptying and flushing the tank is, as always, a nasty and terrible task, but at least it doesn’t happen that often.
