This ends up in surprisingly good overall coverage, but you may find that some areas that trap the robot (under a table, for instance) get lots of attention, and more open areas (like the middle of the living room) just get one quick pass. Unlike our overall pick, the Eufy 11S doesn’t have any smart mapping features, so you can’t create a map or direct it with Alexa or Google - it’s a classic “bump bot” and finds its way by random or bounce navigation, running in a straight line until it bangs into an obstacle like a table or chair leg. It performed admirably climbing up onto the carpet to clean, though it did get stuck several times on the base of my barstools and had to be rescued.
I appreciated this feature as I was able to turn on Boost IQ and then Max when the vacuum got close to the living room, which has a medium-pile carpet. The more expensive Shark IQ XL and the Ecovacs Deebot N79S can only be changed with the remote when the unit is stopped. This is the only unit we tested that lets you change the power and suction level while the vacuum is operating. What sets the Eufy 11S above the budget competition is the ability to change the power level while the unit is cleaning.
It filled its dustbin with pet hair and cat litter, though it wasn’t able to get up all the litter on a higher-pile carpet. The Eufy does a superb job picking up dirt, excelling on hardwood floors, tile and low-pile carpets.
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It’s a basic and affordable vacuum with a slim profile, good suction and quiet operation, and should work well for anyone who wants to maintain their floors in between manual vacuuming. If you don’t want smart features like mapping, don’t need a self-emptying dustbin and don’t mind picking up before you start the vacuum, the Eufy 11S is the budget robot vacuum we recommend. It would be nice to have the option to keep it from emptying after certain runs as it gets super loud, but it is a minor downside for such an effective robot vacuum.īest affordable robot vacuum: Eufy 11S $230 $140 at Amazon When the vacuum empties itself into the base following a cleaning run, it’s like a jet engine taking off. There’s no such thing as it sneaking up on you you’ll always know when its running. It’s also the loudest robot vacuum we tested. Those high-end smart features will cost you: At $699 it’s one of the most expensive vacuums we tested. It also has a hidden storage area where you can stash your extra bags. The Clean Base is shorter and shallower than Samsung’s emptying bin base, taking up less space in a room or under a table. Right now it only recognizes certain objects like cords, headphones and pet waste, but once you’ve mapped your home, it requests feedback after encountering objects and over time it will learn more about what you leave out and add more objects to its list of items to be avoided.Īt just 3.4 inches high, the j7+ fits more easily under furniture than the taller Samsung JetBot+. The j7+ also did a superb job of steering clear of items like headphones and lamp cords, outdoing similar high-end smart robots like the Samsung JetBot+ courtesy of its front-mounted sensor and lights.
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Its multi-surface rubber brushes on the underside kept the brush from getting tangled with pet hair only the iLife V3S Pro did a better job at not getting tangled, but that’s because it doesn’t have a roller brush like the j7+ or the other robot vacuums we tested. The j7+ leaves behind neat rows of just-vacuumed carpeting and the powerful suction of the unit was able to pick up cat litter and pet hair in my bedroom carpeting.
Even litter that got scattered by the sweeping motion of the side brush was eventually picked up. It did this several times until all the litter was picked up. I spilled cat litter on the hardwood floor and the j7+ recognized it as a “dirt event.” It got to the end of the cat litter spill, reversed itself back to the beginning of the spill area and took another pass at it. IRobot uses what it calls Dirt Detect, focusing more cleaning effort when it detects a concentration of dirt. More importantly, it picks up dust and debris and cat litter from hardwood floors and low-pile carpeting better than the others we tested. It beat out all the others in mapping, creating virtual boundaries and detecting and avoiding obstacles, which means it’s the best “set it and forget it” smart robot vacuum - and it even empties itself. The iRobot j7+ is the best robot vacuum you can buy right now. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account
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