eufy Clean X8 Pro with Self-Empty Station

Awesome robot vacuum/mop. Does a perfect job. Doesn't miss a spot. Great mapping app too !!

Awesome robot vacuum/mop. Does a perfect job. Doesn't miss a spot. Great mapping app too !!

Love it! We have a shedding dog and it picks up the hair really well! Could be a little quieter, so far thats the only downside. Easy to set up and never gets stuck!

No more vacuuming for me on the weekendsYipii ?

I have experience with these 3 robots:- Eufy Clean X8 Pro.- Eufy Clean X9 Pro.- Ecovacs Deebot X2 OmniThe best overall is Eufy Clean X9 Pro if you need mopping, because it's the only one in the 3 that does it decently.The best overall is Eufy Clean X8 Pro if you don't need mopping.The best tech specs is clearly the Ecovacs Deebot X2 Omni, but the problem is that its navigation and mapping are really bad, clearly the worst of the 3.Eufy Clean X8 Pro has AI Map 2.0 and compared to Eufy Clean X9 Pro (which has AI Map 3.0), its navigation is pretty bad. However it's so much better than the Ecovacs X2 Omni! Because contrary to the Ecovacs, the X8 Pro doesn't get lost that easily. It can always finds its way back to the station (unless there's a new obstacle, like a door that got closed).I returned the Ecovacs Deebot X2 Omni after a few days. Actually, I used it a few times within the span of 48 hours and it had gotten stuck twice for no acceptable reason. It would just randomly lose its base's signal and give up on trying to go back, while it knew where everything was on the map (including itself). Absolutely ridiculous! Once, I put it less than a meter away from the base so that it could find its way back, and it still failed. I was really disappointed because on paper it's supposed to be much better than both the Eufy X8 pro and the X9 pro. It's like the best of both but in a single machine! When I cleaned it up to return it, I found some paint (from baseboards). I can't blame it too much since the paint of my baseboards is likely of poor quality: there's plenty on the head of my regular vacuum's head. But none of the Eufy clean X8 pro or X9 pro has any paint after more than 10 runs.I'm upset at vacuum robot review websites. They have been very unhelpful. One said that Eufy Clean X9 proand Eufy Clean X8 pro had similar navigation/mapping skills. Very wrong! The X9 is much much better! Object detection is so much better on the X9 pro! Almost everything is better on the X9 pro... Except it doesn't self-empty the dust bin! I didn't think it was a big issue at first. But after a few days (about a week) of use I decided I could use the help of the X8 pro. So, yes, I have both. And yes I'm keeping both. Having both X8 Pro and X9 pro is roughly the same cost as having just the X2 Omni. Since I have a bit of space that is perfect for those robots (it's a space that isn't used otherwise), having two robots instead of a single one isn't really an issue. I run both of them daily. The X8 Pro first, and then the X9 pro. By running the X9 pro second, it gives me an idea of how much dust there's left after the X8 pro has run, since the X9 pro needs to be emptied after each run: lots of carpet, so lots of dust. I'll stop running both of them daily when the amount of dust in the second run has lowered significantly. Or when I get too tired of taking care of them...I have a second X9 Pro too, on another floor, which mainly has hard floor (and one rug). Yes, that's 3 robots. I went from zero to 3 in just 10 days...Best investment of 2023!! (Black Friday and Boxing Day have helped.)Much cleaner floors that nobody wanted to or had time and energy to clean...No, it's not perfect. Far from it.I used my carpet-specialized Shark vacuum after 2 weeks of robot vacuuming, on the carpets, to see how it'd be. Well, it was still quite scary. The quantity of dust in carpets is just crazy. It's like an unlimited source! But, and that's a big one: there's barely any hair now!!!Before the robots, there was long hair everywhere and in large quantities. Now, finally, there's barely any that doesn't get sucked by the robots! They're really good at picking up hairs!!No, it's not perfect. Far from it! Some of the hair will go where it should go: the dust bin! Some others will get stuck in the sides of the brush... Not hard to remove them, the design is not too bad! But still, it's not something that happens magically. You need to get your hands dirty.Are robots replacements? No. They're not good enough to replace you. They're good enough to help and do most of what needs to be done! I'm so happy that it'll be much less dusty in 2024 than in previous years, thanks to those robots.I really hope they don't fall apart too fast. That's the only concern I have.There are parts that can be replaced. Like, the battery... but also the filters etc.I believe you need a manual vacuum cleaner in order to do the maintenance of a robot vacuum. (If that's unacceptable to you, maybe you can buy and use dust cans instead.)I wish the tech we have today were available years ago. But that'll never be more than just wishful thinking. Even the latest software from Ecovacs Deebot is still terrible.No, I don't have shares of Eufy/Anker. Maybe I should get some...I wanted to love the Ecovacs and return the Eufy X9 pro. The opposite happened. I'm happy I ordered both at the same time and got to try them at the same time, so I could compare them on the spot.I have a hard tim...