If you want a full-featured floor cleaning robot, and don’t mind paying for it, the Ecovacs Deebot X1 Omni is waiting for you to buy at Amazon warehouses. It’s the most feature-rich robot vacuum and mop we’ve reviewed to date, with an incredible amount of tools and features.
If you were to order an Ecovacs Deebot X1 Omni, the first thing you’d notice is how big the box is. That’s mainly because of its base station, which is the largest I’ve seen to date. While basicEcovacs Deebot X1 Omni Battery
Charging stations can be small, brick-sized objects that you place against a wall for the robot to rest on, this one is absolutely massive.
That’s because it’s versatile. We’ve seen a lot of models lately that combine charging stations with built-in vacuums, emptying the contents of the robot’s collection bin into a secondary bag inside the base station. These bags have a much larger capacity than the robot’s collection bin, saving you the hassle of emptying the bin after every cleaning. Of course, the Deebot X1 Omni’s charging station does this, too.
However, most of the space in the base station is taken up by two four-liter water tanks. They are used to fill the robot with fresh water; to clean the attachments after mopping, and to collect dirty water at the end of mopping. Because it will be exposed to water, the base is equipped with plastic foot plates that the robot can roll onto to charge. This protects your floors from spills and residual moisture from the mop attachments.
All this adds up to a base station that measures 448 x 430 x 578 mm (WDH), which will not blend into the background in even the largest of houses. This is further exacerbated by the fact that you need to place it against a wall with plenty of space around it so that the robot can easily find its way home.
Speaking of the robot, its dimensions are more traditional: a hockey puck shape, measuring 362 x 362 x 104 mm (aspect ratio). It uses LiDAR to scan and navigate its surroundings, so there’s a turret on top that accounts for part of its height, and a series of other sensors and cameras on the front to help it find its way around furniture. Interestingly, you can also use these cameras to see through the robot’s eyes, take it on patrol when you’re not home, and even use it to talk to people and pets in your home while you’re away. Inside the device is a powerful 5,000Pa vacuum, with a roller built into the suction port of the base. It uses brushes and rubber flaps to agitate the carpet, and in our tests it did a good job of avoiding hair tangles. There are two spinning sweeping brushes on each side to catch debris in corners and throw it into the path of the vacuum cleaner.
Underneath the top plate that magnetically attaches to the robot, there’s a 400ml collection bin, though this is unlikely to fill up before the base station empties it with its own 21kPa vacuum.
The Deebot X1 Omni takes a different approach. Instead of one static pad, it uses two, which rotate in opposite directions at speeds of up to 180rpm to thoroughly scrub your floors. Like the robot’s lid, the pads attach magnetically to the base, so they can be easily clipped on or off when you want to mop your floorsEcovacs Deebot X1 Omni review: What’s it like to use?Initial setup is simple: You have to connect the robot to your Wi-Fi network (it only works at 2.4GHz) using the accompanying mobile app, but that’s about as complicated as it gets. You’ll also need to fill the four-liter clean water tank with tap water, which you do by lifting it off the top of the base station and filling it in the sink.
Once the map is set up, you can fire up the robot and start cleaning. The app automatically breaks down the map into rooms and names them, but you can divide, merge, and rename zones as needed. It’s also simple to set no-go zones and boundaries to keep the robot away from potential trouble spots.
16More controls are accessible through the control panel, which lets you control the vacuum’s power and water flow. You can also control the intensity of the cleaning (whether it does multiple cleans and how intense the mopping action is), and set up routines, which can be assigned to perform automated cleaning tasks.
Notably, the robot can store up to three maps at once, which means it doesn’t have to create a new map every time you move it to a different floor in your home. I moved it upstairs, set it down, started a new clean, and it automatically detected that it was a new location and created a new map. When I put the robot back downstairs, the map switched back seamlessly. Switching to mopping mode was simple. Just attach the mop, fill the water tank with tap water, and the device will automatically switch modes, and it will also automatically refill water from the base station if it runs out of water during cleaning.
The voice control system that Ecovacs designed for the X1 Omni doesn’t work particularly well; for some reason, it just didn’t want to listen to me. However, since the robot can also be controlled through Google Assistant and Alexa, this hardly matters. You need to own a compatible Echo or Nest speaker, though. Ecovacs Deebot X1 Omni review: Does it find its way well?The navigation capabilities of the Ecovacs Deebot X1 Omni are excellent. Mapping is excellent, as we’ve come to expect from a LiDAR-based system, which helps the robot plot sensible routes between rooms. You can choose to clean the entire map, select individual rooms in the order you prefer, or draw a rectangle to clean a smaller area. Whichever you choose, the robot will circle the perimeter of the area and then move back and forth in a perpendicular line until it has cleaned the entire space. These are all standard features. The X1 Omni’s strength is its ability to navigate around obstacles. In addition to LiDAR navigation, the robot has a set of cameras and sensors on the front. Using these, it can detect and avoid dropped objects and gently and gracefully navigate around furniture legs.
The X1 Omni’s handling of furniture is impressive. When it approaches chair and table legs, it may gently push them, but then it will carefully circle around them and generally not touch them. I haven’t seen a robot that respects furniture so much since the AEG RX9.2.
Another neat thing about the X1 Omni is that it’s good at detecting different surfaces. In vacuuming mode, the suction power increases as it moves from hard floors to carpets. If you attach a mop pad, it will completely avoid carpets and floor mats, mopping only near the edges and not on the carpet surface.
This is really great. Most mopping robots I’ve seen require you to manually add no-mop zones. You can still do that here, but you can also safely let the robot do its thing without getting your carpets or doormats wet.
Ecovacs Deebot X1 Omni review: How well does it clean?One gripe I had with the Ecovacs Deebot X1 Omni’s navigation was its ability to follow the edge of my kitchen’s baseboards (which sit beneath the cabinets). It was able to navigate around other walls and wall-like obstacles perfectly, sticking close to them as it followed them. However, in my kitchen, it kept bouncing off the baseboards, so I had to manually clean the edges afterwards.
16 In all other cleaning tasks, however, the robot performed well. I put it through my regular robot vacuuming tests, having it measure spills of rice and flour on carpets and hard floors. I weighed the collection bin before and after the robot finished cleaning to assess how well it cleaned up the mess. The robot doesn’t have a specific spot cleaning tool, so I drew an area around each spill on the app and had the Deebot go find it.
It did best with rice, picking up 94% and 98% of spills on hard floors and carpets, respectively. It did better on carpets because the rice agitated by the robot’s edge-sweeping brushes doesn’t fly as far and is therefore less likely to be catapulted out of reach.
Flour is a more challenging test for robot vacuums, and the Deebot lagged slightly behind in this one. On hard floors, it did OK, with the robot picking up 78% of spills. However, it left a lot of stains on low-pile carpets, picking up just 42%.
To be fair, our spill tests are usually performed by less intelligent robots that need to be manually positioned over spills. This helps them pick up large amounts of messes before rolling over them with their wheels and sweeping them up with their sweepers. However, its overall collection rate of 78% was just slightly below average. All is forgiven when mopping, though. This robot is definitely the best mopping robot we’ve reviewed to date, and the spinning motion of the X1 Omni’s two spinning cloths adds unparalleled cleaning power.
I cultivated a small patch of dirt in my kitchen and used it to test robot mops – spilled sugary drinks had formed a stubborn layer of grime over time – but nothing worked.
However, the Deebot X1 Omni finally managed to solve the problem. The Deebot’s first scrubbing stroke clearly removed some of the dirt, and the second wiped it off completely.
Ecovacs Deebot X1 Omni review: should I buy it?
There’s a lot to like about the Ecovacs Deebot X1 Omni. There are few issues with performance, and the app is excellent. Its object detection also puts it on par with the Roomba j7.
Add in the best-in-class mopping capabilities, and you’ve got a winner. This robot can really significantly reduce the amount of times you need to vacuum and mop in your home compared to any other robot I’ve tested so far.
However, it’s not without its faults. The base station is so large that you can’t ignore its presence in your home, and the price of £1,499 will put a big dent in your bank account.
Fortunately, there are plenty of other options for those on a budget. The Roomba j7 is the obvious choice for anyone who doesn’t want to clean their floors every time they vacuum. It steers around obstacles just as well as the Deebot X1 Omni, but is cheaper at just £700 with a self-emptying base station.
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