Advanced mapping features lots of customizations to easily label your map and then also make sure it doesn't go where you don't want it to go
Advanced mop stations Omni station ... has a ton of different features
Aesthetic design & finish definitely one of the best looking robot vacuums on the marketI love the black and gold color theme as it gives it a very luxurious and premium look
Auto empty Behavior Auto empty and in here you can select from standard and high frequency
Auto empty bin settings dust collection power and you have standard or quiet mode
Auto-resume after recharge (robotic) you have autor resume
Automatic solution mixing & dispensing automatically dispenses cleaning solution to the robot as well
automation level ai intelligent hosting ... will learn your house uh how dirty a certain room is your floor types and so on ... this will automatically do it for you based on the data it collects
Bagless convenience right here at the bottom you have your dust collection bin and as you can see it has a removable bag you just remove the panel like that
Base station features Omni station ... has a ton of different features
Battery runtime / Charging time up top you have your battery percentage
Brush hair tangle resistance zero Tango 2.0 this is a anti-tangle system that automatically removes the hairs for you ... anytime I check the roller it's been completely clean without any hairs on it
Brush-roll agitation strength 4,000 PA of downward pressure ... besides regular mopping it can even scrub and remove difficult stains
Build quality & durability definitely a great vacuum it feels wellmade
Carpet boost option suction boost on carpet
Carpet deep clean performance clean carpet first carpet deep cleaning carpet recognition setting
Child lock child lock down here which disables all the buttons to make sure your kids don't mess with the buttons on the vacuum
Clean water tank coming to the top you have two water bins which are for your clean water and your dirty water they just have lids that open up and then you can also grab them and remove the entire bin like that as well
Cleaning modes cleaning mode that has vacuum vacuum mop and then mop after vac
Cleaning speed (sqm/min) you have your cleaning speed this has standard deep cleaning and quick
Comparative performance in comparison the eax X8 is able to power through much larger messes clean quicker and most importantly keep all of that inside the vacuum and not spread back on your floors
Custom room presets scenario clean ... lets you save presets for any room that you want
Customizing room cleaning behaviors customize all your settings just like I showed you earlier
Debris pickup performance the eax X8 is able to power through much larger messes clean quicker and most importantly keep all of that inside the vacuum and not spread back on your floors
Dirt-detection sensor accuracy (robotic) ai intelligent hosting ... will learn your house uh how dirty a certain room is
Dirty water tank coming to the top you have two water bins which are for your clean water and your dirty water they just have lids that open up and then you can also grab them and remove the entire bin like that as well
Dried-on stain cleaning performance I put some ketchup on the floor and let it dry for about 2 hours and as you can see the robot still powered through this no problem at all
Drying function automatic mop cleaning with hot water Auto hot air drying for the mop
Dual rotation brush dynamic dual Edge cleaning technology ... both the mop and side brush can mechanically move and extend outward
Ease of use all of this works together and prevents odors and bacteria by keeping the robot clean and dry definitely a very good station that makes only this robot a very hands-free and maintenance-free experience as well
Edge-cleaning effectiveness true Edge 2.0 ... both the mop and side brush can mechanically move and extend outward ... this is going to give you much better cleaning coverage along walls corners and other tight spaces
Integrated voice assistant this vacuum also has its own integrated Voice Assistant called yo GPT
Maintenance reminders maintenance ... tells you all the times when you need to do maintenance on your robot station and robot settings
Mobile-app functionality & reliability lots of options lots of customizations and like I said earlier definitely a very good and well-laid out app
Mop pad lifting behaviors both the mop and side brush can mechanically move and extand outward
Obstacle & cliff avoidance (robots) AV 3D 3.0 obstacle avoidance system ... definitely one of the best on the marketthis one does not bump into anything and goes around everything very smoothly
Power setting versatility you have your suction power which is anywhere from quiet mode all the way to Max mode
Security camera feature there is a camera in front of the vacuum so ... you can see through the front of your robot vacuum as well ... basically have the vacuum be like a mobile security camera just roll around your house and see what's going on
Self-cleaning mop function osmo roller instant self-washing mop
Self-emptying base auto empty Dustbin
Suction Power very powerful 18,000 PA suction power ... definitely a very strong vacuum that is going to power through everything and again cling a lot better than most robots out there
Sweeping ability gets a lot closer and cleans more thoroughly
Value-for-money definitely one of the best robot vacuums on the markethighly highly recommend
Voice-assistant integration (Alexa/Google/Siri) this does work with Google or Alexa
Water flow regulation you have your water flow rate you can set this on low medium or high
Carpet deep clean performance "Its carpet deep clean score was above average"
Clean water tank "internal water tank filling"
Coverage efficiency (how completely a robot covers a floor) "It was fast and had really good coverage overall"
Dirty water tank "dirty water tank emptying"
Edge mopping system "mop roller also extends when it is doing edge runs for good edge coverage"
Hair-wrap prevention / anti-tangle tech "ZeroTangle 2.0, which uses comb-like structures in the housing to resist hair tangles""it got a perfect score on our 7-inch hair tangle test"
hot air mop pad drying "hot air mop pad drying"
hot water mop pad washing "hot water mop pad washing"
large clean and dirty water tanks "relatively large clean and dirty water tanks"
Liquid/spill pickup (wet-dry models) "ability to pick up wet spills like urine or other liquids"
Mobile-app functionality & reliability "one of the best apps in the business"
Mop lifting system "lifts up 10 mm automatically when it senses carpet"
Mopping performance (robotic or wet-dry) "roller style has a few advantages over dual spinning pads, such as the ability to pick up wet spills like urine""it had one of the lowest amounts of water left behind"
Object recognition "recognize and avoid household objects"
Pet-hair pickup efficiency "in our embedded 2.5-inch pet hair pickup test, it picked up 97% of the hair"
Real world battery efficiency "higher-than-average battery efficiency score in our tests"
Realtime video calls with two-way voice communication "video calls"
Removable tray in dock "removable tray"
Residual stickiness after mopping "leaves behind so little water compared to others"
Retractable LiDAR system "embedded lidar system"
Scheduling feature "advanced scheduling features"
Side brush extension "auto-extending feature on its side brush"
Suction Power "in our suction tests on max power, it was much higher than Power average; in fact, it had a top 10 score out of the over 100 robot vacuums that we have tested"
Sweeping ability "sweeping ability on hard floors was good"
Vacuum and wash floors at the same time "vacuum hard floors and carpets and mop floors at the same time"
Value-for-money "20% less than many of its competitors""value—it’s got a lot of features and functionality at this price point"
Dried-on stain cleaning performance "slightly below average score on the two tests we did—one on its low water setting and one on its high water setting"
Edge sensing technology “some notable features on the X8 include their brand new Edge sensing technology which creates a real-time 3D map of the environment for upgraded navigation”
Mapping/navigation accuracy (robotics) “creates a real-time 3D map of the environment for upgraded navigation”
Mopping performance (robotic or wet-dry) “the X8 marks the first time that echovox has used a rolling mop head on a robot vacuum”
Cleaning performance on carpet a total of 30.2 G or 75.5% of the flour rice salt and flax mixture cleaned
Cleaning performance on hard floors came in last picking up just 36.9 G or 92.2% of the mixture
Coverage efficiency (how completely a robot covers a floor) did a meticulous vacuuming job with tight overlapping passes
Dust-bin emptying after the auto empty process there was 1.8 G of debris left in the bin
Mopping performance (robotic or wet-dry) ecova X8 Pro Omni did an equally great job putting them in a tie for first place
Self-emptying base station is set to High Frequency Auto empty which returns to the dock after every 30 minutes of cleaning to empty its bin
Just Okay
Edge-cleaning effectiveness struggled with outside corners where it mostly just ran its side brush through the stain and then missed the stain completely with its roller
Needs Improvement
Hair-wrap prevention / anti-tangle tech the traditional bristle brushes on the eax and 3i ended up with tangles in the middle of the brush that couldn't be scraped Away by the detangling Combs
Obstacle & cliff avoidance (robots) was like a bull in a china shop just IND prly plowing through everything