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Pros
- Thorough, balanced vacuuming and mopping
- Excellent obstacle avoidance
- Auto-detangling brush
- Requires little hands-on attention from user
Cons
- Large base station
- Self-cleaning functions are noisy
Our Verdict
The Eufy X10 Pro Omni is a fantastic floor cleaner that requires little human intervention to get the job done. It’s vacuuming and mopping performance are equally good, something that can’t be said about too many 2-in-1 robot vacuums. If you can deal with the size and noisiness of the base station, you’ll likely love the convenience it offers.
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People really don’t like vacuuming and mopping their floors. That’s the most logical conclusion to be drawn from a market now stuffed with do-it-all robot vacuum and mop combos. Eufy’s X10 Pro Omni is one of the latest to promise a hands-off cleaning experience, courtesy of an AI-enhanced robot and a self-maintaining base station.
The X10 Pro Omni marries the best bits of Eufy’s X8 Pro and X9 Pro robot vacuums in a fully autonomous floor cleaner. Its robot takes the X8 Pro’s hair-detangling technology–a godsend for pet owners–and the X9 Pro’s rotating mops and AI obstacle detection and adds a base station that empties its dustbin, empties, and refills its onboard water tank, and washes and dries its mop pads.
Typically, when a vacuum/mop combo excels at one task, the other one suffers. That was not the case with Eufy X10 Pro Omni.
Design
The D-shaped robot measures 12.9 x 13.9 x 4.5 inches (WxDxH). On top are power, home, and child lock buttons, and a turret that houses the robot’s LIDAR sensor.
Underneath, there’s a spinning edge brush and a rubber-and-bristle roller brush that incorporates a detangling comb to prevent hair from wrapping around the brush as it rotates.
A pair of pentagonal mops sit at the back. Unlike round mops, the pentagon shape minimizes the space between the mops as they rotate to ensure better floor coverage.
This review is part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best robot vacuums.
The X10 Omni Pro uses LIDAR and an AI-enabled camera to navigate.
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The X10 Pro’s Omni Station measures 18.9 x18.1 x 14.4 inches (HxWxD). Though it’s not small by any means, the designers likely shaved off some girth by having the 3-liter clean- and dirty-water tanks sit independently in a slot next to the dust canister rather than encasing them in their own compartment.
The canister holds a 2.5-liter antibacterial dust bag that can hold up to two months of debris. In the docking portion of the Omni Station, the robot’s mop pads are washed and dried with 133-degree F (45-degree C) air to prevent odor and bacteria growth.
Setup and performance
The X10 Pro Omni comes almost completely assembled. You need only to plug the power cord into the back of the Omni station and clip a plastic ramp onto the front of it. Then it’s just a matter of downloading the Eufy Clean app and following its prompts to connect the robot to your Wi-Fi network. It’s a short, painless process that took me just a few minutes.
Once the robot is connected, you’ll see an image of it on the app’s home screen above a button cryptically labeled “Enter.” Tapping that button takes you to the screen for controlling the X10 Pro Omni.
There are three tabs labeled “Home,” “Room,” and “Zone,” indicating how much of your space you want to clean, and an option to customize the cleaning settings. You can tweak these to your liking or simply enable Smart Mode, which allows the robot to automatically select a cleaning strategy based on the room type and cleaning frequency as well as the presence of carpet and pets.
The pentagon-shaped mop heads provide more complete coverage than round heads.
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The first time you use the X10 Pro Omni, it performs a quick mapping run of your home. The robot uses a combination of LIDAR and a front-facing camera with AI to navigate. Eufy says its AI algorithm can detect more than 100 common household obstacles including cables, slippers, and toys. It had no trouble recognizing those items during my tests, nor did it have issues with pet food dishes, backpacks, and a couple of large cardboard boxes. I never saw it bump into anything in its path, and it never got stuck. Low light, which can present problems for camera-based systems, didn’t impair its navigation either, thanks to a built-in LED sensor.
The X10 Pro Omni has a max suction of 8,000 Pa, so I let my floors go for three days prior to running it for the first time to ensure it had plenty of dust, pet hair, and miscellaneous household debris to work with. When that first job was complete, there wasn’t a scrap left on the floor, not even along the wall edges or in the toe spaces under the kitchen and bathroom cabinets. Those results held up with subsequent daily cleanings over the next week.
Typically, when a vacuum/mop combo excels at one task, the other one suffers. That was not the case with X10 Pro Omni. Its mopping didn’t leave my laminate floors spotless—there hasn’t been a robot yet that can achieve the same results as a stick mop and old-fashioned elbow grease—but it restored most of the luster that had been dulled by several days of heavy foot traffic.
It’s clear a lot of attention was given to the mopping function. When the robot encounters carpet or rug, it lifts the mop pads 12mm, or about half an inch, so that it doesn’t wet the carpeted floor. That’s not novel, but here it actually works; similarly functioning robots have all left the area rug in my living room noticeably damp, but it was bone dry after the X10 Pro Omni crossed it.
The decision to not house the two water tanks inside the Omin Station likely reduced its overall size.
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There’s also an “edge hugging mopping” setting that makes the robot twist when cleaning along edges so that it gets closer to the wall. And the pentagon-shaped mop heads did their job, providing even coverage across my floors without leaving visible streaks.
While the X10 Pro Omni is fairly quiet while it’s cleaning, things amp up considerably when it returns to the Omni Station. Self-emptying vacuums are notoriously loud when they’re sucking the contents from the robot’s dustbin, and that’s true here. The station also emits noises when it’s refilling the robot’s water tanks and cleaning the robot’s mop heads, most noticeably a gurgling sound similar to the one made when you replace the bottle on a water cooler. But if you can handle the volume of a conventional vacuum for 45 minutes at a stretch, you should have no problem enduring the sounds of either of these processes, both of which are of mercifully short duration.
The Eufy app is straightforward to use, allowing you to easily manage and edit your maps and customize the settings for the robot, base station, and AI obstacle avoidance. It also provides a scheduling tool and cleaning history.
They Eufy Clean app makes it easy to manage your maps, cleaning modes, and other settings.
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Specifications
- Suction power: 8,000 Pa
- Functions: Vacuum and mop
- Navigation: LiDAR and camera
- Mop head rotation speed: 180 rpm
- Mop head auto-lift height: 12 mm
- Auto-detangling brush: Yes
- Dust bag capacity: 2.5 liters
- Water tank capacity: 3 liters
- Dimensions (robot): 12.87 x 13.9 x 4.47 inches (WxDxH)
- Dimensions (base station): 14.41 x 18.9 x 18.11 inches (WxDxH)
Should you buy the Eufy X10 Omni Pro?
The X10 Pro Omni sells for $800, which puts it in the mid-range of the robot vacuum market, but it performs like a higher-priced product.
Given that there are few all-in-one robot vacuums at any price point that deliver a truly autonomous cleaning experience, it would be foolish to not give it serious consideration.
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Author: Michael Ansaldo, Contributor
Michael Ansaldo is veteran consumer and business technology journalist. He’s been a contributor to TechHive since 2013, covering robot vacuums, home security cameras, and other smart devices. He previously served as PCWorld’s Small Business Editor, and his tech coverage has appeared in Wired, Macworld, Mac|Life, Mobile Magazine, Enterprise.Nxt, Executive Travel, and other publications.