I was sceptical about buying this, I’ve had a competitors product for.a number years, which had a separate mop, although that was always getting stuck on my thresholds, my experiences of other makes had not been positive . I had been eyeing up an upgrade to my current robot vac and mop set-up, but just couldn’t find anything that appeared to tickle my fancy That all changed when I saw this, and the proper mop it has, I thought I’d give it a go despite my scepticism, safe in the knowledge of a no quibble return policy.
I’m really impressed, it’s packaged really well and everything feels solid and thoughtfully designed. The setup process couldn’t have been easier, plug it in, pair to the app and setup up the WiFi, fill the water tank and then send it on a mapping run, which for me took 6mins to map my downstairs. I was then able to add room names, and adjust room dividers etc. All in, it took me around 15mins from start (unpacking) through to being ready to run my first cleaning run.
For the first run, I used the smart mode, it correctly mopped my hard floors, lifting the mops clear when moving onto carpet or rugs. I have thick pile carpet and was worried that the mops were touching the carpet, at least it looks that way, but thankfully no marks left on the carpet and they didn’t feel damp - result!
My previous robot mop squirted water on to the floor and would then drive over the spray with a fixed mop, it did an ok job and if used daily kept the hard floors looking good, but because of the issues of it getting stuck on the thresholds I rarely ended up using it as I’d have to continually keep helping it. The difference with the X10 is like night and day, the spinning mop with the addition of the downward pressure does a great job, not that much difference to mopping manually - It’s not only really impressive, but quick too.
Moving on to the vacuum, it did an amazing job, I was surprised as how much it picked up vs my current cleaner, it was also much quieter which was unexpected, I had assumed with the much more powerful suction it was going to be a great deal louder. Thanks to the AI See, there was a lot less bumping into things like doors etc which my old one did, despite also having a camera. It was fun seeing the photos for things it had decided to avoid, although I did chuckle when it labelled one of my dogs toy bones as poop!
Overall I think it’s fab, I’ve gone from being sceptical, to now feeling the market leader (sic) is overpriced, not as technically advanced and not as good at its primary purpose of cleaning.
Already thinking of buying another one for upstairs!