chris here with ecovax's new deebot x1 turbo this is a very advanced robot vacuum cleaner that does
have 5000 pa maximum suction performance a floating main brush two side brushes it
also does have voice commands that you can issue to it so there's various commands you
can get it to start stop cleaning it also can hook up to google assistant and elixir
3d laser mapping at the top it's their true mapping 2.0 front-facing camera for obstacle
avoidance using ai for example shoes or socks it will go around them instead out over them you can
even log into the camera on this model here and take a look and see what your pets are up to while
you're gone does have two-way communication capabilities because it's got a microphone
and loudspeaker built into it and then the cleaning station right here so this is to rinse
and clean out the mops that this does have so the mopping performance on this one
much more advanced and better than what you have with other typical robot vacuums that just drag
around microfiber cloths this model here the mops oscillate or they spin should i say at 180 rpm
and i do apply six newtons of pressure so once they go in here it flushes and cleans them out
there are two tanks for our water cleaning here so a dirty four liter tank right there and we have a
clean four liter tank so the runtime of this model with its 5200 milliamp hour battery is up to 200
minutes that's of course using the lower settings and not mopping when you're mopping it's about 180
minutes there so in the box of the x1 you'll find our two mops we've got our power cable this is
the eu-1 because i've got an eu version of course some paperwork and you'll find the left and right
sweepers for the vacuum you'll also find in the compartment here we've got our two water tanks
that they do eco vex include this right here which is two spare mops right there that you can easily
swap over while you're cleaning the others there is this tool here which is a brush for cleaning
out where the auto clean part is and just inside here while there's this different level there
where it's scrubbing those mops and there is a little nozzle in there too where later it's going
to be blowing air onto them to eventually dry out the mops so we've got a mode here that you can
get it to just rinse and clean those mops start and stop cleaning and then to get it to return
to the dock here itself to then start that process of cleaning those mops or filling up the tank
and of course i'll vacuum which is the osmo x1 part of the x1 turbo package here so we have
the two mops now they are applying pressure they do spin at 180 revolutions per minute
magnets hold the mops into place so it's very easy for me to insert that right there
and they do use velcro so you can simply pull that off and this is a microfiber cloth that
is on the back and you see sliding that in not hard at all to do so our main brush here which
is a rubber sweeper within the bristles two different levels of bristles there too by the
way is a floating brush suspended so it adjusts to the different levels in your floors your carpets
and mats very easy to remove it to clean it for maintenance and we do have the tool that comes
in the box with the paperwork as well so both of the wheels here they are suspended they can tackle
small little climbs of around about one to two centimeters and we have the two side sweeping
brushes front 360 degree wheel you can remove that for maintenance and cleaning too as well
and then the sensors around the outside to make sure it's not going to fall down any stairs for
example or any large falls it will detect that and no to make sure it's not going to do that
along the top of the vacuum there are some tiny little holes here now it does have microphones
built into it for the voice commands which i will demonstrate later on when i get into
just how it cleans how it operates so we do have a little tower here at the top now
this has lidar laser scanning 3d map so it is very accurate and there's magnets that do hold
this top cover in so it is easy enough to remove you can lift that out and that's where we gain
access to then the dustbin now the performance of this suction performance of this particular robot
vacuum is 5000 pa which is definitely the higher end of the robot vacuum cleaners that i do review
the switch right here is our power on and off we've got a wi-fi reset button
qr code for the application to scan and pair it up and i'll dustbin which is 400 milliliters now if
you did have the x1 omni model you wouldn't need to empty this dustbin because it has the auto
empty station and it sucks the contents out from here but because today i'm reviewing the x1 turbo
it doesn't have that feature i need to manually pull it out and there's this little tiny latch
on the side there and i can easily then empty out the contents of this dustbin now it does have a
three-stage filtration here so we've got a washable filter there and if i just open this up
i'll show you there's a second layer there which is a little fine sponge and then the first layer
which is a finer little mesh there which does stop any larger particles from reaching those filters
the debug x1 doesn't have your typical lidar mapping up the top here there's a sealed unit this
is their direct time of flight mapping that is a lot more faster accurate can pick up on even
smaller objects and having it sealed is really good that means that hair should not get stuck
and tangled in to where that laser is where it's mapping everything out so that combined with
the aivi 3d obstacle avoidance we've got at the front those cameras the other sensors that array
it does have your optical avoidance so it's using ai to detect items like socks shoes
cables and go around those and i will give you examples of it in action later on in this review
either side of this vacuum it does have sensors that do detect the edges so it can get up nice and
close to get a closer and clean to the edges of walls around furniture whatever there there's the
clean air well filtered air exit vent right there this is if i did have the omino version the x10
nominated it would be able to then suck out the contents of the tank with that auto empty feature
this is where the charging contacts and infrared here to get nice and close and auto charge itself
and the inlet here for water so that's where it's going to pump in and fill that little reservoir
it's got in there of 80 milliliters just to keep those mops nice and wet when it is cleaning
before it goes back to clean them that is uh speaker built into it and that other side sensor
and our application so the app is called ecovax home you can get it on ios and here in android
so once you create an account you log in you need to add the robot vacuum you do need to be on your
wireless 2.4 gigahertz band because that's what it uses it doesn't use wireless ac five gigahertz
wireless ax doesn't use those so you can see right now that it is online the battery percentage right
there you can go into the video manager so that's when you can record get a live stream from the
front of the deebot x1 turbo handy if maybe you're away or you want to play a little trick on your
kids at home or you're checking up on your dog your animals or whatever you can log in through
that which is good and it's two-way communication with that camera so here i'm just going to go into
our smart cleaning so that's just to go into it now you will see the map that it has already
laid out before you'll see the current position of the robot vacuum so i was doing a little area
clean before just filming and you'll see exactly where it is the obstacles around there that it has
detected and things they are all listed and then you can set up a bedrooms so when i go to clean i
can either do just a complete clean you've got custom clean that way you can just set an area
that you want to clean up or the area clean mode you can go along and select different rooms maybe
you only want to just for example clean bedroom one so you're able to select that and do that
which is good you've got map management so we do have up to three maps you can save so good
for people that do have various different floors in their homes you're able to do that
there is a quick mapping mode too where it doesn't actually do a proper clean it just goes around
and maps everything out first which is normally what you do when you first get it so we do have a
3d mode here too as well now this i found can be sometimes a little bit slow to load in so
that's a 3d map there that it can create of your house which looks just a lot better and a lot more
detailed than what you have with the 2d one but i actually prefer the 2d map because it is fast
and it shows everything it's clearly laid out too it's quite good for that now we do have various
different settings a typical kind of settings that you would get with a advanced robot vacuum
cleaner such as this one so you've got your do not do disturb mode sorry video manager there cleaning
a lot of different options and of course the voice assistant you can issue commands to it which i'll
quickly demonstrate later on too in this review and down here if you do swipe up you can set
then how many times you want to clean the areas you can customize that too you've got your max
sitting there so that's the 5000 pa quiet i just leave it on standard which seems to do a good job
water level cleaning sequence and you do have a schedule too that you can set up and adjust the
volume and languages of the voice feedback that it does have so there's a lot of options in here
and just also to point out too with the map management uh you can set their two no-go zones
it can auto detect carpet you've got virtual boundaries so it pretty much covers
it all this application is really fully featured so this robot vacuum does support voice commands
you just simply need to state the command it's waiting for or should i say listening to from you
which is this okay echo i'm here start cleaning
okay start cleaning please make sure there is sufficient water in the cold water
and there we go it will start to clean okay eco
stop cleaning
task complete and it has now finished now there's a lot of different voice commands which are in the
application you can find it on their website that you're able to issue to this vacuum and then our
cleaning performance i found that it maps out and gets the obstacles and everything that's around it
quite efficiently goes all around the outside first under beds around furniture pretty
standard there just like other laser mapping robot vacuums but i did notice this one being a little
quicker it was quicker until it came to things like mats now i have a test mat that i use
in the bedroom downstairs for all my robot vacuum reviews and a lot of models will struggle with
this map because it's about one and a half centimeters the height of it and at times
the deebot x1 would go up it go around it spin around in circles and get a little bit lost at
times and it would take a little longer to clean however eventually it would go around at all
on top of it and then proceed to clean about all the area as per normal which is fine there's just
that one little thing that i noticed with the thicker mats if you do happen to have them around
now the mopping performance on the tiled floors around here very good it is applying
a little bit of pressure to the floor so it's going along scrubbing and it's 180
revolutions per minute that it's scrubbing at two and i did a test here with some coffee and
some dirt you can see that on the first attempt going over it it didn't quite get everything but
eventually after a second pass which you can set with the app for such a well a bit of a dirty
test there even though it's not normal standard household we wouldn't have spilled coffee and just
leave it there it finally got rid of everything and that was good and when you look at those
mops the results do speak for themselves they look very dirty and then the water that we had
left over from when it rinses out the mops you can see look at the color of that it is brown so
certainly keeping the floors looking a lot cleaner than what they would normally be so my test on the
mat was some cereal some corn flakes some cat here which is very difficult because quite fine
and light it often gets stuck to mats and some hair and other bits and dirt so we did a good job
of getting pretty much everything you can see the pass as it's going over zigzagging back and forth
in the area clean mode however it left a little chunk there of cat here so my cat vera has a bit
of fur that was left behind but on the second pass you can see when it went up and down it did end up
getting that so in more dirtier more stubborn areas i would certainly use the application to
set a second pass on those areas so it's going to get everything now one of the advanced features of
course of this model is the fact that it's got the obstacle avoidance with the camera
so my test was to lay out typical items that may be left around so shoes some socks on the floor
and a rogue usb cable which is a robot vacuum's worst nightmare they just eat them and they get
stuck inside them so going around the shoes not a problem it always saw the shoes without any issues
went around them and didn't even really bump into those shoes the socks that would go around
normally go and not actually touch them but occasionally it would bump into them but it never
sucked them up the usb cable however a little bit hit and miss it did go sometimes around it
at other times it just gave up and plowed straight through it uh getting tangled in the main brush so
i did have to stop it so i would say the obstacle avoidance is working really well for some items
but it's just usb cables it's really not that foolproof so you still want to make sure you don't
accidentally leave a cable lying on the floor with a vacuum you can also use the camera to log into
the cameras and just have two-way conversations so a little test here that i did with my cat vera
you can see she's looking at it wondering what's going on but this vacuum is vera approved because
normally she runs away from most robot vacuums because of the noise of them but she wasn't too
fussed with this one and more interested in what was going on i was talking to her too
so with the built-in microphones and speakers you can have two-way conversations it could be handy
for pits pets of course and for logging in maybe and just checking out your house which you can put
onto a patrol mode too as well where the robot backing will go around and you can see with the
camera if anyone's in the house which is a handy feature to have there so once it's done all the
cleaning if you're in the mode it will go back into the clean station here of course it fills
and sprays water onto the mops there's a bit of water in there at the moment which is normal
and it will rub and scrub them on the plastic surface inside here and then rinse them through
that's why we've got the two clean tanks the clean tank and the dirty tank that is and
it will go through the clean water a lot faster than it does the dirty water there
and then to dry it out which is just going to use air it will take around about five hours
so it's a long process there but here is a quick sample of what the clean station sounds like when
it's in action it makes a funny gurgling noise a little bit like a coffee maker coffee machine
so overall the dbot x1 turbo here does a really good job cleaning the floors very happy with
hard floors especially and this is really what i think this model here is aimed at so for people
that have carpets yes it can do it but if you've got mostly hard floors it's probably the one to
go for there because you need to remove those mops to do the carpet although as i mentioned before if
it's it will detect a mat when it's in the mopping mode or carpets and not actually go over them it's
a good job of hard floors and will just maintain things just looking in general quite a bit cleaner
i like the fact that it's not very loud the application's got a lot of built-in features
very good mapping even got the 3d map mode camera there with the obstacle avoidance is a handy
feature to have just means it might not get stuck when it does end up facing shoes and socks and
things but usb cables yeah it could end up sucking those up there it is yes an expensive robot vacuum
compared to others but you are gaining just that way better improved mopping performance because
it's physically scrubbing the floor spinning the mops drying and cleaning those mops there too as
well if that's something you want and do remember the ecovax has other models like the x1 amino and
x1 plus that do contain dustbins auto empty stations as well so if you want it to actually
suck out the contents of the dustbin in the x1 the d-bot x1 it can do that whereas this model is
just for cleaning the mobs here so thank you a lot for watching my review here of ecovax's x1 turbo