At CES 2025, I misplaced my thoughts over the Eufy E20. Robot vacuum design has stagnated over the previous few years, however this was one thing I’d by no means seen earlier than—an lovely robotic vacuum that had three features in a single! Run it as a daily robotic vacuum to map and choose up your property. When it’s finished, unclip it from its housing and use it as a cordless stick vacuum or a hand vacuum.
There are such a lot of issues to love in regards to the Eufy E20. It has a remarkably compact footprint, the worth is cheap, and the design issues that it solves are very spectacular. After a number of weeks of testing, I can acknowledge its ingenuity whereas additionally conceding that this can be a gadget that’s solely designed for mild cleansing. It simply doesn’t work in addition to a devoted, heavy-duty robotic vacuum or Dyson stick vacuum. And that’s positive.
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{Photograph}: Adrienne So
The very first thing you’ll discover is that, in distinction to different residence docking stations, the E20 is remarkably tiny. I measured it at 14 inches tall, 17 inches lengthy, and 15 inches broad, barely greater than the robotic vacuum itself. The bottom is a straightforward self-emptying dustbin, not a big station housing clear and soiled water tanks like higher-end fashions have. It was refreshingly simple to unbox, arrange, and activate.
The robotic vacuum connects to the Eufy Clear app (iOS, Android). To start out utilizing it as a robotic vacuum, join it to the app after which set it off on a mapping run round your own home. It makes use of a laser steerage system, so no AI-enabled cameras are wandering round taking footage of your butt and sending them to Mexico or storing them on gadget.
Screenshots courtesy of Adrienne So
Then again, a laser-guided navigation system is just not fairly as correct as a few of the different navigation techniques that I’ve examined, like digital camera navigation or simultaneous localization and mapping. It averted obstacles adroitly and mapped my rooms comparatively precisely, however once I tasked it with cleansing just one room at a time, the E20 typically left slightly path of grime on the room’s borders. It additionally took the vacuum a number of tries to determine that I’d made a no-go zone.
