Xiaomi Robotic Vacuum X10+ assessment

Worth When Reviewed

Not but obtainable within the US

The X10+ is just not but that can be purchased within the US or the UK – except you’re capable of finding a retailer that has imported it. It’s going to turn into extra broadly obtainable within the coming months.

Xiaomi could have referred to as the X10+ a robotic vacuum, however, in actuality, it’s extra of an automated, hands-free ground cleansing system.

What does this really imply?

You get a robotic vacuum, with mopping performance, which auto-empties the robotic’s mud compartment right into a disposable bag within the base station, auto-fills the tank with clear water from the bottom station tank, auto-empties the soiled water from the robotic again into the bottom station, and in addition washes and dries the mop pads, all to suit round a schedule and a cleansing circuit that you just select.    

When you arrange the X10+, all you must do is periodically refill the clear water tank, empty the soiled water tank, and alter the disposable bag. The X10+ does all the pieces else.

There are caveats to this. As with all robotic vacuums, significantly those who mop, you want a good quantity of clear ground area to make it worthwhile. If your property is cluttered, it’s not going to work. Likewise, in case your floor ground is a carve-up with completely different flooring heights and a step or two between rooms, you’ll get much less from it.

However in case you have a neat, orderly, and pretty open-plan residence, with a good quantity of laborious flooring, the X10+ will take a variety of common ground upkeep duties off your fingers.     

Let’s see what you get.

What’s within the field?

• Massive self-emptying station (59cm x 42cm x 34cm)
• Robotic with twin spinning mop pads
• Comes with a spare 2.5 litre mud bag

The very first thing you discover is that the field is heavy: over 11kg, or 28lbs, so be ready for that. Most of this weight, a superb 8.3kg of it, is the white plastic Omni station, which is the charging base and holds the 2 2.5l water tanks, the two.5l disposable mud bag, and the cleansing tray.  

The Omni station is substantial, standing at 59cm excessive, 42cm large and 34cm deep. The robotic docks into the tray on the backside, and there’s a flip-up lid on the highest to permit you entry to the 2 water tanks. It additionally has an influence indicator gentle on the entrance and three buttons on the highest: one to make the robotic go away the station, one other to begin a clear of all areas, and one to begin or cease drying the mop pads.

The white plastic robotic vacuum itself is 3.9kg, 35cm in diameter and stands about 9.7cm excessive. It’s acquired a few chunky wheels beneath, alongside the revolving brush, with two revolving mop pads on the again and one other facet brush to the left on the entrance, subsequent to the omnidirectional wheel.

There are two buttons on the entrance: one for energy and to begin a clear, and one other to dock and set the kid lock, and an indicator to indicate charging standing, errors, or the Wi-Fi standing. Beneath the duvet of the robotic, there’s a reset button, mud compartment and Wi-Fi indicator.  

You additionally get a helpful cleansing instrument, a spare 2.5l mud bag, the mop pads holders and facet brush that you just match into the robotic, the ability twine, a guide, a fast begin information and the guarantee.    

Set-up

• Select a location earlier than setup
• QR code for fast begin
• 3D mapping

First, you unpack the X10+, take away the protecting coverings, set up the comb and the mop pads, and place your Omni station in a viable place: 0.5m to both facet and with 1.5m spare on the entrance. The ability twine is 144 cm lengthy, so you’ve some leeway with an influence level location.

Nonetheless, when you place the Omni station, put the robotic in to cost and fill the clear water tank, you possibly can’t transfer it from this level, and because the mopping facility depends on the robotic drawing water from the station tank, you possibly can’t actually take the robotic to a different ground to mop.

So, in case you are in search of a mopping robotic which you could transfer between flooring of your property, you would possibly wish to take into consideration a robotic with a clip-in tank. 

Then it’s time to hook up with Wi-Fi. Obtain the Xiaomi app (the QR code is in each the guide and the fast begin information) and arrange your profile. Then you definitely add the gadget and comply with the directions in your cellphone. We discovered this course of easy and simple, though in case you are not that tech-savvy, you would possibly want further assist. 

You then get a immediate to create the fast map. That is the place the robotic vacuum makes use of its LDS and line laser sensors to generate a map of your ground, which types the idea for its cleansing manoeuvring. The mapping characteristic is spectacular; it additionally generates 3D mapping, however our expertise was that it didn’t put in obstacles, so it appeared a bit of pointless. At this level, you possibly can modify the map, relabel rooms, set digital partitions and restricted areas.      

Alex Greenwood / Foundry

Then it’s time to begin cleansing.

Efficiency

• 4 suction ranges (as much as 4000Pa)
• 2.5cm climbing skill however might be hit or miss
• Noisy auto-emptying

You get 4 suction ranges with the X10+: silent, customary, robust and turbo, which makes the many of the 4000Pa suction. We did our first take a look at on customary, and felt we wanted one thing stronger for our mud and crumbs. Sturdy appeared to work for our ground with the bulk being laborious flooring, each tile and engineered wooden, with a further small, carpeted room. For pet dander on carpet, you’d most likely have to depend on turbo, though this nonetheless received’t pull out years of vacuuming neglect out of your carpet.

You may set the robotic to hoover the entire ground, a selected room or set of rooms or a sure zone inside a room. We have been puzzled at first because the in-app “pause” button has been mislabelled “paused”, which makes you assume the cleansing has stopped when it hasn’t. Cue: repetitive urgent of the pause button, attempting to un-pause a non-paused cleansing programme, which confused the robotic no finish.

The robotic seems to hoover the sides of the room, so far as it’s in a position, after which ladders up and down the centre of the ground. Every now and then, it struggled to cross a boundary peak change of two.5cm, however then later managed it with no drawback. However, the robotic constantly coated 47m2 in 59mins, and you may watch the progress on the map in real-time.    

Be warned although: the auto-emptying is loud and sounds a bit like a jet engine. Fortunately, it doesn’t final lengthy.

Mopping 

• 3 water settings
• Revolving mop pads
• Designed for gentle, common upkeep

We had a number of hiccups with our preliminary mop exams as no water filtered by means of from the bottom. Upon investigation, we found that we hadn’t fitted the clear water tank correctly into the bottom, and we needed to fiddle for a while till the bottom lastly fed water although to the mop pads. Nonetheless, we didn’t expertise this challenge once more, so it might simply be a number of teething issues straight out of the field.

There are three water settings: low, medium, and excessive. Excessive could be very a lot a lightweight mop, with medium being extra of a humid mud. We couldn’t discern a lot from the low water stage in any respect, and the medium stage didn’t carry vital dust scuffs from tiles, though the excessive stage did.

We have been impressed by the spinning 180rpm mop pads, feeling that they not solely mopped but in addition buffed the flooring on the similar time. Lustre and sheen appeared larger than different robotic mops.

Alex Greenwood / Foundry

Like most mopping robotic vacuums, the mopping operate is absolutely designed for day by day upkeep of flooring, somewhat than a weekly deep clear. You have to to make use of a standard mop with sizzling water and cleaning soap to shift vital dust or grime.

When the robotic returns to base after a mopping session, the Omni station washes the pads within the cleansing tray and dries them. That is fairly a loud course of, so be warned. We’d reckon it at across the similar sound stage as a standard vacuum cleaner, however it retains issues contemporary. Certainly, there have been no mouldy or damp smells from the X10+ over the month of testing.   

You too can set the robotic to hoover and mop on the similar time. We discovered that this setting provoked the robotic to return to base for an change of water and took roughly one minute per m2.  

Different options

• Roughly 2 hours of vacuuming time
• Good navigation and impediment avoidance
• Customized cleansing obtainable

Xiaomi states that the X10+ has about two hours of life in its 520mAh battery, and we discovered this to be correct. The X10+ additionally appeared to navigate momentary obstructions fairly effectively, corresponding to a toy left on the ground or the change of the place of a chair. 

You too can set a customized mode to your cleansing classes, choosing a selected suction, water stage, motion, and cleansing sample for every room, and the order during which the robotic ought to sort out every room. There’s additionally a deep cleansing setting for dirtier flooring, the place the robotic will return to scrub the mop pad extra often to forestall cross-contamination. Once more, you may as well schedule clean-ups, set Do No Disturb parameters, and join the robotic to Alexa or Google Assistant. 

The app may also inform you the standing of the filter, facet brush, foremost brush and whether or not you must substitute the mop pads.

Verdict

The X10+ robotic vacuum takes automated ground cleansing to the subsequent stage, and in case you have the proper of residence, it is going to hold your flooring dust- and crumb-free with out you having to consider it. That sort of freedom from chores is sort of a exceptional liberation. With the X10+, you don’t even should fill, load and empty a clip-in tank or wash the pad after a mopping session. You merely open the app and press begin.

That stated, to profit from the X10+, you’ll want a reasonably minimalist inside set-up. The X10+ gives you a wonderfully vacuumed expanse of carpet, nearly zen in its smoothness, however you’ll want that clear expanse of carpet within the first place, regardless of how intelligent this robotic could also be in figuring out momentary obstacles. 

We, nonetheless, favored it. Loads.

For extra robotic vacuum cleaner choices, take a look at our round-up of one of the best robotic vacuums we’ve examined.