Yeedi Cube Review: A Budget Friendly Self-cleaning Vacuum/Mop

Worth When Reviewed

$699.99

Greatest Costs As we speak: Yeedi Dice

Simply as Yeedi provided an inexpensive various to premium-priced self-emptying vacuums with its earlier Vac Station (out there for round $500/ €300), it’s now doing the identical for hybrid bots with self-cleaning mops. With a $700/€699.99 checklist worth, the Yeedi Dice is the corporate’s budget-friendly tackle comparable merchandise by Ecovacs and Roborock. Like these merchandise, the Dice can vacuum and mop flooring after which clear itself with minimal consumer intervention.

It’s not but out there from Amazon within the UK, however you should purchase it from Amazon in Germany and have it shipped over.

There are some variations between the Dice and rivals. Yeedi’s base station is noticeably squatter and it additionally bucks design developments by together with solely a dirty-water tank within the base station together with its auto-empty mud bag. Clear water is saved in a separate water tank on the robotic itself.

Dubbed the UFO water tank due to its saucer form, it has a 1L capability and slots into the highest of the Dice’s robotic. A rubber deal with is affixed to the highest of the tank to each assist take away it for filling and to make it simpler to tote the robotic round your property, whether or not to scrub a special flooring or an remoted spill.

Its quirky design apart, the Yeedi Dice turned out to be simply as efficient a cleaner, if not fairly as polished, as its much-higher-priced counterparts.

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Yeedi Dice mopping efficiency

To arrange for a mopping run, press the lock button on the UFO water tank and push again. This pushes the deal with upward so you may seize it and take away the tank. Fill the tank with recent water, cap the valve, and reinstall the tank on prime of the robotic. You’ll additionally want to connect the microfiber material to the mopping attachment on the underside of the robotic.

This robotic affords solely two cleansing modes: vacuum solely and vacuum after which mop in tandem. Select the latter after which choose suction and water ranges; there are three of every. From there you simply begin auto-cleaning to scrub your complete mapped area, or you may carry the robotic to a particular space and choose spot cleansing.

The Dice doesn’t merely drag a dampened material throughout the ground as many hybrid robotic cleaners do. It makes use of ultrasonic vibration to wash the ground 2,500 occasions per minute for intense deep cleansing with out leaving water streaks behind. Its mop holder additionally employs a floating design that permits it to robotically calibrate and regulate its angle to match the ground floor. In my testing, this enabled it to loosen and take away stains, sticky gunk, and embedded grime that different hybrid cleaners wrestle with.

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When a mopping job is full, the robotic returns to its base station the place the electrical scrubber cleans the pad utilizing a back-and-forth movement utilizing 10 N (Newtons) of pressure. On the identical time, the dustbin’s contents are robotically emptied.

Yeedi Dice vacuuming efficiency

The Dice is rather more typical as a vacuum. It makes use of a pair of spinning aspect brushes and a rubber-and-bristles curler brush to comb and suck particles into its dustbin. Lots of the robotic vacuums I’ve examined not too long ago have moved to an all-rubber curler—in some circumstances, a pair of them—as they mitigate hair tangles and ensure the hair makes it to the dustbin.

The Dice’s dealing with of the canine and cat hair on my flooring underscores the knowledge of that method; this and different fibrous particles virtually at all times ended up wrapped across the Yeedi Dice’s curler and threaded into its bristles, requiring a number of hands-on intervention to clear. The robotic had no drawback eradicating grime, mud, and meals crumbs from my dwelling’s exhausting flooring surfaces and some space rugs, although, and it typically left my flooring, from open areas to edges, utterly clear.

Yeedi claims a suction energy of 5100pA and it may be adjusted between three completely different ranges: Quiet, Regular, and Max. Suction is robotically boosted when the robotic detects carpet. The robotic’s 360ml onboard dustbin robotically empties right into a 2.1L dustbin each time it returns to the bottom station.

Yeedi Dice navigation

The Yeedi Dice makes use of SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) laser-aided navigation for mapping and impediment avoidance. This incorporates a top-mounted digicam that allows the robotic to create and regularly replace a map of its surroundings and its place inside it, and it has a front-mounted infrared sensor to detect obstacles.

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The Dice created an correct, if primary, map of my dwelling’s downstairs degree throughout its first cleansing run. It rapidly acknowledged numerous obstacles in my lounge and kitchen, nevertheless it didn’t at all times do a fantastic job of avoiding these obstacles. The robotic ran into desk and chair legs a number of occasions and as soon as handed so near a shoe that it ensnared its laces in considered one of its edge brushes. It appeared as if as soon as recognizing these objects, it merely didn’t give them a large sufficient berth.

General although, the robotic moved in environment friendly straight strains and by no means acquired right into a jam that stopped its progress or required me to rescue it. It typically was in a position to clear all of the accessible areas of my downstairs degree in lower than 20 minutes.

Yeedi app expertise

The Yeedi companion app has a easy, clear design. Your flooring plan’s map is entrance and heart, with cleansing stats displayed throughout the highest and the robotic’s and base station’s controls alongside the underside.

The app makes it simple to customise your flooring cleansing. Maps might be edited so as to add room divisions and mergers, room names, and no-clean and no-mop zones. You possibly can tailor cleansing settings for every room, set cleansing sequences, and create cleansing schedules. It’s additionally simple to configure options corresponding to carpet detection and auto-boost suction.

Verdict

If you wish to expertise the posh of (largely) hands-free flooring cleansing with out paying a luxurious worth, the Yeedi dice is nicely price contemplating. Though every little thing right here is just a bit much less refined than with the higher-priced competing merchandise, the consequence—cleaner flooring with much less labor—will certainly depart you glad.

But when this isn’t the proper mannequin for you, take a look at our round-up of the very best robotic vacuums we’ve examined for purchasing hyperlinks, fast summaries together with the professionals and cons of every mannequin, and hyperlinks to in-depth opinions.

This evaluate was first revealed on TechHive.

Yeedi Dice specs

• Cleansing modes: vacuum and mop
• Charging dock kind: auto-clean station
• Navigation: SLAM laser-aided navigation
• Suction: 5,100Pa
• Dustbin capability: 360ml onboard, 2.1L in base station
• Mopping kind: microfiber material with ultrasonic vibration
• Water tank capability: Contemporary-water tank: 1L, dirty-water tank: 1.2L
• Carpet detection: Sure
• App management: Android and iOS
• Voice management: Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri