eufy [BoostIQ] RoboVac 15C, Wi-Fi, Upgraded, Super-Thin, 1300Pa Strong Suction, Quiet, Self-Charging Robotic Vacuum Cleaner, Cleans Hard Floors to Medium-Pile Carpets

I purchased this hoover owing to my always never having enough time to get the hoovering done around my Autistic son.I had been watching it for a while on Amazon and then a daily deal came up for this model so I purchased it. Mine is the Eufy 15C. My wife was very dubious about it when I brought it home and it scoffed it as another one of my ‘man gadgets’ but as hoovering is one of my many self-committed routine tasks it was willing to give it a go. My wife has since retracted her statement and tells everyone about our new member of the family lol.I have been using a cyclonic hoover for a while but as with most hoovers, they can be quite noisy, which unfortunately doesn't sit well with my son’s disability so we could only really hoover when he was at school etc and as we both work full time so this was always a bit of an issue.I decided on the robotic vacuum as I could set it going while no-one is at home which would be ideal. Well I must say I am actually very impressed with this item. It is actually very quiet, in fact so quiet that you could effectively have it running at night to a degree. It sounds nothing like a normal hoover, you just here the sound of gentle ‘whoosh’ as it soldiers on sucking up the dirt.I generally have to set it to run twice (owing to point 1 below) but it does a very good job of picking up dust and keeping the house tidy, I have it running 3 times a week now on the schedule built into the Android app and I am very happy as a result.The suction is pretty good for the size of the unit, its beyond me how it manages to pick up so much as the dust collector always seems to be pretty full after every run, the dust collector is nice and easy to empty too. We have a mixture of carpet, rugs, wooden and tiled floors and works well on all, it has therefore taken up the job of a hoover and a floor brush.Unfortunately there are some minor issues and these are the ones I have encountered so far: 1) Unfortunately it goes around the house aimlessly hoovering as it does, this has sometimes resulted in the vacuum covering the same rooms multiple times, whilst its great that those rooms are then incredibly clean it runs out of charge so it can’t complete the job in one go (although I have quite a large bungalow). 2) It doesn’t detect black or reflective items very well, whilst this isn’t really a problem you will no when it has detected a black object as you will hear a bang as it bumps into it. The hoover does have a reactive front bumper though which suppresses the knocks so it shouldn’t damage anything. Anything else, including clothes left on the floor, it seems to detect it quite well and keeps away from the object by a couple of inches, turns and then heads on its merry way. 3) Some thin carpets cause an issue. One of my children has one of those playmat rugs/carpets, the type that is made up of roads and a town/farm that sort of thing. It is quite a large one though so I leave it down otherwise I would just lift it out of the way. The hoover can sometimes get caught on the edge as it goes over the top of it and it has climbed so high that it almost flips over as a result. This has happened on many occasions but not always, it really depends on what angle the hoover approaches the rug at. 4) The Hoover can climb! I have found it mating with the shoes on our shoe rack on the first rung on a couple of occasions. Don’t ask me how it’s made it up there but it has, I just lift it off and away it goes again.A word of warning; make sure you move any cables, bits of string etc out of the path of the hoover, I would also recommend tidying up any frayed carpet or move any mats that have frayed edges on them (even by design) off the floor. Basically, the hover can’t detect them and will happily gobble them up stopping the hoover in its tracks! The hoover will stop at that point and send an alert to the app advising what the problem is which is a very good feature, you can then use the ‘locate’ option to locate the hoover, address the issue, and then get it going again, this will teach you what to look out for the next time! I had a situation where the hoover managed to slip under a set of drawers in a bedroom and gobble up the lamp cable which was up against the wall at the back of the drawers which sent the lamp crashing to the ground. I didn’t actually think the hoover would make it under there but it did, I now just block the opening with a couple of thin boxes and the hoover detects them and then backs away.These are all things you learn and you will get a fair idea of what you need to tidy away or up before you set the hoover going. I would recommend keeping an eye on it for the first couple of runs just so you can get an idea of the issues it may face and address them, if any. To be honest I have no doubt you will follow it around at first anyway just out of sheer curiosity, unless this isn’t your first robotic vacuum.I like the way it can be controlled from anywhere and the fact you can set schedules. The other thing I like is the fact you can set it to do spot cleaning and edge cleaning etc, these are very handy as you can just pick the hoover up, place it over the spot and set the specific task running. The hoover also has its own controller if you don’t have and Android or Apple iPhone but I haven’t actually used it.All in all, I am really attached to our little ‘road sweeper - Mr Hoover’ (named by our children) it does a great job and deals with a tedious task very well. As I have it running multiple times a week the floors are now a lot cleaner. I would envisage still having to take the full on hoover once in a while, although there hasn’t been a need yet, and it may be purely as a curiosity exercise to see how much is left behind by the Eufy.Would I recommend it, yes, is it worth the money, yes, has it made my Autistic son happy that he doesn’t need ear defenders any more when the hoover is running, a huge yes!If you have the money go buy it!

I bought this during the coronavirus outbreak because my cleaning lady could no longer come to my house and i find it difficult to push a heavy vacuum cleaner around. It was actually a bargain from Amazon Warehouse at £102. However, there was no remote control in the box. There was a long wait because I could not get through to Amazon, thanks to the pressure they are under at this time. I brought one on eBay for a very inflated price, then discovered that Eufy would sell me a new one for £16 including postage - half what I paid on eBay! Eufy were extremely polite and helpful, unlike Amazon, who were quite obstructive. Anyway, I have finally been able to try it out today. There is an app one can download from Playstore, etc, to control the Robovac, I discovered today. Maybe I could have done without the remote! I'm not sure about that. I charged the vacuum, connected it to the internet and used the app to start it off. It found its way from the docking station with no trouble, and started its journey around my bungalow. Following the advice given, I followed it around the house on its first journey and observed the way it found its way and dealt with obstructions. It was fascinating! It did not bump into anything except for the gentlest collision with a few chair legs. It has sensors which tell it when a solid obstruction is coming and it avoids them neatly, changing direction and going on its robotic way. One almost felt it was thinking! I did notice a few issues. I think it is programmed to go across a room from wall to opposite wall, moving itself along a certain distance with each journey back and forth. However, it is confused by furniture and I did notice that it was then prone to go on the same route around the room several times while neglecting other areas. This meant that it was pretty slow in completing a room. If doors are left open, it may abandon one room half-done and move on to the next. Apparently, however, it can learn the layout of a room. I didn't move anything much out of its way because I wanted to see how it coped. Next time, I would move smaller items of furniture out of its way and lift dining chairs other furniture, to give it the clearest possible route. Despite this, it did not get stuck but found its way out of the tightest corner.No doubt is does not give the deep clean that my powerful upright vacuum cleaner does, but I think it is going to be very useful for daily cleanups. The remote control enables one to tell it to change directions and to guide it if necessary.Because of its tendency to be confused by chair legs, etc, and be deflected from its course around the room, it ran out of juice before it had completed my (largish) bungalow. Suddenly the blue battery life indicator went red, the Robovac slowed to half speed and it began to fumble its way clumsily back to the docking station. It found its way successfully and docked. The instructions tell you to put the docking station/charger in a clear, 6' square space, which I found impossible. The access space to the docking station is narrow but the Robovac still found it successfully. It does have to be docked somewhere near the router if you want to use the app on your phone to control it.Battery life between charges is said to be an hour and a quarter. However, I don't think it lasted quite as long as that, unless I was having so much fun following it around that I did not notice the swift passage of time!I have given the Robovac five stars rather than four, nevertheless, because of the extra leisure it provides, its rather entertaining progress and the great professionalism and helpfulness of Eufylife. I was pleased with the job it did and I know I will use it often.

A good entry into the robot vacuum world. It does a good job of maintaining a clean floor in between passes with a regular vacuum, which you will obviously still need for things like stairs, skirting boards and hard to reach areas. I can’t give it 5 stars because it is dumb and gets stuck on things, and mostly navigates by bumping around. It also is really poor at cleaning hard floors, mostly flicking dirt around rather than picking it up. However it is effective on carpet and I don’t regret my purchase. Have had this now for maybe 3/4 years and it’s been worth it for me, though I think I bought it on sale at like £120~. I wouldn’t pay much more than that for this basic model.Also be prepared to buy replacement batteries, and brushes occasionally, which means there’s a maintenance cost to this of maybe £10-20 per year on average