Eufy E20 3-in-1 Robotic Vacuum Overview: Compact Comfort

At CES 2025, I misplaced my thoughts over the Eufy E20. Robotic 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 capabilities in a single! Run it as a daily robotic vacuum to map and choose up your own home. When it’s carried out, 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 concerning the Eufy E20. It has a remarkably compact footprint, the worth is affordable, 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 it is a system that’s solely designed for gentle cleansing. It simply doesn’t work in addition to a devoted, heavy-duty robotic vacuum or Dyson stick vacuum. And that’s superb.

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The very first thing you’ll discover is that, in distinction to different house docking stations, the E20 is remarkably tiny. I measured it at 14 inches tall, 17 inches lengthy, and 15 inches huge, barely greater than the robotic vacuum itself. The bottom is an easy self-emptying dustbin, not a huge station housing clear and soiled water tanks like higher-end fashions have. It was refreshingly straightforward to unbox, arrange, and activate.

The robotic vacuum connects to the Eufy Clear app (iOS, Android). To begin utilizing it as a robotic vacuum, join it to the app after which set it off on a mapping run round your home. It makes use of a laser steering system, so no AI-enabled cameras are wandering round taking footage of your butt and sending them to Mexico or storing them on system.

Alternatively, a laser-guided navigation system shouldn’t be fairly as correct as among the different navigation methods that I’ve examined, like digital camera navigation or simultaneous localization and mapping. It prevented 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 a bit of 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.