Ecovacs’ budget robovacs include premium features like mophead cleaning and drying

Ecovacs has announced caller additions to its budget-focused N-family enactment of robovacs. The Deebot N30 Omni includes a basal presumption that tin cleanable and adust the vacuum’s mopping heads, portion the N20 Pro Plus’ dock tin bare the robot’s ungraded bin and store it successful a integrative bin that eliminates the request for replaceable particulate bags. Both robovacs debut astatine nether $800.

The Deebot N30 Omni isn’t the cheapest robovac you tin bargain with mopping capabilities and a dock, but astatine $799.99, it includes features typically lone recovered connected autonomous cleaners good implicit $1,000, similar the Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra and the DreameBot X30 Ultra. The robot includes a spiral brushwood with a plan that helps forestall agelong hairs from getting tangled astir it and a brace of spinning mopping heads that tin widen outward to cleanable person to furnishings oregon up against walls portion besides retracting erstwhile cleaning carpeting.

Ecovacs says the N30 Omni tin representation a “100-square-meter area” utilizing laser-based lidar exertion successful astir six minutes, allowing customized cleaning routines and schedules to beryllium acceptable up for idiosyncratic rooms done the company’s mobile app, oregon utilizing dependable commands done a astute speaker. Its artillery beingness is estimated to beryllium upwards of 320 minutes successful quiescent mode, oregon up to 220 minutes successful its much almighty (and louder) modular cleaning mode.

In summation to charging the robot, the Deebot N30 Omni’s docking presumption volition cleanable the robovac’s mopheads, adust them with blistery aerial blasted astatine 104 degrees Fahrenheit, and past dispense caller cleaning solution onto each one. The dock includes a 2.6-liter particulate container for holding ungraded and debris sucked retired of the robot making for easier disposal, but it’s a consumable you’ll request to regularly replace.

The $599.99 Deebot N20 Pro Plus is besides capable to find its determination successful a abstraction and debar obstacles utilizing a laser-based navigation strategy to make a representation accessible done a mobile app. But it lacks dependable controls, and its mopping capabilities lag down the N30 Omni. It uses a ample pad connected the underside that vibrates to scrub stains arsenic it passes implicit them, making it little effectual astatine mopping adjacent to edges. Its artillery beingness is estimated to beryllium upwards of 300 minutes, however, without compromises successful suction power.

The N20 Pro Plus’ docking presumption can’t automatically refill the robovac’s 180 mL h2o tank, but it tin bare the robot’s ungraded bin utilizing a cyclonic suction strategy that separates particulate from larger debris to guarantee it doesn’t suffer suction arsenic it fills, akin to what Dyson’s cleaning products trust on. Instead of bags, each of the ungraded collected by the docking presumption is stored successful a wide integrative bin truthful it’s casual to spot erstwhile it needs to beryllium emptied.

The Deebot N30 Omni is disposable present done Ecovacs’ website and Amazon. The Deebot N20 Pro Plus is disposable present done Ecovacs’ website, portion a somewhat cheaper $549.99 N20 Plus version, with a simpler mopping mechanism, is disposable done Amazon.