eufy L60 Robot Vacuum with Self Empty Station, Hair Detangling Technology, Up to 60 Days Hands Free Cleaning, 5,000 Pa Suction, Remove Hair, Dust

Listen Up, Seniors!
If you hate grubby corners (behind all those plants, dog beds, small tables, chairs, magazine baskets that it’s just so hard to move while jostling around a 20+pound vacuum and heavy, noisy powerhead), and you hate the racket your canister or upright vacuum makes (and your pets hate it, too!), try out this amazing little machine! Vacuuming has never been so much fun!I first purchased the Eufy 11S after doing MUCH research and spending time communicating with Eufy. (They have wonderful, responsive personnel!) Took all of two minutes to get it out of the box, set it up (attach brushes) and get it on the charger. I let it charge overnight. The next morning I hit the “perimeter button” and off it went! I scooted around in front of it, pulling baskets, dog crates, cat scratching pads, shoes, plants, magazine baskets away from the edges of the wall while it came along after me and cleaned places I probably haven’t reached in ….some time! First time around, one dog (8 lb Papillon) hid in the next room; the other (12 lb poodle mix) followed it around. (Allowed two perimeter runs the first time since some places hadn’t been done in ages and I just wanted to make sure!) Then hit the “automatic” button and as it made its way around the room, I replaced stuff along the walls. How easy could that be?!Although there’s no need to move everything every time I vacuum, it’s so easy that I often find myself moving alot! (36 years of “accumulation” – aka “clutter” here). If the phone rings, no need to shut off the vacuum; it’s no louder than a desk fan and I can easily talk on the phone or listen to the news on TV.My 2000 sq’ cape home has mostly medium height carpeting (a combination of cut pile/berber), even in the kitchen and dining areas (breakfast area and formal dining room). It also has tile (hallways, bathrooms), hardwood (two of three bedrooms) and brick (family room) with a large area rug. Eufy tackles it all! It’s little “corner” brushed do scatter the birdseed on the bricks, but it seems to manage to pick it all up eventually as it makes several passes in every area when on “auto”. The amount of pet hair (and my hair!) it picks up is astounding, as is the amount of fine dust it captures. (I have allergies and this is a blessing!!)Yes, I do clean the brush roller and the dust bin frequently (usually with every “full time” vacuuming; this vacuum will last at least an hour unless I put it on the half hour “single room” cycle). The dust bin empties easily into the trash without dust flying all over the place; with the included brush and a couple of strokes, I gently brush off the filter and haven’t yet replaced any. It takes a couple of minutes to slice through the hair wound around the brush roller and pick it off using the included “comb” and my fingers. (Ok — don’t like the idea? When was the last time you cleaned the brushes on your big vacuum’s powerhead to ensure its efficiency??) So easy to do this with a little vac that you can set on the kitchen counter. (Turn off the power switch on the bottom first.) Three minutes to clean it up, turn back on, set near the base and send it “home”, wipe off the kitchen counter and you’re done. No need to struggle to get the canister vac, it’s heavy power head and wand and hose back into a closet somewhere! Need it upstairs? Carry it up under one arm (don’t forget the remote). It’s never fallen down the stairs.Because I’m retired and can be home, I haven’t yet used the wifi function, other than to set it up (easy).Because Eufy is so quiet and convenient, I vacuum the most used areas much more often than I would with my heavy conventional vacuums. There is probably no doubt that the suction on the canister or upright is stronger, but because I use Eufy so often (up to several times a week in high traffic areas), my husband is commenting that the rugs look cleaner. No time for shoes to grind leaves and dirt into the carpeting! (And no, my family does NOT remove shoes; and the two dogs and a long-haired cat are in and out on our large yard frequently.)The magnetic strips that come with this unit can be helpful when I have last-minute company coming for dinner so I let Eufy loose while I’m cooking and want it in that area but not under my feet. Otherwise, I simply close doors to keep it where I want it.I’ve learned how to position chairs around the dining tables (two tables with a total of 10 chairs) so Eufy can scoot around legs and under the rungs, doing a great job of cleaning under everything. It only got stuck once (hung up on a wire dog crate handle), so I’ve adjusted that. And it easily finds its way back to the base if I guide it back to the right end of the house (using the remote) when I’m done in the more distant regions.I have now “loaned” the 11 S to another family member who has little time for house-cleaning and can use Eufy’s help! (Her dogs are 70 pounds!) I purchased the 30C. The extra suction makes bird-seed pickup faster (lol). Both units do a great job! I would recommend either! I like the digital display on the 11S remote so you know what mode you’re currently using.And now the dogs ignore it, as you can see where our poodle-mix yawns as Eufy vacuums around her dog bed.

This thing is great we have 2 super shedder dogs that blow their coats in the spring and running this every 12 hours has really kept the dog fur tumbleweeds to a minimum. We have always had issues keeping up with the fur output but it’s taken care of now. The hair cutter also works great never any hair or fur wrapped around the bristles just the very ends need to be cleaned once a week or so,The only cons I see are on max power the battery drains over 1% a minute if you have a larger house you will need to run the power lower or it will need to recharge in between rooms. The filter on the dustbin is also a little on the small side so it will require cleaning more often. Likewise the dust bags in the base are not huge so we nearly filled it in a week vs the advertised 60 days when the dogs were shedding this spring. The base is also loud, like industrial shop vac loud when emptying the robot.With that said it still gets 5 stars from me, it cleans the tons of dog fur incredibly well, the app works good. It avoids everything it could get stuck/tangled in. Running it on the second highest suction it still cleans just as good and has 50% battery left when done as we have alot of hard floor. The self emptying works great just a little loud, the hair cutter works excellent and it goes at least a week without any intervention, 10 minutes of cleaning the robot a week for all the hours of vacuuming is a great trade.Will be looking at the Eufy X10 Omni in the near future when we want a mopping robot!

【BACKGROUND】I’ve had a Roomba 671 for over a year. I want to list downsides to that first because it is typical of most Roomba-brand robotic vacs.【iRobot ROOMBA CONS】* LOUD – don’t expect to watch TV while a Roomba is cleaning your room* only one sweeper brush so edges only got cleaned when it was traveling in one direction along a wall* sensor turret sticks above level of robot, causing it to bump into low furniture, sometimes getting stuck* horridly unreliable at docking – tended to shove the dock around, and debris (in a relatively clean home!) would cover the charging contacts, causing docking to fail* virtual walls required buying separate “towers” which were expensive and ate batteries【THE EUFY DIFFERENCE】First of all: if you’ve heard of “Anker” – makers of some of the best USB cables and powerbanks on the market – Eufy is Anker’s home-product brand with items like smart light bulbs, plugs, switches, and robotic vacuums. I’ve had great luck with their USB products and when reading up on “ideal robovacs”, they were consistently top of the list.【Eufy 30C PROS】* much quieter than Roomba* when returning to dock, suction shuts off and it is dead-silent* on approaching the charging base, it slows down to a crawl and navigates precisely* HEPA filter, with a spare included* double sweeper brushes, with spares included* Google Assistant and Alexa integration* physical remote control that sits in a divot on top of the charging dock and gives FULL control of the robot* magnetic strips for creating barriers (see explanation below)* app has been updated and controls all the functions the remote will (boost level, mode etc)【Eufy 30C CONS】* dock is functional but the power supply is ugly – it’s a “wall wart” which Eufy tries to mitigate by having a cord wrap inside the dock – Roomba clearly has the advantage here with the power supply built into the dock and a simple, NEMA 2-pin plug going to the wall. I’d like to see Eufy re-design this.* not AS QUIET as some of the reviews would have you think. It *is* quieter than the Roomba but not dead silent, even on the “low” suction mode.* Google Home integration requires Google Assistant. You can’t directly link Google Home to Eufy – it generates an error. Instead, you link Google Assistant with Eufy Home, then create a routine in Google Home to engage Google Assistant to control the vacuum. It’s annoying to initially set up but in practice it works seamlessly – I still have a Home routine called “clean” that starts the Eufy Vac.【Details of Magnetic Barriers】Further explanation of one of my points: the magnetic strips. Ostensibly, you can peel the backing off and stick them to any hard surface. Turns out, you can even put them UNDER things, and cut the magnetic strip lengthwise. The instructions advise against this (likely because of reduced magnetic field strength not tripping the robot’s sensors) but in practice, it works! I sliced a strip so it’s about 1/3 its width and hid it in a floor transition strip (see photo of transition – the magnetic strip is right under there). It creates enough of a field the robot gets near and immediately turns around. Total game changer here – no need for multiple “towers” like you’d have for Roomba. You could even lift up carpet and hide these strips underneath, maybe cutting away some carpet underlay to ensure the magnetic strip sits flush.【CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION】It’s clear there are some minor compromises with Eufy products but they’re mostly aesthetic and not functional.I’d LIKE to have seen a prettier power supply for the base (simple plug, not a wall wart) and direct Google Home integration. In practice, those don’t affect the vacuum at all – it just works, even better than Roomba, at a lower cost. Top marks.