Eufy RoboVac 11+ Review

This robot finished right at the back of the entire group, right behind the Ecovacs Deebot. These robots perform quite similarly, but the Ecovacs has a greatly increased set of smart features and functions for only about $20 more.

Performance Comparison

Navigation

This model handled our furnished room quite well, though it would take what felt like forever to extricate itself from some of the more cramped areas, bouncing around under the dining room table and chairs for quite some time before stumbling on the way out.

This robot weirdly struggled more than the other semi-random robots at locating its base when it was in the same room as it, but did much better when it was in a different room. It was the only one of these robots to follow some sort of systematic method of driving home, tracking along a wall until it was in direct sight of the base, then heading straight for it. All of the other robots that didn't systematically clean bounced around aimlessly until they spotted their base, then headed towards it.

The Eufy also drives under low furniture without incident — provided it physically fit — and its edge detection sensors never triggered a false-positive when driving over transitions from light to dark colored flooring.

Home Coverage

There is no barrier system included with this robot, so you will have to construct a physical barricade across areas where you don't want the robot to enter.

The spot clean on the Eufy is about average, covering about 12.6 sq. ft. as it spirals in and out from the starting point.

Carpet Cleaning

The Eufy again did below average, earning a 4 out of 10 for this group of tests, which together are responsible for 15% of the total score.

This robot didn't do amazingly well at cleaning close to the boundaries of a room, leaving some of the most leftover mess around the edges and corners of our robot pen.

It also did very poorly at collecting flour, leaving behind plenty of mess.

It did do much better at collecting rice, performing above average on both flat, low-pile carpet and on fluffier, medium-pile carpet. The Eufy only left behind a little less than ⅛ of a teaspoon in both cases.

For the last test, we used mini-wheats to see how each one did with larger particles. The Eufy was hit or miss in terms of performance, but it usually had about a 50% success rate on both types of soft flooring.

Hard Surface Cleaning

The Eufy actually cleaned a little closer to the edges of our test pen on the hard floors, only leaving a strip of leftover material that measured about 3.5" across.

However, it did much worse at collecting flour, squeegeeing the majority of it around rather than actually collecting any of it. It also isn't powerful enough to get any of the flour in the cracks between the boards.

This robot continued its poor showing when tasked with collecting rice or oats, tending to fling almost as many away as it actually picked up.

Pet Hair

We spread out pet hair on both low-pile and medium-pile carpet, with the Eufy only collecting around 7% of the hair we put out on the fluffy carpet and about 6% from the flat carpet.

Smart Connect

The Eufy essentially lacks any sort of smart or networked features, so it earned another 2 out of 10 for its meager showing.

This robot lacks any smart home capabilities and does not have a smartphone app, but it does have a dedicated handheld remote.

You can set a scheduled daily clean with it, but you can't adjust which days it will run or have different times on different days. You can also control the other functions with the remote, such as spot clean, edge clean, return home, or do a full clean. Additionally, there are also a few rudimentary actions that can be initiated directly from the robot, but you are definitely going to be out of luck for many of this robot's features if you happen to lose the remote.

Value

While this robot is inexpensive, it did deliver one of the worst performances of the group, so you get what you pay for.

Conclusion