Eufy’s new X8 Professional robotic vacuum can detangle hair routinely

Anker’s Eufy division has a brand new robotic vacuum cleaner with extra highly effective suction than its different choices, and which may routinely detangle hair and pet fur from its backside curler brush.

The brand new $649.99 Eufy Clear X8 Professional vacuum is offered to buy at this time on Amazon and consists of many superior options accessible in different vacuums, like infrared laser navigation and AI residence mapping to each keep away from and bear in mind partitions and different obstacles. The X8 Professional additionally options self-emptying talents, and fundamental mopping.

Anker’s press launch states that the Eufy X8 Professional is an “upgraded model” of the 2021 X8 Hybrid, which bought for a similar value. The brand new X8 Professional’s “Twin-Turbine 2.0” motors ship 4,000 Pa of suction every, greater than the X8 Hybrid’s 2,000 Pa. However as Jennifer Pattison Tuohy writes in our robotic vacuum shopping for information, “It’s not all about suction. In my testing, the comb is the large consider how nicely a robotic will clear your flooring.”

With its new design, the X8 Professional’s all-important facet brush is situated on the front-right of the robotic, which shoves filth proper into the curler brush, which is V-shaped to assist information leftover macaroni and kibble proper into the suction path. As soon as a session is accomplished, X8 Professional can spin its curler brush in the wrong way and use an built-in comb to drag out tangled hair and pet fur.

The Professional additionally features a bigger air duct and an outsized air filter in comparison with the X8 Hybrid, and might deal with extra particles pickup.

The docking station inhales all that filth from the X8 Professional right into a mud bag that Anker says is massive sufficient (2.5L) to carry as much as 45 days price of collections earlier than needing you to take away the bag for disposal. The self-empty station features a triple-filtration system that helps seal 99.9 % of filth whereas it runs a group cycle, in line with Anker. You’re not getting rotational mops that may auto-clean and warmth dry just like the X9 Professional, however you’ll be able to nonetheless let the underside material of the X8 Professional wipe up the ground for normal cleansing.

Eufy can also be updating the X9 Professional by the tip of September to incorporate new edge-hugging deep-mopping options, water-level detection, and good no-go zones. The options are presently accessible to beta testers. The Clear app on the X8 Professional will allow you to run handbook detangling cycles, and in addition allows you to observe your house map and program which cycles to run by which rooms and which locations to keep away from — options that Roomba homeowners have come to count on as nicely.