Anker Eufy E20 Review: A robot vacuum that is transformed to make more
Convenience has always been a great promise for robots vacuums. Do not clean your house yourself – instead press a button and have a little robot for a robot around your home, sucking all the dirt and debris along its way. In fact, they are comfortable but have not replaced fully operated manually Wireless vacuumS
It is probably that you have either a vacuum for a robot or a wireless vacuum in your house in your house. Anker Eufy’s homemade brand wants us to live in a world where you can have both without spending money on two separate devices that need two separate places in your home. Declared on CES 2025., Eufy E20 of Anker is the first vacuum for a robot, which becomes a wireless stick vacuum and comes with all the necessary attachments for this, plus a self -sending base. It even comes at an average price of $ 550 (or $ 50 less if you order before it comes out on February 10), which made me believe it should be too good to be true. In the end, he succeeded in all three of his jobs, but it really shines with only one of them.
Design and setup
Although it is 3-in-1 device, the E20 is mainly tuned as a vacuum of the robot. It is available in two main parts: the robot and the self -sending base. It really does not require assembly – the base is fully collected in the box and only requires to attach a transparent mat (on which vacuum docks) and turn all the work in the wall. Sit on the vacuum of the robot on the base and it will load and it pairs quickly over Wi-Fi with the Eufy Clean Mobile app.
Two of the three -in -one modes are available as accessories included in the box. For a wireless rod vacuum you get a retractable stick and a cleaner head, and for the manual vacuum you get a smaller, more precise brush attachment that is ideal for sofas, chairs, cars and more. The only thing you don’t get is a place to store these accessories; Eufy will sell a wall mounted bracket that you can buy for an additional $ 30. It’s great that it’s so affordable, but annoying it’s actually a separate purchase. If you have a place, it may be better to store Stick-Vac accessories in your washing room or a nearby closet.
Yes, this is a “smart” device, but all the intelligent E20 features are limited to its form of robot vacu. This is not quite surprising; Robovacs are literally dependent on features such as personalized cleaning schedules, automatic touching, self -straightening and mapping the home to be valuable. This is not the case for wireless vacuums that remain hand -controlled devices. Some of the wireless vacuums I have tested have accompanied applications, but these usually just tell you when the filter should be cleaned and how long until the device is fully loaded. It’s nice, but it’s not necessary.
Eufy E20 as a robot vacuum
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As the E20 default form is a robot vacuum, I tried it as such first. This model maintains intelligent home mapping, so the initial execution involves creating a map on the main floor of my home. It took about 10 minutes for the robot to get out of the house and create an accurate card, and then immediately start cleaning the work. Editing the card in the Eufy Clean app was a breath, which allowed me to coincide with automatically generated “rooms” of the rooms in my home, to label them properly, and to place non-movement areas around my cat’s cats and bowls.
Any robot vacuum app will tell you to take something on your floors, which should not be there before you start cleaning work, and EUFY does it too. I purposely do not follow these instructions so that I can try out functions to avoid obstacles of the device. The E20 impressed me on this front: it avoided a bunch of small boxes on the floor of my family room, shoes in the hallway and my cat’s bowls before even putting an area for work around them. He struck and called for help (through an error message) once when he caught in a hazy corner of the mat, which sits in front of the door leading to my deck. Robovac extraction was easy (without damage to it, nor on the mat) and the machine continued to clean afterwards as if nothing had happened.
The E20 has four cleaning modes that you can choose from in the app before you start work: quiet, standard, turbo and max. There is also a Boostiq adjustment that you can get on, which will raise the intake power when the robot vacuum cleans carpets with long files. I continued this setting at any time, although the main level of my house has only floors of tiles and hardwood. Overall, like a robot vacuum, the E20 is great for cleaning and avoiding most items on its way. This is also one of the most responsive Robovacs I’ve tried in this within a second, say, say it gets from the Eufy Clean app, it starts to head to the base station.
During work, it is also smart enough to know when his bin is full and will return to his port to auto-pillar before he continues to clean. This did this about four times when cleaning the main floor of my house and it was consistent every time I used it. Usually at the end of the work, the E20 had about 40 percent battery before it went home. The self-straightening bin is a little smaller than the others I used with competitive Robovacs, but EUFY claims it can hold up to 75 days of debris.
The Eufy Clean app has been a long way since I first started testing Anker Robot vacuums. It’s not yet as simple as applications like Irobot’s or Shark’s, but most of all, I penetrate the fact that EUFY fills many features in the application. You can quickly tell Robovac to start cleaning, return to your dock, or change the cleaning mode by pressing the main page button, or tap on the device profile to access your home card and even more settings.
Two charming things this app has that most others are not manual guidance controls so you can treat the robot almost like a RC car and a little avatar of the robot that appears on the home card while moving so you can You see exactly where to see exactly where you can see exactly where you can see where you can see exactly where you can see exactly where you can see exactly where you can see where you can be in your home And where he was already cleaned. Indeed, the latter is probably more practical for most people than the first, but both are characteristics that are not so common in the high-end robot vacuums.
Eufy E20 as a wireless vacuum
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It is easy to transform an E20 from a vacuum to a robot into a vacuum wireless rod. Just press the big red button on the robot vacuum to discard your cleaning module (which includes the filtration system, the fan and the dust glass), lift it outside the robot shell and attach the vacuum arm to the rod to the bottom. The hand extends and retracts so you can use it to clean your floors with the brush head on the brush or deal with hard -to -reach spots with the precision head. There is an elegance to what impresses me: it is so simple to do and require a very little tweak from the user – anyone who has used a simple vacuum for a wireless stick with multiple attachments will be very familiar with this process.
But how good is he as a wireless vacuum? The answer is: just fine. If E20 was just a stick vacuum, it probably wouldn’t be a top choice in our guide. This device is obviously a robot vacuum, first, for sticks and hand second and just not as powerful or effective as the other wireless vacuums I have tested. It has four cleaning modes, each with different suction levels, and I always turned out to be using the strongest to get the deepest clean -both carpets and hard floors. However, this is not suffocated by the first sign of pets’ hair, and in fact it caught a lot of my cat’s coat hiding in my carpet. But it took at least two passages of the carpets to take the largest pieces of debris on its way.
E20 as a wireless rod VAC receives points for being a one -button startup device and has attachments that are easy to exchange. While most of these machines are made mainly of plastic, the E20 feels noticeably cheap compared to the Tineco or Dyson Stick VAC. This may be related to the fact that the overall design is quite small – in the end the intestines must fit into a compact vacuum of the robot – and it has a small dust bucket.
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Some may appreciate this as this means that you can easily remove it on the car or somewhere else while it runs on the battery power. It is also worth noting that despite the small dust bin, I have never received a signal that the dust bin is too complete and must be emptied before I can continue vacuum. I also never had to stop in the middle of hand cleaning to recharge; Most often, the vacuum had about 30 percent battery after cleaning all three floors of my home (which usually takes me between 20 and 30 minutes). According to EUFY, the vacuum only takes 2.5 hours to load from 0 to 100 percent.
The machine also has an exquisite feature that will be automatic powders after wireless work to clean VAC, which means you don’t have to empty it yourself, even when you choose to actually clean yourself. Just insert the module back into the robot vacuum and press the Home button for a few seconds and it will be automatically empty, just as it would do if the robot did all the hard work.
Wrapping
All said, Eufy E20 is an impressive machine. Although EUFY is no stranger to make vacuums with hard robots, this device is still a first-generation product in my mind-and solid in this. But you need to know what you buy in advance: a vacuum with a robot above the average, which can turn into a simple middle level and manual vacuum.
After all, the convenience that comes from his 3-in-1 design may be enough to ignore the average performance of two of the three uses. The E20 is not the best vacuum on the market, but frankly, I never expected it to be. It is good enough that it by hand complements the vacuum part of the robot of the machine, allowing you to buy only one device that can vacuum autonomously for you most of the time and allow you to clean complex stains manually when you need to.
The price is also quite decent when considering the convenience of the machine mixed with its good performance. Some robot vacuums are offered about $ 550 and provide only a self -sending base as their main fin. Other devices with a similar price include wash opportunities and this may be more useful for people who have different types of floor in their home. Also think about this: you would spend approximately the same amount if you have both of our most important wireless vacuum ( $ 300 Tineco Pure One S11) and our favorite vacuum for a budget robot (The $ 250 Roomba Vac), but you will miss a stand -alone base and you will need to house two separate devices in your home.
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