What’s the Black Friday deal?
Amazon dropped the price for the AI-powered Eufy X9 Pro robot vacuum and mop to only $650 as part of its Black Friday deals.
Why this deal is ZDNET-recommended
The Eufy Clean X9 Pro CleanerBot, a new 2-in-1 robot vacuum, boasts a deep cleaning, hands-free mopping experience, coupled with 5,500pa of suction power. It also uses some AI navigation features to maneuver throughout your house.
Initially, I was less than enthusiastic about trying out yet another robot mop vacuum (I’d tested a similar one recently), but once I watched the Eufy X9 Pro work its way across my home floors, my mind was changed. This is the perfect robot vacuum and mop for homes with hard floors, even if there are carpets and rugs in between. The CleanerBot truly lives up to the name, outperforming my old Roborock and the Yeedi MopStation Pro in vacuum and mop functions.
In my limited experience (as I’ve only tested this model for about a week), the primary silicone brush makes it less likely for the X9 Pro to get tangled, as it’s easier to scoop debris up than sweep it.
The mopping function on the Eufy X9 Pro CleanerBot is one of the two features that impressed me the most. The X9 Pro has two rotating mop pads — which I love in a robot vac/mop combo — which put 2.2 lbs of downward pressure to break down tough stains, a particularly useful feat for my home of children and pets.
The other outstanding feature, and probably my favorite, is the use of AI for navigation, obstacle avoidance, and mapping. The CleanerBot has time-of-flight sensors and an AI camera system, called AI See, that helps detect and avoid objects so the vacuum doesn’t suck up your kids’ socks or stuffed animals.
It also uses iPath Laser Navigation to create maps of your home, which separates the rooms by color in the Eufy Clean app and even shows you the obstacles that the robot has found in each room. When you review the map after cleaning, you’ll find things like power cords, shoes, and trash cans marked on the map. Eufy isn’t the first to use this technology for obstacle avoidance and mapping, but it is a great feature.
