Skilled’s Score
Professionals
- Reasonably priced different to costlier choices from the likes of Narwal and Roborock
- Scrubs stains and sticky gunk from hard-surface flooring
- Self-cleans its mop pad and auto-empties its dustbin
Cons
- Hair tends to get tangled round its curler brush
- Typically has hassle avoiding obstacles
Our Verdict
The Yeedi Dice delivers a largely hands-free floor-cleaning expertise with out the accompanying sticker shock you’ll encounter with many competing manufacturers.
Value When Reviewed
$699.99
Finest Costs Right now: Yeedi Dice
Simply as Yeedi provided an reasonably priced different to premium-priced self-emptying vacuums with its earlier Vac Station (accessible for round $500/ €300), it’s now doing the identical for hybrid bots with self-cleaning mops. With a $700/€699.99 record value, the Yeedi Dice is the corporate’s budget-friendly tackle comparable merchandise by Ecovacs and Roborock. Like these merchandise, the Dice can vacuum and mop flooring after which clear itself with minimal consumer intervention.
It’s not but accessible from Amazon within the UK, however you should buy it from Amazon in Germany and have it shipped over.
There are some variations between the Dice and rivals. Yeedi’s base station is noticeably squatter and it additionally bucks design traits by together with solely a dirty-water tank within the base station together with its auto-empty mud bag. Clear water is saved in a separate water tank on the robotic itself.
As a robotic mop, the Yeedi Dice loosened and eliminated stains, sticky gunk, and embedded grime that different hybrid cleaners wrestle with.
Dubbed the UFO water tank due to its saucer form, it has a 1L capability and slots into the highest of the Dice’s robotic. A rubber deal with is affixed to the highest of the tank to each assist take away it for filling and to make it simpler to tote the robotic round your private home, whether or not to scrub a unique ground or an remoted spill.
Its quirky design apart, the Yeedi Dice turned out to be simply as efficient a cleaner, if not fairly as polished, as its much-higher-priced counterparts.
The Yeedi Dice may be toted round your private home by its deal with.
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Yeedi Dice mopping efficiency
To arrange for a mopping run, press the lock button on the UFO water tank and push again. This pushes the deal with upward so you may seize it and take away the tank. Fill the tank with recent water, cap the valve, and reinstall the tank on high of the robotic. You’ll additionally want to connect the microfiber material to the mopping attachment on the underside of the robotic.
This robotic presents solely two cleansing modes: vacuum solely and vacuum after which mop in tandem. Select the latter after which choose suction and water ranges; there are three of every. From there you simply begin auto-cleaning to scrub all the mapped area, or you may carry the robotic to a particular space and choose spot cleansing.
The Dice doesn’t merely drag a dampened material throughout the ground as many hybrid robotic cleaners do. It makes use of ultrasonic vibration to clean the ground 2,500 instances per minute for intense deep cleansing with out leaving water streaks behind. Its mop holder additionally employs a floating design that permits it to routinely calibrate and regulate its angle to match the ground floor. In my testing, this enabled it to loosen and take away stains, sticky gunk, and embedded grime that different hybrid cleaners wrestle with.
The Yeedi Dice’s clean-water tank attatches to the highest of the robotic.
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When a mopping job is full, the robotic returns to its base station the place the electrical scrubber cleans the pad utilizing a back-and-forth movement utilizing 10 N (Newtons) of drive. On the similar time, the dustbin’s contents are routinely emptied.
Yeedi Dice vacuuming efficiency
The Dice is way more standard as a vacuum. It makes use of a pair of spinning facet brushes and a rubber-and-bristles curler brush to comb and suck particles into its dustbin. Most of the robotic vacuums I’ve examined not too long ago have moved to an all-rubber curler—in some instances, a pair of them—as they mitigate hair tangles and ensure the hair makes it to the dustbin.
The Dice’s dealing with of the canine and cat hair on my flooring underscores the knowledge of that method; this and different fibrous particles nearly at all times ended up wrapped across the Yeedi Dice’s curler and threaded into its bristles, requiring a whole lot of hands-on intervention to clear. The robotic had no downside eradicating dust, mud, and meals crumbs from my dwelling’s laborious ground surfaces and some space rugs, although, and it usually left my flooring, from open areas to edges, fully clear.
Yeedi claims a suction energy of 5100pA and it may be adjusted between three totally different ranges: Quiet, Regular, and Max. Suction is routinely boosted when the robotic detects carpet. The robotic’s 360ml onboard dustbin routinely empties right into a 2.1L dustbin every time it returns to the bottom station.
Yeedi Dice navigation
The Yeedi Dice makes use of SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) laser-aided navigation for mapping and impediment avoidance. This incorporates a top-mounted digicam that allows the robotic to create and regularly replace a map of its setting and its place inside it, and it has a front-mounted infrared sensor to detect obstacles.
The Yeedi app permits straightforward management and delivers loads of configuration and customization choices.
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The Dice created an correct, if primary, map of my dwelling’s downstairs stage throughout its first cleansing run. It rapidly acknowledged numerous obstacles in my lounge and kitchen, but it surely didn’t at all times do an excellent job of avoiding these obstacles. The robotic ran into desk and chair legs a number of instances and as soon as handed so near a shoe that it ensnared its laces in certainly one of its edge brushes. It appeared as if as soon as recognizing these objects, it merely didn’t give them a large sufficient berth.
Total although, the robotic moved in environment friendly straight strains and by no means bought right into a jam that stopped its progress or required me to rescue it. It usually was capable of clear all of the accessible areas of my downstairs stage in lower than 20 minutes.
Yeedi app expertise
The Yeedi companion app has a easy, clear design. Your ground plan’s map is entrance and middle, with cleansing stats displayed throughout the highest and the robotic’s and base station’s controls alongside the underside.
The app makes it straightforward to customise your ground cleansing. Maps may be edited so as to add room divisions and mergers, room names, and no-clean and no-mop zones. You’ll be able to tailor cleansing settings for every room, set cleansing sequences, and create cleansing schedules. It’s additionally straightforward to configure options reminiscent of carpet detection and auto-boost suction.
Verdict
If you wish to expertise the luxurious of (largely) hands-free ground cleansing with out paying a luxurious value, the Yeedi dice is nicely price contemplating. Though all the pieces right here is just a bit much less refined than with the higher-priced competing merchandise, the consequence—cleaner flooring with much less labor—will certainly depart you glad.
Yeedi Dice specs
- Cleansing modes: vacuum and mop
- Charging dock kind: auto-clean station
- Navigation: SLAM laser-aided navigation
- Suction: 5,100Pa
- Dustbin capability: 360ml onboard, 2.1L in base station
- Mopping kind: microfiber material with ultrasonic vibration
- Water tank capability: Recent-water tank: 1L, dirty-water tank: 1.2L
- Carpet detection: Sure
- App management: Android and iOS
- Voice management: Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri
