Evovac Deebot X1 Omni has been designed to make cleaning floors easier, but just be prepared for how much room it could take up.
Let’s be honest, who really enjoys cleaning floors? It might deliver great satisfaction when you’re done, but after all it is still a chore, and it can take up quite a lot of time if you’re vacuuming and mopping — time that could be better spent not cleaning. Evovac’s solution for those adverse to boring chores is the Deebot X1 Omni, a robotic vacuuming and mopping system that comes accompanied with an all-in-one Omni station that can self-clean and dry, auto-empty any dust, and automatically refill with water after each cleaning round. One of the first noticeable features of the Deebot X1 Omni is the size and weight of the Omni station. Even though Danish company Jacob Jensen Design has attempted to create something sleek and minimalistic in appearance — so that it looks more like «art» and less like a cleaning system — figuring out where to place it in the home can get a bit tricky. In the manual, it advises the Omni station should be placed by a power point, it also requires clearance space of 0.5 metres on either side and 1.5 metres at the front, so there is enough space for the X1 Omni to enter and exit the self-cleaning station. This might not, however, be a problem for users who live in luxurious four-storey mini mansions, much like the home where Evovac recently provided an initial demonstration of the X1 Omni for media, but if you live in a smaller space — like my home, which is a shoebox by comparison — you might need to think carefully. I’ll admit I avoided unboxing it for a week mainly because it was dauntingly large and when I eventually got to it, the X1 Omni saved me from needing to hit the gym for a deadlifting session. Looking under the hood of the all-in-one station, the size makes sense as it reveals two four-litre water tanks — one for clean water and the other used to automatically store all the dirty water produced from cleaning the mopping maps — plus storage for cleaning brushes and extra mopping pads.
