The AI piloting the X11 sometimes confirmed some unusual habits. A few instances, the robotic cleaned my entire place, then went again to 1 random spot earlier than turning round, heading again to its base, and calling the job full. Keep in mind, it didn’t truly vacuum that further spot. The robotic appeared to only want a bit of further train.
The X11 additionally generally stopped for some time to cost, then cleaned yet one more small space earlier than the job was full. It clearly had sufficient battery to only end the job within the first place.
For measured testing, I shut the robotic in two rooms of my condominium, one with carpet and the opposite with hardwood. I then sprinkle a certain quantity of rice (representing on a regular basis particles) after which sand (representing cussed particles) on the ground, and weigh the dustbin earlier than and after every cleansing run to see how a lot the robotic picked up.
After shifting the unit for these checks, the X11 was unable to search out its base station in these new rooms, regardless of what number of instances I picked it up and pointed it in the suitable route. It saved attempting to flee again to the kitchen, the place I initially arrange the bottom. I ended up needing to make new maps for every particular person room, and the robotic even as soon as switched again to the previous map in the midst of a run and tried to flee to the kitchen once more. Given my uncommon testing process, I don’t suppose this final situation will come up fairly often in on a regular basis circumstances, however it’s telling of the robotic’s generally wonky AI.
That very same AI additionally brought on it to underperform when selecting up sand on carpet, a suction energy stress take a look at. The robotic ran over a wire at one level within the testing course of, a mistake on my half, however once I reran the take a look at, it saved growing after which decreasing its suction energy as if it was hesitant to go all out.
I ran the take a look at a couple of instances to see if it could make an adjustment. It will definitely smoothed out the suction, however the AI by no means detected the additional filth and turned up the ability accordingly. Consequently, the X11 did worse on my suction stress take a look at than each of its predecessors. It picked up simply 23.35% of sand on carpet in contrast with 37.7% for the X8 and 41.68% for the X9.
The X11 is likely one of the uncommon vacuums to attain an ideal 100% when selecting up rice on carpet, however the X8 and X9 achieved higher cumulative cleansing scores throughout each surfaces. The X11 fared properly on exhausting flooring, selecting up 91.35% of rice and 66.25% of sand. It didn’t appear to fling any particles on exhausting flooring, a standard habits in different high-end robotic vacuums.
The X11’s cleansing tempo is much like its predecessors. It completed all carpet checks in a median of 11 minutes and 27 seconds and hardwood checks in 14 minutes and 29 seconds. I didn’t discover any missed spots both, so it’s a radical and environment friendly navigator, even when the AI can generally confuse it.
Throughout my mopping stress take a look at, wherein I unfold a quarter-ounce of raspberry jelly on my kitchen ground, the X11 redeemed itself with a superb consequence. It cleaned up your complete stain, leaving solely a tiny smudge and no seeds, residue, or stickiness unfold to different elements of the ground. The bottom station additionally completely cleaned the mop after the run, leaving no seen remnants of the troublesome take a look at.
Each the X8 and the X9 fared properly on this take a look at, too, however the latter left two stray seeds, a noticeable splotch, and a contact of sticky residue within the surrounding areas. The X8 missed three seeds, however left no residue. The X9 washed away all proof of the take a look at when again at its base, just like the X11, whereas the X8 nonetheless had a couple of seeds left alongside the spindle.
