Yeedi vac Station Robot Vacuum and Mop - Self Emptying 3-in-1 Cleaner,200-Min Runtime,3000Pa Suction, Smart Mapping, Carpet Detection, Alexa Compatible, Wi-Fi Connected

The media could not be loaded. This product came with a broken bin latch but I reached out to the manufacturer and they sent me a new latch very quickly and at no charge. In the meantime, I taped down the lid and put the vacuum to the test. I let it underneath my bed where I hadn't thoroughly cleaned since I moved in a few years ago. I didn't catch that this vacuum is only compatible with a 2.4GHz wifi router and didn't honestly know that mine is currently 5GHz so I haven't been able to put scheduling or the room mapping to the test.All of that said, the vacuum cleans my main level in around 1 hour. The suction increases as it goes over my woven hemp rug and is able to grab threads laying on top of it. It found three pennies somewhere and left them randomly in the middle of my floor. The mop function is worth going this route! It is as good as if I use a Norwex mop. Unfortunately, it did try to mop my rug, just damp on top, and without the mapping feature, it got itself trapped in a corner for a while. It would sometimes spend extra time in a few spots but it never put down too much water and would dry about 6 passes later.If you are worried about uneven floors, don't. I have a tiled bathroom and cork kitchen that are at least a half-inch higher than the other wood floors and this vacuum made it up and down with only a little more noise as it geared up for it. Additionally, it was able to cross where my rug is folded over on the ends and even handled the corners most of the time.The manufacturer responded to me within hours about the latch. I hate to send so many things back over a small part and they sent a new one within a few days (some receiving glitches but overall timely), and it was a simple swap to fix the robot.Back to mopping. LOVE! The water bin can be completely removed and it had more than enough water to mop my 800 sqft home. I can walk around the floor without picking up grit. I can't seem to disconnect the mopping pad tray from the water tank but I'm just running it without the water tank right now.A couple of things to note. It did get itself irrecoverably tangled in a small wire under a cabinet (the robot fit under spaces I wasn't prepared for it to fit, which is a great bonus). It tangles in small lighting cables so those really need to be pinned up. I also pulled all my curtains up before running as I have slightly pooling curtains. It does hit light objects repeatedly, so I have a collapsable plant stand that I wouldn't trust it with, but it's done well with plants in baskets and not pushing them around much. Verticle blinds left extended but open were left in a bit of a mess but it handles them grouped to one side well.As I mentioned before, it somehow found 3 pennies in the first pass and it picked them up and carried them to the middle of the room before dropping them, so there's not enough suction for that but it clears away hair well (initial vacuuming required hair removal after but not the next two times). It does appear to be vacuuming and mopping and it clearly recognizes that the mop pad is in and demands having it removed before it will charge. Even without being connected through the app (can't be automated without the app) it will time the cleaning and send messages if the vacuum is stuck or needs the water basin removed and cleaned.I think this vacuum will work very well for me. It was also very easy to set up...apart from the app issue which I hope I can easily resolve in the coming weeks. I tried to catch a video of the vacuum over the rug as it is louder on higher pile surfaces but most of my floors are flat. Please enjoy the video of it mopping. It had confusion in this corner for some reason that time, it took 20 minutes longer to mop and seemed to be confused in corners it couldn't fully access. This shows a bit of the shine the mopping leaves behind though. I also showed a photo of the broken bin latch which I mentioned above. I think the video's sound is pretty accurate to the real sound of the vacuum on flat surfaces. It sounds much louder on the rug but not as loud as an upright typically is.

After my basic, non-smart robo vacuum died, I wanted to spend a little more and get some better features, like self-emptying and mapping. I went to external review websites, read reviews, debated options, etc. The yeedi seemed like the perfect fit, but it has been disappointing. This is a long review but I want to be thorough and informative, so bear with me.Does it vacuum? Yes, better than not vacuuming, but not great. It misses about 20% of the dog hair and debris (see photo), and more often than not, fails to go self-empty when it's full mid-cycle, resulting in clumps of dog hair left in its path. It also gets outsmarted by a single chair leg and has more than once attempted to vacuum it's own charging station.Does it self empty? Sometimes, if it finds it way back to the station. More likely, it will get stuck somewhere and die, so you have to play Find the Dead Vacuum and carry it back to the charger, and either empty it yourself or wait for it to charge enough to manually run the self-empty feature.And the mapping feature? Pfft. I don't have an open concept floorplan but the vacuum disagrees. Some of our doorways between the rooms are larger than a standard 36" so the vacuum thinks it's all one room. It's only been able to differentiate one bedroom and 2 bathrooms in a 3bd/3bath house so far. The entire rest is one big room on the map. So much for setting it to mop only in my kitchen and not on the wood elsewhere. Also, "fully customizable" map just means that you can set boundaries in perfect rectangles anywhere, and name it, nothing else.The noise while vacuuming is relatively quiet and not a problem. The noise while self-emptying is quite loud, probably on par with an old school grandma vacuum cleaner. It's not a big deal because as stated, it rarely self-empties. It also has an unnecessary narrator that is louder than I'd like, even when set at the lowest volume. She announces things like "Robot Off the Floor" when you have to rescue the vacuum from precarious situations like bumping into a chair leg.The icing on the cake is watching this thing attempt to re-dock itself on the charger. It will back up, try, back up, reposition, try again, back up, turn around, try again, back up, do the hokey pokey, etc. Repeat until you get absolutely infuriated and pick the thing up to return it to the charger while it squawks at you "Robot Off the Floor" to show its gratitude.All in all, it's not worth the money and frustration for the extra features. It vacuums so I don't have to, and that's about it. I'll probably go back to Eufy (the brand of my original robovac) or try Shark next time, but there's no way I'd buy another Yeedi.UPDATE May 2022 - I edited my rating from 2 stars down to 1. I was trying to be positive with the original 2 stars, but my frustration with this vacuum has won. I have boundaries setup so I don't have to worry about the state of my children's room when they leave for school in the morning because the vacuum is set to run while we're gone. It has started randomly ignoring the boundaries and I find it at the end of the day, wound up in a charger cord or stuck in a pile of dirty laundry. If the vacuum dies, the app doesn't work, so you can't find the device or see where it's been. Why can't I access the app at all if the vacuum is dead? Also, as some others have mentioned, when the vacuum actually does manage to find the charging base and attempts to self-empty, it can't handle the dog hair. It all clumps in the opening and stays there, so you have to manually empty anyway. I hate this thing but I hate vacuuming more, so I keep using it, muttering obscenities every time.UPDATE 2 April 2023 - I finally gave up and threw the whole vacuum away. About two months ago, we started finding the vacuum dead next to its charger a couple times a week. According to the app, it would immediately "get stuck" on nothing and run its battery in place until it died. After it started happening every single morning (it's scheduled to run weekdays while we're at work and school), I did an experiment. I made sure it was fully charged, and video-recorded what happened when it started to run. If anyone is interested in watching a two minute video of a robot vacuum turning in a circle, pausing, then turning in a circle some more, I'm happy to share.TLDR: The best thing I can say about this vacuum is how good it felt to throw it in the garbage.