Eufy’s robot vacuums are small, affordable, and good-looking, but they’re a pain to navigate with their bounce. Eufy’s flagship ROBOVACS are among the most popular robot vacuums on the market. They’re small, good-looking, easy to use, and reasonably priced. I reviewed the 11+ in 2017, and its strengths almost outweighed its weaknesses… well, it didn’t clean very well.
This year, Eufy’s new 11S Max offers an upgrade to the same small, slim, and good-looking robot vacuum. Now, Eufy claims it has a maximum suction power of 2 kilopascals. (For comparison, the Coral vacuum has a suction power of 2.7 kilopascals; a typical handheld vacuum has a suction power of about 1.7 kilopascals.) When the vacuum’s brushes start to spin slowly on a high-pile carpet, they trigger the vacuum’s fan motor to increase suction. For such a small and light vacuum, it was very effective at agitating and cleaning my dog-hair-filled carpet.
My main gripe with the 11S Max is philosophical: It uses outdated navigation technology. Instead of mapping software, the 11S Max uses what’s called bounce navigation, which moves the robot randomly around your home until the battery runs out.
A few years ago, bounce technology was standard on cheap robot vacuums. Today, more affordable vacuums come with mapping software, which is a more efficient, thorough, and energy-efficient way to clean your house.
If your budget doesn’t exceed $200, the 11S Max is probably one of the best affordable robot vacuums you can buy. But if your budget is a little higher, you might want to research whether you can get a smart vacuum instead.
Desire to LiveThe 11S Max looks almost identical to the 11+. At 2.85 inches tall, it’s slim enough to fit under my couch, and there are no menacing red laser eyes or turrets sticking out of the glass top. To set it up, I plugged in the stand and placed the battery in the remote. The robot vacuum ran for an impressive two hours and lasted a little over four hours on a charge.
The dustbin capacity upgrade to 0.6 liters is respectable, and I filled it up with dog hair every time I used it. There’s no sensor to alert you when the dustbin is full, but Eufy says most people will probably only have to run the device two or three times to fill it up.
For a vacuum with such powerful suction, it’s remarkably quiet. I measured it at 60 decibels on hardwood and 60 to 65 decibels on carpet, depending on whether BoostIQ was enabled. For reference, 60 decibels is loud enough for me to watch the season finale of Fleabag while it cleans.
Infrared and drop sensors help the 11S Max navigate better than its predecessor. It deftly avoided steps in my kitchen and steered clear of robot traps like a kid’s scooter stacked in a corner.
In fact, the only household items that gave it serious trouble were dangling shoelaces from a shoe rack and a small decorative table with a domed base. The 11S Max spent so much time and energy hitting the angled sides of the table base that I ended up moving it to the garage while it vacuumed. My daughter’s long hair and I didn’t get tangled up with the carpet brush.
The 11S Max does have an edge cleaning feature, which combines random and edge cleaning paths if you set the vacuum to auto-clean. I did see it along some edges, like under my kitchen cabinets and along the wall. When the cabinet ended, however, it resumed bouncing merrily. I often found leftover crumbs in high-traffic areas of my home, like next to the shoe rack and under my kid’s chair at the kitchen table.
Against the AppFor some people, not having to download yet another app and fiddle with connecting a robot vacuum to your home network and your phone is a good thing. I certainly felt the same way when it came to Eufy’s Wi-Fi-free baby monitor. Sometimes it feels like a revelation to just plug in the device and use it.
There’s a button on the top of the 11S Max to power it on, but it also comes with a remote control that requires two AAA batteries. The remote features manual directional controls, as well as other features like boosting suction, returning it to the dock, and spot cleaning. You can also schedule cleanings with the remote, but only daily, not weekly or every other day like you can with Eufy’s Wi-Fi vacuums. Overall, the 11S Max is simple and easy to use. But I just couldn’t get over how outdated the bounce-clean feature was. I ran the 11S Max for a full two hours. When the Eufy RoboVac 11S Max vacuum’s battery finally started to die, it was in my bedroom.
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