The sheer number of robot vacuums now available on the market is both good and bad news if you’re shopping for one: Good because you’ve got a lot of models to pick from, but bad because you can spend a lot of time going around in circles trying to figure out which option might be best for you.
If you’re aiming to get the most bang for your buck—and we’re assuming most people are—then the Eureka E20 Plus robovac deserves a place on your shopping shortlist. Right now it’s at its lowest price so far this year on Amazon: It’s yours for $370.98, and you can easily spend twice or three times as much as that on the more expensive models that the Eureka E20 Plus is going up against.
Even at that lower price point though, you don’t have to make too many compromises in terms of performance and features. In fact the Eureka E20 Plus has so much going for it that it really does pose the question of why you would spend any more than this. It’s a capable and reliable all-rounder.
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Building on the Eureka E10s
The Eureka E10s has already taken on cleaning duties for thousands of Amazon shoppers, combining versatile vacuum and mopping abilities with an appealing price point, and the Eureka E20 Plus goes above and beyond: you get 8,000Pa of suction power rather than 4,000Pa, so the grime has even less of a chance of sticking around.
With that level of suction, on both carpets and hard floors, you’re going to get a deep clean experience that’ll leave your home looking spick and span. The robovac makes a high standard of cleaning look effortless, and means you can get on with more important or enjoyable activities while your floors get cleaned.
As well as double the suction compared to the Eureka E10s, you also get half the tangles—or thereabouts. The Eureka E20 Plus introduces a new rubber roller brush, designed to reduce hair tangles through a V-shape that makes it much less likely that hair will clog up its workings.
If you’ve got pets at home, it’s ideal: It solves the problem of having to manual clean up before the robovac gets to work on its own routine, because you know pet hairs aren’t going to be a problem. For 10 centimeter-long hair, the E20 Plus boosts the anti-wrap rate to 94 percent, up from 80 percent on the E10s model.
Besides those improvements, the Eureka E20 Plus also keeps everything that’s good about the Eureka E10s and that has made it so popular: It’s a bagless, two-liter design with a maximum of 180 minutes of running time between charges, which should be enough to cover all but the biggest of homes in one pass.
There’s also the same auto-emptying base station here that means maintenance isn’t something you need to worry about or spend a long time handling (it’s got an impressive 45-day capacity). Thanks to the one-touch emptying mechanism that’s in place, your Eureka E20 Plus is quickly ready to go again and get back to work, vacuuming and mopping with aplomb.
It’s all bagless, so you don’t need to worry about buying dust bags regularly or having them burst on you when too much dirt and dust has accumulated. In addition, the multi-cyclonic separation feature keeps suction strong and ensures your filters last, preventing clogging that can sometimes occur.
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A smart approach to navigation
The competence of any robot vacuum is heavily reliant on how well it navigates around your rooms. There’s a big difference between a model that glides around obstacles and through doorways without a hitch, and one that wastes half its battery life going down dead ends and covering ground it’s already been over.
You’re not going to find navigation a problem with the Eureka E20 Plus, as it comes fitted with a DuoDetect AI™ 3D Obstacle Avoidance system that eliminates stuck spots—that’s the same navigation system as you get with the more expensive flagship Eureka J20 model, by the way, which backs up the idea of this robovac model offering high-level features for those on a mid-level budget.
Getting the robovac to calculate the best routes through your home is a largely automated process, thanks to the advanced LiDAR sensor system that’s in place here, and you can also specify no-go zones for the device too: Regions in your home where you don’t want the robot vacuum bumping into people, pets, or valuable family heirlooms.
Because the robot vacuum can guide itself via lasers, it’s perfectly happy operating during the evening and night as well as the day. You can leave it running while you’re asleep upstairs, and come down the next morning to floors and carpets that look good as new.
There are still more smart features to talk about. The Eureka E20 Plus is fitted with an auto-lifting mop mechanism, which means it can be raised by 10 millimeters whenever carpets are detected. Your carpets won’t get wet, and your robovac won’t be distracted as it switches to and from hard floor surfaces.
The Eureka E20 Plus is powerful but affordable, smart but simple to use, and packed with features that promise a superb level of cleaning and as little in the way of maintenance and upkeep as possible. Add in an 18 percent Amazon reduction on the original list price of $449.99, and it’s a great time to pick one up too.
If you don’t think that particular robovac is perfect for you, there are plenty of other Eureka models available for your consideration. They include the newly launched Eureka Reactisense, (more portable and affordable), the Eureka J15 Pro Ultra (a more expensive model, but boasting 16,200Pa of suction), and the Eureka Rapidwash 630 (particularly great for pet hair and sticky messes).
That gives you plenty of choice from the Eureka range when it comes to your next cleaning gadget, and there should be something there to suit most buyers. For an all-rounder that gives you a huge amount of value for money and outstanding cleaning performance, however, the Eureka E20 Plus is hard to beat.
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