What testers say about the eufy Omni E28
The Eufy Omni E28 combines three appliances: a robot vacuum, a roller-mop robot and a detachable handheld cleaner for stains in carpet and upholstery, with a station that empties the bin into a bag, washes and dries the roller, drains the dirty water and refills the clean-water tank. Vacuum Wars bought one and tested it in its own studio.
Vacuuming was strong on every front: all surface debris, from fine dust to large crumbs, came off hard floors and carpet, the extending side brush swept edges and corners clean and in the carpet deep-clean test it removed 85 percent of the embedded dirt, a top-8 score among more than two hundred robots tested against a 75 percent average. The camera-based obstacle recognition avoided 23 of 24 objects, one of the best results to date, and the roller mop scored 127 on dried stains against an average of 93. Unlike spinning pads the roller picks up wet messes and channels them into an onboard dirty-water tank; on carpet it lifts a centimetre. The top-mounted lidar covered the floor efficiently, at 0.9 square metres per minute against 0.7 square metres on average.
The criticism: at 1.3 grams the roller left slightly more water behind than average, which causes occasional streaks on glossy floors, and the station washes the roller with cold water. At eleven centimetres the robot is on the tall side and thresholds stop at two centimetres. Anyone who wants a small spot cleaner for the sofa and carpet alongside the robot, housed in one station, gets a unique package in the E28; anyone who only needs the robot should look at the cheaper E25 built on the same base.
