ECOVACS ROBOTICS - DEEBOT T8 AIVI Vacuum & Mop Robot with Advanced Laser Mapping and AI Object Recognition & Avoidance - Black(Renewed)

Instructions are very sparse but when you figure it out it works very well. I have two cats and it picks up the cat hair and litter. I love it and run it every other day. It's a great tool to clean between my monthly cleaning service. Customer service is a big help when trying to figure out how to use it. One thing I don't like is it's always telling me to tidy up and remove obstacles. The only OBSTACLES are my furnishings!

Im embarrassed to say I have purchased 3 of these refurbished vacuums over the past year mostly due to the price. Every one of them has stopped being able to charge after a few months. They go to the charger, they say they are charging but they do not charge. Buyer beware!!

The water tank is full of water, but I can't see the water outlet. The water level doesn't go down after each sweep. I don't know what's going on.

I bought a Deebot T8 Ozmo about 4 years ago. It was a nightmare to get mapped, and I finally settled for an incomplete map after trying a number of times. I had to set several no-go zones because it frequently got hung up in the same places. The side brush motors were going, I think, based on the noise the thing started to make. I thought about trying to replace them since I had the self-emptying station and replacement brushes and filters. After doing some research, it appeared that this newer model would work with the self-emptying station. It does although I had to take the dust bin out of the old one and put it in the new one. Works like a charm. And it took one pass to get a new map! The new model has never gotten stuck so far. I am very happy. Giving it only 4 stars because none of these vacs does the greatest job getting dirt out of carpets, and even though I've never tried the mopping function I have real doubts it would be worth the trouble.

The robot is made very premium. It vacuums well and fast. Battery life is long so it can do my house in one go as opposed to my Roomba i3 which needs to charge for an hour and half in the middle of the job to finish. On the other hand, if you want a vacuum to use with Alexa or Google to clean a room or have it clean a specific area in your house using the map, forget it. The making of the initial map is fast and easy, but the second time the vacuum runs it will distort the map sideways or off to the side by 3 ft. You can see in the screenshot that the second time the vacuum ran it overlaid the same map over the original map but off by 30° for no apparent reason. This requires the map to be reset over and over and over. That being said, for the sale price of $150, its still worth it for the machine itself.

Update: I think I found a way to make the Deebot create better maps. Tried it twice and both times it worked! The bot doesn't understand closed doors and treats them as walls initially, but as soon as you open the door it will find its way in and marks that opening as door, but will not add any space outside that door to the room it's mapping.First turn off AIVI Smart Recognition until mapping is complete. That slows down the process and every couch leg or bed post will throw the bot into a spin.So, despite what Ecovacs app said I closed my bedroom door and let the bot go through the side door to the walk-in closet and go out through the bathroom door, mapped the apartment and went back through the same bathroom door for a charge. It swept the apartment and created the map in one run and I didn't even have to edit the map, every boundary was correct. Give it a try...Your mileage may vary depending on how big your place is, but for multiple bedrooms I suggest you close all doors except for the room where the bot is. Let it map the common areas and create the initial map. Once that's done, open all closed doors and run the bot again. It will go clean all those rooms and maps them as separate spaces and doors are no longer walls to the bot.I also gave back the bot one star since the replacement refurb Deebot I've got met the expectation of refurbished product.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Again I had to drop two stars just for the archaic and mediocre app and anther just because the refurbished unit I've got has used parts. Side brushes are bent, filter is dirty and the main brush has hair in it. It has to go back.And it's beyond me why a company that creates such good hardware is unable to create a decent app for it. Two years in and it's still impossible to divide rooms correctly.

Do NOT buy this product! I’ve had several and after a few months they don’t work. They reset the maps on their own and you have to delete and create a new one. Too expensive to have to deal with that!

This little guy does a great job of keeping my hardwood floors clean. Not only does it handle the pet hair, dirt, and dry runs, but it also has a mopping function/attachment that allows for damp/wet cleaning as well. It's smart enough to know when it is going over carpet (so that it won't mop) as well. The app allows for you to 'segment' the rooms into their own areas as well. This is helpful if you just want to spot-clean a room and not the entire floor. The battery has a long run time and the vacuum container bin is ample enough to hold a lot of dirt. The voice reports when a cleaning job is complete or if there are issues are great! The Amazon and Google integration are extremely helpful as well.