Ecovacs Deebot Ozmo 930 robot vacuum cleaner test: everything is good except the price

Product Conclusion:

With the release of the Dee­bot Ozmo 930, Eco­v­acs is leav­ing behind the image of a man­u­fac­tur­er of cheap house­hold appli­ances. Ozmo has state-of-the-art robot vac­u­um tech­nol­o­gy, from laser nav­i­ga­tion and an advanced app to an inte­grat­ed mop­ping func­tion. In any test cat­e­go­ry, this device earned a “good” rat­ing, but in such an impor­tant dis­ci­pline as “Nav­i­ga­tion”, it still allowed itself some short­com­ings. But the price tag of approx­i­mate­ly 58,000 rubles (as of Jan­u­ary 2019), in our opin­ion, Ozmo received quite rea­son­ably. How­ev­er, there are com­pet­i­tive mod­els that gen­er­al­ly per­form bet­ter, but are some­what cheap­er.

Eco­v­acs Dee­bot Ozmo 930: With a height of 10.5 cm, he now and then clings to some fur­ni­ture.

Ecovacs Deebot Ozmo 930: variability

More than any oth­er robot vac­u­um clean­er test­ed in the CHIP lab, the Dee­bot Ozmo 930 excels in its ver­sa­til­i­ty. With its tur­bo brush, it can work on both hard floors and car­pets. At the same time, you can replace the tur­bo brush with a direct suc­tion mod­ule, which in prin­ci­ple does not play any role for hard coat­ings, but you can no longer wor­ry about the hair that is wound around the roller. In addi­tion, there is a mod­ule for wet clean­ing at the stern.

Dur­ing the pas­sage, the robot not only sucks in dirt, but also wipes the floors, cir­cling all car­pets in this mode so as not to wet them. But at present, the func­tion of wash­ing floors in robot­ic vac­u­um clean­ers is con­sid­ered by us rather as a nice fea­ture, since in terms of per­for­mance such mod­els do not come close to robots spe­cial­iz­ing in clean­ing floors. In addi­tion, a wet-dirty microfiber cloth increas­es the wor­ries about clean­ing the robot itself.

With the abil­i­ty to climb thresh­olds up to 17mm high, Ozmo can clean almost an entire floor. Using the app’s smart map­ping fea­ture, you can iden­ti­fy the areas you want to clean by block­ing access to some of them with lines. So, for exam­ple, an emp­ty chil­dren’s room can be left at the mer­cy of a clas­sic vac­u­um clean­er, or you can give the task to the robot to wipe the floors only in the kitchen. There is also a voice con­trol func­tion and some pro­gram­ming options.

Flying over the floor

Like many oth­er mid-range robot vac­u­um clean­ers, Eco­v­acs beim Ozmo 930 uses laser nav­i­ga­tion. This type of nav­i­ga­tion has proven to work well and typ­i­cal­ly allows close to 100% cov­er­age of a liv­ing space, but with reflec­tive sur­faces such as mir­rors or stain­less steel refrig­er­a­tors, it can be a bit of a prob­lem.

At the same time, Ozmo goes through the rooms very quick­ly: with our test room dur­ing nav­i­ga­tion tests, he fin­ished in 15 min­utes. But although this is a new record, the robot keeps too much dis­tance from the walls and for­got to remove one spot. There was absolute­ly no rea­son for this, since with a bat­tery life of 110 min­utes and auto­mat­ic recharg­ing, the robot could afford to clean more thor­ough­ly. After all, even the high­est suc­tion pow­er will not pro­vide a qual­i­ty result if the robot does not vac­u­um the entire sur­face of the room.

Dur­ing our “obsta­cle park­our” Ozmo expe­ri­enced seri­ous prob­lems. He not only stops, like many of his col­leagues, at obsta­cles in the form of car­pets, but also strug­gles with loose cables, scat­tered socks and Lego bricks, not always cop­ing with such chal­lenges with con­fi­dence.

With a tur­bo brush and a damp cloth, the robot not only sucks up dust, but also wipes the floors at the same time

High suction power

Among robot vac­u­um clean­ers cost­ing over 500 euros, Ozmo makes a good impres­sion: when it comes to suc­tion pow­er, only the Dyson 360 Eye, which costs 67,000 rubles, has some advan­tage over it. In our test room, the robot picked up a good 54 per­cent of the scat­tered sand.

How­ev­er, dur­ing the test for the abil­i­ty to col­lect threads, he lost some rat­ing points, col­lect­ing only nine out of ten long fibers from the car­pet. Besides, who needs a more thor­ough clean­ing with­out gaps in nav­i­ga­tion, he can always make Ozmo walk around the room twice. And some of the more afford­able robot vac­u­ums are sur­pris­ing­ly pow­er­ful.

Alternative options:

For less money: Neato Robotics Botvac D3 Connected

Any­one look­ing to get a good mul­ti-room robot­ic vac­u­um clean­er for as lit­tle mon­ey as pos­si­ble should opt for the Neato Robot­ics Bot­vac D3 Con­nect­ed.

Thanks to its bet­ter nav­i­ga­tion, this mod­el is one place above the Ozmo 930 and costs 28,000 rubles.

Inexpensive wagon: Xiaomi RoboRock Sweep One S50

Xiao­mi S50 MiJia Roborock Sweep One S50 is also capa­ble of wet clean­ing, but it also has excel­lent nav­i­ga­tion abil­i­ties.

In addi­tion, the robot costs only 25,000 rubles.

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