Overview of the yeedi 2 hybrid robot vacuum cleaner: camera, powerful motor and wet cleaning

We have already test­ed the yee­di K650 mod­el — although it could not build room maps, it was con­trolled from a smart­phone. Since the robot made a very pos­i­tive impres­sion, we decid­ed to take an old­er mod­el for test­ing — yee­di 2 hybrid.

Design and construction

The design of the 2 hybrid is quite tra­di­tion­al: a cen­tral tur­bo brush, two side “pan­i­cles”, a bumper with sen­sors. The robot can car­ry out both dry and wet clean­ing.

In the lat­ter case, you need to fix a nap­kin (reusable or dis­pos­able, both are includ­ed) in the back of the device. Water enters it auto­mat­i­cal­ly, and you can adjust the degree of mois­ture (make it less or more intense). I must say, even in the most inten­sive mode, there are no pud­dles on the hard floor.

The top pan­el con­tains the start but­ton and the VSLAM sys­tem cam­era, which allows the robot to build a map of the room.

If you lift the pan­el, you will find a pow­er but­ton and a dust con­tain­er under it. It is con­ve­nient to pull it out by the han­dle, then you need to press the latch and fold back the back wall.

Here I want to pay atten­tion to the details. Since we already have a lot of expe­ri­ence in test­ing robot­ic vac­u­um clean­ers, we notice even seem­ing­ly insignif­i­cant moments. For exam­ple, a fold­ing con­tain­er wall is con­ve­nient. If it is remov­able, you will have to put it some­where first, and then emp­ty the con­tain­er. In 2 hybrid you can do it with two hands.

Or, say, a fil­tra­tion sys­tem. Many vac­u­um clean­ers have a fine fil­ter, but here it is pro­tect­ed by a met­al mesh that col­lects large debris. On inex­pen­sive mod­els, there may not be such a “pre-fil­ter” — then you have to con­stant­ly shake out the fine fil­ter. In short, the design is thought out very well.

Despite the fact that yee­di is sold only on AliEx­press, the brand­ed appli­ca­tion is qual­i­ta­tive­ly Rus­si­fied, and the robot itself speaks Russ­ian with­out errors — you just need to switch it from Eng­lish. 2 hybrid is very easy to con­nect: just show the cam­era a QR code from the appli­ca­tion screen. Func­tions such as launch, sched­ule set­ting are avail­able imme­di­ate­ly.

Cleaned up and trained

At the first use, the robot, as usu­al, fol­lows the log­ic known to it alone. For exam­ple, he seems to have com­plete­ly cleaned the room, then returns to it again. Or when clean­ing the rug, it first leaves a small area on it, and after a while crawls and pro­tects it. In a word, do not pay atten­tion to it — in this way he not only cleans up, but also builds a map of the room. To cre­ate a more or less accu­rate, he needs to clean up sev­er­al times.

At the same time, with each update of the map, the clean­ing speed increas­es. In the two-room apart­ment where we con­duct­ed the test, the first “race” took 47 min­utes, the sec­ond — already 37. By the fourth time, the robot had 32 min­utes. The area served by the vac­u­um clean­er is 20–21 m² (do not con­fuse with the total).

After the map is built, the user has addi­tion­al options. For exam­ple, the appli­ca­tion auto­mat­i­cal­ly divides the map into rooms — you can send the robot to clean specif­i­cal­ly in the nurs­ery or liv­ing room. In addi­tion, of course, there are modes for clean­ing a small space and col­lect­ing garbage around the edges of the room.

If you have areas where the vac­u­um clean­er con­stant­ly gets tan­gled or stuck (such as wires under a table), it is bet­ter to put a bar­ri­er in this place. Then he won’t go there at all.

If he does get con­fused, he will let you know with a voice alert and a push in the app.

We were sat­is­fied with the qual­i­ty of clean­ing. The robot has three lev­els of suc­tion pow­er. On hard floors, it cleans with the stan­dard one, but if it dri­ves into a high-pile car­pet or gets into an area with heavy pol­lu­tion, it auto­mat­i­cal­ly turns on a high­er pow­er. As a result, even on car­pets, he man­ages to cope with pet hair as well as a con­ven­tion­al vac­u­um clean­er.

At the end of clean­ing, the vac­u­um clean­er crawls to the charg­ing sta­tion. He informs the own­er about all his actions (by voice and through the appli­ca­tion). How­ev­er, if you don’t like it, you can turn it off. The man­u­fac­tur­er claims that 2 hybrid can work up to 200 min­utes. end­less.

Our impressions of Yeedi 2 hybrid

The robot turned out to be very func­tion­al, and at the same time it is inex­pen­sive for a mod­el capa­ble of build­ing indoor maps: until April 3, it can be bought at a price of about 22,000 rubles, and with deliv­ery from the ware­house of the Russ­ian Fed­er­a­tion in three days. The design is well thought out, the soft­ware is quite ade­quate, there are many oppor­tu­ni­ties for clean­ing. The only neg­a­tive is that there are no spare side brush­es in the kit, but this is not such a big prob­lem.

By the way, if you are inter­est­ed in wet clean­ing, keep in mind that it can be dif­fer­ent for robots — we wrote about this in our oth­er arti­cle. We also have a robot vac­u­um guide to help you find the right mod­el for you.

In the lat­ter case, you need to fix a nap­kin (reusable or dis­pos­able, both are includ­ed) in the back of the device. Water enters it auto­mat­i­cal­ly, and you can adjust the degree of mois­ture (make it less or more intense). I must say, even in the most inten­sive mode, there are no pud­dles on the hard floor.

The top pan­el con­tains the start but­ton and the VSLAM sys­tem cam­era, which allows the robot to build a map of the room.

If you lift the pan­el, you will find a pow­er but­ton and a dust con­tain­er under it. It is con­ve­nient to pull it out by the han­dle, then you need to press the latch and fold back the back wall.

Here I want to pay atten­tion to the details. Since we already have a lot of expe­ri­ence in test­ing robot­ic vac­u­um clean­ers, we notice even seem­ing­ly insignif­i­cant moments. For exam­ple, a fold­ing con­tain­er wall is con­ve­nient. If it is remov­able, you will have to put it some­where first, and then emp­ty the con­tain­er. In 2 hybrid you can do it with two hands.

Or, say, a fil­tra­tion sys­tem. Many vac­u­um clean­ers have a fine fil­ter, but here it is pro­tect­ed by a met­al mesh that col­lects large debris. On inex­pen­sive mod­els, there may not be such a “pre-fil­ter” — then you have to con­stant­ly shake out the fine fil­ter. In short, the design is thought out very well.

Despite the fact that yee­di is sold only on AliEx­press, the brand­ed appli­ca­tion is qual­i­ta­tive­ly Rus­si­fied, and the robot itself speaks Russ­ian with­out errors — you just need to switch it from Eng­lish. 2 hybrid is very easy to con­nect: just show the cam­era a QR code from the appli­ca­tion screen. Func­tions such as launch, sched­ule set­ting are avail­able imme­di­ate­ly.

Cleaned up and trained

At the first use, the robot, as usu­al, fol­lows the log­ic known to it alone. For exam­ple, he seems to have com­plete­ly cleaned the room, then returns to it again. Or when clean­ing the rug, it first leaves a small area on it, and after a while crawls and pro­tects it. In a word, do not pay atten­tion to it — in this way he not only cleans up, but also builds a map of the room. To cre­ate a more or less accu­rate, he needs to clean up sev­er­al times.

At the same time, with each update of the map, the clean­ing speed increas­es. In the two-room apart­ment where we con­duct­ed the test, the first “race” took 47 min­utes, the sec­ond — already 37. By the fourth time, the robot had 32 min­utes. The area served by the vac­u­um clean­er is 20–21 m² (do not con­fuse with the total).

After the map is built, the user has addi­tion­al options. For exam­ple, the appli­ca­tion auto­mat­i­cal­ly divides the map into rooms — you can send the robot to clean specif­i­cal­ly in the nurs­ery or liv­ing room. In addi­tion, of course, there are modes for clean­ing a small space and col­lect­ing garbage around the edges of the room.

If you have areas where the vac­u­um clean­er con­stant­ly gets tan­gled or stuck (such as wires under a table), it is bet­ter to put a bar­ri­er in this place. Then he won’t go there at all.

If he does get con­fused, he will let you know with a voice alert and a push in the app.

We were sat­is­fied with the qual­i­ty of clean­ing. The robot has three lev­els of suc­tion pow­er. On hard floors, it cleans with the stan­dard one, but if it dri­ves into a high-pile car­pet or gets into an area with heavy pol­lu­tion, it auto­mat­i­cal­ly turns on a high­er pow­er. As a result, even on car­pets, he man­ages to cope with pet hair as well as a con­ven­tion­al vac­u­um clean­er.

At the end of clean­ing, the vac­u­um clean­er crawls to the charg­ing sta­tion. He informs the own­er about all his actions (by voice and through the appli­ca­tion). How­ev­er, if you don’t like it, you can turn it off. The man­u­fac­tur­er claims that 2 hybrid can work up to 200 min­utes. end­less.

Our impressions of Yeedi 2 hybrid

The robot turned out to be very func­tion­al, and at the same time it is inex­pen­sive for a mod­el capa­ble of build­ing indoor maps: until April 3, it can be bought at a price of about 22,000 rubles, and with deliv­ery from the ware­house of the Russ­ian Fed­er­a­tion in three days. The design is well thought out, the soft­ware is quite ade­quate, there are many oppor­tu­ni­ties for clean­ing. The only neg­a­tive is that there are no spare side brush­es in the kit, but this is not such a big prob­lem.

By the way, if you are inter­est­ed in wet clean­ing, keep in mind that it can be dif­fer­ent for robots — we wrote about this in our oth­er arti­cle. We also have a robot vac­u­um guide to help you find the right mod­el for you.