Yeedi M12 PRO+ Robot Vacuum and Mop, 11000Pa Strong Suction, ZeroTangle Technology, TruEdge Deep Mopping, Auto Mop Washing/Drying, Auto-Lift Mopping, Mini Omni Station, Black

I’m in love. I would buy this device a Valentine’s Day Present. Not as a present. A present for it. I’d never owned a robot vacuum or mop, but I tried a $200 one before this and while I fell in love with the idea of one, it was a disaster within two months… Long story short, I did a lot of research before risking my money on another one. A lot. I honestly didn’t think I even needed a self-emptying feature. I didn’t mind cutting the hair out of the parts every day or emptying the dustbin. But this one was on a very good sale, and had amazing reviews as well as ranked well on Vacuum wars, so I took a chance.Oh my god. It’s life changing.The app is easy, so, so, so much less annoying and more consistently responsive than the Tuya app of my last model. I can only program five specific “scenarios” (“vacuum only/vacuum and mop/vacuum then mop/mop only, at this intensity, in these rooms”) but that isn’t really a problem. You can set it to do certain rooms at certain times and if it’s not a specific cleaning “scenario” it will use whatever mode you have the app on (vacuum only, vacuum and mop, vacuum then mop, mop only/intensity/etc.).By default, it will not mop/will lift the mops up when it detects carpet, and its detection has been perfect including taking note of the thin kitchen mat which is not fabric but is still not the same floor as the rest. It won’t mop it; you can tell it your entire floor is mop safe or switch into mop safe mode and run it in a room if you want it to do mats, however, if you want it to. The mop function *actually* mops, I actually see the footprints and such that one sees when craning their view to have the light hit the floor at a certain angle are gone! Without any cleaning solution added! For me the medium water amount is ideal, and the pressure and swirling do so much better than the pure downward pressure drag one I had tried before. You can also tell it whether you want it to go back and wash its mop pads every 10, 15, or 20 minutes, or in between each room, or just in between each run of the whole area.My lovely little Yeedi will also take itself back to the station to empty out its dust bin as needed. What is interesting about this to me is that it seems to be a very smart machine about its own maintenance, something which I did not realize I’d value as much as I do. I never minded emptying my other one’s dust bin manually and seeing what all it got, but it’s shockingly nice to be able to forget and not go: “Oh no, I forgot!” when I hear her starting to run her next scheduled cleaning; unless she has thrown out an error message, she’s in good running condition.And it will throw error messages, but only if there is a problem. I’d left some USB cords on the floor, and also somewhere she picked up a bread tie, and another time some bubble wrap. On the bubble wrap incident, she reported that it was time to change the bag in the station; I had just changed it the week before, so I was dubious. I checked the station bag: not full. I looked inside of Yeedi’s dust bin and saw the bubble wrap was clogging up the area that the station sucks into the dust bin. Once I took that out, the error went away. So knowing it doesn’t just tell me to change parts every so often Just Because is heartening. It supposed the bag must be full because it couldn’t suck any more into it because of a blockage. Clever girl.Some parts it does do that on, but the app is very transparent about that: it tells you how many hours the filter, the brushes, the mop pads, etc. have before it recommends replacement as a matter of course. It also lets you know when it’s run for about 40 hours and that it’d be good to do some maintenance such as clean the sensors or stand; I use this time to take an air compressor to the filter to slats and wash out the dust bin but it’s a formality, the dust bin’s been pretty well sucked dry. I’ve also never once had to take my knife to cut the hair out of the main roller, which is a shock to me; I’m doing that constantly with my push vacuums and there is a LOT of long hair in this household. That zero tangle system really, really works. At most I get some off the far ends at the joints, past the brush part as a formality, or pop the side brush off and pluck the hair wrapped around the base out, easy peasy. It does in fact pick up a lot of hair with solid suction. I mentioned before, this is a hairy home it’s working in and it does fantastic. Even in the bathroom, where long haired people brush their hair and clean out their brush. I’ve yet to see it leave behind crumbs or such either, which is just such a relief; if I see a kitchen or dining room crumb mess, I take a deep breath, remember Yeedi’s going to run later this afternoon in that area, and don’t feel like I need to drop everything to handle it right now, if I’m busy. I’m pedantic so I come back to confirm she got it, and she consistently has for the last two months.The recommended maintenance takes about 15 minutes, 30 if you wanna get out the toothbrush and scrub those tangle-free spikes like I do, and that includes manually cleaning the station. The app has a self clean option for the station which will flush and suck up dirty water, but it also detaches easily to do yourself for good measure. The app will tell you if it’s low on clean water or if the dirty water tank is too full, but try to tend to that before it becomes a problem. The dirty water tank is, indeed, dirty, so I keep on top of dumping that and cleaning it out with some dish soap so it doesn’t get a funky smell. So far so good!This in app suggestion to do maintenance or replace parts is separate from its reports of a fixable issue such as one of the brushes or wheels being stuck on something. Since Yeedi is a sub-brand of Ecovacs, parts are easy enough to find on Amazon and I confirmed thee T30S parts fit and work just fine. It’s yet to give me an error where I couldn’t see what had happened; it’s usually been that I left a charge cable or something out, or that a very thick twine from one of the older fraying bathroom carpets got caught in it; happily continues its task when fixed.M12 tells you what it’s doing; it tells you it’s returning to its station to clean the mop or empty the dustbin, so you don’t frown and think it’s stopping partway. You can turn off the voices if you like, but it will verbally announce its problems which is handy if you’re home and means that very likely even young children could understand and try to fix most problems. You can also pick from male or female voices, and a variety of English accents (Australian, American, UK, Indian) which is novel.As for its noise level when running, that depends on your power level for vacuuming. On normal, it’s about as loud as a TV (you’ll not hear your TV if it’s right by you but by the time it’s 15 feet away you’re fine), on high, it’s, well, loud. The self emptying is about as loud as normal mode, and the self-washing mop is about the same when it ranks up the heat at first. Set these while you’re not home, or while you’re in another room and you’ll not care; you might hear it, like you would hear a housemate moving about the house and be aware they’re there, but not be disturbed. So it should be the same for your pets; you can either set the station somewhere other than where they chill, or run it when they’re being taken out, or most animals will just get used to it as a ‘house noise.’M12 takes herself to her charger and if her battery does run very low, she’ll charge until she’s at about 80% again and go back to task. It can take about 2 hours to go from just about dead zero to full charge, but she can mop and vacuum over 600 square feet on medium suction on one charge, in about an hour and a half.Initial setup is easy enough. Plug in your station, scan the QR code under the easily removable dust lid, then let it map your house. It maps quite quickly. The only complaint I’d have is if you miss an area because of a closed closet door, or have a set up such that opening one door blocks off another area, the mapping may miss that such an area exists. The good news is, if you do a “full floor” cleaning instead of an assigned area or room cleaning, it will probably pick up that room next time if the door is in the right position for it. The bad news is, it can sometimes then decide rooms closed off don’t exist when in full floor mode–this is never an issue when it’s in ‘assigned room’ mode. Save your map once you get one you like, then when it tries to overwrite, you can just pull back the old one.Drawing lines to section out the rooms is not nearly the hassle it’s been on other apps. It won’t let you draw complex shapes for intangible rooms (like if you have an open kitchen/dining/hallway) but you can draw straight lines to split rooms until you get the shape you like, assuming you don’t need to slice it too finely. Naming and sorting rooms is mostly helpful for scheduling or telling it to clean this or that room, but you can also draw a rectangle manually around an area and tell it to go do that space with your desired cleaning format.Obstacle avoidance is very good. Small wires with an exposed end (a charger not plugged into anything usually–cords from a lamp are fine, it rolls over them without issue since one end is in the lamp, one end is in the wall) and a low scale are about the only things it’s had problems with. With the scale it’s just kinda loud when trying to climb on top of it. It doesn’t have an actual problem with it that stops its task. It will avoid shoes, and go around chairs or any obstacle it notes when doing its outline of a room (which it does even in room mode rather than mapping) without colliding. Sadly, if it has found a chair and you want to move that chair when you notice it noticing, it will go ‘around’ the ghost memory of the chair when it comes around to that part of the room, so have things set up in advance as best you can. pull your comforter/sheets up so it knows it can go under the bed and that it’s not a blocking wall. It will not give a tactile test against a curtain to see if it can go through it; this can be good or bad. It won’t bump into anything delicate but you do need to give it a visible opening to get under your bed. If you walk in front of it, it will usually notice you and avoid your feet. I’ve never had it run over my toes or anything even if I’ve just haaaad to be in the kitchen while it was running there. Thus I imagine any cat or dog would be fine, but you may want very small kittens or puppies, rabbits or ferrets crated just in case.I got an amazing sale on this, and even seeing it then dropped another $50.00 beyond that, I’m not that mad. It’s a bargain. I wish I could gush more and put into words how much stress this has taken off of my household. There are so many extras I did not know I’d love so much, like self cleaning, like excellent mopping beyond my expectations, like not feeling compelled to do maintenance every day or three, because it will tell me when it needs it or even when it recommends it.At one point, I’d had trouble with the app as I did not know how to remove a “Scenario” that no longer worked because I’d changed some room names/arrangements about. They e-mailed me back with help within 24 hours (on a business day) in easy to understand English, and it didn’t seem like a bot, or if it was, the instructions were pretty precise to the task I was trying to do rather than info-dumping all potential fixes for anything related to the key words.Fantastic service. Fantastic device. Fantastic suction, mopping, has held up longer than the last model I tried (which broke on me with that robo vac ‘cliff sensor fault’ issue over dark carpets–tried the tinfoil fix, no dice), the app is not frustrating (I loathe the Tuya app so much). Others remark on the app disconnecting, but I’ve not had that issue. There is a bit of a learning curve but I’ve not had any issues with crashing or the like, and it’s an app of a major supplier so I’m sure you’d get help quickly on forums, or e-mailing them as I did.My mental health is just so vastly improved by the fact that I can trust this device to take on some of, rather than add to my duties and stressors. I like to be on top of things. Sometimes crumbs or footprints or robot maintenance feel like potential straws on my camel’s back, but this is always a promise to help, instead. And I can do its maintenance at a measured time and pace and be prepared. A clean house calms me down, not having to do a million little tasks like get up some kitchen crumbs, not being bothered by a shoe print I only see when the light hits the floor a certain way all add up. I now see how people who’ve had one say they just can’t go without, even if they say that yes, they still manually vacuum and mop. I get why people say self-emptying is a big deal feature. I love my Yeedi, so much.