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Yeedi has quickly established itself as one of the better brands of robot vacuums, and the company is back with its latest product, the Yeedi Cube. It’s Yeedi’s most advanced robot vacuum to date and comes with quite a few upgrades over past models.
Like a self-washing feature to clean the mopping pad after use, and even a drying unit to ensure that the wet pad doesn’t get moldy and create unpleasant smells. It’s these little quality of life changes that really aim to put the experience of using the Yeedi Cube over the top. You could easily just take off the mop mat yourself and wash it. And with plenty of robot vacuums, that’s what you do. But having the base do this task for you adds a level of convenience that’s quite honestly, really nice to have. Though to be clear, you may still want to give it a proper wash every once in a while. I’d say every couple of weeks.
These are of course, just a couple of the many things about the Yeedi Cube that are worth discussing. And in our time with it for review, it’s been a big help in keeping the apartment cleaner. With all of that said, let’s dive in and take a look at everything the Yeedi Cube has to offer. Not to mention how it performs overall. Is it worth the money and should you consider buying one? We go into all of that in this review.
The Yeedi Cube has a big focus on being hands-free
Convenience is the cornerstone of any robot vacuum. But not all robot vacuums are created equal in this way. Some are much more convenient than others. And from personal testing, the Yeedi Cub is very, very high on the list of available options out there today. Right from the start Yeedi makes things convenient with even something as simple as the packaging. The box that everything came in was quite big, but it wasn’t overly secured with packing tape to keep everything sealed up.
Instead, Yeedi put together this thoughtful setup where the box had this pull tab at one end. You yank it across to the other side and voila. The box is now unsealed and you don’t have to mess with any tape. This also feels more sustainable and that deserves to be applauded. It was just a nice, easy way to get into the packaging that you don’t see too often.
Beyond the packaging, there are other instances of convenience with the unit. Sure everything was packed up nice and neat and as efficiently as possible. But everything was also labeled so you knew exactly which pieces were what and where they go. For example, the edge brushes are color-coded. One is green and one is red, and these correspond to their placement on the underside of the vacuum. They were also separated this way in the box. Yeedi also had tiny stickers over all the sensors to ensure safe packing and to prevent damage. Again, thoughtful packaging here. These are little things, but they add up.
The carry handle is probably the best design choice of any vacuum I’ve seen
The carry handle is one of the better design choices I’ve seen on any robot vacuum. If you think about these vacuums and their size, they’re both relatively small and at the same time, annoying to carry around to a new location if you’re doing spot cleaning. Or if you need to carry it up or down the stairs should you live in a multi-story home. Not with the Yeedi Cube. Instead, Yeedi provided the carry handle. This serves two purposes.
Firstly, it’s an easy way to grab and pull out the water tank. Which secures into the top of the vacuum. There’s also this little latch at the front of it. You push the latch button back and simultaneously pull the handle up. The water tank comes right out. On a past Yeedi vacuum I tried, the water tank was in the back. Not necessarily complicated to get to, but certainly less convenient than this.
Secondly, the handle is your way to pick the vacuum up and carry it around for any reason at all. Sometimes during testing the vacuum would get stuck on things. I had forgotten some stuff was hiding under one of the couches and needed to pull the vacuum out. Thanks to the handle this was much easier to do. Of course more commonly, you will likely use the handle to pick the vacuum up and transfer it to another part of the home. Yeedi intended this to be used for spot cleaning and moving it up or down to different floors. And trust me, this is going to make having a robot vacuum in a multi-floor home way easier.
The self-emptying features are the epitome of convenience
For more than a year my main vacuum was Yeedi’s Vac Station. Which came with a self-emptying dust bin and I thought to myself, “this is the best thing ever.” Well, it turns out that it’s not the best thing ever. Because the best thing ever with regards to a robot vacuum is the new omni station that comes with the Yeedi Cube. Not only does it have a self-emptying dust bin, but it has a self-emptying water tank.
If you set the vacuum to vacuum and mop modes, the Yeedi Cube will make its way around your home, sucking up dust and debris and mopping the floors with water from the tank. After 20 minutes or so it’ll go back to the omni station and empty the water tank into the dirty water container. The omni station just sucks it right up. And it’s fantastic. My only complaint is that 20 min. is the max time before emptying. With the dust bin, the vacuum will simply finish the entire clean first.
Now, you’ll eventually have to empty the dirty water container. So you could argue that this is the same as just emptying the tank from the get-go. But it’s not. Because there’s enough water in the vacuum’s tank to do multiple mopping sessions. And this way you’re only emptying the dirty water container when absolutely necessary. I do it every few cleanings as that’s when the container starts to get close to full. The dust bag meanwhile doesn’t need to be replaced until about two months later. However, the vacuum only comes with the one bag. So you will probably want to buy more right away and just have them ready for when you need them.
Don’t worry about odors and mold on the mop pad
Honestly, this is one of the more ingenious ideas Yeedi had for this unit. I can only imagine the eventual smells that could come from the mop pad after multiple days or weeks of use. Even if you did wash the pad semi-regularly. That doesn’t really have to be a concern with the Yeedi Cube.
Because the omni station has a self-cleaning scrubber. Whenever the vacuum wheels itself back into position at the omni station, it does so where the mop pad fits right over this little scrubber. After every single mop session, the scrubber goes to work to clean the mop pad. And to prevent odors or mold, the omni station also includes a self-drying feature. Once the scrubbing is done, the hot air dryer kicks in and gets up to 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) to dry the pad off. This way the water from the mopping session and the scrubbing don’t set in and get that old musty water smell.
If you notice a slight whirring noise from the omni station after the vacuum goes back to charge, after the emptying of the water tank and the dust bin, and after the scrubber has done its job, that’s the hot air dryer. I found this all works reasonably well together and it just makes general maintenance and care of the vacuum and its parts a lot simpler to deal with. It means less things for you to clean overall. And I don’t know how I will ever go back.
The battery seems to last longer than past Yeedi vacuums
Like any other robot vacuum, the Yeedi Cube has an internal battery. So it won’t last forever and will eventually have to recharge. But, the battery does seem to last longer than the last two robot vacuums I used from Yeedi. The Vac Max and the Vac Station.
I mean it’s going to charge at the end of every single cleaning sessions regardless. So really, there’s not much to worry about in this area. It will always be charged the next time you clean. But the important take away is that because the battery seems to last longer, it can keep the Yeedi Cube cleaning longer before it goes back to the omni station to charge. And that means I can be assured that the floors throughout the apartment will be cleaned before that happens.
Even if I have to send it through on another pass. For those with larger spaces, like multi-floor or single-floor homes, I can’t guarantee the vacuum will last for multiple passes but it should have no issue cleaning the entire home at least once. Naturally this will depend on how big your home or apartment is. If it’s a few thousand square feet, the Yeedi Cube may need to charge and resume cleaning. But average-sized homes or apartments shouldn’t have to worry about this at all. As it wasn’t a big issue for me personally.
Setting things up was super simple with the app
My only reservation with robot vacuums a lot of the time comes down to the app. Even if the vacuums perform only to mediocre standards, chances are they’re still good to have around when you don’t want to vacuum yourself. Because it’s better than not vacuuming at all. Where the experience I feel like can be downgraded is if the app is just not good. The Yeedi companion app is the exact opposite of that. It’s a really well-made and well-designed app that’s easy to use and that makes a huge difference.
It took maybe two minutes to connect the Yeedi Cube and have everything ready to go. From there, you can customize your clean with different parameters. This includes whether or not you want to have the Yeedi Cube vacuum only or vacuum and mop. You can also change the level of water used and how much suction there is during cleans. Additionally, the app lets you set up scheduled cleanings (which I think could be better), and wall off rooms.
There’s a lot of control here and it makes using the Yeedi Cube that much better. In particular, one of my favorite features is the ability to designate sections of the home that you don’t want the vacuum to go into. I live in a three-bedroom apartment and two of those rooms I wall off regularly. The Yeedi Cube stays out of them entirely and just goes about cleaning the rest of the place. Simple pinch and expand gestures in the app will make the area larger or smaller too. Then you just hit save and the closed off section will stay there till you remove it.
You can even use the app to manually do a wash or dry of the mop pad if you just feel like doing it an extra time. What’s more, is that you can set up scheduled drying and washing times. And there’s a toggle for auto-empty too if you want to disable it. Whatever you need seems to be there. As Yeedi appears to have thought of everything.
Got pets? It’s not a problem for the Yeedi Cube
One thing I was glad to have but less impressed with on past Yeedi Vacuums was how it cleaned up pet hair. It’s important to note that this was mostly limited to a very low pile rug we have in the kitchen. Which just seems to grab onto pet hair and never let go. And I almost always had to go over the rug multiple times to get most of it. And even then, there was still some left and if I wanted it as clean as possible, I’d need to run over it with our standard vacuum.
The Yeedi Cube however, appears to pull up more of this pet hair from the same rug than the last two Yeedi Vacuums I used. And that’s an amazing feeling because it means I can let the Yeedi Cube do most of the vacuuming throughout the apartment. I still vacuum some small parts of my bedroom because I need to move things about to get everywhere. But the Yeedi Cube handles everything else.
Now, it doesn’t get all the hair off that one rug. But it does the best job so far and I’m overall happy with the results. And again, I think this is more of an issue with the rug than the vacuum. While my standard push vacuum does clean the hair better, the Yeedi Cube does a great job on the hardwood, the carpets, and other rugs in the apartment. Overall there’s no disappointment here. If you’re worried about pet hair, you shouldn’t be. The Yeedi Cube likely won’t have any problems cleaning it up.
Scheduled cleanings didn’t work as well as I’d hoped at first
Scheduled cleanings are an awesome feature. Normally. They allow you to configure the vacuum to clean the home at the same time everyday. This way you don’t even have to think about starting the clean.
Nearly everything becomes automated with this. So all you have to do is empty the tanks and dust bin from time to time. Except that isn’t what happened with my experience. Half the time the scheduled cleans just never initiated. The other half were fine. On at least one occasion I had to change the scheduled cleaning time to get it to start. Although the next day it once again skipped my designated cleaning time.
There is good and bad news with this. The bad news is that it’s possible others may run into this issue. The good news is that this is a bug with the app and Yeedi confirms it will be fixed in a future update to it. There’s also a way to fix the problem in a roundabout way. You just have to go back into the time zone section under the vacuum’s settings and in the “About Vacuum” section, and switch the time zone to something else, then save, and then back to your actual time zone again and save once more. This fixed the issue for me and it now starts cleaning on time with scheduled sessions.
The carpet detection helps prevent wet carpets
Having an all-in-one mopping and vacuuming robot vacuum means it does both jobs at once. And that’s great. Unless it mops your carpets and rugs too and gets them soaked or damp.
One feature I really appreciate is that Yeedi Cube was designed to prevent this. There’s a feature in the advanced settings of the app where you can set the vacuum to avoid carpets altogether. If you want to. Although we don’t know why you would since you’d just have to vacuum those yourself.
But you can also choose the “Across carpets” option for the carpet detection avoidance mode. And this allows the vacuum to go across carpets to complete the clean, but also lift the mop pad and only vacuum in those areas. So in short, if it detects carpet or rugs, the mop pad will lift up, it will stop mopping, and only vacuum. This way your carpets don’t get soaked. This one thing I was worried about when I first started using the vacuum and I’m overjoyed that this was baked in.
The omni station takes up less space than you’d think
I will admit I was a little worried about the size of the omni station at first. Because it does take up more space than the last Yeedi vacuum I had. And that’s understandable considering all the extra tech and features. Surprisingly however, it doesn’t take up that much extra space. And in fact it’s the smallest omni station on the market. Other robot vacuums are either taller, wider, or both. And this is great because it means you can more easily fit it into your own home’s unique space. For smaller apartments especially this will be a nice surprise.
Even if the space factor isn’t a big deal to you, trust me when I say you’ll be happy the omni station isn’t some large hulking mass of plastic. It’s still relatively compact and can be tucked in a corner so long as there’s room for the vacuum to get out and do its job.
Should you buy the Yeedi Cube?
Personally, I think anyone looking for a capable robot vacuum that does more than just vacuum should consider the Yeedi Cube. It’s not the only option with features such as integrated mopping and self-emptying bins and water tanks. But it does offer these things at a lower price than some competitors and does just as good of a job at cleaning. There’s also just too many nice convenience features to overlook the Yeedi Cube.
The carry handle, the mop pad scrubber and hot air dryer, and the omni station’s dirty water tank and dust bag are all excellent features. And then little things like the lifting mop pad when going over carpets really just turns things up a notch. And as silly as it may sound, I think the carry handle is the best part. Robot vacuums are small compared to regular vacuums. And chances are they’re lighter than many of them too. But it’s still a pain to move them between floors for a full clean or to just different rooms if you’re doing spot cleaning. The carry handle makes this a breeze.
But at the end of the day, only you can decide if the Yeedi Cube is right for you. We do think it’s worth it though.
Buy the Yeedi Cube if:
– You want a robot vacuum with a mopping feature
– You value convenience
– The self-empty and self-cleaning features are desirable to you
Don’t buy the Yeedi Cube if:
– Your entire place is carpeted
– You prefer to vacuum yourself