In the past one or two years, the flagship sweeping robot products that pursue functions and scenes covering the "tall and complete" have become the main positions for manufacturers to compete for the law.
However, in addition to the need for a machine to complete all the cleaning work, there are also a considerable number of users who only need products with suitable navigation, ground sweeping and basic mopping capabilities, and it is better if they can save as much operation as possible.
In the same period of the G10S series of self-cleaning sweeping robots brought by Stone Technology, stone technology brought the stone sweeping robot T8, which mainly "makes you forget to take out the garbage", and the dust collection version was listed at a price of 2999 yuan that was more grounded.
What kind of experience does this sweeping robot have, what improvements have been brought by the previous products, and can it meet expectations? This experience will give you the answer.
A stylish appearance introduces dust collection capabilities
As a new home appliance that may appear in any corner of the home when working, it also needs to be placed in a fixed position, and how the appearance design balances the appearance and practicality is still a very important part of the sweeping robot product.
Several classic stone sweeping robots have not disappointed, and the stone sweeping robot T8 also continues the simple shape of pure white.
At the bottom of the stone T8 fuselage, it is a combination of unilateral brush + soft glue main brush plot that has been verified on a variety of stone products, leaving a position for installing the mop bracket, and the user can mop the floor according to whether he needs to mop the ground from the main installation.
The fuselage dust box adopts the design of dust box + water tank in one, one side is a dust box that can replace filtration and manual slag pouring, and the other side is a water tank that needs to be added by hand.
Through the picture can be clearly seen, the stone T8 body of the suction port will also be used for the base dust collection, industrial design language is similar to the stone G10 base of the dust collection base bottom, set up a direct access to the dust bag suction channel, open the top cover can easily replace the quick release dust bag.
In addition to the vacuum channel at the bottom, there is also a gadget that is convenient for users to install without tools, which is commendable.
The first echelon sweeps, and now there is more automatic dust collection
The stone T8, which continues the accumulation of stone technology technology, still has nothing to say about the most critical sweeping and vacuuming performance of the sweeping robot.
After two or three times of vacuuming in the highest gear, the venue that has not done any clean floor cleaning for more than a month has returned to its former neatness. And the dust is completely inhaled into the fuselage dust box, and there is no cleaning dead end visible to the naked eye on the ground, and there is no secondary pollution.
The design of manually installing the mop and adding water to the water tank is slightly cumbersome, but this electric water tank with 30 levels of adjustable water gear makes the Stone T8 simplify the mopping function of many structures compared to the flagship model, and still has a certain usability in daily floor cleaning.
What is slightly deficient is that the modeling accuracy and navigation ability have evolved, but they still have to rely on collisions to complete the four-corner obstacle avoidance, and the passability needs to be improved.
Due to the more focused on the sweeping itself, the Stone T8 not only has a larger volume of 470ml dust box and 350ml water tank space, but also has a continuous cleaning work endurance than the more integrated products. For users who have multiple cleaning robots for different types of needs, but have a larger home area and want to improve the efficiency of a single device, the endurance of the Stone T8 is obviously more appropriate.
I think the biggest improvement in the Stone T8 experience is the newly added base dust collection ability. The traditional sweeping robot only solves the problem of sweeping and navigation, but it is always inseparable from the cleaning work after the user must manually pour the dust box and do the secondary cleaning, which has limited improvement in the cleaning experience of the whole house, and the internal space of the fuselage is not abundant, so that repeated garbage may not be directly sweeping efficiently.
Stone T8 double fan base dust collection is a good solution to the problem, first of all, the fuselage built-in dust box space is large enough to reduce the frequency of recharge dust collection, followed by dust collection duct sealing performance, dust suction efficiency are done well, in the process of my experience are just four or five seconds to suck away all the dust in the fuselage, and there is no visible dust leakage phenomenon in the dust collection process, quite worry-free.
The disposable dust bag of 55 yuan brings the cost of consumables that will be generated in long-term use, but compared to the practice of directly sucking dust into the base dust box, it is obviously to help users solve the work of manually cleaning the dust box, and after filling it, the dust bag can be thrown away.
It can hold dust fairly completely, which is convenient and direct enough, and the antibacterial ability of E12-level filtration is also good.
3D maps are blessed, and the software experience is reinvented
The use of Stone T8 still needs to be paired with Stone Technology's roborock App, and old users will certainly not be unfamiliar with these interfaces, and they can understand how the new machine should be configured and used at a glance, without multiple learning costs.
Slightly different, the Stone T8 adds a shortcut button to return to the base dust collection, which will continue the previous dust collection work after transferring the dust to the base dust bag.
In addition to the traditional 2D map, stone T8 can see the newly added 3D map after completing the indoor modeling, which is more in line with people's cognition of indoor space. Of course, if you have furniture, appliances, carpets or partitions in the room that the sweeping robot cannot directly recognize, you still have to manually edit the settings in the App so that it can automatically avoid obstacles or change the corresponding vacuuming force.
Although most of the time it is a relatively complex setting that does not need to be changed, the sweeping robot can always adjust the working mode according to the user-defined home space or avoid the forbidden area, but if the stone can continue to improve the ease of use of the partition and home object editing functions in the subsequent App update, then the whole set of software and hardware experience will be on a higher level.
epilogue
Make a simple summary of the stone sweeping robot T8:
merit
1, the cleaning performance is leading, easy to use to do a good job
2, the base dust collection is greatly convenient for users, dust collection efficiency is also high enough
3, dust bag filtration performance, 3D map are taken into account the use of details
insufficient
1. Collision avoidance may move ground objects or make noise
In general, the stone sweeping robot T8 is a trustworthy product, the appearance is stylish and concise enough, the cleaning performance is excellent, and the base dust collection function is added to solve the long-standing pain points of the sweeping robot.
As far as the slogan of "make you forget to take out the garbage" is concerned, the stone T8 only needs the user to do it once from the ground sweep to the dust collection to the replacement of the dust bag, fulfilling the promise to consumers.