Stone Sweeping Robot T8 Plus Experience: Sweeping ability upgraded, obstacle avoidance is smarter

Stone Technology launched its own T series of a new generation of sweeping robot T8 in mid-March this year, the fully upgraded sweeping and dragging ability and 60 days of automatic dust collection ability without taking out garbage are impressive, and less than two months later, the upgraded version of the stone sweeping robot T8 series T8 Plus was officially released on May 6.

Friends who have watched the IT house in detail about the stone sweeping robot T8 review remember that T8 has been able to bring us a more comprehensive and convenient experience, how will T8 Plus upgrade on this basis? How to choose these two products? At present, IT Home has got a new intelligent dust collection version of the stone sweeping robot T8 Plus, and now you may wish to take a closer look at it with the evaluation of the editor.

1. Design

Stone sweeping robot T8 Plus intelligent dust collection plate because it contains a smart dust collection base, so the volume of the entire package is still relatively large, the box contains stone T8 Plus machine, dust holder set, instruction manual, power cord, assembly screwdriver, dust bag and so on.

Sweeping the robot body, T8 Plus in the appearance of the design compared to T8 or slightly different, the most obvious place is around the top of the fuselage circular laser ranging and pressure sensor, the original T8 due to the gray concentric circle pattern into a circle of faint ripple ripples, this design inherited from the ripple texture of T7S Plus, it can be seen that the stone has a systematic and meticulous ID design system for its own product matrix, which is the embodiment of the maturity of the industrial design concept.

T8 Plus has a silver high-gloss "Z" logo logo on the top of the circular laser ranging and pressure sensor, which has become a more eye-catching presence on the surface of the fuselage, and there are three major buttons on the top of the whole machine: recharge, power supply and partial cleaning, and the overall visual is still simple and elegant style.

The top cover of the stone sweeping robot T8 Plus has the word "roborock" on one side that can be lifted, and when opened, it is still white inside, and you can see the dust box, Wi-Fi indicator, reset button and red label and QR code.

Looking at the side of the fuselage, the main body of the stone T8 Plus side is still white, with a recharge sensor, a sensor along the wall, an air outlet, a 3D structured light vision module and a water tank, and a striking "ReactiveAI" red text next to the 3D structured light vision module, which brings important vitality elements to the entire product.

Unlike the T8 all-white design, the bottom of the T8 Plus is all black, with cliff sensors, cardan wheels, side brushes, charging contacts, main wheels, soft glue main brushes, etc. Various functional modules look very technological.

Overall, the exterior design of the stone sweeping robot T8 Plus host inherits from T8 Plus, on the basis of which there are adjustments and changes, so that the rich functional modules are arranged as orderly as possible, coupled with simple and advanced color collocation, so that the entire product still shows the design aesthetics of the new wave white, practical and more attractive at the same time.

Stone sweeping robot T8 Plus with the intelligent dust collection and T8 is basically no different, square dust bucket, from bottom to top is the dust collection base, dust collection host and dust bucket, using black and white color block design, looks simple and exquisite.

The circular array air outlets on both sides of the white host part of the dust collection seat and the black translucent texture of the dust collection bucket enhance the sense of technology on the appearance of the entire dust collection seat.

Open the dust bucket, you can see that there are dust bags, card slots, filters and other components inside, and the details that users rarely see have also been designed in an orderly manner.

In general, the stone sweeping robot T8 Plus intelligent dust collection version as a whole follows the practical and concise design principles, the appearance and workmanship maintain a high sense of quality, and the style of the white building will not appear obtrusive in various home environments, and the small partners do not have to worry about its appearance.

Second, the cleaning effect experience

Sweeping and mopping is the most basic function of the sweeping robot, but also the core function that affects the use experience, whether it can sweep the floor clean and drag clean is very important, and the stone sweeping robot T8 Plus has further upgraded compared to the T8 at this point.

For example, in terms of sweeping, the highest suction power of T8 is 4200Pa, T8 Plus directly increases the suction power to 5100Pa on this basis, under such a strong suction power, T8 Plus can easily deal with ground dust, floor gap dust, carpet dust.

During the actual experience, IT Home first let T8 Plus sweep the ground of pepper and coffee particles, this small particle dirt can indeed be easily sucked out:

Then let the T8 Plus clean up the larger snack fragments, and in the new max+ gear, the T8 Plus can also sweep them away.

Another advantage of the super suction is the cleaning carpet, when the T8 Plus recognizes the carpet, turn on the carpet pressurization mode, you can have a better cleaning ability for the carpet. During the test, IT Home used a long-haired carpet that was extremely difficult to clean, sprinkled pepper on it, and T8 Plus could basically remove the pepper on the carpet in one round trip.

The stone sweeping robot T8 Plus also uses a TPU soft glue brush, wear and oil resistance, 5 long and 5 short structure and oblique spiral design not only to ensure wind pressure and dust removal effect, but also to clean hair easier. If you lose your hair easily, or if you have pet hair loss at home, T8 Plus makes it easy to clean the hair without wrapping around the brush. In the test, Xiaobian used wool instead of hair to clean it, and it can be seen that it can indeed suck the thin line into the dust box, and the glue brush is not entangled with hair.

When cleaning, the stone sweeping robot T8 Plus also has a function to improve the detail experience, that is, it can intelligently and dynamically adjust the speed of the side brush. When the sweeper sweeps the corner of the wall, the brush can sweep out the dust and hair quickly, but when the line is cleaned, if the brush turns too fast, it is easy to hit the garbage. The T8 Plus can intelligently and dynamically adjust the speed of the side brush, judging by multi-sensor fusion, only along the wall or around the furniture cleaning, at a rapid rotation of 2.5 times the speed, more intelligent to solve the wall cleaning problem.

When the stone sweeping robot T8 Plus worked, Xiaobian specially observed the speed of the side brush in different places, and indeed found that when the normal cleaning, the speed of the side brush was slightly slower. Xiaobian recorded it with 0.3 times the slow video:

When sweeping to the corner, the edge brush will work at a faster speed, and also at 0.3 times the slow video, the side brush will rotate much faster:

In terms of mopping, the stone sweeping robot T8 Plus has also been significantly upgraded compared to the T8, the most important thing is that T8 Plus introduces a combination of liftable tow plate and acoustic vibration mopping module. When mopping the floor, the T8 Plus can effectively disintegrate the ground dirt through the high-frequency vibration of the motor of up to 3000 rpm, while the floating mopping module and the high-frequency vibration combination closely fit the ground and hit the deep floor gap, thereby greatly enhancing the effect of mopping the floor.

You can choose the "Fine Wipe" and "Deep Slow Drag" modes in the mobile app to wet the stain for a longer time, fully soften the stubborn stain, and wipe the ground more carefully. It should be noted that the "Fine Mopping" mode is more suitable for use when the ground after cleaning is used to strengthen the mooring effect, and you can use this mode when you do not need to vacuum but have dirty stains.

In the evaluation, IT Home first let T8 Plus mop a dry oil on the ground in fine mooring mode, and one back and forth can drag it clean.

Then, Xiaobian switched the mopping mode to the deep slow drag mode, allowing the T8 Plus to drag and wash the stains of the old soy sauce on the ground that was difficult to clean. The old soy sauce is more viscous, and the dried stains have to be cleaned up even if they are manually mopped. The T8 Plus, on the other hand, can mop this stubborn stain 3 times in a single cleaning route. It can be seen that the upgraded sound wave vibration wipes the ground indeed have a significant effect.

In addition, the stone T8 Plus also adopts an antibacterial flat vibrating mop, and the mop is made of polyester and nylon materials, which has a strong ability to absorb dirt. Silver ion antibacterial material is added to the yarn, and the bacteriostatic rate of E. coli and Staphylococcus aureus ≥ 99.99%, and the long-term use of the mop can still effectively inhibit the growth of bacteria and reduce odor.

The Stone T8 Plus has been strengthened in the two basic abilities of sweeping and mopping, which is simply to sweep cleaner and drag cleaner. If your home environment is often easy to get messed up and dirty, it is difficult to clean up, then the stone T8 Plus is believed to be more suitable for you.

Third, the automatic dust collection function experience

Like T8, the stone sweeping robot T8 Plus can also be equipped with a smart dust charging cradle version, under the blessing of the dust charging cradle, T8 Plus can automatically collect the dust in the fuselage dust box into a dust bucket with a larger space, and the 2.5L dust bag is like a large-capacity garbage can, which can make you free your hands for 60 days without taking out garbage.

In the actual use process, when the stone sweeping robot T8 Plus completes a cleaning task, when it is recharged, it will automatically determine whether dust collection is necessary according to the frequency of dust collection. Of course, you can also manually control the dust collection block on the app.

IT home with a video record of the stone T8 Plus a dust collection process, you can see that the dust collection seat sound is indeed relatively loud, but not to the extent of discomfort, and a dust collection only lasts about 15 seconds, so daily use do not have to worry about noise trouble.

After collecting dust, IT Home opened the T8 Plus built-in dust box, and you can see that the dust and garbage in the dust box have been tied up almost, with only a little residue.

This is because in the new generation of dust collector red, the stone enables the dual fan dust collection design, which can form a two-dimensional "small whirlwind" in the dust box, sweeping all corners, and quickly emptying the dust box under the super suction force of up to 27000Pa.

With the blessing of the 2.5L large dust bag in the dust bucket, the frequency of the user's daily use of the garbage is greatly reduced, even if it is necessary to take out the garbage, it is also very convenient. Because the dust bag adopts a sliding dust bag mouth sealing design, when you need to remove the dust bag, pull the automatic sealing, and then throw the dust bag away and replace it with a new one.

Moreover, T8 Plus's dust bag adopts the "4+1" composite material of "double layer pre-separation anti-stick layer + double micron-level filter meltblown layer + antibacterial and anti-mildew layer", which achieves E12 level of efficient filtration efficiency, and people who are prone to dust can also use it with confidence.

There is also the dust inlet of the dust bucket with a gear door design, and the dust bucket also has a primary nylon mesh device, so that even if you forget to pack the dust bag, you will not suck the garbage into the dust collection silo, so that you can protect the fan.

Overall, the intelligent dust collection base with the stone sweeping robot T8 Plus has a comprehensive improvement in appearance, function and ease of use compared with the previous generation of double barrel base, and most importantly, 60 days of hands-free, coupled with a dust bag that can be easily removed and installed, basically allows users to really forget about taking out the garbage.

Fourth, intelligent use experience

In addition to the sweeping, mopping effect and intelligent dust collection experience, many details of the sweeping robot in the daily use process also profoundly affect the use experience of the product, and the stone sweeping robot T8 Plus has also been upgraded in these details compared to T8.

First of all, it is worth mentioning that after the introduction of the liftable tow plate module, combined with the AI algorithm, T8 Plus has the ability to judge whether it needs to lift the mop. IT Home feels that the main improvement brought by this to the daily use experience is first of all the improvement of the ability to cross the obstacle, such as a small step of about 2cm high between the bathroom and the dining room of Xiaobian's home, the previous sweeper is easy to be stuck by this small step, and the T8 Plus easily crosses the past by raising the modding module.

Secondly, when cleaning the carpet, the wet dirty mop is easy to cause secondary pollution to the carpet, and T8 Plus will raise the mop at the same time as identifying the carpet, so as not to let the mop touch the carpet, which also avoids secondary pollution.

Compared with the T8, the stone sweeping robot T8 Plus has a more important upgrade, which is to add the function of millimeter-level 3D structured light ranging, which can achieve active ranging and active obstacle avoidance. This greatly improves the accuracy of the sweeper's obstacle avoidance, and intuitively speaking, it is more "smart".

In a test, IT Home deliberately set some obstacles for the T8 Plus, placing it in the complex terrain composed of electric bicycles, walls and chairs, and it can be seen that the T8 Plus did not rush around the whole process, but found the best obstacle path after several trials.

And when an obstacle is detected, the stone sweeping robot T8 Plus will also fuse LDS map information, marking the corresponding position of the obstacle on the App map, prompting that there are obstacles to avoid obstacles, and the results of obstacle avoidance are displayed in real time in the eyes of users.

At the same time, the T8 Plus also uses infrared light filling technology, and the robot can also recognize obstacle avoidance in dark environments. For example, when cleaning the bedroom at night, in the dark environment, you can see T8 Plus's infrared light filling module flashing work, when colleagues encounter the wardrobe, T8 Plus did not crash into it, but slowed down in advance, avoiding the corner of the wardrobe.

Stone T8 Plus's powerful obstacle avoidance ability, in addition to the credit of AI structured light, in fact, it is also largely due to its new generation of RR MASON 9.0 algorithm system, which is the soft power behind the increasingly "smart" stone T8 Plus.

First, RR MASON 9.0 introduces app smart hosting, which is somewhat similar to a shortcut on a phone that allows T8 Plus to perform a series of specified cleaning tasks with one click. Because most of the scenes where users use sweeping robots are relatively fixed and limited, often the most commonly used is 3-5 specific cleaning combinations. The function of intelligent hosting allows users to customize the independent tasks of different cleaning modes, saved as a fixed workflow, and users can directly start to execute this process or timed execution from the app home page, and the sweeper will perform sequentially.

For example, you can set up a "Daily Cleaning" task and specify that T8 Plus clean the dining room, living room and kitchen of the home at 8 p.m. every day, with standard suction and medium water, and clean once a day. The T8 Plus can then automate daily execution based on set hosting tasks, which is quite hassle-free.

RR MASON 9.0 also supports the rapid mapping function, that is, when the user gets a new machine or enters a new floor, he can use the LDS high-precision modeling ability to complete the rapid construction of the map in the mode of first building the map without clearing the sweep, so that you do not have to wait for the cleaning side to get the room map. Xiaobian measured the area of more than 80 square meters of home, T8 Plus only needs about 7 minutes to complete the rapid drawing, which is very convenient to experience.

In addition, RR MASON 9.0 also supports custom cleaning modes for different areas and rooms, in the custom cleaning, you can choose to let T8 Plus intelligently recommend the cleaning mode of different partitions, RR MASON 9.0 will set the mode of each partition for the user according to the floor material and room attributes to achieve the most cleaning effect, of course, you can also choose to manually edit the cleaning mode of each partition, so that you can finely clean for different situations in the room at home.

5. Conclusion

In March this year, Stone released T8 and G10S two sweeping and dragging robots, respectively positioning in the high-end and top flagship, and after a period of experience, IT Home felt that the stone sweeping robot T8 Plus can be said to be a transition in the positioning of these two products, T8 Plus is an upgraded version of T8, and the upgrade is mainly in the G10S has 5100Pa suction, sonic vibration wiping module, AI structured light obstacle avoidance and other high-order features, so the emergence of T8 Plus, Greatly enrich the choice space of consumers.

From the product itself, the stone sweeping robot T8 Plus is more comprehensive and perfect in terms of functionality and use experience details, not only more powerful in sweeping and mopping ability, but also more intelligent and easy to use when completing cleaning tasks. At the same time, the price of T8 Plus stand-alone version 2799 yuan and smart dust collection version 3598 yuan is believed to be acceptable for most consumers. Overall, the T8 Plus is more suitable for users with relatively limited budgets and complex home cleaning environments. It can bring consumers a sufficiently versatile and satisfactory cleaning experience at a relatively affordable price.