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ECOVACS DEEBOT X11 OmniCyclone
Bagless station, hot-water roller mop, flagship cleaning — and a DEF CON history.
Overall score 8/10
Pros
- + Bagless cyclone station plus a full hot-water mop wash — the only dock here that does both
- + 100% pet-hair pickup and 0% tangling in Vacuum Wars' bench test, with the driest mop finish they record
- + 38 CFM published airflow, which is a genuinely comparable figure unlike the Pascal claims
- + $699 buys mopping that beats robots at twice the money
Cons
- − 10 mm mop lift is the lowest of the omni-dock robots here — a plush rug will still get wet edges
- − 220 ml bin is tiny, so a hairy house fills it inside one run
- − Bagless means periodically scrubbing caked damp debris out of the cyclone bin by hand
- − ECOVACS is the brand whose robots were publicly taken over at DEF CON 2024 with camera and mic access and no indicator light; patched, but it is the reason to think about where the camera is
- − Vacuum Wars rates its mapping as the slowest of the flagships — several runs before it settles
ECOVACS DEEBOT X11 OmniCyclone review: what the specs say
Bagless station, hot-water roller mop, flagship cleaning — and a DEF CON history. At $699, ECOVACS's 2025 model sits in the middle of the range — the robot Vacuums we compare run from $139.99 to $1,399.99. It scores 8.0/10 overall, calculated from published specifications across 8 categories rather than from a subjective impression.
Its strongest showing is Running Cost at 9.5/10 — the trap dimension. What the machine costs to feed each year in proprietary bags, mop pads, filters and detergent, and whether a bagless dock lets you spend nothing at all. 10 means it costs nothing to keep running.. The weakest is Privacy & Control at 3.5/10, which is the trade-off to weigh before buying: if that is the specification you care about most, one of the alternatives below will serve you better.
Worth knowing before you buy: 10 mm mop lift is the lowest of the omni-dock robots here — a plush rug will still get wet edges; and 220 ml bin is tiny, so a hairy house fills it inside one run. Every specification on this page comes from ECOVACS's own documentation or a verified retail listing — where a figure is not published, the table says so rather than estimating it.
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Full Specifications
| Claimed Suction (Pa) | 19,500 Pa claimed ('BLAST'). ECOVACS also publishes 38 CFM of airflow, which is the more meaningful number; Vacuum Wars separately measured 23 CFM at the nozzle, among the highest they have recorded. Airflow is comparable between brands in a way Pascals are not |
| Independent Test Result | Vacuum Wars: 100% pet-hair pickup, 0% tangling, 85% carpet deep clean, a 271-point combined mopping score against a 184 average, 0.7 g residual water (the driest finish they record), and 20 of 24 obstacles avoided. Ranked #14 in their 2026 Top 20 |
| Navigation & Obstacle Avoidance | AIVI 3D 3.0 — RGB camera plus 3D structured light driven by a vision-language model. Vacuum Wars' criticism is speed, not accuracy: the internal LiDAR maps slowly and needs several runs to settle |
| What the Maker Promises About Pet Waste | ECOVACS markets AIVI as recognising pet waste among 100+ object types but publishes no replacement guarantee if the robot drives through it |
| Mop System | OZMO Roller 2.0 — a high-density nylon roller at 200 rpm, continuously rinsed with clean water and scraped into a 2.7 L dirty-water tank as it cleans |
| Mop Lift Over Carpet | 10 mm automatic lift on carpet detection (ECOVACS' own figure) — the lowest lift of the omni-dock robots here mm |
| Dock Type & Plumbing | OmniCyclone bagless auto-empty station with 3.2 L clean and 2.7 L dirty water tanks and an auto-fill module. No plumbing connection |
| Dock Mop Wash & Dry | 167°F (75°C) hot-water roller washing with two solution tanks and a dirty-water sensor that triggers a re-wash and re-mop, then 2-4 hours of hot-air drying. You still empty and rinse the dirty-water tank yourself |
| Dock Bags & Running Cost | $0 a year in bags — the headline feature. The catch Vacuum Wars records is that damp debris cakes onto the inside of the cyclone bin, so you periodically scrub the station out by hand instead of throwing a bag away |
| Robot Bin Capacity | 220 ml — roughly half a flagship's, so it leans hard on the station's 60-day rating ml |
| Rated Runtime (and at what setting) | ECOVACS claims up to 369 minutes on hard floor in standard mode with PowerBoost charging enabled — that figure includes mid-run recharges. Vacuum Wars' independent battery figure is 254 minutes, still the most efficient they have tested min |
| Account, Cloud & Camera Privacy | ECOVACS account required and maps are cloud-synced. The robot carries a camera with in-app remote viewing. At DEF CON in August 2024 researchers demonstrated taking over ECOVACS robots over Bluetooth and reaching the camera and microphone with no indicator light; ECOVACS patched it within weeks. One 2026 comparison also reports an optional ECOVACS premium plan at $2.99/mo for AI video monitoring — ECOVACS does not advertise this on its US product page and we could not confirm it |
| Connectivity | Wi-Fi (ECOVACS HOME app), Alexa, Google Assistant |
| Material | Plastic; ECOVACS publishes no housing material |
| Warranty | 12 months |
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