in this video, I'm going to be reviewing and testing out
the Kyvol E20 Robot Vacuum. So let's get started.
Inside the box, you'll find the Kyvol Cybovac, four side brushes, and a cleaning brush
an extra HEPA filter and sponge. A two-meter magnetic boundary-strip with adhesive stickers.
A power adapter to be used with the charging base, a remote control, and batteries.
The Kyvol E20 measures at 2.8 inches in height making it nice and slim,
12.8 inches in diameter, and weighs about 2.4 kilos.
Underneath you'll need to attach the two side brushes until they click into place.
You have the omnidirectional wheel.
Two silver charging contacts.
Two hall sensors for when you're using the magnetic strip.
And three anti-drop sensors.
And then here, there's a little speaker.
The wheels on the robot allow it to move from hard floor and climb onto carpet.
The on and off switch and it comes with a 3200 milliamp-hour battery.
Here we have the main brush, open up the brush guard and you can take out the brush very easily.
Here you can see that they're soft bristles.
There's a little tiny blade inside the cleaning brush that will help
you remove any of the hair or thread that may be wrapped around the cleaning brush.
Pop it back in and then close the guard.
Here you'll also see a sticker showing what all the beeps mean,
which was a really smart idea so you don't have to keep taking out the user manual.
To open the bin, you're going to press on this big orange button here and slide out the bin.
The bin has a nice large 600 ml capacity
and then you'll just use the brush to remove any of the dust.
Keeping the orange button pressed in, you're going to slide the bin back in.
On the front of the robot, you'll find a bumper and on the side,
you'll see the infrared sensors and the air outlet.
The charging base has a nice little housing area for the wire.
On the remote, you'll find buttons for edge cleaning, spot mode, an auto button,
a scheduling button, minimum and maximum buttons to change the power section.
So I set the robot vacuum to work. First, on carpeted area.
When comparing this to my previous iRobot Roomba, my first impression of the Kyvol was
that it was definitely faster than the Roomba and also quieter. It did well climbing the mat.
And by the way, if you guys do want to watch my review of the iRobot Roomba i4 plus,
I'll leave a link in the description box.
It did however get its side brush tangled in the cable on the ground so it needed rescuing.
But it did really well cleaning up the mess that I made on the carpet.
I had scattered down some crumbs and also some pieces of paper.
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And again because of the rotating side brushes it
did keep getting itself tangled in the cables on the ground.
It did really well on the stairs with the anti-drop sensors kicking in.
Once it was done you can see, if I flip it over, that the bin is hardly full compared
to the Roomba, which was completely full, because it had a smaller bin.
And the brush has done a pretty good job picking up a lot of hair and thread in there.
Next, I'm going to try the spot mode and the Kyvol will do a spiral circle
of around 1.2 meters which is 3.9 feet, whereas the Roomba only did
three feet. so this is giving a wider circle and then it'll also spiral back inwards.
And once it's done with its spot mode it will continue cleaning in
auto mode. So it doesn't just sit there!
The Kyvol did well finding its way in and out underneath the couches.
And I did mention this before in my Roomba video, that I just love robot vacuums for
being able to get into those hard to reach areas, especially underneath couches and beds.
And again you can see that the Kyvol had no issues climbing the rug here from hardwood.
Initially, I was worried that the side brushes may prevent it from
climbing onto the rugs that have like a soft edge, but it seems to do fine.
And I also have one of those uneven patterned rugs here and it seems to clean it fine,
it doesn't have any problem climbing onto it.
And it's doing really well changing its suction power based on the floor and the carpet.
Now, the instructions do say to tuck in any tasseled areas on the rugs. I haven't done that
and I did test it out on that and it seems
that it handled it really well. So you can see that it's just going around it
and luckily it's nothing getting stuck in there. But it's done a really good job even climbing over
the tasseled rug. And I have a lot of mats in my house and the Kyvol seems to handle them well.
Okay, next I'm going to take it into the kitchen and I'm really going to challenge the Kyvol here
by throwing down some flour, some rice, and also some onion and garlic skins,
which is more or less usual for my kitchen. So let's see how it does.
It avoided the whole garlic area and it went up to the flour and did a uey, and came back
again. avoiding that area also I thought it was having issues climbing onto the mat but
after just letting it run a little it eventually did climb onto the mat. It didn't have an issue.
And to begin with, I was getting annoyed that it was avoiding the whole area where I had made
the mess. After watching it a little I realized that what it does is, the way that it works is,
it will do the center area first and then it will go towards the edges, and then it will
start to clean the edge. So that's why, if you see, where I've thrown the flour
and even the rice it's more or less closer to the edge so it was working its way in the middle first
and then it goes towards the edge, and then it starts to clean the edge.
Unfortunately, it did skip over the whole flour area. It didn't even touch it, to begin with.
It felt like it was done with the kitchen and then it went on its way out of the kitchen into
the next room. So I had to redirect it using the remote and bring it back and it would
still avoid it so I ended up having to put it on spot mode to see how well it would clean it.
Now I don't know if the flour was a bit much of a challenge for it.
But you can see that it didn't do a really good job cleaning the flower area. Especially with
the lines in the hardwood floor this, as you can see is the best that it did.
So I don't know if that was a bit too much of a challenge for it.
It did a good job cleaning up all the garlic skins, moving over to the rice area and there
are little bits of rice left on the ground here I don't know if it's fair of me to
say that it didn't do a good job considering where I threw it down right between the mats
and it probably is a little bit difficult for a robot to clean that.
What do you guys think?
Drop me a comment below and let me know how you felt about my testing.
So overall the Kyvol does a pretty good job cleaning. It has really good suction power.
It has 150 minutes of runtime,
just more impressed with how fast it worked when comparing it to the Roomba.
And once it gets into a low battery mode then it will find its way back
to its base and charge itself. It also works with google assistant and Alexa.
I don't actually have those so I haven't been able to test those out.
The robot itself does get very dusty, you do need to wipe it down and it's very easy
to see all the fingerprints and dust on it because of its shiny glossy body that it has.
In the video, you may see a few large pieces still on the carpet but funnily enough,
it actually misses some of the bigger pieces but it gets more of the smaller finer dust and dirt.
The user manuals that come with it are really good they give
clear instructions and they're very easy to follow.
And I was able to get this for 200 Canadian dollars, which is not a bad price for a beginner
vacuum. It comes with an app and it's really easy to use. You can use it to create daily schedules
and you can also use it to guide the robot vacuum, just like you do with the remote. I find it easier
to use the app than I do to use the remote and you can also change the suction power. You can
see how much battery percentage is left on there and how much cleaning time has been done on it.
So it's pretty useful. unfortunately, there is no mapping involved with this model.
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