normally i do cover and review vacuum robots with mopping features it's normally a hybrid
feature it's not actually a dedicated mopping robot as such but this machine here is this
is from ilife it is their shinebot w450 so it is a floor mopping robot that does have a two
separate tanks in it so we've got clean water which is 850 milliliters dirty water which is
900 milliliters that stores in it and it can run and operate for up to 80 minutes it has
elixir support so you can issue voice commands to start and stop this particular floor mopping robot
and it has a four stage to the cleaning so what it will do first is spray the hard floors it scrubs
it scrapes and it also sucks so full process there but it can even dry too with it now it has a
camera at the top of it for visual mapping there's an application which i'll cover in this review
and i did want to find out is exactly how much better would a dedicated floor mopping robot be
than what i typically use which are those vacuum robots with their just microfiber cloths that
they wipe around which eventually get dirty but this is a a different system all together then
this is what you'll find in the box of the shinebot w455 we've got our charging base so
it's just connected up here you need to manually actually lift it into this now the runtime of
this mopping robot is 80 minutes it's the maximum run time so we do have a warranty card user guide
there is a spare roller some tools there for cleaning that main brush we do have a remote for
using it manually and the batteries for the remote which are two triple a's and if you lift this up
you'll see there is the shine bot w4 55 and we have a small power supply for that charging dock
now unlike your typical robot vacuum with this here the shinebot you need to
lift it up and put it in to the dock to charge yourself it's not going to do that automatically
the shinebot has four ways it cleans so it sprays it scrubs it sucks and it also
scrapes and it does have a drying mode so you can see here three little nozzles right here
another three that's spraying the water down now the bristles there is this yellow bristle here
that's a little bit harder and then a softer one in the middle that's doing the scrubbing there
so the two suspended wheels either side now this can't handle any climbs it's just really for hard
floors you don't want to have tiles that do have big large gaps between them it won't work so well
on those the charging contact point right there we have a 360 degree wheel here at the front and
a very small one here at the bottom and then sensors up the front here so can detect a fall
for example a stairwell so it won't end up going off that stairwell up the top it's got a camera
so this is a wide-angle lens that's looking around everywhere that's going to aid the navigation with
this but it's a more basic navigation that it does have here the shine bot so we've got our power on
to start the clean mode so you can go through the area clean the path clean mode or you can use that
remote too to do that manually and also the same kind of commands without having to actually touch
it so here we've got the handle to lift it up of course now you can split it apart quite easily
to clean the brush there and gain access to it so when you lift up the handle you push in the little
button right here and then you can pull that right apart where on the other side of this we do have
this filter there that you do need to clean and to fill it up we've got the water intake here for
the clean water the dirty water here is at the back and this part here you see that the roller
we're able to gain access to that to clean it if it does get tangled up with anything the filter
you'll need to clean out after each use so that's where the clean water goes in now the capacity
of this tank is 0.85 liters the clean water side and then the dirty water side that is 0.9 liters
to empty out that dirty water it's very easy there's just a plug right here so you pull that
down and then all that dirty water will drain out of that hole along the front of it here there are
some little rubber strips so when it's going to bang into furniture or anything else it shouldn't
damage it and as i mentioned before once it does that actually triggers a little switch in there
so it knows it's hit something and it will back off overall the build quality here of the shine
bot isn't bad it's all plastics but the finish of it i think is good reasonable quality for
the price they do sell this through a deep clean a normal clean the water levels you can adjust here
and this is the amount of times that you want it to clean the area so here as i press this
two-time cleaning so it's going to go over the same area two times
up to three times and then those water levels you can hear the feedback too when you press that
then our application so it is called ilife home and you need to add it and pair it up to your
wi-fi network once you've done that you can then log and see where the actual shine bot is so this
is the downstairs area it's mapped it out we've got this little line there you can see where it
has been cleaning so it goes in a s-shaped pattern it's reasonably systematic and it does seem to
kind of know where it's actually going it doesn't seem to bump around and get lost
uh at all really which is good it sometimes goes over itself and you can see it here with the
cleaning plan just how many times you want it to clean uh you can set it as a maximum of three
times for example that imagine you've got like a dirty kitchen or something like that and you
can set that to three times two or just leave it the one drying i've actually got it not set to
dry it's summer here at the moment so it doesn't really matter it will dry quick enough when it
scrapes and then sucks up that dirty water anyway so i don't see it as being too much of a problem
so the application is reasonably basic here we've got remote control zone cleaning you can pause
and start it from the app too as well and in the settings you'll see some of the cleaning history
water usage so you can actually tweak this which is quite good if you find that it's spraying too
much water and you want less you just simply just tone it down right here uh and the travel speed
too you can adjust that so if you want it to go a little slower to clean actually scrub a little
bit more you're able to do that the brush speed too as well which is the one that's scrubbing
the floor you can adjust the speed of that too and if you set it a little bit slower and it'll
be a little bit easier too on the battery life there voice settings unit selection search for the
robot and that is it so it is a basic app but it's really all that it needs and it's very easy to use
so how does it clean well wherever you place it you put it down and hit the auto clean area
auto clean for example it will just start there on the spot and zigzag back and forth so it's quite
efficient in its cleaning it doesn't really miss any spots at all it doesn't do what robot vacuums
normally do with lidar they go around the outer edges of everything first this just starts doing
its thing wherever you place it now it can get under beds as long as your bed of course isn't
lower than the height of the vacuum i've noticed that it's quite good at detecting obstacles
in front of it it's excellent at that it will normally just stop even in the remote mode if you
go to drive it into something it will detect something's in front of it and just stop
straight away which is quite good now the floors around the house are looking very good so clean
and because it's got the separate water tanks i do believe that's really helping just keeping
that whole process going so you've got the clean water coming in the dirty water getting sucked up
as it's going along scrubbing and scraping and the floors just look really good better than
what i normally would see with a robot vacuum with its hybrid system and a microfiber cloth
now i do want to point out the noise it makes here with a quick little demonstration so i've got the
remote here which is great by the way that you can manually control it to wherever you want it
to go you've got you can issue the different water levels you get voice feedback from it too by the
way you can hear this high water usage so high water use mode regular cleaning regular cleaning
deep cleaning and that's with the brush on the bottom of it and what i'll do now is just show
you how loud so you can have it listen to how loud it actually is when it's working
all right i'll stop that you can hear from that sample hopefully that it's not that loud it's
about as loud as a robot vacuum on their low powered mode and it doesn't get any louder than
that because that's the way of course it's set up now one thing i do like about it too is it's
so easy to then empty it out look at this it's simply lift the handle press the button at the top
and you've got the water tanks and it's just one plug here on the bottom to empty out all that
dirty water and then just one at the top here to add the clean water which the clean water is
850 milliliters this one this tank is 900 so the dirty water tank does last for quite a long time
i'm probably filling up this tank here about two or three times before that one's completely full
so nice and easy to clean easy to clip on there and look at this you can simply just lift up
and remove the brush and give that a clean it's not hard at all to do and this simply just slots
in the back there when you have the brush in it of course and just clips into place so that's
really good the only con that i do have with this particular mopping robot is it doesn't auto
dock so it cannot send itself back to charge when it finishes the clean wherever you started the
clean is where it will stop so you need to lift it up put it back into the charger dock to charge
charging time is approximately about three or so hours so it's not fast at charging it's not
a quick charge either it does have those are two minor cons there normally when it finishes you
need to empty the tank out anyway so it's not too much of an issue that you need to then just drop
it into the dock but it would be nice if the next new addition whenever they bring a new release out
does have an auto docking feature i think would be really good with it and you cannot really argue at
all with the clean it's giving the value for money for the price of it i think it does an
excellent job here my floors are just looking so clean and i did do a a test to set up i spilled
some coffee on the floor i let it set and dry a little bit and you see that the first pass
the w455 the shinebot here didn't get it all second pass almost third yes so for very
stubborn stuck on stains it will need three goes but luckily you can actually set it quite easily
through the application or even with the remote you can go and cycle through that there you go
i've just set it to three time cleaning so we'll go over that same area three times which is going
to be perfect for say a kitchen or an entrance or something that's a little bit more dirty there
so overall i actually really like this it has surprised me great cleaning performance good
value for money and i think it's doing a better job of cleaning my hard floors around the house
than a robot vacuum with its hybrid setup just dragging around a microfiber cloth that
eventually gets dirty this of course got fresh water always coming in so you don't you don't
have that problem at all so thank you so much for watching my video here on the ilife shinebot w455