This right here is a new up-and-coming vacuum cleaner that's going to be on crowdfunding it's
called the Obode p8 what is different about it is it's focused more than ever on mopping performance
and mopping like others i've reviewed and i've checked out this particular unit here is the
auto clean station so this is where it will dock up there's a washboard in there it will wet and
wash those mops and there are two water deposits so one is fresh clean water which is 4.7 liters
and then 4.8 liters is the waste water where it's going to be flushing and then sucking all that
water and the debris out and storing it all that you'll later need to tip it out the robot vacuum
itself has your lidar laser navigation it's got a fully fledged app that has all those typical
features like multi-floor support you can set up no-go zones and adjust the mopping performance to
go over some areas for example a few more times or the witness of the mops themselves so the mops
on the underside they're orbital ones that go along scrubbing the floor applying 15 newtons of
pressure so that's why it's a lot better than other vacuums robot vacuums that just drag around
a microfiber cloth it also does have its own water deposit within it which is around 240 milliliters
and this means it doesn't have to go back and dock like others to wet those mops
it can just keep going so the vacuum performance is 2000 pa it sweeps and it vacuums and it does
have a 6 200 milliamp hour battery which is good for around two hours of mopping and sweeping
in the box you'll find our two side brushes so one is for the left hand side the other the right they
are color coordinated and then our two mops here so these mops the good thing about it is you can
actually pull them off it's not stitched into place there with the plastic backing
that can come off it's got velcro that's holding it in and you can get replacements for these two
of course now this here has a magnet that keeps it on there okay so it's not going to go anywhere
it's spring-loaded too so there's some pressure that's been applied they've measured it it's 15
newtons and the design here you'll notice that it's more of a square design compared to others
that are normally circular so this particular model here has 2000 pa of suction performance
the battery capacity is 6 300 milliamp hours so it can go for two hours mopping and sweeping
and vacuuming or just the sweeping and vacuuming for two and a half hours it does have lidar this
is the laser at the top so that's going to be mapping along with plenty of other sensors that
i'll show you shortly so right at the top we do have our power button you've got the spot clean
button and then back to the dock to charge it if you lift this up you've got access then to our
dustbin so at the top the filter which is washable right here and you can pull this dustbin
right out like so for emptying it now that's just over 400 milliliters the capacity of that one and
right here we do have a water tank now this water tank normally is filled up by the actual auto
clean station right here is where it's going to auto full it or you can fill it up manually here
on the side this too is removable the capacity is 230 milliliters that water tank so that's what's
going to be wetting those mops on the bottom on the underside you'll see the two sweeper brushes
we've got the wheel right here which is 360 degrees now these wheels have a good tread pattern
to them with the motors suspended either side and they can tackle climbs of around two centimeters
which is good the main brush here does move up and down a little so it's got a bit of play to adjust
the different floor levels and this of course is removable so you just lift that up you can then
access and pull out that main brush if you need to clean it and you need to do that actually
regularly with maintenance of these now the mops they simply just fit on either side okay like so
it's just got the magnets there that keeps them in place so they're not going to be falling off at
all we do have these sensors all around the sides and the front that's to detect any drops in the
floor and there is a sensor up here too as well which is the carpet detection sensor so it knows
there are mats and carpets and not to go over it in the mopping mode up the front here we have
some more sensors and your typical slam sensor which is the push in sensor too so when it does
accidentally bump up against something like furniture it presses in it knows that it's
hit something on the left side there is a side sensor here so this what it's doing is
just pinging the distance to the wall there so the vacuum can get nice and close with that side brush
finally along the back of it we've got these two contacts so that is where it will be connecting
up to charge when it is docked in the auto clean station and our mop auto clean station which is
very large as you can see but this is where it docks in and the mops are cleaned automatically
by this station along the top we have some status leds and two capacitive touch buttons here so one
of them is for it to go back to the dock to clean the mops to charge and then a start and stop
button right here we get a few other lights along here depending on the status of it right now it's
asking for my connection and then up here you'll find our water bins our water tanks here so we've
got clean water which is 4.7 liters that you put into that tank right there and this one is our
waste water now the wastewater tank this one is 4.6 liters the capacity of it now to empty them
out you can simply just open them up the whole lid comes right off which is rather handy just inside
there is the washboard and you can remove this for maintenance because eventually it is going to get
a little bit dirty and you need to rinse out all of those parts in there and finally on the rear
there is an area for some cable management for that power plug which is great to see
and now a brief overview of the application it's called Obode you can get it on ios or android
right here when you go into it straight away you will see the p8 and you can go into it change
settings now you do have to set up an account with them you have to pair it up to your wi-fi
network that's pretty standard there you go in here the first thing you will see when it loads
up is our map so you can save three different floors you can edit the maps and i'll show you
just quickly some of the settings we do have with this application so you got your cleaning records
schedule cleaning the voice accessory lifetime all pretty standard robot settings right here so
it will take a few seconds to load up normally depending on some of these settings that's the
do not disturb time you can reset it time zone and the maps of course i'm saving all of those
and you've got your firmware updates base station settings so this is to do with the dry mode so
hot air drying after it's done all its mopping will give it a good clean and then dry it out
so it doesn't grow any mold or mildew however it takes about an hour maybe even longer than that
to dry it you hear it on it doesn't make too much noise and i'll give you a sample of that later on
in this video so when you go out of this you've got options here for cleaning so you can go
and clean by room it will automatically label them as you can see and then you do have zones
so you can set a zone for example okay i want it just to clean this area of the kitchen i want it
to mop there because it's very dirty you're able to do that now for our settings when you
look at the whole house here and the zones too you can adjust this so you've got your options
you can sweep and mop at the same time so there's a few problems with the translation
with this app because it's saying sweep and dragon one but they they mean mop sweep only mopping only
sweep and mop so stand it there as well with others that i've seen these type of vacuums
here and then you go into this here is where you can edit your maps so you're able to go along and
set up restricted areas no go zones clean order for the rooms too you can change that and edit
the rooms too so it's quite a fully featured app there gives us lots of different options as it's
cleaning you see the path where it's going and right now it is in the dock they're charging
okay so what i'm testing out here is running on pre-release firmware so it's not final yet the
software and you see that too with the application with some of those translations and things but i
can let you know how does it actually clean with my tests here so like the other lidar
laser mapping robots that it goes around maps out and then goes around everything first and
then it'll be under beds around furniture the two sweepers will drag in any debris suck it up
as it goes along and then those mops on the back of it of course go along scrubbing the mopping
performance compared to any other vacuum that i've tested so far especially those ones that
just simply drag around a microfiber cloth hardly applying any pressure certainly not scrubbing
is so much better than those ones and you'd really see it so intentionally i left some spilt i think
it was orange juice on the white tiles on the floor and for a few days we'd walked over it
it got really dirty and i thought hang on well that's going to be a job for the p8 i wanted to
test that out and in just one pass this clip that i'm showing you now it was only one pass
went over it and it made a huge difference remember it's sticky orange juice and i was
really surprised at how it lifted it off so it's looking like it does quite a good job
in fact an excellent job of mopping now you can set up zones to be just done twice for example
dirty areas your dining room area your kitchen the Obode p8 here we'll be able to go over that twice
and then it really does get rid of pretty much everything we've noticed that the floors in my
house especially the area with the white tiles are just looking so much cleaner and the results of
the mopping performance do speak for themselves when you empty out that wastewater it's all
brown gray dirty water the mops themselves this is one that it's already cleaned in the station and
it still looks well a little gray now but it's nothing like it was originally you can see that
those mops after they've just cleaned they get absolutely filthy depending on how frequently you
do this in your house but i've got a household with quite a few kids so that's why it's quite
dirty in animals and things but it cleans it out reasonably well in the wash station right here
with a washing board it's basically scrubbing it it's a process that it does it scrubs it all out
spins it rinses it and then sucks up all of the waste into that waste bin there to collect it that
you laid it on need to empty it out so the water reservoir will be used up about two to three times
more than the actual wastewater one you empty that out about every three or so
times before you've actually filled up the water one it's a lot slower because it's
filling up the reservoir and that gets just used up on the floor too as well there now it does make
a bit of a noise when it spins out the mops and a funny gurgling noise to it sounds a little bit
like a coffee maker my old office coffee maker used to sound like this here's a sample of it
then it does dry out the mops within it now the drying process will take about an hour
hour and a half and it does make a little bit of noise but it's not too offensive it's not
very loud here's a sample of the p8 here drawing those mops in the auto clean station
so one of the other positives of this one is where the lidar laser is here at the top
it's a sealed unit so there's no gaps in there and what's happened with some of the previous
models that i've covered they end up getting sometimes loose hairs stuck in them and they
get wound around the motor at least that's not going to happen with this particular design of
the unit here so all up i think the Obode so far in my time testing it this Obode p8 is excellent
excels in mopping it is just a pre-release unit that i am covering here so i'm not labeling this
as a review as such but really good at the mopping there it's just a few things need to be ironed out
first and that of course will be done before it is sold so it's going to be on a crowdfunding
website there is a link in the description that's the video for that and thank you so
much for watching my unboxing here detailed look and a little bit of a test of the new Obode p8