Not too long ago i reviewed the 360 smartlife s10 it does have advanced collision avoidance but
we've got a more affordable model here from them which is the s8 but it still does retain some of
the great features from the more expensive models like this the top little tower here is the 360
degree lidar scanner so what it does is it scans out and knows exactly where it is and it will
avoid obstacles plans out and so far in testing it out it's one of the fastest two for this price
grouping of vacuum suction performance peaks at 2700 pa it does have a 3200 milliamp hour battery
which is good for around two hours of mopping and vacuuming at the same time so yes it is a two in
one the dustbin capacity is 360 milliliters right in the middle right here and then it does have a
water tank which is 320 milliliters so in this in-depth review i'll go over the build quality
and the design of it the features the application some tests and my overall experience now and using
the 360 smart life s8 inside the box of our s8 we get to this right here which are the plug
adapters for the power supply so we've got euro uk us and australia new zealand we do get a spare
side brush a tool for cleaning the main brush user manual and our network configuration instructions
finally the mop here so this mop has a microfiber cloth to it and it has velcro that holds it into
place it's washable so after each time you mop you just pull it off and give it a good clean
so there is no lid here that you lift up it's not done from the top of it it's the back of
it where you'll find the dustbin and our water tank so you can hear that voice feedback that
the dustbins being removed it does give you a lot of feedback for various different things
so here is where the dustbin is now the capacity of this is 360 milliliters and then our water
tank that is 320 milliliters so slightly reduced dustbin capacity here because it's an all-in-one
unit that you pull out now this simply slots up it's a little tricky to do oh i need to push that
down okay there's a latch there and that comes up and then you'll see our filter inside here so good
seal around it and it has various different stages there filtration the first one just been a very
fine mesh to stop that filter which is washable getting all clogged up and one thing i like to
see is that with the tank we do have the pump included in it not inside the vacuum why is that
important well if you do have problems with hard water lime scale eventually you can have problems
with these pumps and all you need to do then is just get a new water tank simple enough and not
a whole new vacuum the water is electronically controlled via that motor that i showed you
and it is pumped out through those three little nozzles there to the mop and that mop just clips
on to the bottom of the water tank like so and then the underside here straightforward design
very similar to other robot vacuums we've got the main sweeper right here it's got the bristles on
it the rubber and it is removable so you can take it out to replace it eventually they get worn out
and then you do need to clean it of course because hair will build up in there use that tool that
they supply in order to get access to the brush you need to remove the dustbin and water tank
okay it triggered it it's that voice feedback again which can be a little bit annoying and if
you lift that up there you can see then we've got full access to that brush there so you can easily
replace it give it a good clean when you need to do that the typical maintenance so both of the
side wheels here they're suspended to help to adjust to the different levels of course
the main brush also does move up and down too by itself now these wheels can tackle climbs of two
centimeters and we do have the downwards firing sensors all around the outside so
those are the full sensors to make sure it's not going to fall down any stairs
charging contact points right there and 360 degree front wheel which is removable too for cleaning
and then we do have the side sweeper brush brush there which is a large one so that's going to be
bringing things in to that main brush and getting into the corners and around furniture
here at the front we have the infrared sensor so that's when it goes into the dock which i'll show
you shortly it's going to align itself and how it gets back and then starts to charge itself you can
see there again that we've got the rubber at the front this is for the slam sensor so if it does
knock into anything triggers that sensor and it knows it's hit something and of course the
little tower at the top the 360 degree lighter laser and on the right side we have the sensor
here so this is a side sensor that's measuring the distance to walls for example so it can get
nice and close to a wall and around objects with the side sweeper brush this is our exit vent so
the filtered air is then blown out this side then on the left we've got a speaker here for
the voice commands and a power switch on and off the battery within the s8 is 3200 milliamp hours
and that will give you a run time of approximately two hours on the quiet mode and our power adapter
the charger dock the two contact points are right there and there's a status led at the top
now it does have a bit of cable management within the charger dock here which is great and our
application so it is called 360 robot you can get it on google play store which i'm running now and
then ios first thing is when you log into it it will ask you to pair up with your wireless network
you need an account for it i've done all of that of course so you don't have to sit through it
and then once you've done all that and you put it on the clean it builds a map so you log into
it you can see the map the plan here of part of the house downstairs and where it's been so
the squiggly little white lines that go around everything is where it's been but i was doing an
area clean here testing the area clean mode and to record some clips of it actually in action
so you've got your vacuuming modes you can decide between vacuum and mop just vacuuming or even just
dragging the mop around to clean it can do that now these maps you can save up to three you can
edit them you can add no go zones very easy so it's a fully featured app in that regard that
it pretty much covers everything virtual walls all right you can add them so i want to put in
a virtual wall there done do that you don't want it to go to certain areas access certain areas
because you've got usb cables lying around or it's just not somewhere you want a robot vacuum to go
very easy to do that it'll tell your battery life the area that it's clean that it's mapped
you've also got toolbox here firmware updates a lot of things you can do you can change
and download voice packages for it in other languages now the settings i won't go over all of
this most of it's self-explanatory but this one's a handy one of course to increase the suction
performance the power over carpet so it will detect the carpet and then boost the suction
so it can get rid of more dirt and whatnot out of the carpet in the mats which it will probably need
anti-collision so it already has anti-collisions but with this ticked it will try not to get as
close to things like furniture maybe you've got expensive expensive furniture you don't want it
getting too close to it it's able to do that do not disturb schedule it's all in there now one
other thing to mention we do have when you set up your no-go zones you can set up with the house too
uh when you go into the no go zone areas there's a no mop zone that is very handy if you've got an
area which has carpet or a big mat you want to use this you want to save that area as a no mop zone
so it won't mop over it it won't go near it too so that's handy so really lots of options in this
and it's got everything that you need in there and when you edit those maps you can save them
and it seems to be working fine there was also a firmware update that came through that's good
to see okay so just how does it clean it is very similar to the others out there with the
360 degree lidar mapping however i noticed that this one's quite quick at it it seems to be very
efficient the mapping algorithm from that lidar laser and it maps out really quick and it can
get around quite fast so the typical setup with these is they always do normally the same they go
all around the outside of a room any obstacles any furniture and then zigzag cross cleaning so with
a sweeper and that suction performance it did a very good job of the hard floors around here
and i didn't really notice any issues with even mats so can climb up mats that are about
a centimeter thick without too much difficulty the wheels on this can take climbs of two centimeters
and the little bits of grit and the test that i did with your general kind of normal well
dirtiness of a house bits of fluff cereal things like that maybe a bit of rice that dropped it
sucked it all up and really didn't have any issues with that and when you take a look at the dust bin
after it's done its full hole clean the results really do speak for themselves
so a vacuum like this why they are really good especially the ones with the 360 degree
lidar mapping on them is only just bounce around randomly it's all planned they can get under of
course obstacles like low furniture even under beds quite easily where you can't get there
yourself so it does a really good job of that but just how loud is it so it does have the automatic
suction boost mode for carpets and right now i'll give you a sample of what it's like at
the standard setting and then when it goes up to around 59 decibels on the peak max suction mode
and as you can hear from that sample that it's a little loud this one slightly louder than some
other models that i have tested out i did notice that especially when it first starts up that motor
it makes a little bit more noise than others but not really by much just a tiny little bit this is
something that i picked up on there so what about the mopping performance i did a bit of a test too
in a very busy area of the house which is just in front of where the pantry is and we
have a rubbish bin often gets quite dirty now the floor was pretty bad okay and i left it like that
intentionally to let the 360 smart life s8 tackle that it's a microfiber cloth applying a little bit
of pressure that's just dragged around behind it now there are little jets of water that are pumped
out into it and you can set how wet you want to have it and it actually did a lot better than
i thought considering it's just wiping over the surface right so it took just one pass to get rid
of i would say about 90 of it almost all of it and if it did do in those very dirty areas about two
passes it would get most of that muck off the floor off the tiles which is great the only
stuff that it couldn't lift off mopping is the the normal kind of things like baked on or just real
stuck on whatever it is dirt or something that's been there for days you have to physically go
along and scratch it off the tiles anyway there's no way a microfiber cloth mop set up like a vacuum
like this is going to lift it off however it makes life easier of course because it's
basically doing a very light mop for you and then later on once every fortnight or so we go around
with your normal mop and give everything a good clean so these are great these robot vacuums and i
think this one being a more affordable category of robot vacuum it certainly has an application that
covers it basically all with the no go zone virtual wall schedules everything it's quite
customizable there and really quite easy to use too and then the vacuum itself it does the job it
plans and gets around cleans very efficiently and that's really what you want suction performance
might not be the best i think for most places it does a good job there and it didn't seem to get
stuck on any carpets or bounce around too much so that's great thank you so much for watching
my review of the 360 smart life s8 here i do hope to see you in the next one bye for now