This here is Realme's first robot vacuum cleaner from them it's called the tech life robot vacuum
we have your typical robot vacuum with two side sweeper brushes the main brush on the bottom of
it 360 degree front wheel it has a huge array of sensors in fact it does have 38 sensors in
total with this one and lighter laser mapping here on the top so the runtime of this one is
up to 300 minutes it has 3 000 pa maximum suction performance and you can buy this right here for it
which is an optional accessory the mopping kit so yes it can also vacuum and mop your floors
so in this in-depth review i will be going over the build quality the design the features the
application as well as my experience in using it for a week how it cleans and the pros and cons of
the tech life robot vacuum here from realme we've got our filter right here in the side here is the
charging dock so that one of course uses infrared to get up to it close there's the charging port
contacts and the charger right there so we'll get this out of the box and i'll go over the design
of it so you know exactly what to expect here with Realme's first robot vacuum now looking at the top
of the vacuum you can see that we've got a power on button here home button to take it back to
charging this right here is the 360 degree lidar laser mapping that it has and it uses that with
another bunch of sensors in total it's got 38 sensors all together that it uses
now with this particular model the filter is accessible from behind here and the dustbin so
it's all in one compartment that you pull out and you can see the dustbin on this one it's
larger than what i've seen on the others that i've reviewed in the channel with robot vacuums
this one has 600 milliliter capacity to access the filter you simply just need to lift that up
and you can pull it out those are the washable components right there so you'd wash that out
and then to empty it you need to just press down here and that does open right up now i do like
the fact that they've got this different filter level here as well so it's got three levels of
filtration now this one is very very fine here so a lot of that mark is just going to sit on this
and fall back down into this compartment here so that's where you're going to be
emptying it all out into your rubbish bin on the front here we have a side sensor so this
is detecting the distance between say the wall and the vacuum itself now there's rubber along
the front here so when it bumps into things this is a slam sensor here at the front that we have
on all robot vacuums that it shouldn't damage any furniture anything like that so this laser is used
to get it nice and close to a wall we have the side brushes that sweep things in towards that
main brush there and right up the front here there is a sensor so just in here there's an
infrared sensor there's various different other sensors too and here we do have a better look at
the 360 degree laser so this will be spinning around inside there measuring the distance
and mapping the surroundings and this is the mopping kit that they also sent out for
me for this review so here we have a microfiber cloth and you get 10 disposable cloths there too
if you want to use those instead of the microfiber one that of course is washable so when you have
a look at this this is incorporating both the dustbin and then the water tank with this now
the capacity of the water tank is 400 milliliters with this and it's just velcro that holds the
mopping cloth on the back of it so that's just wiped along on the floor it doesn't oscillate
or anything like that and you can see that the pump is part of this it's right there and these
are the filters too so just like the main one it uses the same filter with it but a reduced
dustbin capacity of course because this is a combo one so both mopping and vacuuming at the same time
so we've got the two main wheels here good amount of tread on them and they're suspended of course
so these go up and down adjusting to the different floor levels in between say mats carpets then hard
floors the main brush right here so it's using both a rubber sweeper and then the bristles there
this of course does eventually wear out and you do need to replace those we've got the two charging
contacts right here 360 degree wheel at the front which can be removed for cleaning of course
and right here we have the two side brushes now to get access here to the main brush if you do
happen to get something stuck in there there's these two little tabs there so you pull on those
the main brush then comes out and that's how you replace it or you clean it if that does happen
because eventually this will clog up with long hairs and you need to use that tool that they
include to cut those hairs out and clean it now installing the mop function here if you're
going to be doing that with its 300 milliliter capacity you need to remove the dustbin there
and then install the combo one which just slots in like so clicks into place and of course you
do need to fill that up with water with the base of it there's a good thing they've done here with
the design that i don't often see and that is some cable management is built into it so this
it just simply comes off okay remove that there's a plug right there for powering this for the dot
to charge it of course and you simply just need to plug this in right here and any excess cable to
get it to your power point you don't need all that can simply just be stowed inside there you can put
the cover back on of course and the lead goes out the side just there and then you plug that in so i
only need a short length so it's quite good that you can do this to hide that cable away and this
is the application which you don't have to use it's called Realme link but i do recommend you
do of course to get the absolute best out of this robot vacuum so you just go into it you add it it
needs to connect to your wireless so yes it will actually need your wireless password to pair up
to it 2.4 gigahertz is the band that it connects to so you can see the map right there the line is
where the vacuum has been and you've got all your different options along here so you can spot clean
it's telling me it's recharging at the moment area your suction modes and under more there are a few
options as well you can see so your schedule you can schedule it to clean every day when you want
it to do so do not disturb mode hours remote control if you need that it's kind of just a
fun thing to play around with and more i find my kids like using that find the robot if it's under
a bed or something that is handy map management so you can save various different maps and up to five
uh different maps with this particular one here customization mode mopping path auto
boost so that's when it goes over carpets it will automatically increase then to the maximum 3000
pa suction power now under the volume and voice options we've just got chinese and english at the
moment with this so two english options and then chinese that's it so far at the time of this video
so hopefully more languages will be added later on and under here there are just a few different
settings tutorials you can name the robot firmware updates and i am on the latest
firmware update at the time of this video so with the maps you can add restricted areas you can see
restricted zones virtual wall you're able to do that all through the map here which
is quite accurate because it is using of course uh the lidar mapping with this particular model
and then the cleaning performance so it's a typical laser robot vacuum cleaner that it
is quite quick to map out a room will go around the outside edges of that room first before then
zigzagging up and down to get the full coverage of the room clean every single part of the floor
it won't miss any area that it can get access to at least so if there's of course a table leg in
the way or chair legs in the way then it won't be able to get in there and be able to clean there
so the performance of the hard floor cleaning i found to be very good not a problem at all when
you take a look at the dustbin the results do speak for themselves it picks up a lot of mark
even though it only cleaned a few days before it gets under beds of course and that's one of the
positive things about these robot vacuums they do it all for you it just maintains their house a lot
cleaner before you have to maybe go around once every couple of weeks and do a big clean there
so the performance of carpets i would rate as average with this one here because
mainly to do with the design of the main brush now a lot of other brands will have the main brush
suspended it will give it about then a centimeter of travel to go up and down adjust to the various
different levels of mats and carpets with this one cannot so i have noticed that would sometimes
bounce around a little bit when going over carpets not giving 100 contact with the mat or
the carpet itself there and that's why it's not a thorough clean when it does that now it auto
detects carpets and will increase the suction power to the maximum which is the 3000 pa and
here's a sample of just how loud it sounds first on the standard mode then on the maximum mode
and then if you put it on an area clean or a spot clean the good thing about it it will zigzag in
one direction and then go over and zigzag in the other so if you do that on mats or carpets
it then does a much better job and picks up absolutely everything i did a little test here
put down some crushed up cornflakes and it did manage to suck up everything even though
this mat here in particular is quite bad for robot vacuums because it has
a slightly different levels to do with the pattern on it and it handled that okay and
then we have the mopping mode so this one is a combined dustbin and water so 300 milliliters
for the water 350 for the dust and you simply just need to pull it out and swap it over
fill this up with water of course once you click it in it knows it's in the mop mode it detects it
in position water tanks in position so that voice feedback is only in chinese in english
at the time of this video i do hope that Realme adds more language support and then you can mop
the floors with it so what it does is just drag the microfiber cloth or the removable disposable
sorry cloth behind it and give you a very light clean and when you look at the microfiber cloth
you can see that the results do speak for itself again that yes it is picking up mark there but
it's not going to be the same as you going around giving your floors a manual proper mop but you
do it less with this is going to maintain the floor a little bit cleaner with the mopping mode
so it's okay it's like other robot vacuums it's not an oscillating brush or mop that's
scrubbing your floors it's simply just wiping them so hola the things i like about this
300 minute run time up to 3000 pa suction performance it does a very good job of hard
floors the mapping is fast it's accurate and the application is really easy to use to set up
your zones area cleans no go zone and the virtual boundaries it can save up to five
different maps which is great and it can zone it into rooms which is another positive thing there
the filtration levels that it has so three different levels with the filter i like
the plastic first mesh layer that stops a lot of debris reaching the filters it maintains a little
bit cleaner that's good and very good filtration level with that washable filter that we do get
from them the other thing is with the carpet mode as i mentioned i would rate that as being average
okay it tends to bounce up and down a little bit as i mentioned before so that's not its strength
carpets and thick carpets especially in different mats it may struggle a little bit with that you
would probably have to put it on again if you've got a very thick map to go over that at least
it can go over the thicker carpets because i've reviewed some robot vacuums that just get stuck
on them and tend to bog down completely go really really slow and just almost go nowhere at least
that does not happen so for a first attempt from realme their first robot vacuum cleaner
i think it's a good one and it does sell for a decent price too as well 379 euros
thank you so much for watching this review and i'll see you in the next one bye for now