Eufy’s Bought a Little Stair-Climbing Mech Go well with for Its Robot Vacuums

Robot vacuums that may climb stairs at the moment are formally a factor if IFA 2025 is any indication. At the Berlin tech present, Eufy introduced the MarsWalker, a dang stair-climbing mech swimsuit that your robotic vacuum can put on. And Eufy plans to launch it within the spring of subsequent 12 months, with pricing to be introduced later.

Robot vacuum homeowners have been ready years for a few issues: a robotic that truly does what you need with no compromises (we’re not there but) and the flexibility for them to really stand up and down your stairs with out you (we’re shut!). Just a few firms have proven off stair-climbing robots earlier than; contemplate the Migo Robotics Ascender, an formidable undertaking that may climb and clear your stairs, however that one hasn’t made it to the world but. The closest factor to it available on the market proper now could be the , which, admittedly, can only handle tiny steps.

Eufy’s new thought is among the wilder—and in some way probably the most practical—but. Here’s the way it labored after I noticed it at IFA: a suitable Eufy robotic vac (on this case, the Eufy Omni S2) and the MarsWalker every go away their respective docks, then have a robotic meet-cute the place the Eufy robotic slips contained in the MarsWalker and so they begin rolling in the direction of the steps. As they strategy the steps they’re planning to ascend, robotic arms prolong from the MarsWalker’s entrance and the again, and attain for step one. On contact, the entrance arms elevate the MarsWalker and the treads drive it ahead till they contact with the step, then it simply cruises on up.

I watched the MarsWalker do that over and over on a small set of picket stairs that solely went up in a single path. But Eufy says it really works advantageous with stairs that attain a touchdown and switch, both at a proper angle or again within the different path. I requested a member of Eufy’s analysis and growth workforce who was on website, and he tells me the MarsWalker can doubtlessly deal with spiral staircases too, however they’d need to have a large curve. If I get an opportunity to overview it, I’ll attempt it on the spiral stairs in my own residence.

I requested Eufy’s consultant in regards to the MarsWalker’s future compatibility, and he mentioned the corporate plans to make different robotic vacs that work with it. The gadget received’t be backward suitable. The rep mentioned the corporate is trying to make the Eufy Omni S1 Pro work with it as effectively, however it appears like that’s removed from a given.

The MarsWalker has a technique to go earlier than it might actually conquer stairs—it doesn’t clear the steps themselves, in spite of everything. But if it really works as Eufy hopes it’s going to, this little robotic can get from one flooring to the following all by its onesie, saving you from having to hold your robotic vacuum upstairs (which, in the event you’re me, you simply don’t do) or purchase separate vacuums for every flooring. And actually, it’s most likely factor for Eufy to attempt to grasp getting up and down the steps first earlier than shifting onto the following factor. Baby steps.<

Eufy’s robotic vacuums, like many available on the market right this moment, can save a number of maps of your home so you may transfer them round, however with this new strategy, it creates a full map of all your flooring with out you having to provoke separate map-making runs for every flooring.

The Omni S2 is a brand new robotic, and a follow-up to its Omni S1 Pro self-cleaning robotic vacuum with an amazing huge tower of a cleansing base. Eufy says the Omni S2 is aimed toward fixing a variety of points that robotic vacuums have, not simply their incapacity to climb stairs. Those embrace the robots’ incapacity to adapt to totally different flooring surfaces, horrible carpet efficiency, tendency to get their filters clogged with mud and pet hair, and the truth that even the very best mop-bots can’t really disinfect your flooring.

The Omni S2, which Eufy expects to promote for $1,599 within the U.S. in January, could have 30,000Pa suction (that’s greater than the Omni E28’s 20,000Pa and method greater than the S1 Pro’s 8,000Pa), a self-cleaning mop, and might rid flooring of “99.999%” of micro organism and pathogens. As it cleans, it farts out fairly smells, with the corporate’s presentation displaying it diffusing scents like “Citrus and Basil,” “Bamboo and Sage,” and “Bergamot and Lychee.”

Also, these 3D maps I discussed earlier? Eufy says the Omni S2, even with out the MarsWalker, makes use of these to keep away from obstacles and messes, adapting to your private home because it cleans. Without the MarsWalker, the S2 can climb as much as 5cm transitions to totally different flooring. Like the S1’s dock, Eufy says the S2’s UniClean Station 2.0 can empty, wash, dry, and refill the S2 with cleansing answer for the following run.