X1 OMNI

Actually, I can understand OP's point to an extent. We've had two Ecovacs Omni X1 and X2's that slowly fail out of use due to sensing, mapping challenges in a rather simple floorplan overtime. Eventually, X1's battery and then the robot itself died despite regular maintenance... and the Best Buy warranty plan replacement (an X2) had worse mapping and just as bad of navigation capabilities. But I've got a new Matic robovac that I've got a much higher level of confidence in (its vision characteristics, locomotive system and the transparency and responsiveness of its product group combined with consistent update additions!) running on a predominantly vacuum (nightly basis) schedule and then once a week vac+mop on a certain day.

I got one a few years ago the ecovacs deebot x1 omni because it came with the base station (very handy), and did the mopping. At the time it was one of the few that did both. I’m afraid I have no experience with others or more modern ones but my general findings: The mopping is really just a bit of a rinse, it’s not a deep clean, it just uses water, no detergent to help cleaning anything. It does not replace a proper clean of your floor. Useful for a daily hoover and mop of light dirt/marks. My one, which is old. If you want it to not mop you have to remove the mop heads from the bot. Hopefully modern ones have solved this as I basically never take them off so it’s only used in rooms with no carpet or rug as it’ll mop them up. I find the app and not decent, again I’ve got no experience of others. The base stations are big, need power etc, so make sure you’ve got a spot for it.

We got the Ecovacs X1 Omni (I think it’s a little outdated now) but it’s been great for us. In particular the features that we like are the hot mop and that it washes its mopping pads. The map and the scheduling tool in the app work really well and you can mark out no-go areas if you like and schedule cleaning of particular areas only. We have it set up to clean the hallway, kitchen, living areas & main bedroom suite once every morning & once in the late afternoon every day and it manages each scheduled job without having to recharge halfway through. If we want it to deep clean the full house inc 4 bedrooms and family bath it does need to recharge, but then it resumes from where it left off. Overall quite pleased with it.

I've got an Ecovacs Deebot X1 Omni and it's great. Has two tanks in the station, one for clean and dirty water, but you can have it plumbed into the water and drain as well if you like. Had it for nearly 2 years and it does a great job running around and sucking stuff clean. It can only mop OR vacuum, I need to remove the mopping pads from the bottom (magnetic, easy to lift off) for it to go to vacuum only mode and go on the carpet. If it has the mopping pads on it will avoid the carpet rooms. The station empties the onboard dustbin and washes the mopping pads but the station does need to be cleaned once a month or so if it's mopping all the time. Mainly because find dirt builds up in the washing area and gets on stuff. The bit where it sucks the dirty water up has a physical grate but that can get blocked by lint and make it leak on the ground. Easily fixed but then we switched to once a month station cleaning. It gets long hair wrapped around the vacuum broom so that'll need to be cut off once a week or so (it comes with a little knife for this) and if you hear it making weird squeaks or loud vibrations chances are it sucked up something that got stuck and you need to manually clear it. So there is maintenance but a good cleaning once a month will do it. The vacuum itself is about 3kg so I'd you have lifting issues that might be a consideration too. It's heavier if it's mopping because it has an internal water tank. It says you're supposed to use Ecovacs hard floor cleaner but I've been putting in a couple of short squirts of normal floor cleaner that I already had in the cupboard (from a bunch of different brands) into the clean water tank and that does fine. I also recommend putting some Disinfectant into the bottom of the dirty water tank after you empty it. This helps cut down on weird stuff growing in the tank. I've had to sit down and pick fluff out of the Velcro mopping pad surface because the kids didn't put the actual microfibre pads on the mopping part once, that sucked but they still work fine. Replacement parts for it are easy to get and the app gives you points for using it that you can use for discounts against your replacement supplies. I did have to replace the vacuum pump in the base station (that sucks the dirty water away) but thankfully, since Ecovacs is Chinese I was able to easily find an exact replacement from a Chinese reseller on eBay. Fit exactly in place and immediately fixed the issue. There was a nice Pakistani bloke on YouTube that had a video showing how to open the base station up without breaking all of the tabs holding it together. That's a two person job though, use two people the first time. The pump broke at about 18 months. Overall I will buy another when this one does or I can't get parts for it anymore. It is nice coming home to cleaned floors that I mostly don't have to do.

I like Roborock, but to be fair, Ecovacs does work, at least not worse than Roborock for me. My Roborock S5 is slowly retiring. It used to clean the bedroom's floor, then went downstairs to the living room's first floor, and now it is on a partial retirement in the office room - smallest and easiest to clean :) Downstairs is Ecovacs T8 OZMO, which runs daily, with almost 3,000 runs in its lifetime. Not a single problem! Upstairs is Ecovacs X1 Omni, which runs 2-3 times a week, mopping. No complaints in the last 2 years, never gave me any trouble.