The new Yeedi Floor 3 Station is touted as the “ultimate mopping robot” along with the robot. Is it worth the money? Find out here in the test.

What kind of device is this? The brand Yeedi now offers the new Floor 3 Station. This is a station with two tanks: one for dirty water and one for clean water. It provides the ability to clean the robot’s mops and dry them with hot air. For the price, the matching robot is also included.

With the set, the manufacturer Yeedi (a sub-brand of Ecovacs) clearly targets users who want to mop frequently. A suction station for the dust bin cannot be found here. The dust is still emptied the “old school” way, by manually emptying the bin.

Yeedi gave me the opportunity to test the Floor 3 Station for MeinMMO, and here I will tell you how the device performed for me.

Who is writing here? I have been dealing with vacuum and mopping robots for about 5 years. I have had devices ranging from 150 to 1,000 euros running around my home. I know robots from Medion, Bissel, Tesvor, Roborock, and Yeedi well. In my household lives my German Shepherd Kyra, who often has dirty paws after a walk in the woods. Additionally, she sheds her fur throughout the year. I am testing how the Floor 3 Station performs in this scenario.

I’ll show you here:

• Technical Details
• First Impressions
• The First Ride
• Pros and Cons
• Conclusion

What does the device offer? 

The technical details compared to other devices in my test:

The First Impression

For me, it is the first robot that focuses on mopping. So far, I have only had devices that vacuum well but only do very superficial mopping. Like the Yeedi Vac Max. My other vacuum robots have just a small water tank + mop at the back end of the device. They drag the wet cloth behind them while cleaning. With little pressure, they only pick up the superficial dust from the floor. With stains, they quickly reach their limits.

With the Yeedi Floor 3 Station, the tables turn. The convenient dust eject station, which I know from Yeedi in the Max variant but also from Roborock, is not here. Instead, I have to manually remove and empty the dust bin after cleaning.

A positive change, however, is that the mops are automatically cleaned during and after the cleaning. Curious, I pushed the robot into its parking bay to charge after setting up the station and got it ready for the first cleaning task.

What can I set? In the Yeedi app, I set how long the cleaning cloths should be dried with hot air after mopping, 2, 3, or 4 hours. Cleaning the mops or drying them with hot air can be started manually in the app.

There are more options for setting the suction power between “Quiet”, “Standard”, “Maximal” and “Maximal+”. The water flow offers the settings “Low”, “Medium” and “High”. For wooden floors, less water is used, while for PVC, more can be used. For a particularly thorough cleaning, you can set the number of passes to “2” instead of “1”.

In the deeper settings, a Do Not Disturb mode can be set, which silences the robot between certain times and turns off the light. The automatic suction power boost and an option to resume cleaning after charging can also be activated there.

The “Avoidance mode” regulates whether the robot is operating with “normal” obstacle avoidance or “precise” obstacle avoidance. If many things are lying on the floor (dog toys, children’s toys, etc.), the “precise” mode is more suitable, as the vacuum moves even more cautiously. However, the downside is that the obstacles are circumvented more widely, which means that more areas are omitted during cleaning.

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The First Ride

In my Yeedi app on my smartphone, I am guided step by step through the program before the first cleaning: I should open all doors, remove loose cables, tie back long curtains. The usual procedure that applies to all other vacuum robots so that they do not get tangled in cables or fabrics and find access to all areas.

The first tour took just under 1 minute. The robot got stuck on a carpet whose edges it did not recognize and declared the apartment visit finished. After just one room. So I had to delete the map, remove the carpet, and restarted the first cleaning. This time it scanned the entire apartment and created a map to work with.

How long does the cleaning take? After about 45 minutes, it had completed the first cleaning of my 70m² apartment. It should be noted that due to carpets and furniture, the cleaning area is about 38m². This is a bit faster than my Yeedi Vac 2 Pro, which takes about 60 minutes for the same apartment. My Roborock Q7 Max+ takes about 50 minutes for this area and is therefore in the middle between the Floor 3 Station and the Vac 2 Pro.

How is the result? During cleaning, the robot first drives into a room and runs along the contours, then the middle of the room. Most of my tested devices use this principle since it is efficient. In my case, after each room it then goes to the station and cleans the mops. I quite like that so that the dirt from one room does not simply get spread across the entire floor of the apartment. The first room was the one farthest from the station. Also pretty smart so that the device does not drive through already cleaned rooms with the dirty mops on its way to mop cleaning.

Overall, I was very pleased with the cleaning. It was exciting to observe how the device is cleaned in the station. Water is drawn from the clean water tank to clean the mops in the bottom of the station. The dirty water is then pumped into the second tank. When the lid of the station is flipped open, you can see the dirty water bubbling into the tank.

The floor looks fresh and clean after the cleaning. I have laminate flooring in the hallway and three rooms. In the kitchen and bathroom, there is PVC flooring. To prepare, I spread a few coffee stains on the kitchen floor and let them sit for about a week. With these stains, the cleaning device could not cope; they remained during both the normal and the stain cleaning. Cleaning was done with water, without cleaning agents.

Other, fresher tea and dog food stains, however, were effortlessly removed from the floor.

Overall, the mopping result is quite good. The idea with these robots is that they are in use daily. This prevents stains from drying out for several days. In the long term, there should therefore be no problems.

Pros and Cons in Daily Use

What I like: Thanks to the station, the mops are regularly cleaned during the cleanup. This saves work and is very practical. 

The targeted cleaning of certain rooms works as usual well through the Yeedi app. I have set up a cleaning schedule, so the cleaning starts at the same time every day. This works without problems.

The station operates pleasantly quietly when washing the mops. You can hear the water splashing, but it’s not disturbing. The sounds of the pump are also not bothersome in everyday life, as they are only heard during the cleaning itself. When the station dries the mops with hot air, that’s hardly audible.

The carpet detection works reliably. In my previous cleanings, no carpet was accidentally mopped, only occasionally a corner.

What I do not like: Regularly, I bring the robot from the upper floor to the lower floor to mop there as well. Switching between the two apartment maps within the app is quite difficult and relies on the robot recognizing that it is on a different floor. This requires restarting the app multiple times, which is frustrating. Upon inquiring with Yeedi, I was told that the multi-floor function in the app has not yet been updated. By the end of May 2023, this feature should be available in the app.

The vacuuming works okay. With dog hair, the dust bin does not cope well as the entrance is quite narrow and can easily get clogged with long hair, preventing more from fitting in (even though there is still space).

The robot has problems recognizing the height of some furniture. It did not want to go under a TV stand that actually still has enough space above. Under a sofa in my apartment, it only mopped about 15cm at the front and the sides, leaving the area directly under the sofa uncleaned.

On uneven floors, as is the case in my old building, small areas here and there are missed with the mops because they do not touch the floor due to the bump.

For the “ultimate mopping robot”, I also find it unfavorable that I have to fill the water tank on the robot separately for the mops, and that the water is not drawn from the clean water tank. This concerns the small 200ml water tank, which travels with the vacuum cleaner for cleaning. I have to fill that myself at the tap. There is no redirection of fresh water from the large 4-liter tank.

Conclusion

In daily use, the Yeedi Floor 3 Station is aimed at users who place great importance on a mopped floor. The obstacle detection has improved well since the predecessors, and my dog’s toys and shoes are safely avoided. With a price of 800 € (as an introductory price on the official Yeedi website on offer for 600 €), it is cheaper than the flagship of the Roborock S7 MaxV Ultra, which costs between 1,100 and 1,400 €. However, with the significant difference that the Yeedi Floor 3 Station does not have an automatic suction function, but only cleans and dries the mops.

Those who value convenience and vacuum more than they mop should rather look at a station with automatic suction.

For me as a dog owner, the Floor 3 Station only works if vacuuming is done every day. If my dog is shedding, it becomes critical. The small dust bin would need to be emptied manually at least once during cleaning. Otherwise, the inlet gets clogged and more dirt cannot be sucked up.

Practical is the typical Yeedi vacuum cleaner’s renunciation of a laser tower. The obstacle detection occurs from the front and sides, as well as with the bumpers. The new ToF technology allows for quick mapping of the apartment. In my test, the vacuum easily navigated around socks, slippers, and dog toys that I distributed as obstacles on the “test track”. The lower height is actually good for cleaning under furniture. However, some furniture was recognized as obstacles that are actually high enough. Under them, only partial cleaning or none at all was done. Other vacuums have a tower that rotates a laser 360° degrees on top.

So if you are looking for a good mopping robot, the Floor 3 Station is a good product with sophisticated obstacle detection.

Those with a lot of carpet at home and consider mopping just as a “nice addition” are not well served with this product.

Those who prioritize maximum convenience and need both mopping and vacuuming should continue to look at products like the S7 MaxV Ultra

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