CES 2025: Eufy’s New ‘Three-in-One’ Robot Vacuum Left Me Scratching My Head

Today at CES, Eufy announced a new robot vacuum cleaner with a twist: it’s also a handheld vacuum cleaner. Not only is it the first three-in-one robot, it’s also a winner of the CES Best of Innovation award. Having said that, I picked up the E20 in the last week or so and found it a bit confusing and disappointing.

Euphie has created some of my favorite security cameras over the past few years, however when it comes to vacuum cleaners I am often underwhelmed. Much has been made of Omni S1 Last year I tested it and although the design was interesting and it worked quite well, I felt it was overpriced. The most compliment I ever paid to Euphie was to X10 Pro Omni, which as I said was “pretty good” for the price.

I’ve been excited about the E20 from the very beginning. It comes in a delightfully small and light box, which may seem uninteresting, but most robot vacuum cleaners come in huge, heavy boxes. After unpacking the box, I continued digging around for the missing robot cover. I soon realized that he was gone. The robot’s face is open, revealing the removable part of the vacuum cleaner with a handle. In my opinion, it looks unfinished. When you remove the arm from the robot, it becomes so unbalanced that the robot has a hard time staying docked. I also found it odd that there’s no place to secure the stick and attachments when not in use, which seems like a real missed opportunity (Eufie tells me a wall-mounted dock will be available for $10 when this model goes on sale).

Once I fired it up, the E20 did a good job of mapping the space. However, he had difficulty navigating it. Something about the weight of the handle makes the robot awkward, so it gets stuck a few times.

As a vacuum cleaner, the E20 worked fine. It’s a little shorter, and since I’ve done most of my testing of vacuum cleaners with computer displays from Dyson, Samsung, and Narwal in the past year, it felt almost strange to hold such a basic stick in my hand. The downside that I immediately noticed was the tiny capacity of the E20. The tower is also small. I’ve had to go back to the dock several times to vacuum the first floor of my very small house, and each time you have to take the vacuum apart, dock the head, wait for it to empty, and then reattach it.

A laptop is just a pen and any tool without a stick. It works pretty much the same way. There’s a multitool, my favorite attachment, but I’d rather have a handheld that I can quickly grab and put back than deal with the E20.

What’s even more curious is that while every robot vacuum practically explodes with pride, boasting astronomical suction power (we’ve seen up to 22,000 Pa this week), the E20 only has 8,000 Pa. What’s strange is that the vacuum in the pen is 30,000 Pa. This might lead you to believe that the robot and the stick do not share a common engine, but Euphie assures me that this is the case; a robot having the same power of 30,000 Pa is limited to only 8,000 Pa to conserve power.

What the E20 has going for it is price. It costs just $549 and will be available for pre-sale starting January 6th with a $50 discount from retail. However, since this is just a vacuum cleaner and not a robot vacuum/mop combo, I think there are better options at this price point, e.g. Switchbot K10+.