Eufy L60 Review
The Eufy L60 is one of the best budget-friendly robot vacuums you can get. It delivers exceptional cleaning performance on both hardwood and carpet floors. It navigates the room perfectly and covers it efficiently, even in tricky corners. It struggles with hairs, and battery life isn’t top tier. The self-emptying dock’s hair-cutting feature is not as good as premium models, but still, for the price, the L60 easily outperforms most entry-level competitors.
PROS:
- Budget-friendly.
- Strong suction for the price
- Excellent cleaning on both carpet and hardwood floors.
- Compact size, fits under more furniture.
CONS:
- Brush roll prone to hair tangling
- Shorter battery life compared to top models
- Struggles with deep crevice cleaning
Introduction
This robot vacuum is frequently on sale for under $300, which makes it one of the most affordable self-emptying robot vacuums I’ve tested. Let’s take a look at how it performed in the tests. The L60 airflow was measured at 15 CFM. Its suction was measured at 1.87 kPa. Its airflow is slightly below average, while its suction is well above average for a robot vacuum.
The L60 brush roll features tightly packed bristles, which makes it prone to hair tangling but excellent at agitating carpet. Its brush roll compartment is only about 5 inches wide, compared to 6.5 inches for most competitors. This gives it a fairly narrow cleaning path, though it does have a side brush to help pull debris from the perimeter of the robot into that cleaning path.
Carpet Cleaning Performance
Due to its design, the L60 performed very well in the carpet stress test. It uses its brush roll, side brush, and repeated movement over the same areas to do well in this test. Over time, this robot also performed well in our carpet deep clean test. On default power, it picked up six grams of debris after three passes over an area of carpet embedded with 30 grams of fine debris. On maximum power, it picked up 8 grams of debris in the same test.
Hard floor cleaning
Moving on to the hardwood floor stress test. The L60 once again performed very well; it didn’t have any trouble picking up any of the debris used for this test. It doesn’t clean up all of the debris in a single pass, but with repeated movement, it gets a very good clean in this test. Over time, this robot also does very well to clean edges. It passes efficiently close to edges, and its side brush is stiff enough to pull debris away without any issues.
Crevice Test
In the crevice test of this robot vacuum. The L60 did not perform well on default power or on maximum power; even after extensive runtime, it still could not pull most of the debris out of the crevice used for this test, though most other robot vacuums I’ve tested also did not perform well in this test. In the human hair pickup test, the L60 picked up all of the hair, but most of that hair wasn’t pulled into its dustbin; 70 to 90% of the hair it picked up tangled around its brush roll and had to be cleaned off manually. This is actually a fairly average result, and that is despite the fact that its brush roll with all of those tightly packed bristles is not well optimized for preventing hair tangling.
Hair cutting feature
The L60’s docking station is advertised by the manufacturer as having hair detangling technology. It’s supposed to cut hair that collects on the brush roll. I tested this feature after the long-hair pickup test, and it. It just didn’t work. The dock didn’t cut any of the hair during our testing. In our head hair pickup test, the L60 would occasionally leave behind a tuft of hair, though it did pick up every tuft with repeated movement. By the end of the test, some of the hair did collect on its brush roll. About 10% of the hair used in the test got stuck on the brush roll, while the L60 picked up and collected 90% of the shorter pet hair in its dustbin.
Navigation and coverage
When testing the L60’s navigation, I looked at how it performed in both an empty room and a cluttered room. In the empty room, The L60 started by cleaning along the edges before moving efficiently in a row-by-row pattern through the center, covering the area well. In the cluttered room test, the L60 again moved smoothly and handled obstacles like chair and table legs with ease. Its pathing is pretty solid overall, matching up with some of the best robot vacuums I’ve tried. One thing I did notice is that it only moves left to right and right to left in open spaces. Other high-end models tend to mix in an up-and-down pattern for extra coverage.
App, Battery life & Other Specs
Other important specifications and test results I considered for this review are summarized here:
| Specification | Details |
|---|---|
| App | Yes (Eufy Companion App) |
| Battery Life | 2600 mah |
| Dust Bin Volume | 260 mL |
| Physical Remote | No |
| Interactive map | Yes |
Runtime Noise Output | 120 mins 60 dB |
Note especially that this is a mapping robot, and using the eufy companion app, you can label parts of the generated map, set the robot to clean specific parts of the map, or set it to stay out of certain parts of the map. In the same chart, also note the L60 runtime, bin volume, and noise output are given for better understanding.
What I Like About L60
Moving on to what I like and dislike about this vacuum, first let’s talk about what I like. The L60 performed very well in most of our debris pickup testing. It cleaned up carpet well in the carpet stress test and deep clean test, and it performed well in our hard floor stress test. The L60 also navigates very smoothly and precisely, even around complex obstacles like chair legs, and I really like the value of this robot; it’s one of the cheapest LiDAR robot vacuums with self-emptying functionality on the market.
What I Dislike About L60
Moving on to what I dislike about this vacuum, the L60 does tangle very easily with longer hair, and it even tangles slightly with short hair. We tested its docking station’s hair-cutting feature, and it didn’t work. During testing, this robot also had substantially less battery life than top-rated competitors.
If you are looking for a robot vacuum with less hair tangling, then I recommend checking our list of best robot vacuums for pet hair.
Eufy L60 vs Roborock Q5 Max
When it comes to general recommendations, the L60 is currently the second-best budget-grade robot vacuum I’ve tested. The top-rated RoboRock Q5 Max is less prone to hair tangling, navigates slightly better, and has twice the battery capacity; otherwise, the L60 is highly comparable. At worst, it’s an excellent alternative to the Roborock.
Final Thoughts
The eufy L60 is a great budget-friendly robot vacuum. It offers great suction power and exceptional performance on both carpet and hardwood floors. It navigates around the house perfectly and cleans around corners efficiently. Although it’s a great value robot vacuum, it also has some drawbacks, like hair tangling issues and limited battery life. Overall, if you’re looking for a vacuum that balances performance with affordability, the L60 is an excellent choice. However, for those willing to spend a bit more, there are other models with better battery life and less hair tangling.