There is a time when each robot vacuum cleaner, even the most advanced, stops in front of an invisible obstacle: transparent liquids. At least, so far. With the J15 Max UltraEureka raise the bar And proposes a model capable of seeing and managing also what escapes the human eye. An interesting evolution compared to the previous generation. But does it really work?
The self -recovery base is the usual, tested
The base is the same as the pro Ultra, the J15 series had perfected it with interesting characteristics. The detail that had struck us most was the cleaning plate of the mocates with propellers to scrape any residues and suck them. Here we find the same function, together with the washing of the mocates with hot water and drying with hot air. In the settings you can choose two levels, warm and warm, and this can help save some energy when it is not necessary to make a thorough washing of the role.
Furthermore, as now classic of all robots of this type, there are i dirty and clean water tanks and the Dust bag that has a very long autonomy. Difficult to estimate it, it depends on how often you use it and how dirty the house is, but we are talking about months and is put in “crisis” only if you are dealing with the hair of one or more pets. In that case it will be necessary to replace it more frequently, but the bags are now everywhere and do not cost too much.
How wash and cleans the floors: now he sees the “invisible” liquids
The robot keeps the turret Lidarthe sensor scanning the environment. It is unable to return within the body of the device, as happens for example on other models, but here there is an advantage that others do not have: the RGB video camera with infrared sensor integrated into the Intelliview module to 2.0.
The real news is here. Pro Ultra recognized only colored liquids; The J15 Max Ultra instead Take advantage of the infrared to also identify transparent or semi-transparent liquids: water, milk, light drinks and so on. It is no small detail: situations of the genre are common in the house, and if first a possible spill had to be dry by hand, now you can unleash the J15 Max Ultra telling him to clean the affected area (for example the kitchen) with the tranquility not to find wet and the brushes of the robot.
J15 Max Ultra raises the brush, rotates exposing the clothes towards the wet point, absorbs the liquid with the mocates and reduces the risk of dirtying further. It does not have a roller that automatically washes while the robot moves, but thanks to this strategy it partly resolves the limit of robots with counter -transfers without this technology.
Then remains the right mocio that can extend to the edges: Battiscopa, chairs, furniture, all these situations are faced flush so as to eliminate the need for a cleaning of up to the weekly with the manual mocio. Lack main is that of a tank dosage for the detergent: If you want to use it, you must add a non -slusing one in the clean water container, while with previous models such as the J20 Ultra for example, there is a system that doses detergent automatically.
How it sucks
The engine has been enhanced and comes to 22,000 PAa jump compared to 16,200 of the old -generation Pro model. Also The battery grows: 6,400 mAh for a duration declared close to 3 hours. In the field test, the numbers translate into an excellent ability to aspire and excellent autonomybut on the other hand, already with the previous generation, it had arrived on perfect performance for the common scenarios, except for situations so particular that they are rare to find in the houses of the Italians (huge villas all on one plane) or for the need to suck with fine gravel brought to the house who knows how …
Thanks to the extensible lateral brush, Eureka calls it “dragon claw”, The coverage of the corners is perfect: Observing it in action, it is noted that the combination of the extendable arm and the three non -symmetrical bristles, is actually effective in the corners or around the legs of furniture and chairs. Its purpose is to take dust and crumbs and bring them to the center of the robot, and in this it is really impeccabille.
How to sail and avoid obstacles
The navigation logic is based on a map generated via Lidar and then “faced” with the help of the computer vision, the computerized vision via the camera and sensors. Further refined, on J15 Max Ultra recognizes objects on the floor And it can avoid cables, bowls, shoes and slippers. Thanks to the infrared, performance with poor environmental light increase, and in our tests we have not noticed particular critical issues which, if limited to an area, can still be resolved by drawing a prohibited area on the map by application.
For example, you can create a safety fence for the animal bowl, or for a portion of the floor with particularly thin cables; the advicehowever, is of Make a trial turn to the robotsee if there are critical issues and only then create a prohibited area, why The algorithm could be surprised thanks to the vision skills of the J15 Max Ultra. In fact, it manages to recognize very thin cables and also in very dark areas.
Application and maintenance
The Eureka app It is well done: mapping, prohibited areas, room customization and selection of suction and washing levels (how many water must use). These are some of the functions, but there are also more refined settings. Here are some interesting:
- choice of different strategies for rugs
- “Gap” cleaning: the Mocio extends to pass under some cracks
- Cleaning of up to the legs
- 3 hair cutting powers (+ an even more powerful mode)
- water temperature (warm or hot) and air temperature (cold or hot) adjustable
- Automatic cleaning of the base (every 1.3 or 5 washing)
There is also the compatibility with Alexa and Google Home, even if the integration remains basic: you can only ask to start cleaning, and in this case the robot uses the latest stored settings, to interrupt it and return to the base.
The maintenance of the base is minimal: the propeller propellers do the bulk of the work. Obviously they do not make the maintenance -proof base, but compared to competitors they move much further on the need for manual cleaning. And, when we have to make maintenance, you can extract the tray, put it in the dishwasher and avoid wasting precious time.
Using the water tanks and not having a system connection to the water network, the dirty water must be emptied by hand after a couple of cleaning cycles, depending on how large the house is and how much water you choose to use at each step.
But, in general, The J15 Max Ultra is quite thirstyand also with the humidity settings of the minimum clothes, tends to consume a lot of water for the cleaning of up to the mocates: to the benefit of hygiene, but with the inconvenience of emptying and filling the tanks more often. It is difficult to make more than two/three washing cycles with a “charge” of the tank.
On the robot maintenance is a habit, just to keep it in order, but The anti -tangle system works so well Which is almost impossible to find hair twisted around the brushes.
Conclusions and price
If you are looking for a top of the range and you have a very old robot or you are looking for the first “Lava-Aspira”, the J15 Max Ultra (you can buy here at € 999 with a discount of € 200) it is certainly an excellent choice because it allows you to get your hands on a model capable of holding the comparison for several years to come.
For those arriving from the J15 pro ultra of generation preceding the gearbox it is recommended only if you actually need to clean up overturned liquids on the
floor, and if these are transparent. Otherwise it can be expected since Eureka continues to support the J15 series with updates and that the performance reached in 2024 were already of the highest level and, to save money, you can choose the J15 Ultra.