Lefant M3 is a Lava-Aspira robot that manages to stand out from the other competitors for a simple reason, but not to be underestimated: The size of the charging and emptying/washing base. Although it is a complete robot, which aspires the floors and washes them with counter -transfers, the height of the base is such as to make it much more versatile because It can be installed, for example, even under a suspended furniture.
The base is its advantage
Not everyone is willing to accept having a huge washing and charging base at home, and this is why Lefant M3 is a perfect solution for those looking for a compromise.
The base has two tanks (dirty water and clean water) which are less capacious than traditional ones, and they are not very comfortable to empty and fill because they have a horizontal development, but they are perfect for hiding the robot from sight under a suspended bathroom cabinet. And this is a feature that only the M3 makes available …
By accepting the small compromise of the tanks, able to safely manage three washing cycles of a two -room apartment/three -room apartment up to 70 square meters, you still have a base that I sanitize the rotating clothes with hot water at 45 degreesintegrates a dust bag and is very comfortable to clean because the lower tray can be removed To clean it every month or every two months, within regular maintenance. This too is a characteristic that much more expensive robots do not have, and which simplifies life very much, avoiding lifting the base or having to care to clean up to the bottom of the “dish” where the mocates are washed.
Drying takes place with air at room temperature: there is no hot one, but it is a typical characteristic of much more expensive robots and with much more bulky stations.
Navigation, good results with a little preparation
The navigation system is based on a 360 ° optical sensor (DTOF) combined with obstacles detection at 190 ° and the owner system freemove 3.0: there are no physical bumpers and there are no classic cameras with the recognition of objects via IA, but the robot manages to get by well in an environment sufficiently prepared for cleaning.
Compared to the most expensive robots, those of 800/1,000 €, the absence of the recognition of obstacles is noted, and this is why M3 has stubbornly stubborn in some situations to pass over cables and small steps, but if we look at the price, it costs only € 369.99, it cannot be considered as a defect.
In short, M3 allows you to navigate with discreet performance in an unprepared house, but with the only realization of eliminating the cables before cleaning (or setting a prohibited area near the same), we will be able to have a satisfactory result at a third of the price.
The mapping is also interesting: where other robots, much more expensive, automatically combined the bathroom and the small corridor in front, Lefant M3 correctly separated the two rooms, proving to be in this smarter than some competitors who cost two or three times a lot. In addition, the management of multiple maps, useful for those with a house with multiple floors: just move the robot to the upper floor and will be able to navigate correctly using the right map.
How it washes and aspires
THE counter -rackets they defend themselves well and are also able to get up not to wet the rugs. Lefant M3, with these performances, becomes a good robot for those who want to spend little and wash the floor daily, leaving the weekend the cleaning of up to which it remains necessary due to the absence of extendable mocates and the extendable side brush. In short, once a week for cleaning up to the edges and around the furniture, and the rest will think of the robot of Lefant.
Good performances around the legs of the chairs, with M3 that proves not to fit, but there is no more advanced options such as the approach of liquids in reverse. If he recognizes a dirty area, perhaps where coffee or wine has been overturned, the robot takes more steps until he cleaned it completely and, if necessary, between one and the other goes to wash the clothes at the base.
The suction power is sufficient for everyday dirt with 12,000 PAs that aspire well dust, flour, crumbs and a few grains of rice, in short, the daily dirt. If you have a garden, and animals that bring stony and larger debris into the house, you will have to every now and then remove them manually due to the limits of the aspiring power.
The performance of the anti-stripiglio system, which has managed the longer hair in the two weeks of testing well, even if blades are missing capable of diminishing it. The result, however, is acceptable and requires only a little more maintenance than usual, perhaps every two or three weeks if you have long -haired pets at home or people with long hair.
The options of the app are not many, but the main ones are all there. With Lefant M3 you can choose the cleaning order of the rooms, choose the frequency of washing of the clothes (so as to sanitize them better), program the cleaning, choose to clean a certain room and create prohibited areas that the robot will avoid. In addition, extra cleaning of the clothes can also start through application, useful for example for greater hygiene.
Technology must be easy
An often underestimated strength concerns the way technology communicates with us. Lefant M3, in this, is benefited because it speaks to us: if we remove the water tank or we do not install it well, He tells us with his voice.
And it does the same via app: after cleaning the base, for example, we made a mistake to install it by not going all over. It can happen, but the app communicated to us that the base was filling with water and thanks to this notification we were able to install it correctly and continue the operations.
Conclusions and price
Lefant M3 costs € 369.99, interesting figure if we consider that it is a base robot that washes clothes via hot water and that also has a 3.5 -liter dust tank. For this reason, although not reaching the performance of the top of the range of almost a thousand euros, Lefant M3 is the right choice for two types of customers.
The first type type is Those who want a robot for automatic cleaning but have space problemsor does not want to have a cumbersome base at home: with this product it is easier to hide everything without giving up having functions similar to the most massive models. The second customer is Who approaches this world for the first timehe is not convinced of spending the figures now leavened for the top of the range, but still wants a product capable of washing floors. At this price it is almost the only one to offer all this.
Of course, you have to
Accepting a greater noise than the most expensive models: even by setting the aspiration to a minimum, Lefant M3 is however no longer noisy. But planning the cleanliness when we are away from home, the problem disappears.