During a presentation IFA 2025Debot original company Ecovacs (complete disclosure: Travel and housing was paid by ECOVACS, but GizModo did not guarantee any coverage as the situation of accepting the journey) repeatedly said that its New x11 omnipotent robot vacuumAI Smart is all on-devices. Or are the wholesale of them anyway. I later returned to the booth and tried to find out with some representatives of the company how to divorce the dibot x11 omnipresent from Cloud-is it an all-on-on-device experience, such as a matic robot vacuum, or what still it requires an internet connection to do the best work?
The promise of Deebot X11 Omnicyclone is that it can use local AI smart to do things like spills and mess on the floor and decide how it is best to clean them, and if the moping is required, what kind of moping solution to use (X11’s charging dock has some options). It can also learn from your routine, transfer your cleaning program and approach over time to suit your behavior.
You can talk to Yiko, the owner, AI agent-the name of the company for its latest, generous AI-managed vacuum assistant-and gives it some broad, natural language requests at least according to Ecovac. I did not get to test it. I wanted to know how wide it is. Can you say, “Hey Yiko, clean the bedroom only on Friday,” and it works? The people of Ecovacs said yes. What about, “Hey Yiko, please clean around my dining room table every night at 7 pm.” Yes, this is clearly possible, however, the representative told me that you may need to name that table in the Ecovec Home app and call it by that specific name when you speak your request. Again, I could not find any tests.
It is not that if your internet goes down – then in that case, you will lose a lot of functionality, according to the representative. The app will no longer work because it bounces through the cloud infrastructure of Ecovacs in the US to do so. To clean the specific rooms to tell the robot, or to control it from a distance from your smartphone, or when you were doing so, no one else should be exploited around it, not by watching the cloud-served video. This also means that there is no Yiko, because the device’s generative AI Voice Assistant is also a cloud-deault.
But robot is a way to use vacuum in which it does not matter. Ecovacs Home App has a “agent hosting” mode where you can switch debot x11 omnicyclone to AI-only control, essentially all your beliefs to clean your house properly. It may be able to do so, at least according to Ecovacs, which states that it can identify objects of more than 100 different categories, as small as sand grains. If you switch it to that mode and find that it is fine in cleaning your house, then you have no input from you, then you can never bother again with the app. and if he is Case, you can never know when your internet is out or Debot X11 Omnicyclone has lost its connection to your network.
This does not mean that the robot will be useless. The representative of the Ecovacs told me that without an internet connection, AI on the ship of Deebot X11 Omnicyclone will still talk to AI, to slip its schedule as required, identify the mess and switch your cleaning approach and switch it with switching it. I asked if the company sees a future where there is also an AI Voice Assistant on-Device, and the raps were not certain.
This is not all the way for the world that I want to see, where my smart home devices never need an internet connection to bring my full feature set, or sufficient for blues. But this is an encouraging step in that direction, assuming that it works the way Icovac says it will happen. And, with AI, it can be a large “if”.
