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- Smart Navigation
- Triple Cleaning Performance
- Non-Stop Power
- 4 Cleaning Modes
- Remote Control
Miele RX1 Scout RX1 Scout is Miele’s first robotic vacuum cleaner. With Smart Navigation, the Scout achieves reliable cleaning results. The Scout’s lithium-ion battery can clean up to two hours, or 1,600 square feet without needing to be recharged. A gyro sensor measures the Scout’s rotation, enabling it to change direction as needed and a high-quality digital ceiling camera maps the layout of a room to ensure precise cleaning of the entire space. Miele’s RX1 Scout features a Triple Cleaning System comprised of a turbo brush, two long rotating side brushes that target hard-to-reach areas and an effective suction system. Sensors on the front of the machine prevent the Scout from colliding with furniture and sensors underneath
A Great Scout Takes The Combat Out Of Vacumming!,
This is my first robotic vacuum, as well as my first Miele product. The Scout RX1 comes packaged with the following:
• Scout RX1 Robot Vacuum
• Two side brushes
• Two replacement exhaust filters
• Remote control w/2 AA batteries
• Base station
• AC adapter
• Magnetic strip
At first glance, you may say “Hmmm looks like a Roomba.” And it does, but it appears to be of very high quality. Although the actual price is not yet advertised (as of the date of this review), I expect it will be somewhat higher than a Roomba, which is typical several hundreds of dollars, based on the Miele name and reputation for quality. The Scout has an on board digital camera and seven sensors. It is powered by a Li-ion battery. It is bagless, having a bin instead, which is a little of 2.5 cups in size.
Why might you want a robotic vacuum? Maybe you don’t have time to vacuum as much as you want, or just find it a tedious chore, or can’t get around as well as you used to and need some automated help.
Set up is simple. You insert the two side brushes (each brush and its location on the underside of the vacuum are marked L and R). Next, remove the protective film from the top of the vacuum and the base station. Insert the AC adapter into the base station housing. Next, turn on the vacuum and place it on the base station. While it is charging, insert the AA batteries in the remote control, and set the clock on the robot. That’s it.
You need to charge the rechargeable battery in the unit before first use. A full charge takes about 2 hours. Likewise, you can vacuum for about two hours on a single charge. The battery indicator on the robot’s top will be red, amber, or green. Red is 0-20%, amber 20-50%, and green 50-100%.
So, how do you vacuum?
Easy. Press the Power button (on the unit or the remote). Then press Auto for the default vacuuming mode. Press the “Play” button (looks like a Play and Pause icon on a TV remote). The robot will now begin to travel across your carpet or floor and vacuum.
It has sensors to keep it from bumping into obstacles. It also has an onboard camera. The camera collects data about the room being vacuumed, stores the data in memory, and then makes a more efficient, planned of its vacuuming the next time it is in the room.
This is a machine, and it is important to keep in mind, like anything else, it is not infallible. On its first run in my living room, it hit into an end table. Not hard, but it was a “hit” as opposed to a glance. It then turned and proceeded in another direction. The next time it vacuumed the room, it did not hit the table. I believe the camera’s view was directed at the gap in between the table and sofa, so it did not detect the table as an obstacle. I feel it the Scout did extremely well in the dining room, grazing but not hitting chairs, etc.
There are two places I felt the Scout was slightly disappointing (in a very minor way). The first was when I put it in my family room. The room is basically a rectangle, about 20’ x 13’ with a large L shaped sofa and an end table on one end, a TV unit in the middle, against a wall, and a chair and piano on the other end. The Scout covered the room, up and down, back and forth, and did a great job cleaning it, yet never made it to the foot or so width right along the front of the sofa. It seemed to spend a lot of time bouncing back and forth between the chair and piano. I let it run its course. It eventually shut down without ever making it along the foot of the sofa. The next time I did this room, I started the vacuum alongside this “missed” area. It cleaned it, and then went about the rest of the room. It did appear to commit the collected data to memory after the second pass, as I did the room again, and it covered it in full.
The second issue was that, while doing my living room, it wandered through the doorway into my kitchen. The kitchen is rather large, and it never made it back to the living room. I solved this by placing an obstacle in this doorway the next time it did the living room. I could also have used a piece of the magnetic strip Miele supplies for this purpose. I just chose to plop down a basket that was in the room instead. It is good that Miele provides the magnetic strip for situations where you want the robot to avoid an area.
Again, this is a machine, not an intelligent entity, so these were minor issues, but worth noting.
Overall, I could not be more pleased. We have a Golden Retriever, who tends to shed a lot of fur, so we vacuum every day. The Scout does a good job of cleaning up the fur, so we can use it to help us vacuum in between full vacuuming. Like any cleaner with a roller, I had to pull some…
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