Ecovacs has a new flagship robot vacuum, Deebot X11 Omnicyclone, and it’s about providing uninterrupted cleaning with minimal human intervention. Alongside the quick top-up charge, another upgrade caught my eye: the addition of Agent AI, in the form of ‘Agent Yiko’.
If you are not familiar with the term, Agentic AI uses systems that can make decisions and solve problems autonomously, while Gen-IA is most dependent on predefined guidelines.
Yiko first appeared in Deebot Robovacs as an embedded voice assistant in 2021. Yiko 2.0 arrived in 2023 with the ability to understand complex sentences. By 2024 we got Yiko GPT, who used LLMs to deliver even more intelligent cleaning … But Agent Yiko is one step up again.
Agent Yiko “teaches proactively how you live” and then adapts its routines to fit around your lifestyle. Ecovacs says it will do this without the need for daily input, but rather you “just speak naturally and Agent Yiko comes to work”.
A smoother cleaning process
I’m not quite sure I’m ready for a Robovac with Agency, but in a showcase on IFA 2025, a representative of the brand explained how it can be used to interact with your robot vacuum for a smoother process. They explained that users did not really get the most out of their Robovac’s voice control features: 80% of users repeat the same orders for their robot quacuum every day, and many do not use the voice assistant to change settings.
Ecovacs has optimized Agent Yiko for three areas – ‘Start’, ‘Use’ and ‘Fix’. When you run Deeebot X11 for the first time, kicking an automatic review so you get used to instructing your bot using voice from OFF.
The part ‘use’ is probably the most interesting. If you put Deeebot X11 Omnicyclone in ‘AI Agent Mode’, it will make specific recommendations on which settings are to be used based on the situation it is in.
It can detect floor types, so if it knows it’s going to clean a wooden floor, it may suggest using less water. If you asked it to clean some rooms that require moping and then continue to clean a carpet -plated space, it will suggest that it tackles the carpet -coated space first, so there is no danger of pulling damp mop pads on it.
If it’s cleaning the kitchen and thinks it can be greasy, it will return to its dock to pick up some heavy cleaning solutions (with ugly remedy) rather than the standard solution.
Finally, Agent Yiko is intended to help you solve any problems you run into. It provides real-time voice feedback with problem solving.
In reality, I think the term ‘agent’ is used quite loosely here, and we are not actually looking at a robot vacuum that will make truly independent decisions. The idea of a Robovac that may suggest more effective cleaning routines I am much more aboard.
Ecovacs Deebot X11 Omnicyclone was sold in early September in the US and Canada with a list price of $ 1,499.99 (about $ 1,999.99). It is available at Ecovacs.com and Amazon in the US and Canada, Plus BestBuy.com and Target.com in the USA.
