There aren’t a lot of new features left to discover in the vacuuming world, but the Kalorik Home HUVI R1 Robot Vacuum has one suggestion: aromatherapy. The HUVI R1 features air-purifying technology with a spot for essential oils, offering a new twist to your household chore schedule.
What’s in the box of the Kalorik Home HUVI Robot Vacuum R1?
In the box of the Kalorik Home HUVI Robot Vacuum R1, you’ll find the vacuum and a very small charging base, along with a charging adapter, manual, and cleaning tool. The HUVI comes in fairly compact packaging, which makes it great for gifting and moving.
On the underside of the HUVI R1, there is a removable brush roll and a large, bagless dustbin. The bin features a removable HEPA 13 filter and a UVC sanitizing light, and the underside of the vacuum has two attachment spots for side brushes. Four side brushes are included in the box; two for thin rugs and hard floors, and two for thick carpets.
On the side of the HUVI is something I’ve never seen before: an aroma diffuser. Also included in the box of the HUVI is a bag of aroma strips (felt pads) and a bottle of Sweet Orange essential oil.
What are the features of the Kalorik HUVI Robot Vacuum?
The Kalorik HUVI Robot Vacuum R1 features quiet 2600 PA suction and a double-sided filter. On one side of the filter, a medical-grade HEPA 13 filter is designed to trap 99.95% of allergens. On the other, copper wire is meant to filter large particles. When this vacuum is running, UVC technology inside of the vacuum’s dust bin aids in disinfecting the contents of the dustbin to prevent viruses and bacteria from recirculating into your home.
The HUVI R1 advertises a maximum runtime of 110 minutes before it will return to its charging base, as well as Wi-Fi, Alexa, and Google Assistant compatibility. You can turn on the vacuum’s ION cleaning function to help clean the air in your home and scent the area with essential oil, and use the Kalorik Home smartphone app to set the HUVI’s suction strength (low, medium, high, or max), view past cleaning history and maps, schedule future cleanings, and modify speaker volume.
I’ve reviewed a lot of robot vacuums here at the Best Buy Blog. Back in the day, when robot vacuums were new, it was normal for them to take quite a while to clean your home. Every one used a random cleaning pattern. So, some days they might take an hour, while other days, they might take three or four.
Nowadays, vacuums usually (but not always) use a straight line cleaning method, which helps to standardize how long they take to clean. Because that’s what I’m used to, it felt a little strange that the Kalorik Home HUVI R1 still uses a randomized pattern. If it bumps into an item or surface, it will bounce against it three times to try to get through the area. And it does so pretty firmly—I have to reposition all of my lights, plants, and shelves after the HUVI vacuums, and it sometimes gets itself wedged underneath furniture. (It even managed to tip over my cat’s automatic feeder once and pop its bowl off!)
When the HUVI hits an object, or if it decides it’s been cleaning in a straight line for too long, it turns a random number of degrees and heads in that direction. This is particularly strange to me because the HUVI has the ability to create a map of your floor plan, but it doesn’t learn from those maps in future cleans.
How long does the HUVI R1 take to vacuum?
Because the Kalorik Home HUVI robot vacuum doesn’t use directional navigation, it was difficult for me to work it into my home’s schedule. My apartment is about 700 sq ft, and most robotic cleaners take about 50 minutes to thoroughly vacuum or mop it. Some take up to two hours, but it’s rare for a robot cleaner to take that long in my home.
Despite its advertised 110-minute runtime, the Kalorik HUVI R1 vacuums in my home for a maximum of 90 minutes. After 90 minutes, it heads back to its base to charge, which takes 20-40 minutes. However, these numbers aren’t consistent from one cleaning session to the next, and they aren’t recorded accurately in the Kalorik Home app’s cleaning history.
Sometimes, the HUVI R1 will vacuum just my bedroom (where its charging base is) again and again for the full 90 minutes, and then go back to its base to charge. In the time I’ve been testing and timing it, only once has it managed to vacuum my entire 700 sq ft apartment without being repositioned. That cleaning session took 90 minutes, but what struck me as odd was that it was recorded in the app as a 33 minute, 269 sq ft cleaning session.
On average, this vacuum takes 3 hours to vacuum my home, split into two 90-minute sessions with a manual repositioning in between the sessions. If I lift the vacuum from area to area, I can cut down that time by up to half.
How does the Kalorik Home HUVI handle rugs and cords?
The HUVI R1 gets stuck on both rugs and cords, which is not reflective of my experience with other robot vacuums. It can make it over the edge of heavy mats (like my memory foam kitchen mat) and raised edges. However, even though it comes with two different sets of edge sweepers (one for hard floors and thin area rugs, and one for thick carpets), it gets stuck on the edge of area rugs.
Because the HUVI R1 uses random path planning, it can get stuck on the same rug again and again. I lifted and repositioned it a dozen times before I gave up and rolled up all of my rugs!
My experience with the Kalorik Home HUVI R1 Robot Vacuum
The Kalorik Home HUVI R1 Robot Vacuum offers some very unique features, but it didn’t fit my lifestyle. I like to turn my robot vacuum on right as I get into bed or as I head out the door, so a vacuum that can quickly clean without supervision is important to me. I wasn’t able to do that with the HUVI, as I could never know for certain that it would make it to every room in my home.
As someone with cat allergies and a cat, it’s also essential to me that any vacuum in my home filters effectively. The HUVI is designed to do this, with a HEPA 13 filter, UVC dustbin sanitization, and ionizer technology, but I found that it made me quite sneezy whenever I ran it without emptying the dustbin beforehand. So, especially if you have allergies, it’s important to always empty this dustbin after use.
If you don’t mind a vacuum that gets a little lost at times, the HUVI R1 is a quiet robot vacuum with unique aroma diffusing and UV-cleaning technology. It has a large dustbin, an easy-to-navigate app, and excellent battery life.
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The different side brushes, for carpet and floors, is a great idea. The orange scent would probably be the most refreshing, although all would be nice.
I love the unique aroma diffusing and UV-cleaning technology. It’s a sold to me.
I love the ION Cleaning Function for cleaning the air. Orange scent would make it smell like Florida.
My favourite feature is the 110-minute runtime and I would use the Sweet Orange essential oil.
Thank you
My favourite feature of this vacuum is that it comes with an essential oil diffuser. I’d love the sweet orange scent
The Hepa and large, bagless dustbin
My favourite feature of this vacuum is the medical-grade HEPA 13 filter which is designed to trap 99.95% of allergens. The scent that I would use in the diffuser is vanilla!
The feature I like best is the setting for thick carpets. I would use lavender essential oil.
The strong suction for efficient cleaning would be nice. I’d use the clean scent of lemon oil.
My favourite feature of the Kalorik Home HUVI robot vacuum R1 is the medical-grade HEPA 13 filter. I would use lemongrass essential oil in the diffuser.
HEPA filter is perfect for clean air and my favorite scent is lavender.
i love that it has a HEPA 13 filter, UVC dustbin sanitization, and ionizer technology. This would be great to clean the cat fur in my home. I love love the lemon scent in the diffuser
The 110 min run time and the lemon scent.
I love that there is an aroma diffuser and the fact that it uses the HEPA filter to clean the air! I’d love the vanilla and lavender scent!
HEPA filter to clean the air, and the lavender scent.
Double-sided filter to eliminate germs.
The feature that is most interesting is the aroma diffuser. I have never heard of this feature on a robot vacuum before, and that actually sounds incredibly nice to have!
I would use the orange scent, and my favourite feature is the self charging Smile Fingers crossed
Hepa filter
I like the fact that it has a HEPA filter and a UVC technology to disinfect the dust bin. I’d like a light fresh laundry scent.
orange scent and I like the HEPA 13 filter to remove all the allergens
I like the HEPA 13 filter feature to trap allergens and would use the relaxing lavender scent.
The best feature is the HEPA filtration, this is important in our family as our son suffers from asthma and allergies
My favourite feature is the HEPA filter, and I wouldn’t use any scent, as I can’t stand scents!
Hepa filter to help clean the air, remove dust. Lavender scent sounds good too.
I really like that it has a HEPA filter, as this may help with my dust allergy. I would not use a scent with it.
The HEPA filter is an great feature. I’d use the orange scent!
I really like the hepa filter and removable brush. I’d use the orange scent.
I like that it has a HEPA 13 filter. I think the orange scent would be very appealing. lol
quiet 2600 PA suction and need a clean laundry scent
Love that it has the medical-grade HEPA 13 filter and the scent I don’t I would use it. I prefer no scent.
I love that it has the Hepa 13 filter and the UV sanitizing light. I’d choose a lavender scent for a calming, relaxed environment!
I like that the vacuum is quiet and I would love the Sweet Orange scent!
I love that it has an aroma diffuser. Never heard of that before! But the HEPA filter is alos an advantage
Great run time. I would probably try a lemony scent.
fresh laundry smell; the 110 minutes runtime; perfect for open floorplan.
The medical-grade HEPA 13 filter is my favorite feature and I’d probably use the Sweet Orange scent in the diffuser. I love oranges!
I like that the vacuum is quiet. Pine oil would be nice.
I like that it can run for 110 minutes. I think that I’d like the sweet orange scent.
I like the aromatherapy feature as well as the UVC technology inside of the vacuum’s dust for disinfecting the contents of the dustbin to prevent viruses and bacteria from recirculating
The aromatherapy feature would be an additional bonus to cleaning.
My favourite feature would be the 110-minute runtime and I would not use a scent.
Vanilla scent and the long working period of 110 minutes
Favourite feature is four side brushes are included in the box; two for thin rugs and hard floors, and two for thick carpets. I would use the orange spice essential oil.
My favourite feature is the 110-minute runtime. I would use the Sweet Orange scent in the diffuser.
The feature that I like is that it can run for 110 minutes and then return to its charging base.
I wouldn’t use a scent because I try to keep my house as scent free as possible because of family member allergies.
I like that it has a long runtime! 110 minutes! So I don’t have to worry about it running out of juice all the time. I would use Bergamot essential oil in the diffuser!
self charging and I wouldn’t use the scent
The feature I like the best is the double-sided filter. On one side of the filter, a medical-grade HEPA 13 filter is designed to trap 99.95% of allergens. On the other, copper wire is meant to filter large particles. I would use a lavender essential oil.
The feature/s I like the best is the quiet 2600 PA suction and a double-sided filter. I would use a lavender essential oil
My favourite feature is the quietness of this robot and I would use the sweet orange aromotherapy scent. What a great idea!
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