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.
Navigation and mapping in the HUVI
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.
Shop the Kalorik Home HUVI R1 Robot Vacuum online at Best Buy today.
The HEPA filter is my favourite feature, it’s essential for keeping our allergies under control.
Lavender is the scent that I would like to try first.
HEPA 13 filter is my favourite. I’d love to try sweet orange.
The Hepa filter to clean the allergens and love the scent of lavender oil in the diffuser.
I’d love to try any of the citrus scents – it makes me feel like my house is clean!
I like that it’s compatible with Alexa and has a disinfectant feature. I would use grapefruit essential oil since it’s such an energizing scent.
Love the uv light. The diffuser would be perfect for pretty floral scents
I like that it has four side brushes and does thin carpets and hard floors as well as thick carpets, all of which I have.
aroma diffusing and UV-cleaning technology are the most interesting features !
I think the ION cleaning function is my favourite feature. It would help clean and scent the air while it is cleaning. I would try the blood orange scent that comes with the vacuum, but I would probably try a lemon scent as I find it makes the home smell cleaner!
I would use lemon scent in the diffuser if available. I really like that it uses a HEPA 13 filter for allergens as we have three cats and we get company with cat allergies.
Love there’s a HEPA filter and the UV lighting! And I’d use some eucalyptus essential oil so my home smells like a spa!
The HEPA filter would help with our allergies. Lavender would be a scent I would try first.
I like the medical-grade HEPA 13 filter and would try the orange scent.
The HEPA filter is my favourite feature to help with allergies. Lavender would be a scent I would use with the diffuser
My favorite feature is the ION cleaning function. I would use the lime scent.
HEPA 13 filter, UVC dustbin sanitization, and ionizer technology
My favourite feature is the UVC technology inside of the vacuum’s dust bin that aids in disinfecting the contents of the dustbin to prevent viruses and bacteria from recirculating into your home. I would use a lemon scent in the diffuser.
My favourite feature of this robot vacuum is the built in aroma diffuser. I would use lavender essential oil in the diffuser to promote relaxation.
The HEPA grade filter is a huge plus for myself, especially living in an industrialized area. The first scent I’d put in the diffuser is an Amber scent.
My favourite feature is runtime of 110 minutes before it needs to return to the charge base. I would use a lemon scent in the diffuser.
i like the feature of he medical-grade HEPA 13 filter, and i would use a lemon scented scent.
I would greatly appreciate the medical-grade HEPA 13 filter to clean the air in our home, important with family allergies
The navigation mapping is a super cool feature and an orange scent in the diffuser would be nice.
Favourite feature is removable HEPA 13 filter and a UVC sanitizing light. I would use an apple pie scent in the diffuser.
Hepa 13 filter and I would use orange diffusers smell or matcha if there is one.
I like the run time before needing to be recharged.
The HEPA filter is a feature I like to help with allergies. Lavender would be a scent I would use with the diffuser.
My favourite feature is the maximum runtime of 110 minutes before it returns to the charge base. I would use the Sweet Orange scent in the diffuser.
Having a Medical Grade Hepa13 filter is my favourite feature, wow! The Hepa filter would help to keep dust away and stops the sneezes! My favourite scent for the Kalorik Home HUVI R1 robot vacuum would be Grapefruit, I just love it for it’s brightening clean scent and uplifting spirit.
The fact it cleans the air while cleaning the house is amazing! Really handy considering forest fire season is coming up! I’d definitely use a simple lavender essential oil with it too!
I like that it’s smart enough to dock itself and recharge!!
The vacuum’s ION cleaning function to help clean the air in your home is my favourite feature of this vacuum. I would use a peppermint scent in the diffuser.
My favourite feature is the aroma diffuser that’s built in along with the run time on the vacuum.
I like the long run time and that fact that there is a built-in diffuser. I think I would start with the sweet orange scent and change to different scents during different seasons and/or occasions!
My favourite feature is the maximum runtime of 110 minutes, and I would use the lavender scent in the diffuser.
I like the quiet PA suction and the double sided filter with a Hepa filter. A Heap filter is important to me with small children in our home. I think I would first choose a coconut scent as I find it relaxing.
My favorite feature is the HEPA filter since we have a cat and allergies and I like the sweet orange scent
My favourite feature is the medical-grade HEPA 13 filter which traps 99.95% of allergens. I would use the sweet orange or lemon scent if available. Thanks for the opportunity.
The Hepa filter and helping us rid our home of allergins is my favorite feature I would love the strawberry scent because that would add a freshness to our home.
I love that it docks itself to recharge and the HEPA filter. I think the Sweet Orange scent would be really fresh.
I like that it has a bagless bin with a removable HEPA 13 filter. I wouldn’t use any scents though because they are not good for you.
I love the aroma diffuser and would use a sweet orange scent.
Aroma diffuser is an interesting idea
a sanitizing light? this baby has all the great features I didn’t even know I wanted. Air Purifyer, scent diffuser, wow, this has it all!
I really like that it docks itself to recharge, plus has good suction. The sweet orange diffuser scent sounds good to me.
I would love the vacuum’s ION cleaning function to help clean the air in my home, and would really enjoy the sweet orange Essential oil.
I really like the HEPA filter offering that it offers and I would love to use the jasmine scent.
The small charging station is my favorite feature and I would like the Sweet Orange essential oil scent
I like that it has UV lights to disinfect the dustbin – not recirculating dirty air. I wouldn’t use the diffuser as I don’t like a lot of artificial scents in the house.
I like the smart app that will set the suction strength. This would be great whether doing carpets or mats or hardwood floors. I would use a strawberry scent first as with summer coming it reminds me of summer fun.
The HEPA filter is my favourite feature and I would use the jasmine scent.
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