Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

At the launch of the cloud whale intelligent sweeping and dragging robot in August, the cloud whale J4 and J4 Lite were officially unveiled. Among them, the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4 is the flagship of the year, with an initial price of 3999 yuan. Officials say it has top performance in the industry in terms of cleaning power, intelligent experience, cleaning maintenance and so on.

In recent years, with the soaring demand for intelligent cleaning in the domestic market, many new brands have emerged on the domestic robot track, such as cloud whale technology.

Cloud Whale sweeping and dragging robot J4, founded in 2016, is a bit "young" compared with veteran brands in industries such as Kovos, but its strength is also something to be reckoned with. It is reported that cloud whale has applied for about 850 technologies in many fields, such as SLAM, 3D perception, AI object recognition, robot structure technology, big data application and so on. Thanks to these technological advantages, many consumers often compare cloud whale and Coworth products, and cloud whale is also a difficult choice in the field of sweeping and dragging robots.

The protagonist of this article, the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4, has the industry top suction of 7800Pa. The self-designed cyclone diversion anti-winding rolling brush has also passed the anti-winding cleaning certification of SGS and Rhine. The official said that the dust bag hair pick-up rate is 99.56%, and the rolling brush hair remains 0%. In addition, there are other technologies such as Whale Soul Trust 2.0, dual-spectrum Dirtsense dirt sensing system and so on.

There must be many readers who are very interested in this product. Next, CTOnews.com will bring a detailed evaluation experience.

First, the design saw the first sight of the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4, and was immediately attracted by its fat fuselage.

Compared with other sweeping robots, the cloud whale J4 is a clean stream in design. The first is the relatively more "mini" base station design, the advantage of this design is that users do not need to reserve too much installation space and are more friendly to the home improvement environment.

Secondly, the cloud whale sweeping robot J4 uses a large number of rounded corners in the overall design, such as the warehouse entrance, such as the entire base station design, without any acute angle, the design is not "aggressive".

Just like the name "cloud whale", the round and moist is very much like a beluga whale, even somewhat cute.

Third, the cloud whale sweeper J4 pays great attention to details, such as the circular touch ring lights at the top of the base station and the metal scrub design around it. This ring lamp also has a very rich "state" breath lamp effect.

For example, around the radar at the top of the J4 fuselage of the cloud whale sweeping robot, there are decorative rings similar to diamond sections.

The J4 fuselage cover of the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot also uses a magnetic design, which can be gently removed from the top to remove and release the dust box.

Although the dust box of the cloud whale sweeper J4 is also made of plastic, the cloud whale sweeper J4 has a glass-like "bulingbuling" texture and looks very particular about the materials.

Even the chassis used for mop cleaning in the J4 base station of the cloud whale sweeping robot also adopts a translucent design and supports disassembly to facilitate later cleaning.

It should be emphasized that the fully automatic base station of the cloud whale sweeping robot J4 does not provide a dust box, only a sewage tank.

The cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4 integrates the dust collection function into the dust box inside the fuselage, which not only makes the base station smaller, but also avoids the pollution caused by the "secondary transfer" of garbage.

It is worth mentioning that in addition to the plastic dust box, the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4 also provides two disposable dust bags with its own filter, which can be thrown away after use, eliminating the hassle of cleaning the dust box back and forth. This design adds a lot of points to the experience, which we will explain in detail later in the experience section.

On the accessories, the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4 also provides a bottle of germicidal cleaner and a silver ion module.

This bottle of germicidal detergent can be completely installed inside the base station and the equipment will be put in automatically.

And this silver ion module, you can according to your own needs, installed in different locations, such as water tank, or inside the base station.

According to official data, the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4 has also achieved 99.9% bacteriostasis of the whole link, including silver ion bacteriostatic mop, water tank Ag+ slow release technology, etc., including dust bags also use air-dried antibacterial technology.

To the bottom.

The mop and edge brush design of the cloud whale sweeping robot J4 is very interesting. first of all, the left and right side brushes do not use the traditional "trilateral" design, but a "bow" two-sided brush.

The mop is not a traditional circle, but is designed as a triangle. So why are edge brushes and mop designed in this way? Let's sell it, and we'll talk about it later.

According to the official description, the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4 has realized the industry top suction of 7800Pa, as well as the self-developed U-pipe efficient air duct system. 7800Pa, this data is really amazing, in such an exaggerated suction, wooden floors, tile floors, cracks in the particles can be easily "eliminated".

Let's go straight to the cleaning effect.

During the test, the author sprinkled some larger particles of snack residue and liquid on the ground.

Cloud whale sweep and drag robot J4 provides mute, standard, strong, super four suction gear, we choose standard suction, through the moving picture, we can see that cloud whale sweep and drag robot J4 can easily suck them clean, which can be said to be effortless. This is still the performance under standard suction, and if it is replaced by super suction, it is obviously not a problem.

Solid liquid garbage cleaning effect let's see the effect of sweeping and mopping the floor.

The cloud whale sweeping robot J4 uses high rotation dynamic pressure to mop the floor at a speed of 180rpm / min, and also supports automatic pressure regulation of 7-12N. The greater the pressure exerted by the mop to the ground, the more obvious the cleaning effect. 7-12N this parameter, in the same specification products, is also the flagship level.

Solid garbage sweeping effect the author sprinkled some snack residue, coffee stains and dry and wet garbage on the ground, we can see that after the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4 passed by, the ground immediately became clean, and the effect was very obvious.

Solid liquid garbage mop effect in addition to coffee stains, some soy sauce stains that have solidified on the ground, cloud whale sweeping robot J4 can also be cleaned, so the cloud whale sweeping robot J4 is equipped with Dirt-sense dirt identification system, which can intelligently judge the mop and the degree of dirt on the ground and automatically re-wash the heavy dirty mop until it is washed.

This is very interesting in the experience. The cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4 gives me a feeling that it is a guy who suffers from "cleanliness addiction" and "obsessive-compulsive disorder"--

When there are stubborn stains on the ground, the cloud whale mop robot J4 will keep cleaning after it is detected. If it is not cleaned once, it will go back to clean the mop automatically, and then clean it again. Then do it again.

So, if you have more heavily polluted areas in your home environment, you can see the cloud whale sweeping robot J4 constantly washing the mop, either mopping the floor or washing the mop. This reminds me of the cleaning robot named "Mmuro" in the movie "Robot Mobilization", which will not stop until it is "clean".

2. Mop, edge brush experience the edge brush and mop of the "special design" of the cloud whale sweeping robot J4 mentioned above, so what is the function of this design? Let's explain one by one.

First of all, is the "bow" edge brush, this design can first of all "prevent winding", the structure of a less brush head, naturally can reduce the possibility of hair winding.

The second is "pollution prevention". For example, when purely mopping the floor, the "bow" edge brush can automatically "hang behind", advance in the shape of "inverted V", park backward in the chassis of the machine, reduce resistance and prevent stains from being blown off the ground.

Pure mop mode, such as carpet cleaning, the same "inverted V" shape to avoid excessive wear on the carpet edge brush; or, for example, back to the "base station", the edge brush will also dock in the machine chassis, reducing the friction of the edge brush.

These two pairs of "bow" edge brushes also support adjustable speed design, and there will be different rotational speeds for different cleaning scenes.

For example, when the sweeping robot is close to the wall on the right, it turns faster on the right and cleans the rubbish between the walls quickly, while the speed of the side brush on the left becomes a little slower to avoid being blown away as much as possible:

For example, when the "sweep and mop" is carried out at the same time, the edge brush on the cleaned side will be parked back in the chassis of the machine to prevent the dusty edge brush from coming into contact with the wet clean ground, while the uncleaned side will be cleaned with 130RPM:

With regard to the "triangle" mop, put a moving picture here and you will understand it. As shown in the following figure, the two triangular mops will stick together like gears, and when you turn the mop on one side, the other side will also be "passive".

The advantage of this design is that, on the one hand, there will be no clean dead corner on the ground between the two mop; on the other hand, the coverage area of the mop is larger when it rotates, especially in the outward-facing area, the triangle shape can be more "close to the edge" and leak less.

The mop rises and falls when the carpet is cleaned. For example, when the carpet area is identified, the whale mop J4 will automatically raise the mop to prevent the carpet from getting wet and contaminated, or when it returns to the base station, the mop will also rise.

3. Self-cleaning experience cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4 supports the upper and lower version, which is 500 yuan more expensive than the basic version, which is also the standard price in the industry. However, for users considering the upper and lower water version, be sure to reserve the installation area in advance.

Because the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4 base station does not have a dust collection box, it eliminates the possibility of secondary garbage transfer pollution. But after all, the capacity of the fuselage dust box is limited, so it is necessary to clean up back and forth.

Of course, the author thought so at first, but after some experience, I found that this was not the case.

In fact, the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4 has an excellent experience with a "disposable dust bag". First of all, the capacity of the dust bag is large enough for officials to give no specific figures, but says daily use is enough to last for a month.

After a day-long test, the author opened the dust bag again and found that there was no imagined dust bag full of dust bags, but all the garbage inside gathered together, which was very interesting until the author consulted the data. It turns out that after cleaning, the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4 will always "compress" the dust bag with maximum suction, "adsorb" the fluffy garbage inside, and gather together. No wonder the cloud whale sweeper J4 always says "it's compressing the dust bag" every time it cleans itself.

In particular, those fluffy rubbish such as fine hair and fluff will come together under high suction to make more space in the dust bag to ensure a more lasting use time.

At present, the price of disposable dust bags is 39 yuan a set, 39 yuan can be used for a quarter, not expensive.

In addition, the cloud whale mop robot J4 supports automatic mop washing, hot air drying, automatic base station cleaning and so on. As shown in the following picture, the coffee stains on the mop have disappeared after self-cleaning, and the effect is still obvious.

Finally, to talk about the "rolling brush" of the cloud whale sweeping robot J4, there is a very big pain point in the use of the traditional sweeping robot, that is, the rolling brush at the bottom is often entangled with hair, so you have to clean the hair manually, dirty and tired, especially those families with more women or pets. I believe you will often be suspicious of life by this incident.

The solution given by the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4 is the "cyclone diversion anti-winding rolling brush". The name is very long, simply speaking, it uses a special "conical" design to ensure the cleaning effect and achieve zero winding at the same time.

For example, a whirlpool in the water attracts things nearby to roll down, as does the rolling brush of the cloud whale sweeping robot J4. Through high suction + high-speed rotation, the hair will slowly come to the "conical" area of the rolling brush and then inhale the dust bag.

As the picture above shows, after a day of cleaning, there is no trace of hair entanglement in the bottom rolling brush of the cloud whale sweeping robot J4, and it seems that the official "zero winding" is not a gimmick.

3. Obstacle avoidance the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4 is equipped with "Narwal IPS 4.0Whale Spirit perception system". The hardware includes front side + right side structured light double recognition and Triple-Laser three laser space sensing. Officials say they can accurately avoid obstacles at the millimeter level.

In working principle, it is still the set of 3D structured light-infrared laser emits light, captures the light spot projected to the measured object, and then uses the AI algorithm to identify and generate obstacle information to identify and avoid obstacles. Among them, the forward structured light is mainly used to identify and avoid the low obstacles in advance, and the lateral structured light is mainly used to realize the collision-free edge of the obstacles while the robot is moving.

In the process of experience, the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4 is very accurate in identifying small objects such as carpets, corners and slippers.

For example, in some complex and narrow areas, some floor sweeping robots will avoid through "collision", but the cloud whale sweeping robot J4 is very "cautious" in path planning, and there is almost no "collision" phenomenon.

However, for those power lines that fall on the ground, the recognition rate of J4 is not high. The author encountered a fight between J4 and "power cord" during the test, and the battle ended with the fall of two mop of J4. Fortunately, J4 passed the App reminder in time, and the author mop it and reinstall it as soon as possible.

Therefore, it is recommended to tidy up the power cord before cleaning, or set a restricted area near the power cord. When it comes to the setting of the restricted area, the author would like to talk about the App intelligent interactive experience of the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4.

Before activating the cloud whale sweeper robot J4, you need to download the "cloud whale intelligence" App to bind it. After binding, the cloud whale sweeper robot J4 will build the map before it is officially used.

Cloud Whale Intelligence App home page and competitors' products, after the completion of the map, the cloud whale sweeper J4 also supports map editing, but, unlike the cloud whale sweeper J4 added the "whale spirit hosting" function, and upgraded to version 2.0.

For example, in traditional floor sweeping robot products, after drawing, we may make more subdivided settings for different scenes, such as large amount of water in the kitchen, high suction in the carpet, sweeping the living room first, dragging the living room, and so on. to meet our different cleaning methods for different rooms.

J4, the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot, naturally supports this feature, but for the elderly, they just want to "clean with one button" and press the switch, and the robot can automatically carry out different cleaning strategies for different rooms.

The "Whale Spirit hosting" function is implemented for the above requirements, which supports one-click startup in all cleaning modes and intelligently configures cleaning parameters without setting any parameters separately.

As a matter of fact, in the test, the author did not take the initiative to choose the cleaning mode, but gave it all to the "Whale Spirit Trust", which can be easily dealt with at the same time, sweeping first and then dragging, single sweeping and single dragging.

It is worth mentioning that the cloud whale sweeper J4 also adds voice control functions, such as voice control to specify room cleaning, voice control robot pause, recharge and other basic operations. In addition, the voice control of the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4 is also added to the small speaker ecology, which can be bound to control J4 through the small speaker.

J4, the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot, will also have a detailed work record report after each work, including the cleaning area, working hours and progress, which will be displayed in App in the form of a timeline.

You can also add scheduled tasks and shortcut tasks through App, and when editing "tasks", you can also select "Whale Spirit Trust", select the cleaning mode at the bottom, and then scan and drag several times, giving it how much suction and humidity.

Of course, you can also choose definitions, such as cleaning mode, number of sweeps, suction, humidity, and so on.

However, the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4 also needs to be upgraded, that is, it is hoped that the cleaning path can be visually displayed on App in a "line" way later, although it can be seen now, but now it is just a similar "graffiti" display, not particularly intuitive.

Conclusion: after a period of experience, the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4 left a deep impression on the author in three points:

The first point is excellent design. Especially in the details of polishing, as well as the careful use of materials, and even a strong "fruity", so when this product is placed in front of you, even without talking about experience, it will make you feel that this 3999 yuan is worth it.

The second point is the excellent anti-winding design of the rolling brush to say goodbye to the trouble of hair winding, which is also a clear advantage of the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4 over its competitors.

The third point is "whale spirit trusteeship". Its existence makes the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4 seem to have the ability of self-thinking, and the cleaning strategy is entirely determined by it. This is also mentioned by the author above, it is like obsessive-compulsive disorder, it must completely eliminate the stubborn stains on the ground before giving up.

In the "Whale Spirit Trust", the cloud whale sweeping robot J4 can intelligently adapt to the cleaning scheme, and all you have to do is press the cleaning switch. After all, the purpose of the sweeping robot is to liberate human hands. In this way, the cloud whale sweeping and dragging robot J4 has moved closer to this goal.

Welcome to subscribe "Shulou Technology Information " to get latest news, interesting things and hot topics in the IT industry, and controls the hottest and latest Internet news, technology news and IT industry trends.