Before Cloud Whale's first generation white whale, the base station of the sweeping/mopping robot was used to collect dust. Most users never thought that there would be a robot that could really mop the floor, let alone that there would be a day of "mop freedom", or even "water change freedom".

Cloud whale, a unicorn that has only made two products in five years, seems to be always holding out big moves. In 2019, Cloud Whale's first generation beluga whale (J1) monopolized the market with the function of automatic mop washing for nearly two years, and Cloud Whale has almost become a synonym for mopping robots. Two years later, the Beluga II (J2) has refreshed everyone's understanding of the sweeping robot again with the automatic launching function. The last time I saw such a big manufacturer, it was the last time.

Cloud Whale J2 is a little like an air purifier suddenly turning into a new fan. When smart devices are combined with water/gas pipelines, they have begun to move closer to the necessary traditional household appliances such as air conditioners and washing machines. Imagination space and product cognition are completely different.

As a global top 500 evaluation studio, we naturally got a new machine. Today, let's take a look at this sweeping and dragging robot that is used as a traditional household appliance.

Appearance: upgrading is almost concentrated on the base station

As a scientific and technological product, we come up with a parameter re reading: Cloud Whale J2 mop robot, model YJCC 010 code: Beluga II, LDS laser radar, 2500pa suction, dual piece rotary pressure mop, dry and wet dual path mop, automatic water change+automatic addition of cleaning solution+automatic cleaning mop+45 degree drying mop.

J2 has a water tank version and an automatic launch and launch version. The first launch price of the water tank version is 3999 yuan. The automatic launch and launch version is an additional launch and launch device with an active price of 299 yuan on the basis of the water tank version. The two versions can be switched to each other, with on-site exploration and installation services.

Cloud Whale plays very well in packaging. It has double-layer cartons. All the easily worn areas have tear off stickers. There are super detailed instructions similar to Japanese cameras. The instructions for water feeding and drainage devices even have an incredible one-time seal (I slowly put a question mark when opening the box). The outer carton with handrails reinforced is made with tear strips similar to express bags in the middle. It can be opened from the middle gracefully without having to lean over to move the machine. It is comfortable and ceremonial. It is recommended that all home appliance manufacturers do something like that.

Cloud Whale J2 comes with 2 sets of edge brushes, 2 sets of rags, a large bottle of sterilizing cleaner (930mL), a giant brush (convenient for use with the cleaning function at the bottom of the base station), and an "extremely advanced" virtual wall magnetic stripe, which fully takes care of any user who does not want to use the APP, and is also a silent protest against the fruit style environmental protection.

Cheap and large water supply and drainage device Family photo ↑

In addition to the water supply and drainage device and control box, there are several accessories such as water pipe adapter, three-way valve, filter screen, 10m clean water pipe/sewage pipe, right angle elbow, decorative hose, drilling decorative parts, and bundle pipe.

Real life of the industry's first automatic water feeding and drainage device ↑

The overall thickness is only about half of the normal water tank. Then the spare space can be used for spare mops and other accessories.

Cloud Whale J2 inherits the basic design of the previous generation, which is pure white, simple and mellow. The slightly elongated fuselage is really shaped like a "white whale". The side and bottom are sanded, the top is polished, and the sweeping and mop racks are all set with magnetic suction.

The mop of Cloud Whale J2 is very special. It is not a circle, but a staggered triangle. Its function will be discussed later.

The problem is that if you buy Cloud Whale J2, How can you let your friends who visit your home find that this is a stronger second generation?

Good Question， You just need to turn the back of the fuselage to your friend carelessly, so that he can see the side air outlet and the opening of the loudspeaker, not the grille of the original generation. Then lift the fuselage without disobedience and let it see some wall sensors on the side. If he returns the bar, he will use his finger to stroke the base station with four physical keys, thoughtfully open the base station cover, and slightly say with distress, "Let me see if I need to change the water. Oh, my dear Franks, I forgot that this is the top configuration cloud whale J2 that can automatically go up and down, and I don't need to change the water myself at all. For God's sake, forgive me again.".

This generation has added the automatic detergent adding function. In addition to the clean water and sewage tank, the base station has a special detergent groove inside, which will be described in detail below.

Automatic water launch: soul upgrade of Cloud Whale J2

The water supply and drainage device that increases by 299 yuan (active price) is the soul of Cloud Whale J2, as shown on the left ↑

This kit is really cheap and large. In addition to delivering a large number of accessories, it also brings home exploration and installation services. This is the first time an automatic water feeding and launching device has appeared in the mopping robot industry. The operation of Cloud Whale is to explore the way in the no man's land. It is difficult to imagine and worth encouraging.

The first 100 cities supported ↑

The installation service needs to be established step by step. It is not yet fully open. The first batch covers 100 first tier and second tier cities. You can consult the customer service for specific counties and districts. In order to dispel users' concerns, Cloud Whale has also provided a rare free exploration service, which can be refunded if the installation conditions are not met. This wave of cloud whales is obviously a subsidy. As long as the region and installation conditions allow, you can close your eyes and choose.

Second, where can the machine be installed?

The core installation requirement of Yunjing J2 automatic water supply and drainage device is the water inlet and outlet, which is connected to the original pipeline with a tee. In theory, the base station of Cloud Whale J2 can appear under the wash basin in the kitchen and bathroom, or in the corner of the living room and bedroom, or even beside the balcony, toilet and washing machine.

Skirting with pipeline ↑

Cloud Whale official store has released many consumer installation renderings. If you are interested, you can check them by yourself. If the target location is far away from the water source and does not want to drill holes, officials have different forms of hidden skirting.

The installation process was unexpectedly smooth, and it was only after watching the operation of the master that I realized that I had been completely careless before (but I still don't recommend installing the machine by myself, because the structure of the machine is complex and involves warranty issues). Experience and process are like installing household appliances, similar to installing water purifiers, air conditioners and water heaters, but Cloud Whale will have front-end exploration services, and exploration personnel will help with exploration and site selection.

Installation renderings of Shenzhen Bay No.1 ↑

The control box through which the clean water pipe "passes" is equipped with solenoid valve and pressure reducing valve ↑. Only when water is used will water come out. Even if the pipe is bitten by a child, it will not flood the golden mountain.

After installing the water feeding and launching device, there will be more power lines for the water outlet and control box at the rear of the fuselage, and the clean water pipe will be connected to the three-way valve after passing through the control box. Because the control box is also powered by the base station, it still occupies only one power plug.

The water outlet adapter box and all connectors are designed for quick disassembly. No tools are needed for installation and disassembly, and the water tank version can be restored in a few seconds. The factory even ships with wire bundle tubes, which have the taste of installing split water cooling.

Use experience: obstacle avoidance upgrade and rolling brush free design

The functions of Cloud Whale APP are very restrained, almost all of which are detailed settings of sweeping and mopping, which is easy to use.

The base station of Cloud Whale J2 has its own screen and four physical keys. Most common operations such as clean mode switching, don't disturb, mapping, and recall can be completed on the base station. The screen can display the working status and abnormal prompts of the robot. After the first connection and simple debugging, it can basically be used without APP, so that the elderly can use it smoothly.

Cloud Whale J2 has increased 360 degree collision perception, and the obstacle avoidance action between the legs of the stool has really become more decisive, and the low space is rarely stuck.

The two openings on the right side of the fuselage are not water injection ports, but two obstacle avoidance sensors ↑

The new radar strengthens the adaptability to low space, and can more safely drill to the bottom of the sofa and bed (the largest home of the floor sweeping robot, which is much easier to clean than humans). Sweep and mop the floor.

Maybe thanks to the new radar, Cloud Whale J2 can easily access the base station. Even if a piece of eyeglass cloth is placed in front of the BTS, there will be voice prompts. When leaving the BTS, the rear of Cloud Whale J2 is facing outward. If there is no omnidirectional obstacle avoidance, it is easy to run over something or get stuck just after leaving the BTS.

The obstacle surmounting ability has been improved to 2cm, and now it can cope with some abnormal thresholds.

The suction of this generation has also increased to 2500pa, with three gears of 600, 1000 and 2500pa. In addition to the design of no roller brush and narrow inlet, the static pressure suction of Cloud Whale J2 should be significantly improved. The potted soil that my aunt accidentally spilled on the ground, mixed with all kinds of biscuits and chips, can be solved once.

Dust collection box silently bearing everything ↑

The design of the dust collection box of Yunjing J2 is also very special. The dust collection box is divided into upper and lower layers by the partition board, and the dust will stay at the bottom layer, significantly increasing the service life of the filter element. However, the sweeping function of Cloud Whale J2 is the most obvious one is the design without roller brush. It has good hair suction effect and no trouble of entanglement. Don't remember to clean the entangled hair regularly. It's comfortable!

Mopping experience: add detergent, wash mop, dry and change water

Cleaner slot hidden in water tank ↑

If it hadn't been for the prompt on the screen of the base station, I couldn't have noticed that there was a detergent groove hidden inside the water tank. The whole bottle of detergent would have been enough. Yes, it's the whole bottle. A single bottle of 930mL can be put into the whole bottle without any need to handle it. The system automatically judges the amount and time of detergent addition. Users don't have to worry about detergent anymore, but they can also buy official detergent willingly. You are really a smart kid.

Non official detergent has not passed the machine behavior and life test. For example, some third-party detergent may block the pipeline due to powder precipitation, which will affect the hardware and functions. The manufacturer's operation is understandable, but now the official only has a lemon flavor for selection. I hope it will be enriched in the future.

Automatic cleaning cloth is a function created by Yunjing. Today, two years later, the flagship of Dachang has followed up. However, the cleaning rib bracket of Yunjing J2 base station can be taken out completely, which is a smart design and easy to clean. The bracket is equipped with a water retaining strip, which can block the water when the mop is thrown dry.

In terms of core mopping capability, Cloud Whale J2 is a double mop with 180 rpm and 10N downward pressure. The two mops are special triangles, and the rotating contour lines are overlapped, which are like gears that are staggered and occluded with each other, giving more scrubbing effect.

Cloud Whale J2 has three levels of adjustable mop humidity. It is recommended to control it according to the regional humidity, the amount of liquid on site and the degree of stain. The figure above shows the effect of the lowest humidity gear, which is enough to drag about 15mL of test soy sauce away at one time. The water capacity of the highest gear is relatively high, which will leave obvious drops on the hydrophobic marble of Shenzhen Bay No.1, so we use the lowest and middle gear.

I ate a packet of tomato sauce, and just washed it out, I ate 15mL soy sauce ↑

By the way, the path mode of Cloud Whale J2 sweeping and mopping is opposite. Sweeping is to sweep from the near to the far, while mopping is to drag from the far end to the near, so there will be no secondary pollution. Because the mop will sweep the wheels, even if there is dust on the wheels just after sweeping the floor, it will not leave two tracks of wheels like similar products.

According to the mop setting, the system will automatically judge the frequency of automatic back cleaning of the rag. There are several times to wash the rag, ranging from 2 minutes to 3 or 4 minutes. The automatic cleaning cloth of Cloud Whale J2 is a kind of slow work and meticulous work. As long as it doesn't encounter a lot of soy sauce, chili sauce, tomato sauce, etc., it can basically wash the mop back to white.

Cloud Whale J2 adds the function of drying mops at 45 degrees, which solves the problem that the mops are suffocated. 8 hours after mopping, the mop is completely dry, and the paper is not wet, even leaving a trace of warmth ↑

In terms of noise, the dust suction fan will not start when the machine body mops the floor, which is very quiet. But there is also obvious sound of water absorption, water pumping and mop scraping when the mop is backwashed. It will not be noisy in the daytime, but it is impossible to let it mop the floor during sleep as advertised.

Water tank and automatic water supply and drainage module can be directly replaced ↑

The design of the dual version switch of Cloud Whale is very pleasing. Except for the different ways of entering water, other function upgrades are the same. The water tank version also has the functions of automatically adding detergent, automatically cleaning the rag, and automatically drying the rag. It's not suitable at home for the time being, or it doesn't matter whether the water kit has been installed. Anyway, it can be switched at any time. However, there is a saying that with the function of automatic water change, this is the one-stop automation, and this is the "closed loop closure of mopping automation".

Maybe because of the automatic water change version, Cloud Whale J2 can wash the rags with confidence, and the water consumption is quite bold. Fill the clean water tank, and you can finish about 10 times of fine cleaning with rags. After the limit of water supply is released, Yunjing J2 cleaning cloth is really better. We also tried a packet of tomato sauce. Although the mop will be dyed (it is estimated that the mop material must be improved to avoid it), after two washes, we can hardly smell the tomato flavor, leaving only the lemon flavor of detergent.

summary

Although basic functions such as obstacle avoidance, obstacle surmounting and sweeping have been strengthened, Cloud Whale J2 is still a true "mopping enthusiast" and has unsurprisingly replaced the position of the "best mopping robot" of the early generation. The triangular mops with automatic cleaning mops, quick detachable ribs, sweeping and dragging path differentiation, and staggered rotation that have existed in a generation are very rare and smart designs. The second generation's new one-stop automatic experience of automatically adding detergent, drying and changing water is unique.

Cloud Whale's requirements for sweeping and dragging robots are obviously different from other manufacturers' selling points of simply spelling out parameters and playing tricks on mystery. In the eyes of Cloud Whale, robots should really free people's hands in use. To some extent, J2 is closer to washing machines: "If users are required to change water and dry it themselves, should they still call washing machines?" The automatic mop washing function of the early Beluga was followed by the whole industry within two years. This automatic water supply and drainage function involves difficult door-to-door installation services, and it is uncertain whether it will be followed up in large quantities.

When looking at the product introduction, I think it is troublesome to do the plumbing, but the automatic plumbing module with an activity price of 299 yuan is full of large pipes, and it also has its own exploration and installation. The actual operation and personnel costs are borne by Yunjing itself. As long as the installation conditions are met, close your eyes and rush, the wave will not be lost.

When encountering an inside roll, you should immediately find a new track instead of rolling with your opponent. The floor sweeping robot is still a field with many possibilities. Compared with the mobile CPU of "1% increase, 2% increase significantly, and 3% leap", the floor sweeping robot is more like a GPU of "one frame can play, two frames are smooth, and three frames of E-sports".

Dishwasher is an important device to soften the relationship between husband and wife, as is sweeping robot. The latter's practicability has been improved rapidly, and it is no longer the kind of product that needs "the noble in heart is burning" as a buying opportunity. In the past, we had to change water and add detergent every once in a while, but now we really don't need to do anything.

For household appliances, in addition to the psychological expectation of "no need to manage, only use", another important feature is the extremely long service life. It is recommended to increase the compatibility between the kit and the robot as Motorola modular mobile phones do. When upgrading, you can change the kit alone, saving money and protecting the environment.

Basic innovation is worth encouraging. I hope that the stems previously applied to Apple and Dajiang can also be applied to the floor sweeping/mopping robot one day: my son has wanted to be equipped with a computer for a long time. He was going to the computer city this weekend, but the new mopping robot was released today. Sorry for my good son. My father really needs this little robot, I'll bring you a box of crayons on my way back tomorrow.

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