eufy's new mid-range robot beats the brand's own flagship on almost every number

On 1 September 2026 eufy, the household brand of Anker Innovations, put the E35 Omni robot vacuum on sale in its British store for 999 pounds. Four months earlier the same manufacturer launched the Omni S2, the top of its home line, for 1,599 pounds. The cheaper and newer machine wins on nearly every figure the maker publishes. Suction is rated at 35,000 Pa against 30,000 Pa. The roller mop presses with 16 N instead of 15 N. Obstacle recognition is declared for more than 280 objects rather than more than 200, and the smallest object the robot is meant to notice drops from 2.5 cm to one cubic centimetre. The E35 also adds something the flagship does not have at all: an LED fill light and two line lasers that let it keep avoiding obstacles in a dark room. The flagship keeps its advantage in one place only — the dock. The S2 comes with a twelve-in-one station that washes the mop at 70 degrees, disinfects with ozonated water, collects dust for about 68 days and runs a fragrance diffuser. The E35 has an eight-in-one station, 60-degree washing, 55-degree drying and roughly 60 days unattended. Read as a purchase decision, that is a clear split: the extra 600 pounds no longer buy better cleaning, only rarer maintenance and a scented flat. Read as a market signal, it repeats a pattern this catalogue noted a day earlier among four competing flagships whose suction figures had converged at 22,000 to 35,000 Pa without any of them publishing airflow. When the headline number stops separating machines, manufacturers stop using it to separate their own price tiers as well. Both machines now have profiles in this catalogue; neither is listed in eufy's American store, which sells the S2's consumables but not the robot itself.