We’ve all seen robot vacuums, and they’ve made some great strides in getting smarter and doing a better job of cleaning your floors, but I never found one that could be the only vacuum in my house.

My house is all hard flooring and there are lots of times when I just want to grab my portable stick vacuum and clean up a small area. My Dyson stick vacuum does a great job.

I’ve hesitated to purchase a robot vacuum for our home, as our house is on the small side and vacuuming it by hand is not that big of a chore for us. We really can’t justify two separate vacuums.

Earlier this year, Eufy introduced a 3-in-1 vacuum called the E20 that just might be able to be the only vacuum for us.

The Eufy E20 ($649.99 list, eufy.com) at first glance looks like other robot vacuums, but then you notice there’s more going on up top.

There is a removable piece that houses the vacuum motor, battery and dust canister. This means you can remove that portion and use it with some attachments as a stick vacuum or handheld vacuum.

The E20 uses a base station to charge the vacuum and to automatically empty the contents of the dirt canister every time it returns from a job. The base is smaller than a lot I’ve used. It measures 14 inches tall by about 15 inches wide, and it sticks out from the wall about 17 inches, so you need to have a big enough spot for it to live. It also has to be somewhere the vacuum can easily return to when it is done cleaning or running low on battery.

The E20 is a vacuum only. There is no mopping involved, so the base station doesn’t have to have any clean or dirty water tanks. This makes life easier and the base smaller.

When the robot returns from a cleaning run, it backs into the base to offload the dirt before it turns itself around to dock for charging. The base can store up to 3 liters of dust, and Eufy says you might be able to vacuum 75 days before you need to empty the bin.

You’ll need to set it up using an iPhone or Android phone with the free Eufy Clean app. After it’s connected to the app and charged up, the vacuum will take off and map the rooms of your house. It uses laser radar to get the lay of the land, as well as to avoid obstacles that may be in the way. When it has created room maps, you can set up zones where you’d like the robot to avoid and start cleaning.

You can have the robot vacuum up to 1,500 square feet on a single charge. If you’d like it to clean when you are away, simply schedule it in the app. You can also set it to clean specific rooms or the entire house. Since it doesn’t need light to see your floors, you can have it run at night.

It also has the ability to scan and clean multiple levels of your house. It can save up to five separate room maps, so even if you need to carry it up or downstairs in your house, it’ll know where it is when you set it down.

Note, if the robot is cleaning upstairs, and the base is downstairs, you’ll eventually get a notification that there is a positioning error and that the robot needs help to get back home to charge. This is normal. Eufy says you can purchase an additional base station if you like.

The battery can run the E20 for up to 180 minutes, and it recharges in 2.5 hours.

So far it’s a great robot vacuum for your floors, but wait, there’s more.

Pop off the motor and click on one of the three attachments and you’ve got a stick vacuum to spot clean areas of your house that don’t need the full robot treatment.

The attachments include a motorized floor cleaner head, brush/hard surface tool and a crevice tool. These can be used with or without the adjustable extension tube.

The handheld vacuum is perfect for cleaning your stairs, picking up spills on your countertop or tables or for cleaning blinds or window sills or even carrying out to vacuum the floors of your vehicles.

The vacuum has a five-stage filtration system that can filter out 99.7 percent of the dirt and dust particles in your air and can capture dust as small as 0.3 microns.

If you have multiple vacuums in your house (like I do), you really should take a look at the E20, which can replace them all and make less work for you.

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