The Ecovacs app allows you to set the Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI into action, primarily through its "Smart Cleaning function". This uses the Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI's sensors, which include a camera sensor on the front that hooks into the Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI's AI smarts for mapping and object avoidance as well as sensors on the sides to detect bumps from unexpected objects and on the base that work out if the Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI is about to tumble down some stairs, or if you've just picked it up.
You can hook directly into that front video sensor through what Ecovacs calls its "Smart Butler" mode, which lets you drive the Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI around like a remote control car. There's small scope here for home security and monitoring, although the reality of its top speed and noise profile means that you're never going to creep up on a burglar with it this way.
The Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI did a very good job of mapping out several areas in my test home environment, which included areas of hard floor and carpet, and over time it builds up an increasingly smart map of what it expects in each area. This does mean that when you're first starting out with it, some of its vacuuming decisions can seem a little odd.
More than once I'd notice it head into one area for a single sweep of one line of floor then head out to another area and return back later. You can track its actual coverage map in the app to see where it's covered for vacuuming or mopping duties over time, and during my review period, it seemed to get better at making a more logical stab at the optimal way to cover larger areas when needed.
Ecovacs pitches the Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI as being especially good at object avoidance, and this is very much true for most types of objects. You can set virtual boundaries beyond which you don't want it to travel, and it respects those, but even for smaller objects, it was quite smart at avoidance in nearly every case. I say nearly because there were two distinct areas where the Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI often struggled in my home environment.
Weather at the time of reviewing meant I had a few indoor clothes hangers with tube bases in my home, and the Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI would attempt to drive over them rather noisily. Its success rate in not beaching itself was about 50% in those cases, although it's kind of impressive that it would even try. I also had one area downstairs with a partially raised floor, and there it managed the ascent around 90% of the time. The app certainly isn't shy in letting you know if the poor Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI has gotten itself stuck or if it's got too much hair stuck in its rollers or any other problem. If you want a robot vacuum to do your cleaning work while you're out at the office, you're not going to be able to help too much with a stuck brush or trapped robot, though.

When it comes to the quality of the actual cleaning, the Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI works rather better as a vacuum than as a mop. It will intelligently adjust its suction depending on whether it picks up that it's working over a hard floor or a carpet area, which does give it more power when it's working through thicker carpet areas.
Like most robot vacuum cleaners, the result that you get is better suited for maintenance cleaning on surfaces that aren't too heavily soiled. You can again set the Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI to more diligently work over an area, but the reality of its suction capabilities means that it doesn't quite compare to a good handheld or rolling vacuum clean that you do yourself. It's also very much limited by the size of its dust bin, which, like most robot vacuums isn't immense. It's easy enough to empty the bin after each cleaning cycle, although you do need to be careful about the angle you pick it up from because the inlet hinge flaps open pretty easily. The first few times I cleared it, I forgot this and left a small trail of dust and particles near the robot that I then had to tell it to clean up afterwards.
The other trick in the Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI's arsenal is its mopping ability. You have to change the operation mode of the Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI to get this to work, clicking on a mop head – either the washable one that comes with the Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI or a disposable one – and filling the Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI's water tank with fresh clean water.
I was genuinely curious to see how well the Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI managed a mop of my hardwood floors and how well it would manage to avoid getting my carpets wet. On the latter front, it did excellently, avoiding every bit of carpet I had downstairs without fail.
On the former front, it does a fair but light job of mopping overall. That's absolutely a function of the fact that it's only using basic cold water for mopping purposes. The odds are good that when you do mop your floors, you probably don't do so with just cold water. You can set the level of water the Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI uses in mopping mode, but it never left much more than a very thin film of water behind it once done. Again, it's a maintenance tool for mostly-clean floors, not something that's going to clear up whatever the baby has spilled over the side of its high chair.
Small children aside, the other challenge that the Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI had to face in my situation were my cats. I honestly wasn't sure if they'd run scared from it or attack it as an interloper, but instead they generally saw it as a plaything.
Not quite to memetic YouTube video standards, but they were certainly keen to follow it around the house as it cleaned every time I set it off. If you have housebound pets that are left at home when you go to work every day, you could definitely use the Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI's video mode to keep them entertained.

In case you're curious, in a staring contest between a cat and the Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI, the cat wins, but only because the Deebot Ozmo T8 AIVI views it as another obstacle – typically marking it as a shoe or foot – and works its way around it if the cat doesn't in fact move at all.