Dyson’s one of many greatest gamers within the cordless vacuum and air air purifier house (and, extra just lately, hair styling as effectively), but it surely’s stored a comparatively low profile within the robotic vacuum market. At present, the corporate’s bringing its newest robotic vacuum to the US and Canada. After being out there in different areas, the Dyson 360 Vis Nav is now out there to order within the US for a whopping $1,199 from Dyson direct and different retailers like Amazon.
Whereas we haven’t had the possibility to check the 360 Vis Nav but, we have been in a position to get extra particulars from Dyson about how the brand new robotic vacuum works. A couple of issues stand out as departures from conventional robotic vacuums, the primary being the 360-degree imaginative and prescient system that makes use of a digital camera on the top-center of the robotic to map out your own home because it cleans. House mapping isn’t new on this house, however Dyson claims that the photographs captured by this imaginative and prescient system will assist the machine higher perceive the format of your own home, together with the place obstacles like furnishings reside, make notice of corners and edges and assist it acknowledge the place it’s cleaned and the place it nonetheless must go to complete a job. The digital camera is surrounded by eight LEDs that stability publicity and higher assist the robovac navigate in low-light conditions as effectively.
Second, whereas most robotic vacuums use small sweepers to gather mud bunnies hiding in room corners and alongside furnishings edges, Dyson’s machine has a side-edge actuator that opens routinely when cleansing areas like these. It then makes use of suction to gather particles, which Dyson claims offers an much more thorough cleanup. I’m desirous to see how this works in observe as a result of cleansing the corners of rooms is likely one of the hardest issues for a robotic vacuum to do proper, even for those who have the benefit of a D-shaped design just like the 360 Vis Nav.
Lastly, Dyson’s robotic vacuum makes use of a Piezo sensor much like these discovered within the firm’s stick vacs to detect dust and, subsequently, assist the machine do a few issues: kick up its suction energy to the max 65 air watts when essential, and create a heatmap within the My Dyson app of the dirtiest elements of your own home. This seems like a extra helpful software for a piezo sensor than that of Dyson’s cordless vacuums; I discovered in my testing that seeing what number of dust particles you’re sucking up with a guide vacuum could be enjoyable to look at change on a digital show as you clear, but it surely’s not very actionable when you’re performed vacuuming. However on this software, significantly with the heatmap, that info can present you areas of your own home chances are you’ll wish to clear extra usually and you may program the 360 Vis Nav to solely clear these spots from inside the app.
The Dyson 360 Vis Nav has the same design to among the higher-end robotic vacuums in the marketplace proper now, with two squared-off edges that assist it get into room corners extra simply. Below the hood, it has a Hyperdymium motor and a detachable filter, plus a triple-action brush bar that spans the whole width of the machine, one thing you don’t usually see in competing robotic vacuums. Naturally, the cleansing surfaces borrow lots from these on the corporate’s stick vacs: there are carbon fiber bristles and stiff nylon bristles for deep-cleaning carpets and a “fluffy” softer nylon floor that’s higher on laborious flooring. The entire machine is HEPA-compliant, which suggests air that’s been sucked up can not escape via different elements of the machine, making it higher at trapping microscopic particles like allergens and dirt mites.
Dyson might have waited a bit to enter the US robotic vacuum market, but it surely seems it wished to search out the suitable methods of integrating expertise from its cordless vacuums into this house earlier than doing so. On paper, that expertise may set the 360 Vis Nav other than different robotic vacuums with regards to uncooked suction energy. After we’re in a position to get testing time with the machine, I’ll have an interest to check out its 4 cleansing modes (Auto, Enhance, Fast and Quiet), see if the marketed 65-minute runtime (in Auto Mode) really holds up and decide how strong and simple to make use of the My Dyson app is.
However what already units the 360 Vis Nav other than the competitors is its sky-high, $1,199 price ticket. That’s a value we’ve solely seen on robotic vacuums that include self-emptying bases, and the 360 Vis Nav doesn’t have a kind of (its dock solely recharges). However this gained’t be a shock for those who’re aware of different Dyson merchandise, which are sometimes priced at a premium.