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For the past few years in the month of May, Dyson has launched a new vacuum cleaner. And, just in time, there’s another… not another cordless vacuum cleaner like last year’s Dyson Gen5 Detect.
This year, Dyson’s got a new robot vacuum cleaner, which instead the company promises will outperform its competition. Called the Dyson 360 Vis Neo, it’s clearly been seven years in the making. So, where was all that time and effort put?
As with all things Dyson, it looks a far cry from the typical round robot vacuum cleaner we’re used to seeing.
Instead, the Dyson 360 Vis Neo is a D-shaped droid. According to the company, the two sharp angles at the front help the RoboVac enter corners. And if it does happen to miss one, Dyson has promised it will hit back.
More importantly, Dyson engineers have figured out that a small tube-like protrusion jutting out from one side is essential to making sure the bot picks up dust and debris even from the edges of a room — The lack of edge cleaning has been one of our biggest gripes with most of the robot vacuum cleaners we’ve tested. This protrusion is soft enough (like silicone) not to damage walls and skirting boards.
Design-wise, the blue D-shaped bot looks chunky and yet has a distinct Dyson aesthetic, perhaps due to the RoboVac’s recognizable Radial Cyclone technology on its top plate. With the Dyson cordless vacuum cleaner, it separates the larger particles from the smaller and they’re all sealed in what Dyson promises to be the most airtight system of any robot vacuum.
Allowing you to get a better idea of what the RoboVac is absorbing is a piezo sensor that was first introduced in Dyson’s cordless handsticks in the V15 Detect. While you won’t see a graphical representation of the particles being cleaned on the touchscreen on the top plate, it helps to create a dust map of your home, which can be accessed through the MyDyson smartphone app.
Helping 360 Vis Nav navigate around the home is a combination of a fish-eye lens capable of ‘seeing’ a full 360º and 26 additional sensors. These sensors have different purposes, including obstacle avoidance, dust detection, edge detection, and time-of-flight calculations to help with navigation and map-making. There is no lidar here as is the case with some other robot vacuum cleaners.
Comes with more power… a better clean
Dyson’s promise of a better floor clean comes from a maximum of 65 air watts (AW) of suction power and a redesigned Hyperdymium motor that spins up to 110,000 rpm.
The Dyson engineers at our demo were proud of how much power they managed to cram into the 360 Vis Nav, and rightfully so. This puts Dyson’s new RoboVac almost at the top of the list of most powerful robot vacuum cleaners, but not over the top.
Most robovacs offer between 500Pa to 3,000Pa (9.6AW to 57.69AW; 1Pa equals 52AW) of suction power, with an average of 1,400Pa, or 27AW. Taking some of the more popular robot vacuum cleaners on the market as examples, the Ecovacs Deebot T8 AIVI has a max suction of 28.8 AW and the Deebot T9 gets 57.69AW with a motor spinning up to 19,000rpm. However, Ecovacs Robotics bests Dyson with its Deebot X1 series, achieving a maximum suction of 96.15AW (or 5,000Pa). Similarly, the Roborock S8 Pro Ultra boasts up to 6,000Pa or 115AW.
Still, the 65AW is powerful and, from what I saw during the launch event demonstration, it’s strong enough to suck up some dust as fine as cornflour. The Dyson 360 Vis Neo has dynamic suction, so it will automatically switch power to auto mode if it senses more dirt or a different floor surface. And none of the competition has the little tube-like protrusion to suck up the gunk lying in the sides of the room.
Helping to promise a better clean is the bar brush. Unlike most robot vacuum cleaners, it’s bottom of the bot extends almost edge-to-edge, which means it’s got a bigger footprint for wider, potentially faster cleaning. Plus, it combines some of the Dyson brushes we found with the cordless vac so it can handle a wide variety of surfaces.
Has stiff bristles that can tease carpet fibers to lift hair and dirt deeper, a soft roller for hard floors and anti-static carbonfiber filaments to ensure dust doesn’t stick to the brush or hard floor because It moves along and creates static energy.
Dyson says that the brush is also quite thick, ensuring that hair and fur don’t get tangled around it. The bar brush can be easily removed and washed. Be sure to keep the RoboVac away from water, though. Even the bin is quintessentially Dyson, a smaller, slightly revamped version on cordless vacuums.
Like cordless handsticks, the Dyson 360 Vis Neo has four cleaning modes — Auto for optimized and dynamic cleaning, Quick for small spot cleaning, When you want to watch Netflix without being overwhelmed, and Boost for deep cleaning.
There’s up to 50 minutes of battery life on a full charge, but Dyson says you can’t get more than 5-8 minutes on Boost. As mentioned earlier, the HEPA filtration system promises to be airtight, and captures 99.99% of particles as small as 0.1 microns (corn starch particle size, 0.5 microns with tobacco smoke and 0.3 microns as bacteria settles) Can capture and seal small particles as a comparison). This makes it potentially ideal for those with allergies.
Price of an Automatic Dyson Clean
According to James Dyson, “Robot vacuum cleaners shouldn’t be a novelty.” However, the price of the Dyson 360 Vis Nav may make it so.
It’s launching in Australia first with a price tag of AU$2,399 (roughly $1,599 / £1,285 converted) and will be available to buy directly from Dyson stores from May 25.
That’s a steep price for a robot vacuum cleaner that doesn’t automatically clean or empty its bin and puts it out of reach for many potential customers. The multi-tasking Ecovacs Deebot X1 Omni and Roborock S8 Pro Ultra cost $1,549 / £1,499 / AU$2,499 and $1,599 / AU$2,699 (unavailable in the UK) respectively. That said, Dyson devices don’t come cheap.
I asked Dyson when the 360 Vis Nav would be available in more markets, specifically the US and UK, and I was not given a timeline, although indirect indications suggest it may end up in the wider global market at some point Will go , The Dyson V12 Detect Slim, for example, was first launched in Australia alongside the V15 Detect and was not made in the US or UK until later.
I also wanted to know whether future iterations of the 360 Vis Neo will have mopping and self-emptying capabilities – mum’s word for the former, whereas Dyson doesn’t believe in self-emptying stations. are ideal because they blow out dust and are not quite airtight. However, I was told that the original 360 Vis Nav will be kept updated with over-the-air firmware updates as the company comes up with ways to improve the bot in the not-too-distant future. In fact, in Australia, there’s a team of customer service representatives who will even mail you a USB stick with these updates – there’s a port on the RoboVac.
You can watch a short video (above) of how the Dyson 360 Vis Neo works and it looks like it could be one of the best robot vacuums you can get and even The best vacuums – corded and cordless alike can compete. I look forward to seeing it put through its paces to see how well it will perform in real-world scenarios. watch this space.
