As someone with more cats than common sense, it’s great to see a powerful robot vacuum enter the market. I was and still am happy with Xiaomi’s robot vacuum and Ecovacs’ specialized robot vacuum / mop combo but since the fur babies keep on shedding, our family needs to keep on upgrading. They self-navigate on any flooring type, from hardwoods to carpets, and some models can even be programmed to have a cleaning schedule and to sync to smartphones and smart home devices. For example, iRobot’s latest Roomba vacuums are activated by a mobile app or smart home sensor to start cleaning when you leave your home.
The motor speed has increased from 78,000 RPM on its predecessor to 110,000, which supposedly delivers six times the suction of other robot vacuums. It also has a “triple-action” brush bar for optimal cleaning on different surfaces. Namely, it uses soft bissell crosswave cordless nylon for hard floors, anti-static carbon fiber filaments for fine dust and stiff nylon bristles for carpets. Many models’ batteries last between 120 and 180 minutes on average, though that can decrease to about 60 minutes on high pile, thick carpet.
There were only some areas around the chairs and table which were left unvacuumed. During this time the robot seemed to run at maximum power most of the time, and with a high pitch (we measured the volume at 65dBA, a bit louder than a regular conversation). The noise softens when it goes over areas that have already been cleaned.
The company’s quietest air purifier yet, it’s designed to bring clean air to large homes and office spaces with up to 87 liters of airflow per second of purified air over 10 meters. For those who don’t know much about these things, that’s a lot of air the Big+Quiet is pumping out in near serenity. Think of it as the industrial-sized companion to Dyson’s truly wild Zone headphones/personal air purifier, which makes you look like Bane while you kick it to the new Dave Matthews album. Rather than eradicating dirt from your floor, many models tend to shuffle it around the place instead, before getting lost on their way back to the charging dock. The company has also added an arm that pops out and redirects suction, picking up dirt at the edges.
Perhaps you were today years old when you learned that a Dyson robot vacuum ever existed in the first place. There was the Dyson 360 Eye, a cumbersome relic that’s been collecting dust in a figurative basement since 2016, and the Dyson 360 Heurist, a 2020 upgrade to the Eye that was never even released in the U.S. This story was originally published on British GQ with the headline, “Dyson’s 360 Vis Nav is an all-seeing, all-sucking robot vacuum that’ll rule over your home”. As of yet, there’s no release date set for the Dyson Big+Quiet, but both the 360 Vis Nav robot vacuum and V15s Detect Submarine are due out later this year. So they should sneak into our lives just ahead of the AI apocalypse after all.
Dyson is promising up to 50 minutes of cleaning time before the 360 Vis Nav navigates back to its dock for a recharge, after which it will resume cleaning exactly where it left off. It can be monitored and scheduled using Dyson’s app, while sensors in the robovac will also help create dust maps of your home so you can pinpoint the source of where your dirt is coming from and proactively deal with it to reduce the amount of cleaning you need to do. When we reviewed the Dyson 360 Eye, we were impressed at how well it actually sucked up dirt, easily outperforming the competition at the time, but were also frustrated at the fact that its camera struggled to navigate a room when it got dark.
Dyson implemented a clever way for the robot vacuum to do edge cleaning, something most robots tend to suck at. Dyson announced a new robot vacuum, the Dyson 360 Vis Nav, and claims this one has “twice the suction” of any other robot vacuum on the market. Dyson implemented a cool feature shark cordless that lets the robot vacuum actually clean the edges of walls. Dyson’s floor cleaning tools are known for their ability to effectively suck up loose dust and debris, but food stains, dirt that’s stuck to hard surfaces, and wet spills have always required a separate cleaning tool.