Dyson makes great products; however, the robot vacuum 360 Eye is not their best effort to date. Once I learned how to do everything in the app, I still had trouble getting most things going. A few too many steps involved, unless you just want to start cleaning. The reports were the same as the Roomba, with coverage, battery and charging times. Just like anything that rotates on the floors, it will collect longer hairs and threads that will get wrapped around the extractors. The good news is that the extractors are easily removable and without brushes and bristles to get in the way they wipe off easily.
Its tank tracks prove more than up to the challenge of dealing with rugs and even flooring at different heights. To block its path you will have to shut doors or put up barricades. Providing this isn’t an issue you have the Dyson name and up to a five-year warranty to back the machine.
And if its first entry into robotics is any indication, iRobot had better watch out. Cleaning power and performance may go some way towards justifying the cost, but there are alternatives that do a good job for a lot less. The iRobot Roomba 980 has also dropped the ball when shark cordless it comes to overall performance. However, the 980 does make sure it picks up as much as possible and does a fairly decent job. The camera navigation is a lot better than expected, and it doesn’t have as much difficulty finding its docking station as previous models did.
It’s a stark contrast to the heavy DC06 model that Dyson teased in 2001, but never hit the market due to its tentative $3,000 to $6,000 price tag. Since then, Dyson has invested both time and money to release a product they can stand firmly behind—that meets both price and also performance. While they haven’t yet set a price on the 360 Eye, a Dyson rep has stated it will be competitive within the market. Control of the 360 Heurist vacuum cleaner is through the Dyson Link app, which is true of all Dyson’s smart products, from its air purifiers to its Lightcycle task lamps. There’s a little more to using this vacuum cleaner than its predecessor, starting with a requirement to map an area before the robot can clean it. You can store maps of multiple floors, moving the 360 Heurist around your home to clean everywhere.
With the improved iRobot Home app or Google or Alexa voice assistant you can just tell your robot to clean it up and also believe it’s done. As a result, the 360 Eye is the first robot vacuum that company founder James Dyson considers worthy of his name. The cheaper versions run to a random cleaning pattern and bump around your rooms blindly, cleaning as they go. This works up to a point but it can take a while for these types of vacuum to finish cleaning a room and, although they do their best to cover all the floor, they often miss spots here and there. Bagless vacuums can potentially create problems for allergy sufferers when it comes time to empty the machine. The process can lead to some potentially sneeze-inducing dust clouds.
And if the vacuum gets stuck, the app notifies you and includes instructions on how to fix it. Of course, those could be trade-show tricks, which is why we’re looking forward to getting the 360 Eye in for more comprehensive testing. Until then, you can read about what we know—and hear about the new robot vacuum direct from Alex Knox, Dyson’s design director. Espite recognizing the robot over Wi-Fi, it wouldn’t fully pair in the app itself.
Yes, the height is important, but also lighting and other items that may be under the couch. The Roomba also has three-stage cleaning and carpet boost technology. However, that being said, it still underperforms what Roomba owners have become used too. It dyson robot vacuum will clean well, and it doesn’t miss a lot, but compared to some of the earlier models with fewer features, it doesn’t do as good of a job as it should. The Roomba 980 has a top mount video camera that allows it to map the cleaning area with a visual map.
That’s a lot of money, but Dyson has a knack for convincing people to pay a premium for its products. We watched 360 Eye clean a very small, square room, and it appeared to have no problems getting to the corners. We did not have the chance to see it avoid obstacles, so we can’t vouch for how well the software works.
The V8 Motorhead model is designed to clean any type of floor effortlessly. Its direct-drive cleaner head delivers 150% more brush bar power and suction than previous Dyson models. You can clean with it for up to 40 minutes without any interruptions. In this case, with so much share left to grab from traditional upright vacuums, I’m convinced that iRobot stockholders should happily join their company in welcoming Dyson into the robotic vacuum market. Lastly, the Dyson’s suction was not as strong as my extremely powerful Miele bagged vacuum.