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Excess cable can be stored in the power adapter, keeping it from getting sucked up by the robot. But, you can start, pause, and stop cleaning runs from your local Wi-Fi network or a reliable cellular connection. You can also set schedules and view a custom map of the bissell crosswave cordless cleaning route your bot took. Dyson’s 0.33-liter bin is small, too, especially compared to the Roomba 980’s 0.6-liter bin and the Neato Botvac Connected’s 0.7-liter bin. The 360 Eye’s bin isn’t especially easy to reach, either, because it butts up against the dock.
The Dyson 360 Eye is unsurprisingly a terrific vacuum, but it does have room for improvement for a robot – which isn’t saying anything new for the category. For instance, the 360 Eye can weave in and out of table and chair legs better than competitors so you don’t have to stack chairs on top of tables on scheduled-clean mornings. The 360 Eye picked up a lot of the pet hair, but the rest was stuck along the side of the test pen.
British engineering company Dyson unveiled its first commercially available robot vacuum cleaner at an event in Tokyo on Thursday. The company, led by prolific inventor James Dyson and best known for its higher-end shark cordless bagless vacuum cleaners, has reportedly spent 16 years and $47 million developing its robot vacuum, the Dyson 360 Eye. The 360 Eye will launch in Japan in early 2015, and then elsewhere later in the year.
Thanks to the motorised brush that runs the entire width of the vacuum cleaner, you get full suction power right up to the edges of rooms, doing away with the need for side-sweeping brushes. Device can’t find it’s way home – When the battery starts to run out of juice the vacuum is supposed to return automatically to its charging base. It works fine most of the time, but I often find a rogue robot vacuum stranded in the middle of the house because it couldn’t find it’s way home. Some models have a much bigger problem with this than others.
Over two dozen test runs later and the 360 Eye ended up scoring well compared to many of the non-smart robot vacuums we’ve reviewed, but not as well as either the Roomba 980 or the Neato Botvac Connected overall. The 350dia x H91mm lozenge can get right under all but the lowest furniture, and when it moves from hardwood floors to rugs and carpet it boosts the motor speed for better cleaning results. The twin rubber brush bar is easy to untangle and exceedingly good at picking up pet hair. This bar doesn’t extend right to the edge of the vacuum like they do on the Dyson, but two spinning brushes sweep dust into its path, so it can clean right up to the skirting boards.
What information is available has come via The Verge, which discovered that Dyson had filed details of a new product with the FCC. On the filed documents, the new robot vacuum cleaner is just called the RBO3. The FCC filing could indicate that the brand is ready to launch the machine in the US. Carpets and rugs didn’t fare quite as well, particularly when trying to extract pet hair. The very best Dyson you can buy right now is the V15 Detect Absolute (£599).
Its edge-cleaning performance is also better than most others that rely on spinning brushes at the side, but it won’t get everything. Like every other robot vacuum currently available, the 360 Eye is designed to do the bulk of the work, to clean every day and keep on top of the dirt build up. You will still need another vacuum to clean the stairs and the parts that the robot can’t reach. This isn’t too damning, though, since sand isn’t a very common household debris (unless you’re lucky enough to live near a beach).