
Dyson has taken another swing at designing a robot vacuum cleaner – and this time, you might actually want to use it. I wasn’t a fan of the company’s Dyson 360 vis nav – a noisy, bulky and expensive purple monstrosity that lacked a mopping function, couldn’t empty itself and seemed to actively seek out obstacles to get stuck on.
With the Dyson spot+scrub AI, the British engineering giant has wisely gone back to the drawing board. The design is much more mature, finally taking the vacuum-and-mop hybrid format seriously, delivering a hands-off machine that promises to wash your floors as aggressively as it vacuums them.