This in theory means that it will clean faster, more efficiently with less bumps and scratches on your furniture when you compare it to a Roomba 880. Here’s a video of the Dyson 360 to show you the methodical navigation pattern it uses to scan and clean a living room. Engineers used the V2 motor found in older Dysons, namely the DC35 and DC44 which has provided decent suction. The Heurist has dual-band Wi-Fi built in but does suffer from connection issues. Quite often I try and start a clean using the app only to find that communication to the Heurist has been lost. However, even if it doesn’t quite get the job finished the Dyson is clever enough to go and charge itself and then resume the job from exactly where it left off.
The Dyson 360 Eye has advanced visual technology that makes it the best robot vacuum in terms of navigation and mapping. It won’t collide with objects irobot vacuum cleaner and furniture near as much as the competition. However, it is taller and will not get in as many places as some of the smaller vacuums.
However, superior cleaning performance is still available in all our other vacuums. Intelligent Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) technology allows the Dyson 360 Heurist™ robot vacuum to position itself in the room. As it travels, sensors take distance measurements every 20 milliseconds¹.
The most interesting change for this product, though, is the new shape. Dyson’s previous vacuums, the 360 Eye and 360 Heurist, have been taller and narrower than rival products built by iRobot and the like. This allows them tighter cornering around items like chair legs, but stops them from vacuuming under some furniture. It’s hard to gauge the exact dimensions of this new product (despite the inclusion of rulers in pictures, the perspective is confusing), but it does seem to be wider and flatter than the Eye and Heurist. This would tally with Dyson’s past comments that the Heurist was not quite right for US homes.
All the Roombas basically use the same motors and suction, so the noise level depends on the surface where it is vacuuming. If you just look at the specs, you’d think that the Dyson 360 Eye would be the best robotic vacuum available right now. A majority of consumers say that cleaning performance isn’t an issue. On carpet expect roughly the same performance as a Dyson DC44 which means it works best as an in-between deep cleaning session maintenance tool. It will not deep clean carpet but it makes up for it with hands-free operation. It isn’t their first robotic vacuum but this is the first to be available to consumers but very expensive.
With a powerful motor and rotating brushes, the Dyson will vacuum floors and carpets. It will miss a lot of debris, and in one test on a popular television morning show, it didn’t pick up any dry rice. The 360 Eye, on the other hand, uses tank tracks to be able to traverse any terrain. It does an excellent job on hard floors as well as high pile carpet.
The main downside is that this vacuum is so loud in the Max mode that you can hardly have a conversation. When cleaning carpets, it captured 70-76% of large debris, so that was much better than it’s performance of cleaning large debris on hardwoods. Overall, the V6 collected 94% of debris on low pile carpet and 92% of debris on high pile carpet, averaging out all debris types tested. The cleaning process of the Dyson V8 is similar to that of the V10, and well basically all of the V-Series Dyson stick vacuums. It has a floor motorized cleaning head, debris travels up the stick, and deposits into the dust bin. The Roomba 960 is the step below the Roomba 980, but still within iRobot’s 900 Series.