Dyson’s new robot vacuum promises to clean every corner

The Dyson 360 Vis Nav is the company’s first robot vacuum available in the US since the short-lived Dyson 360 Eye. | Image: Dyson

Dyson’s taking another crack at the robot vacuum market in the US following the failure of the Dyson 360 Eye — which it launched in 2016 and then quickly stopped selling here, saying it was “ill-suited to US homes.” (The follow-up model, the 360 Heurist, never made it here at all.) Now, Dyson is introducing the Dyson 360 Vis Nav robot vacuum. Shorter and slimmer than its predecessors, the Vis Nav is designed to work better in our complicated American homes. It still sports the signature extra-long brush and squared shape of the 360 line, but adds more suction power and a faster processor.

Dyson also announced five other new products: Its first-ever attempt at a mopping vacuum — the Dyson Submarine with wet roller head; the fifth...

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