Dyson robot vacuum gets 360-degree camera – update

Dyson is coming under the name 360 ​​Eye with a robot vacuum cleaner that has a camera for 360-degree images, so that users can watch from the perspective of the vacuum cleaner.

There are not yet many details about the Dyson 360 Eye, the robot vacuum cleaner that Dyson already published a teaser about last week. The announcement will probably take place on Friday during the IFA in Berlin, but Engadget has already got their hands on a brochure about the vacuum cleaner.

The robot vacuum cleaner is said to have taken sixteen years and, according to James Dyson, the model is radically different from the robot vacuum cleaners of competitors, which the inventor calls ‘gimmicks’. The camera would show users where the vacuum cleaner has been, where it is and what it still needs to vacuum. The robot features Dyson’s Cyclone technology to separate debris from the airflow and a powerful motor. Furthermore, the 360 ​​Eye seems to have extensive navigation options, but we will have to wait for the official announcement for the details. The price would in any case be $1650, converted to $1,255.

Dyson seems to have big plans for robots; the company started a laboratory for robotics research in the UK at the beginning of this year. The company is investing six million euros in the research facility.

Update 12.15: Dyson has officially announced the 360 ​​Eye. The camera can shoot images at 30fps and the robot uses infrared sensors to detect objects in rooms. Control can be done with the Dyson Link app for iOS and Android, among other things, and this allows users to set vacuuming schedules. The battery lasts for twenty minutes to half an hour, after which the vacuum cleaner has to be connected to its narrow glass charger. The reservoir of the device can hold 0.4 liters of dirt. The vacuum cleaner will be released in Japan in the spring of 2015, and later in other countries.