It has powerful suction with the never-fading, never needing charging, motor. Regarding cleaning, the Dyson V6 had similar results to the Dyson V8—87% of debris captures on hardwood floors, 94% captured on low pile carpet, and 92% captured on high pile carpet. Regarding cleaning performance, it captured 89% of debris from hardwoods, 99% from low pile carpet and 98% from high pile carpet. The M8 Pro navigates using LiDAR, so builds an accurate map of an area as it goes. This is fed into the smartphone app and can be used to control where the robot cleans and where it should avoid. It’s worth noting, however, that it can only save one map at a time, making it a bit of a pain to use on more than one storey of a household with multiple floors.
I couldn’t use it to pull a door shut, for example, a task I can do with my stump. And without the extremely expensive addition of a powered wrist, I couldn’t pour oatmeal from a pot into a bowl. Performing tasks the cool bionic way, even though it mimicked having two hands, wasn’t obviously better than doing things my way, sometimes with the help of my legs and feet.
He had long resisted selling these types of vacuums to the public saying that “I’m not rushing out a gimmick robot to pretend to people we’re cleaning the floor”. James Dyson has said that current robotic vacuums are just gimmicks, saying that “they’ve got whiskers sticking dyson robot vacuum out of them – whiskers don’t clean anything they just disturb the birds”. Spins at 78,000rpm, generating 20% more suction than the Dyson 360 Eye™ robot vacuum. However, we found that they were a little too powerful, and sometimes kept pushing after bumping into obstacles.
In addition to this, there is a LED lighting ring available for in-the-dark navigation. ● You can set no-go zones to keep the vacuum cleaner out of certain rooms and spaces. ● While the vacuum cleaner is compact width-wise, it is taller, so it might not reach narrow spaces such as below the furniture.
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 , but it does seem to be wider and flatter than the Eye irobot vacuum cleaner and Heurist. This would tally with Dyson’s past comments that the Heurist was not quite right for US homes. Allowing the vacuum to get under more items of furniture would certainly help with sales. However, it builds on this with an Auto-Empty Station and will automatically empty the onboard 14.2oz / 420ml dust canister into a disposable bag after every clean.