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Dyson 360 Eye
Photo: Maurizio Pesce from Milan, Italia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
DiscontinuedUnited KingdomFully autonomous

Dyson · working robot

Dyson 360 Eye

A tall, tank-tracked robot vacuum with a panoramic camera; Dyson's earlier DC06 robot (2001) never went on sale.

Price
$1,200Cheaper than 70%
Height
—Not published
Weight
—Not published
Payload
—Not published
Speed
—Not published
Battery
—Not published

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Why it matters

Dyson's first robot vacuum to reach market, using a 360-degree camera to map rooms.

Real-world use

Consumers

Timeline

First shown
2014-09-04
Released
2015-10
Unveiled by James Dyson at a press event in Tokyo

Maker

DysonCompany · United Kingdom

How it stacks up

Against other working & field robots that publish the figure. Pick a measure.

Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, payload, joints, battery.

Public attention

A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current machines.

  • No Wikipedia article of its own yet
  • 3 news stories from reputable press listed on this page

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What’s inside

The parts the company has talked about publicly.

Movement
Tracks
How it runs
Fully autonomous. It mapped and vacuumed rooms by itself using its panoramic camera.
Actuators & motors
Tank-style tracks instead of wheels; Dyson Digital Motor V2 spinning up to 78,000 rpm; Radial Root Cyclone separation.
Sensors & vision
Top-mounted 360-degree panoramic camera (up to 30 frames per second) for mapping and localisation; infrared obstacle sensors.
AI & software
Vision-based SLAM; Dyson Link smartphone app for scheduling and remote control.
Other details
Dyson says development took 16-17 years, about £28 million and more than 200 engineers.

From the maker

Dyson 360 Eye is the only machine from Dyson in the atlas.

Watch Dyson 360 Eye

Video: Dyson on YouTube. Plays from youtube-nocookie.com when you press play.

Made, sold and where

Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.

Price
$1,200¥149,040 suggested retail in Japan (about $1,200 converted, per Ubergizmo); no price was given at the 2014 unveiling.
How to get one
No official buying page found
Sold or delivered
Launched first in Japan in October 2015 at ¥149,040 (about $1,200); other markets to follow
Where it is sold or used
Dyson, UK (designed)
Customers and pilots
Consumers

News

The latest 3, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.

  1. 360 Eye goes on sale in Japan first

    OPENERS reported the Japanese launch of the 360 Eye, citing 17 years and £28m of development.

    OPENERS
  2. Dyson unveils 360 Eye in Tokyo

    Dyson showed its camera-guided robot vacuum, claiming the strongest suction of any robot cleaner.

    Computerworld
  3. Launch plans for 360 Eye

    City AM reported plans to launch in Japan first, then the UK, Europe, China and Australia.

    City AM

Sources

Figures come from press coverage. Every link below backs something on this page.

Computerworld Dyson’s robot vacuum takes aim at Roomba The Gadgeteer Dyson unveils the Dyson 360 Eye cyclonic robot vacuum cleaner OPENERS Dyson 360 Eye robot vacuum launches, first in the world Ubergizmo Dyson 360 Eye Robot Vacuum Cleaner Launched In Japan

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