- Dyson has introduced the Spot+Scrub Ai robotic vacuum, which is able to go on sale in 2026
- It options AI mapping and stain detection, plus curler mopping
- There’s additionally a bagless auto-empty dock with water tanks and mop cleansing
Dyson does loads of issues extraordinarily properly, however traditionally robotic vacuums haven’t been one in every of them. Its present effort – the Dyson 360 Vis Nav – fell flat due to its lack of options, unjustifiably excessive price ticket and inexcusable navigation points.
So I used to be greater than just a little stunned to see, hidden within the present tsunami of latest Dyson launches, a brand new robotic vacuum. On paper, the Dyson Spot+Scrub Ai appears way more promising than its predecessors. Frankly, it must be: the market is transferring at breakneck velocity, and at the moment’s finest robotic vacuums are extremely succesful and full of options.
The USP is within the title: this bot makes use of AI to identify stains, after which travel over them till it is aware of they’re gone. Dyson says it could possibly determine practically 200 objects and substances, utilizing and AI-powered digital camera and vibrant inexperienced, dirt-illuminating laser much like the one discovered on the ground heads of at the moment’s finest Dyson handbook vacuums.
I acquired a sneak preview on the Dyson Unveiled occasion in Berlin (working adjoining to IFA 2025) and the primary assume that struck me is the scale. This bot is actually very chunky in comparison with competitor fashions – each in width and peak of the robotic itself, and the scale of the dock. Not one for small houses, then.
Inside, there’s LiDAR and ‘AI imaginative and prescient’ for mapping and navigation – one thing this mannequin actually must get proper, as a result of all the flowery options on the planet will not make up for a robovac that may’t discover its manner round, because the Vis Nav proved.
Earlier Dyson robovacs have centered completely on the vacuuming bit, however that is the primary one that may additionally mop. What’s extra, the mopping setup appears good: there is a curler mop that is frequently fed with recent water because it spins, and it could possibly kick out to at least one aspect by 1.6 inches / 4cm to get proper up near the sides of rooms. I noticed that extending mop in motion – have a look within the video above.
This can be a comparatively new type of robovac mop, however it appears like a winner. We have been impressed with it on the Eureka J20, and it is getting extra widespread amongst new releases – a very superior model seems on the brand new Dreame robovac, for instance.
Lean, imply, clear machine
The opposite huge oversight with Dyson’s earlier robovac was that it got here with solely probably the most fundamental of docks, which charged the bot however nothing else. Right here, the model has gone over and above to rectify the problem. The dock accompanying the Spot+Scrub Ai cannot solely empty mud but in addition refill the onboard water tanks and wash and dry the mop pads.
Actually, Dyson has launched a few of its appreciable vacuum cleaner experience into the auto-empty setup, including cyclones and making use of a bagless system that removes the continuing annoyance and price of buying new baggage.
I am just a little disillusioned to see Dyson choosing a extra generic look right here. Whereas the earlier D-shape was divisive (TechRadar’s reviewer favored it; nobody else did), the purple-blue colour scheme was distinctively Dyson, and I used to be fairly taken with the very fact the entire thing regarded such as you’d put a Dyson stick vac in a hydraulic press.
Right here, there are just a few pops of pink and purple, plus a nod to the vacuum cyclones on the prime of the dock dustbin, however it’s not fairly as distinctive because the Vis Nav. Though one design determination which may increase just a few eyebrows is the clear dustin within the dock. Dyson is satisfied everybody desires to see what’s been sucked up – I will depart you to make your individual name on that.
If you will get over the scale, the subsequent hurdle could be pricing, which at time of writing is TBC. The model can get away with charging a premium in markets the place it is main the way in which – its cordless stick vacuums genuinely push the envelope in relation to efficiency and options, however Dyson does not have the identical cachet within the robotic vacuum house. I am to see how this bot is positioned within the wider market.
