Dyson Spot+Scrub AI

What testers say about the Dyson Spot+Scrub AI

For anyone mainly after stains on hard floors without buying dust bags, and with room for the station, it is a strong choice.

The Dyson Spot+Scrub AI is Dyson's first robot with a mop, a self-emptying station and camera-based obstacle recognition: a wet roller that washes itself with every rotation, a bagless cyclone station that holds up to a hundred days of dust, washes the roller in 140 °F water and dries it with hot air, and lidar navigation with an AI camera and dual line laser at the front. Tom's Guide names it the best vacuum-and-mop hybrid; Vacuum Wars calls it Dyson's first serious contender.

Tom's Guide saw it deal with dried-on food and sticky messes that many hybrids leave behind, with strong suction, accurate maps and simple controls that rarely needed the testers to step in. Vacuum Wars praises above all the bagless station, built on Dyson's cyclone technology, and the leap from the 360 Vis Nav, which only vacuumed and navigated by camera.

Both testers' criticism concerns the size: at 4.3 inches the robot is tall and the station large and far from discreet, and the bagless bin is not to everyone's taste because you empty it yourself. The price sits in the premium class without every score being there, the side brush does not extend and thresholds stop at 0.8 inches.

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