The 360 Eye Robot Vacuum by Dyson
Dyson’s 360 Eye robot vacuum is going global, with retail availability in Canada today, and a U.S. launch following soon.
22 July 2016
| Lacey Glave
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Fast Co.Design
Dyson’s 360 Eye robot vacuum is going global, with retail availability in Canada today, and a U.S. launch following soon.
Darrell Etherington spoke to Dyson’s Lead Robotics Engineer Mike Aldred about the vacuum, which has been in development at the company long before its Japanese debut last year – in fact, the project dates back 18 years to 1998.
The 360 Eye vacuum boasts a sophisticated 360-degree vision system that combines a top-mounted spherical camera with a pair of advanced sensors flanking the robot’s ‘face,’ and is designed to be much smarter than the competition from Roomba and others, as well as just offering better basic vacuum capabilities in terms of being able to pick up dirt, hair and dust.
“Vision is absolutely critical, but it was a completely new technology [when development began],” Aldred told me, explaining the early days of 360 Eye’s development. “We had to actually increase the capabilities of our team.
We had a lot of software engineers, but we had to go into robotics algorithm engineers, we had to go into systems engineers, and once we started building the group, we realized it’s all about testing.
It’s all about getting the product into the home and finding out exactly how the product’s going to work in and around many, many homes.”
Darrell Etherington spoke to Dyson’s Lead Robotics Engineer Mike Aldred about the vacuum, which has been in development at the company long before its Japanese debut last year – in fact, the project dates back 18 years to 1998.
The 360 Eye vacuum boasts a sophisticated 360-degree vision system that combines a top-mounted spherical camera with a pair of advanced sensors flanking the robot’s ‘face,’ and is designed to be much smarter than the competition from Roomba and others, as well as just offering better basic vacuum capabilities in terms of being able to pick up dirt, hair and dust.
“Vision is absolutely critical, but it was a completely new technology [when development began],” Aldred told me, explaining the early days of 360 Eye’s development. “We had to actually increase the capabilities of our team.
We had a lot of software engineers, but we had to go into robotics algorithm engineers, we had to go into systems engineers, and once we started building the group, we realized it’s all about testing.
It’s all about getting the product into the home and finding out exactly how the product’s going to work in and around many, many homes.”
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