The Dyson Robot vacuums navigate the home by employing a unique vision system. They are not designed to operate in complete darkness and require adequate illumination to navigate by for the duration of their cleans.
Our ‘How does my robot navigate in the dark?’ article explains how the different generations navigate in low light conditions.
How to robot cleans
The robot cleans in 5m x 5m grids. It will clean each of these grid section before moving on to an adjacent 5m x 5m grid.
When starting a clean from the dock, the first grid will extend outwards from the wall by 1 meter and the robot will drive out with its brush bar turned off.
If a clean is started with the robot off the dock, the first grid will be centred on its start position.
Before returning to dock or it’s starting position, it will work around any obstacles in each section until all of the floorspace has been covered.
To understand the different ways you can start a clean in your home, view our ‘Starting a clean’ article.
The software onboard the Robot vacuums is regularly updated - these updates include improvements to the navigation.
Low light conditions
In ambient lighting conditions the Dyson 360 VisNav™️ robot vacuum and Dyson 360 Heurist™️ robot vacuum will compensate for reduced light by using its LEDs to selectively illuminate darker areas.