Dyson put someone else’s motor in its robot vacuum

Dyson’s newest robot vacuum adds mopping capabilities but takes distant the Dyson centrifugal of its predecessor. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

Dyson, a institution built connected engineering high-speed motors, has confirmed to The Verge that its newest robot vacuum doesn't usage a Dyson motor. The recently launched Spot & Scrub Ai robot vacuum and mop was "co-engineered," Nathan Lawson McLean, elder plan manager astatine Dyson, told The Verge.

According to Lawson McLean, the instrumentality merges "new and already existing Dyson technologies with different platforms." Specifically, the caller lidar-based navigation tech and the robot's vacuum centrifugal were developed by a 3rd party. "It's not 1 of our V10 motors; it's 1 of our spouse technologies," said Lawson McLean.

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