Dyson enters the US robot vacuum market with the 360 Vis Nav

Dyson's one of the biggest players in the cordless vacuum and air purifier space (and, more recently, hair styling as well), but it's kept a relatively low profile in the robot vacuum market. After being available in other regions, the Dyson 360 Vis Nav is now available to order in the US for a whopping 1,199 from Dyson direct and other retailers like Amazon. While we haven't had the chance to test the 360 Vis Nav yet, we were able to get more details from Dyson about how the new robot vacuum works. A few things stand out as departures from traditional robot vacuums, the first being the 360-degree vision system that uses a camera on the top-center of the robot to map out your home as it cleans. Home mapping isn't new in this space, but Dyson claims that the images captured by this vision system will help the machine better understand the layout of your home, including where obstacles like furniture live, make note of corners and edges and help it recognize where it's cleaned and where it still needs to go to finish a job.