Dyson has finally created a better robot, but a worse vacuum cleaner

I am deeply divided about the Dyson Spot + Scrub Ai robot vacuum and mop. It’s the company’s best floor-cleaning robot yet, with excellent mopping performance, good navigation and obstacle detection, and a multi-function dock to do a lot of the work for you. But Dyson’s first attempt at a vacuum/mop combo is a worse vacuum than its predecessors, and that’s because this vacuum doesn’t have a Dyson motor.

You read that correctly. For $1,200, Spot + Scrub doesn’t get you a Dyson vacuum; Instead, you get a third-party motor and brush system. “It’s not one of our V10 engines, it’s one of our partner technologies,” Nathan Lawson McLean, senior design manager at Dyson, told me.

Overall, the robot “combines new and existing Dyson technologies with other platforms.” Lawson McLean confirmed that Dyson technology can mainly be found in the cyclonic automatic emptying station, the Dyson-developed roller mopping system and the Dyson-developed AI-powered…