Original post - https://www.reddit.com/r/VacuumCleaners/s/5kv19CIM29

So. 4 days in with the 360 vis nav.

The first and second days were absolutely flawless. I kept an eye on what it was doing and couldn’t criticise it. It was thorough and picked up amazingly well.

Third day (yesterday) - I set the machine away and it got lost. It was almost like shadows were confusing it? It spent quite a while going in random directions (not vacuuming) trying to figure out the room. It then tried to return to the dock which it couldn’t find and rammed out of the way in the process of trying to find. I had to manually place it on the dock. I checked all the camera lenses were clear and reset it. I then let it fully re-map the house and then told it to clean a single room which it managed just fine.

Tonight I came home from work and set it away to do a clean. It cleaned about a quarter of a room before it managed to get itself wedged under some furniture. I had to intervene and moved it less than an inch to free it. It then vacuumed for about 30 seconds more before stopping vacuuming and started aimlessly wheeling itself around the room lost. After an extended period of this I picked it up and placed it back on the dock. I figured maybe getting stuck had confused it.

I then told it to start cleaning again. It left the dock and instantly started wheeling itself around backwards and forwards and round and round completely lost.

So I’ve boxed it back up and it can be returned for a refund. I’ve no idea why it’s suddenly became so bad. It seemed perfect at first. But I can’t be doing with such an expensive product that I can’t trust to do the job it was designed to do without having to babysit it.

I won’t be trying another robot vacuum any time soon 😂

I saw it & have been curious. Ive used Eufy & Neato brands before & both have worked well. Would this unit be worth the money?

I returned this robot and kept my S8 MaxV Ultra. What’s sad about the Dyson is, it’s an extremely well built machine material wise and according to vacuum wars review it has by far the best suction out of any robot vacuum to date. When having it clean my house it did an incredible job……. On the parts it actually vacuumed.

Unfortunately the Dyson is incredibly horrible at navigating and object avoidance. Even on the latest update it’s miles away from my S8. It maps poorly and constantly slams into random crap in front of it that it should know is there.

I don’t even care about the no self empty or mopping. It takes 10 seconds to empty it. But I don’t understand how they were happy to release this when they HAVE to know how much better the competition is at navigation and mapping ??????