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The vacuum failed to clean two of the three test Cheerios I placed strategically around my main floor to see what nooks and crannies it could reach. They both had small protrusions (one was an Ikea Billy bookshelf and the other was a freestanding bookcase) that the Spot + Scrub couldn’t reach. She doesn’t have it Extendable arm To help solve the problem.
I had a similar problem upstairs. My bathroom cabinets are the same basic construction kit as my basement kitchen, but the Spot + Scrub managed to attach itself to the bottom of the base bathroom cabinets and then struggled to remove itself. He did the same thing with my low bed frame, forcing it down after several attempts, and then couldn’t get out. I marked the bed as a no-cleaning zone in the app, but, like the kitchen island, since the Dyson map doesn’t know where my bed is, I had to guess, leaving much of the bedroom without any vacuuming.
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However, it did a good job cleaning my upstairs carpet. Although this robot vacuum can sweep multiple floors, the process wasn’t quite as smooth as I would have liked. When Spot+Scrub finishes cleaning on a floor without a base station, it will return to the starting position. Once you move it to the charging base, it will start charging without discharging. This means that when work is done on the main floor, the mop pad is not cleaned, dry debris remains in the vacuum, and the dirty water chamber is not drained. It’s as if he’s resetting himself, forgetting his last job.
So, if you’re using it on multiple floors, save the floor with the mounting base for last. I ended up having Spot+Scrub clean my main floor after the upstairs, just to make sure the vacuum was completely emptied and dry. You should also activate the cleaning function while the robot is still in its docking station, so it can prepare for cleaning, and then pause cleaning (you can do this in Dyson app or on the vacuum itself) once it comes out of the docking station to lift it up and move it to another floor.
Artificial intelligence wars
Photo: Nina Farrell
Of course, there’s a feature this vacuum is named after: built-in AI that detects and removes stains. Spot+Scrub uses a high-resolution camera to scan your floors, then uses AI to analyze what it sees and know when to clean troubled areas. It will move back and forth over those stains, and the AI will calculate how many times it needs to do this to remove the stain.