A single Cheerio stopped Dyson’s new robot vacuum cold
Two independent tests of Dyson's new wash-and-dry robot vacuum both came out against it, one over a clogged brush roll, the other over a poor obstacle-course score.
Dyson’s first wash-and-dry robot vacuum, the R2 Nurovi, has drawn its first two independent tests, and both came out against it. One scored the robot 3.36 out of 5 on a measured obstacle course and advised looking elsewhere. A second scored it 6.1 out of 10 after a run at home and filed it under “Skip It.”
The lower score came from a 24-object obstacle course, run against the other robots the same reviewer has tested. The R2 lagged on several measures:
- Obstacle avoidance: 5 of 24 objects avoided, against a 16-object average
- Coverage per charge: about 640 square feet, against a 1,170 square foot average
- Dustbin capacity: 150 milliliters, against a 377 milliliter average
- Airflow: 8 CFM, below average, despite an above-average suction reading
But the same test gave the R2 credit elsewhere: 88 percent carpet-cleaning efficiency against a 78 percent average, and zero percent of hair wrapped around the brush against a 26 percent average for tangling.
A second review, run at home, found a different failure. Despite Dyson’s rated 21,000 Pa suction, the robot’s brush roll stopped picking up anything.
It clogged on a single Cheerio.
The same review found the dock’s auto-empty feature did not work. Once the onboard bin filled during a normal run, the dock could not pull the debris back out, leaving the bin to be emptied by hand.
The R2 Nurovi has been for sale since September 3, 2026: direct from Dyson in the UK at £749.99, and through Costco in the US at $699.99. These are two of the first independent reviews to reach either market.
Neither test ran more than one unit. A single Cheerio clogging one robot, and a different robot missing 19 of 24 obstacles, are findings against the specific machine each reviewer had in their home, not a measurement of the production run.
