Dyson recently unveiled a “Top Secret” project that involves robots for household chores.
Although it already has some robotics experience for the 360 Hurricane RoboVac, the British company says it plans to deploy new engineering teams in the UK and Singapore to build a range of domestic robots.
Jake Dyson, son of the company’s founder, James Dyson, touches the firm’s roadmap (below) in a video shot at its base in Wiltshire Village, about 70 miles west of London.
Although he described the robotics project as a top secret, Dyson acknowledged that in order to attract top engineers to the company – aimed at hiring a total of 700 people – it would have to cover its ambitions in the increasingly competitive sector.
So the video gives a glimpse into the evolution of several family robots One is holding a dinner plate and the other is holding a soft toy. Admittedly, such efforts rarely seem groundbreaking, but the inclusion in the video of some pixelated footage suggests that the company will keep its best work out of sight for now.
During a tour of the company’s current robot-centric facilities, Dyson took us to the “arm room” and “feeling lab”, where several engineers offered a few words about their work.
“We are trying to achieve something very complex that no one has been able to achieve so far,” said one engineer. Such comments indicate that Dyson’s work is cut short, but the rewards can be huge if it can pull it off and bring in truly useful robots capable of effectively performing a variety of family tasks.
What it doesn’t want is a repetition of the problems it encountered with its proposed electric vehicle, a project it unveiled in 2017 but abandoned two years later after spending an estimated $ 3 billion. James Dyson said at the time that his team had built a “fantastic” electric car but the company decided to stop developing it because it was “not commercially viable”.
The field of robotics obviously presents a different kind of challenge, but given the advantage of being able to apply Dyson’s existing research to the development of new household appliances, it seems to have a more realistic opportunity to make real progress with the latest efforts. .
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