Dyson just made the robot vacuum I've been crying out for — and it's not the new flagship
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Dyson’s R1 Nurovi Dry targeting people who don’t trust mopping vacs shows there’s still under-served demand in ‘simple, reliable’ automation rather than feature-stacked flagships. If you build home or office robots, segment by trust and failure modes, not just spec sheets.
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