Intelligent robot vacuum cleaners, Dyson finally solved the problem?

Dyson 360 Eye 

"I do not think that there is no danger of self-awareness!" Dyson, a senior 
design engineer Archie Henderson exclaimed; Then, after some thought, and said: "It would throw the cat."
If that's the only problem with the new Dyson 360 Eye robot vacuum cleaner then the famous innovator may be on to a winner.
Dyson chief executive Max Conze thinks its first offering, in an already-crowded and established market, will succeed because it had finally solved what he says were the two fundamental "unsolved" problems facing all existing robot vacuums: "They must clean properly and navigate intelligently".   
Everyone knows Dyson knows how to make a vacuum "clean properly", it owns the marketplace for manual vacuums in most countries it sells in. Solving the problem of navigating "intelligently", though, is the new challenge Dyson has taken on.
"New" actually means 16 years of dogged research and development, including the previously abandoned Dyson DC06 robot vacuum cleaner from more than a decade ago. "It didn't meet our standards. This is the second time around and this time we're confident we got it right," said Mr Henderson.
Dyson moving into the world of artificial intelligence and digital penetration of dirt on their boots himself in a corner of the vacuuming? Considering the large amount of work that is already very high and this is a risk for many other players in the area, including Google, are carried through?
Max Conze takes it up. "We're aware there's a lot of others out there but we only wanted to do a Dyson robot vacuum cleaner when we were sure we could have one that properly cleans and does so intelligently, and we think we have the solution for that."

With more than 400 patents registered and pending, including a 360-degree camera that triangulates position information, allowing a "smart grid" cleaning pattern to be tracked, Dyson seems to have only  begun its journey into this brave new world – further applications for its newly minted technologies are in development, though it remains tight-lipped.  

Dyson 360 before going on sale in Australia from 2016 to the middle of the eye test, Japan is in its final stages.

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