Sixteen years after its first flirtation with robot floor cleaning, Dyson is finally ready to deliver one to consumers: the Dyson 360 Eye.

As the name implies, this robot vacuum relies heavily on a vision system to navigate and clean a home. For Inventor and company founder James Dyson, who has been looking at floor-cleaning technology for decades, seeing was a critical piece of the robot vacuum puzzle. The other was a motor efficient enough to support a sophisticated vision system, sensors, mobility and, most of all, powerful cleaning suction.