Dyson Teases Secret Robotic Prototypes

Final week, Dyson pulled again the curtain on robotic prototypes presently in improvement as a part of a presentation on the Worldwide Convention on Robotics and Automation in Philadelphia. And whereas it boils right down to little greater than a recruiting software, a few of the tasks may stand to make a big effect on our day-to-day lives.

In a video, Dyson’s Chief Engineer Jake Dyson confirmed off a few of the secret R&D work on the firm’s Hullavington Airfield campus in England. Although glimpses, they have been intriguing, like robots doing the dishes, setting the desk and even cleansing up kids’s toys. The corporate is creating robots that won’t solely be protected in a house setting, however take a beating, as a result of, , children. 

Dyson plans to ramp up robotics in a giant approach within the subsequent few years. 

The corporate sometimes acts extra coy and prime secret, however the chief engineer desires to indicate off a few of the cool tech to try to entice engineering expertise. Dyson desires to recruit 250 robotics engineers for numerous disciplines, together with pc imaginative and prescient, machine studying, mechatronics and sensors. The corporate plans so as to add one other 700 over the subsequent 5 years. 

Dyson is present process a expertise infusion, already hiring some 2,000 individuals this yr, about half of that are engineers, scientists and coders. The corporate is making an attempt to construct the UK’s largest, most superior, robotics hub and convey the know-how into our properties by 2029.

The brand new jobs shall be primarily based at Hullavington Airfield, a brand new lab near the Dyson Robotics Lab at Imperial Faculty in London and on the firm’s world headquarters in Singapore. Over the past six months, Dyson has been refitting one of many important plane hangars at Hullavington Airfield to organize for the brand new hires. The corporate’s robotics makeover is a part of a $3.4 billion funding in new applied sciences, merchandise and amenities; $753 million of which is earmarked for this yr. 

As a dad or mum, Jake Dyson says he spends half of his life cleansing up after his children. Jake, you are preaching to the choir. His plan is to have robotics alleviate a few of these mundane duties. Now, about diapers…