{"id":907194,"date":"2026-09-27T09:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T09:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/907194\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T09:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T09:04:14","slug":"dysons-chief-engineer-says-home-robots-are-coming-way-sooner-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/907194\/","title":{"rendered":"Dyson\u2019s chief engineer says home robots are coming way sooner than you think"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dyson has just launched its most unusual product yet, a toothbrush with a built-in camera that fires a jet of water at exactly the right spot in your mouth instead of flossing.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s called the CameraJet, and it\u2019s the result of years of research, with the goal of improving our Oral care \u2013 a long way from the bagless vacuum the company made famous over 30 years ago.<\/p>\n

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Dyson\u2019s chief engineer Jake Dyson (pictured) says home robots are coming to households way sooner than many people think\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n

\u201cWe spent six years with about 500,000 mouths and teeth researching what\u2019s wrong with your gums, your teeth, but also the variation of teeth, gums and gaps in people\u2019s mouths,\u201d Jake Dyson, the company\u2019s Chief Engineer and son of founder James Dyson, told nine.com.au.<\/p>\n

“Through that many images, using AI, we’re able to train the camera to detect the exact point in that gap and then fire that jet instantaneously, instead of flossing.”<\/p>\n

It’s a fitting example of how Dyson works. Rather than bolting new features onto old products, the company spends years researching the underlying problem first, the same approach it took with hair before building its haircare range.<\/p>\n

But chat with Jake Dyson – son of the company founder Sir James Dyson and the conversation quickly moves from teeth to something much bigger, the robots he believes will soon be living in our homes.<\/p>\n

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Dyson has just launched its most unusual product yet, a toothbrush with a built-in camera that fires a jet of water at exactly the right spot in your mouth instead of flossing.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s going to happen much faster than you think\u2019<\/p>\n

Dyson has spent years developing robotics technology behind the scenes, and Jake Dyson says fully capable home help robots are no longer a distant idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they will 100 per cent be home help robots in the home in eight to 10 years. In fact, they\u2019re nearly ready,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Dyson says fully capable home help robots are no longer a distant idea and estimates they\u2019ll arrive into many home in the next decade.\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n

“Robots have taken a huge leap in the last six months. They have full capability to load dishwashers, wipe surfaces, possibly even fold your bedsheets. I have absolutely no doubt that they will run the home and look after the home, possibly even cook for you.”<\/p>\n

He then went further, suggesting the timeline could shrink dramatically.<\/p>\n

“I think they’ll be ready sooner than eight years. I think possibly even two or three years.”<\/p>\n

Regulation, not technology, is the real blocker<\/p>\n

If the tech is closer than people think, why aren’t robots already folding our washing? Jake Dyson says the answer is safety and regulation, not engineering.<\/p>\n

“This thing that comes crashing down the stairs will kill you. And so it can’t come crashing down the stairs,” he said.<\/p>\n

“What if it picks up a kitchen knife to cut a cucumber and it has a little bug?”<\/p>\n

He also pointed to a global split in how the technology is developing. Cheap, capable hardware is coming out of China, while the artificial intelligence and reasoning behind it is being led out of the US.<\/p>\n

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Dyson says he trusts a robot roaming free in his house more than he trusts giving up control of the wheel in a self-driving car.\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n

“You could have already seen that the Chinese companies making these robots stand up, run, do handstands, do karate kicks, and they’re making them very, very cheaply,” he said.<\/p>\n

“But on the other side, the sort of language model and training of what that robot does is probably more Western world, more done in California, Silicon Valley tech companies. Somewhere they’ve got to come together.”<\/p>\n

More confident about robots than driverless cars<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, Jake Dyson says he trusts a robot roaming free in his house more than he trusts giving up control of the wheel in a self-driving car.<\/p>\n

“I’m not sure I’d ever want to be driven in a car without having control of it. Whereas if a robot was walking around in my kitchen as I was in the other room, I might be okay with it,” he said.<\/p>\n

Still, he says both technologies are moving faster than most people realise.<\/p>\n

\"Trevor<\/p>\n

Dyson tells Trevor Long (rigth) technologies for both home robotics and self-driving cars are moving faster than most people realise.\u00a0A Current Affair<\/p>\n

“It’s going to happen. It’s going to happen much faster than you think. And I also have a lot more confidence in driverless cars for the same reason.”<\/p>\n

For now, Dyson’s own robotics ambitions are showing up in smaller ways, like the camera and AI inside the new CameraJet toothbrush, and their expanding range of Robot Vacuum cleaners.<\/p>\n

But if Jake Dyson is right, the technology behind it may end up doing a lot more than cleaning your teeth and scrubbing your floors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dyson has just launched its most unusual product yet, a toothbrush with a built-in camera that fires a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-907194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}