Dyson launches the most powerful cordless vacuums¹ – capturing viruses particles as small as 0.1 microns

- Built-in dusting and crevice tool: The machines transform into our most powerful handheld vacuums. Hidden inside the wand is a built-in dusting and crevice tool to save time between floor and handheld cleaning.

- Single button control: Both machines have a power button instead of the classic trigger, for more comfortable, continuous cleaning. This also allows users to swap hands while navigating obstacles, making cleaning easier.

- Fade-free, energy-dense battery: The Gen5detect™ has up to 70 minutes of suction⁶ and the Gen5outsize™ has up to 140 minutes of run time⁷ with an extra plug-in battery pack. Ten energy-dense lithium-ion cells deliver fade-free, powerful suction.

- Heavy duty cleans: The Gen5detect™ weighs 7.65 pounds and comes with a 0.20 gallon bin and the Gen5outsize™ weighs 8.59 pounds and features a 0.50 gallon bin.

The motor is smaller, faster and more powerful than its predecessor, spinning at up to 135,000rpm – up to nine times faster than a Formula One engine. This power enables the Gen5detect™ vacuum to have the most powerful suction of any Dyson cordless machine¹, capable of capturing viruses found around your home⁴. Engineers built this motor around a shorter shaft, and combined multiple parts into one, allowing for a more compact format, wrapped in a single piece of precision molded frame to ensure maximum power efficiency. 

The Dyson Gen5 vacuums feature Dyson’s most advanced cordless whole-machine HEPA filtration system. The machine is fully sealed to ensure it is expelling cleaner air into your home.

The vacuums feature 1.9m of filter media folded 145 times to trap 99.99% of potentially harmful particles down to 0.1 microns². The filter was also specially tested on live viruses to ensure 99.9% removal⁴. Fourteen cyclones also remove dust from the airflow so there is no loss of suction⁸, ensuring optimal performance with every clean.

Introduced in 2021, Dyson’s illuminating dust technology was developed to allow owners to see the microscopic particles hiding around their home. It did this by showing the hidden dust on the floor surface that is otherwise invisible to the naked eye using a blade of light.
 

The Gen5 vacuums possess a re-engineered Fluffy Optic™ cleaner head which produces twice the brightness⁵, covering even more of your floor. Dyson engineers designed the new light source to be positioned as low as possible in the endcap of our Fluffy Optic™ cleaner head, projecting a blade of light to illuminate particles on floors. This was a huge design challenge - to fit the printed circuit board (PCB) and thermal solutions into a tiny space without compromising pick-up.

Drawing inspiration from the way our illumination technology has changed the way people clean, the Dyson Gen5™ vacuums introduce a completely re-engineered user interface (UI) that now shows users in real-time when their surface is clean. A piezo sensor⁹ uses acoustic sensing to count and categorize particle sizes, and bars on the LCD screen now rise and fall according to volume of particles being removed in real-time – so owners know when to move on or spend more time cleaning.
 

In addition to the software updates to the UI, the Gen5 motor also required engineers to develop new software to monitor and control the motor’s speed, power and temperature – this works hand-in-hand with the new UI, empowering owners to troubleshoot potential issues and maintain their machines independently.