Samsung has launched a new vacuum that uses AI to identify the exact type of floor in which he is, and he convinced me – if there could be a doubt – that all devices or gadgets do not need AI.
The Samsung Bespoke Ai Jet Ultra is designed to be able to feel its exact environment, so that it can determine if it is on a hard ground, an ordinary carpet, a deep carpet of heaps or a carpet. It may also feel when it is close to the corner of a room, and if it has been raised. He uses all this information to adjust his suction and brush speed for the most effective cleaning.
It is more complicated than simply increasing the aspiration on thicker floor types. The adjustments are designed to provide the equivalent of the medium power mode, while ensuring that the vacuum is always easy to push – the super aspiration is one thing, but it is not good if it is so strong that you cannot move the head of the ground. The idea is that it shame the rest of the best empty on the market by delivering the most intelligent, the most efficient and effective cleaning.
In theory, it makes sense. The deep carpet requires greater suction to lift dirt than hard floors, where dust and debris will rest on top. However, I am not convinced that it is much more granular than that, or that a vacuum cleaner modifying its suction when passing a carpet to a thicker carpet will result in a significant improvement in cleaning efficiency.
This assumes that everything works as it is supposed – and, on the basis of my tests at least, this is not the case. You can get the bottom down by reading my Samsung Bespoke Ai Jet Ultra review, but the short version is that such adjustments were successes.
Although I can hear the suction change when I move from my Lino leaf kitchen to my carpet living room, I could not change my change when I move from my carpet floor to my bath mat (placed in my living room for test purposes). There was also no message on the vacuum screen to reassure me that the void adjusts according to the environment. The void did not recognize either when it was in a corner.
Easy cleaning
Samsung is not the only manufacturer of vacuum cleaners to offer an automatic suction adjustment. The shark went all in this area, with its wireless power shark and the shark detect wireless wireless vacuums using sensors to determine if they are on a hard floor or a carpet, when they clean at the edge of a room (where the dust can be meditated), and if the soil is lit is particularly dirty, increases or decreasing the power in response.
Using these vacuum cleaners, I could hear the power to adapt reliably in all these situations. You can see the POWERDETECT in action in the video clip below.
To watch
Dyson also uses automatic adjustment. Its Gen5detect and V15 detect vacuum cleaners use sensors to measure resistance (as an indicator of the floor type) and the size and number of particles being sucked (as the dirt indicator of said soil) and lift or lower the suction power in response.
Further on, they will report exactly what increases the wand in real time, via a constantly evolving graph on the LCD screen of the void. It is not strictly necessary, but it reassures me that the void does what Dyson says that it is supposed to do. And it’s rather fun. (If you want to see exactly how the new Samsung compares to the dearest vacuum in Dyson, you can discover it in my article Dyson Gen5detect vs Samsung Bespoke Ai Jet Ultra.)
These are some of the best wireless vacuums that we have tested. Automatic adjustment is not only a gadget – well done, it means that less effort is necessary on your part (no mess around the modification of the parameters), the floors are cleaned reliably and you do not waste the life of the precious battery.
But I don’t think Samsung is still all right. Focusing on adjustment based on dirt levels, as the shark and dyson do, is more logical for me than being so fixed on the specifics of the type of floor. No less because it opens more possibilities of failure … which, unfortunately, seems to be the case with the last offer of Samsung.
A case for AI?
Samsung does not even excuse that this is a whole new technology – it is the second manual vacuum in its range to use what the brand attributes like IA, after the Samsung Baspoke Jet IA from 2023. This model was designed to detect the carpet, hard floor and carpets, and when it was raised. Samsung has chosen to add a long / dense carpet and angle detection to its new version.
While the Marketing equipment of Dyson and Shark claims that their automation features are based on sensors, while Samsung credits AI. In reality, I suspect that the three may be based on similar combinations of smart sensors and software
I say “what the brand attributes to AI” above, because I am not entirely convinced that it is more than a combination of very intelligent sensors and software, like those used by Dyson and Shark. But I suppose that “smart” and “ai” are almost interchangeable these days, and few brands will transmit the possibility of adding “AI” to their product names and their marketing presentation text. It is also linked to the current initiative of Samsung ‘AI for all’. Even by giving Samsung the benefit of doubt here, the ultra-tailor-made jet did not do much to convince me that AI is the future of vacuum cleaners.
