How much is the Dyson R2 Nurovi Wash+Dry in Australia?
The Dyson R2 Nurovi Wash+Dry (model 664872-01) is AU$1,449 in Australia, listed in stock at Dyson Australia with free delivery and 45-day returns, and at the same AU$1,449 at The Good Guys — both checked 12 September 2026. The vacuum-only R1 Nurovi Dry is AU$949 on pre-order.
That is the price settled. The rest of this walks the questions in the order you are actually asking them at the kitchen bench: where to buy it here, why Americans pay US$699.99 for the same model number, whether the R3 with the UV light is on sale in Australia, whether anyone has tested one, what the extra AU$500 over the R1 buys you, and who should keep their money.
One thing up front. We have not run an R2 across our own floors, and neither has anybody who publishes measurements. What follows is an editorial synthesis of Dyson’s published specs, two Australian retail listings checked on 12 September 2026, independent lab results for the two Dyson robots that came before this one, and what Australian owners wrote about the last one.
Where can you buy the R2 Nurovi in Australia right now?
Two sellers, one number. Dyson Australia lists 664872-01 in Light grey/Vinca blue as in stock at AU$1,449 with free delivery nationwide, a 45-day money-back window and Afterpay shown as four payments of AU$362.25 (Dyson Australia, checked 12 September 2026). The Good Guys carries the identical model number at the identical AU$1,449. Harvey Norman lists the Nurovi range; we did not record a price from it on 12 September 2026.
Dyson R2 Nurovi Wash+Dry Australia price at a glance
| Model | Model no. | Seller | Price at this seller, checked 12 Sep 2026 | Availability | Where to buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R2 Nurovi Wash+Dry | 664872-01 | Dyson Australia | AU$1,449 | In stock, free delivery, 45-day returns | See it on Amazon |
| R2 Nurovi Wash+Dry | 664872-01 | The Good Guys | AU$1,449 | Listed | See it on Amazon |
| R1 Nurovi Dry | 657032-01 | Dyson Australia | AU$949 | Pre-order | View the R1 on Amazon |
| R3 Nurovi Spot+Scrub UV | not published | No Australian seller | No Australian price published | Not on sale here | No Australian listing |
The Where-to-buy links go to the Amazon Australia listing; Amazon pricing is set separately from the Dyson and The Good Guys figures above.
Because the price matches, the deciding factor is what happens when the thing misbehaves in week three. Dyson’s 45-day money-back window is the more generous of the two sets of terms we checked, and given the docking record further down this page, that window is the most useful thing you are buying.
The Good Guys listing is the more informative of the two, oddly enough. It publishes the sensor stack as DToF LiDAR, line laser and infrared, filtration down to 0.1 microns, a 6.5-hour charge time, and six programs: Vacuum, Wash, Auto, Quick, Quiet and Boost.
Why is the Dyson R2 Nurovi cheaper in the US than in Australia?
In the United States the same R2 Nurovi Wash+Dry sells as a Costco warehouse exclusive at US$699.99, item #9140914, on a listing dated 11 September 2026 (Costco97). In Australia it is AU$1,449 through Dyson direct and The Good Guys, which is full Dyson pricing through ordinary retail channels.
The observable difference is the channel. A membership warehouse buying a container of one colourway at one price is a different animal to a brand storefront and a national electrical chain. Dyson has published no explanation for the gap, and we are not going to invent an exchange-rate sum or a duty breakdown to fill the silence. There is also no grey-import path worth chasing for a machine that needs its dock, its water tanks refilled and local warranty service. Go in knowing you are paying the top of the range for this hardware.
Is the R3 Nurovi Spot+Scrub UV available in Australia?
No. Dyson Australia’s newsroom described the R3 Nurovi Spot+Scrub UV on 4 September 2026, but dyson.com.au carries no R3 product page, Australian price or on-sale date as of 12 September 2026. Only the R1 Nurovi Dry and R2 Nurovi Wash+Dry are listed for sale here.
Worth correcting, because the machine-generated answer floating around this query attaches AU$1,449 to the R3. It does not. AU$1,449 is the R2, and the R2 has no UV stain detection and no heated self-cleaning roller mop, which are the two features driving the global launch coverage you probably saw. If the UV light is the reason you are shopping, the R2 is the wrong machine and there is nothing here you can buy instead. Treat Australian R3 availability as unconfirmed rather than imminent, because Dyson has published no date.
Has anyone independently lab-tested the R2 Nurovi yet?
No, and that is the honest state of play. CNET, which runs robot vacuums through its own lab, said on 3 September 2026 that the Nurovi range has yet to go through that lab, and described its testing history with Dyson robots as “a bit of a mixed bag”.
What has been measured is the machines that came before. Vacuum Wars put the Dyson Spot+Scrub AI at 76% of embedded carpet debris removed against a 78% category average, 81% of flattened pet hair against an 82% average, a crevice score of 3.5 against a 2.0 average, and coverage of 0.57 square metres per minute against a 0.71 average (Vacuum Wars, 2026). On the older Dyson 360 Vis Nav, the same lab recorded 2.72 overall against a 2.78 average, with raw cleaning at 4.93 versus a 3.54 average but battery at 0.72 versus 2.15 and navigation at 2.38 versus 3.06.
Read the shape of that. Dyson robots measure hard on suction and along skirting boards, and soft on battery, navigation and how fast they cover ground. At 0.57 square metres per minute your cleaning cycles run longer for the same floor area, which on a 60-minute run time is the difference between one pass of the living areas and two. Early buyer chatter calling Nurovi vacuuming “average at best” is first impressions, not measurement, and we are filing it that way.
What the 4.7/5 on Dyson’s Australian page doesn’t tell you
The Bazaarvoice rating module on Dyson Australia’s R2 page shows 4.7 out of 5. We looked at what sits under it on 12 September 2026. The top review displayed is from a reviewer in Cirencester, England, dated 7 September 2026, four days after the 3 September London announcement. It is a global review pool on an Australian page, and it tells you nothing about Australian ownership.
The only published Australian owner record for a Dyson robot is the 360 Vis Nav on ProductReview.com.au: 2.2 out of 5 from 12 reviews, 75% negative, Value for Money at 2.1 and Ease of Use at 2.8. Failure to dock dominates, raised in at least 5 of those 12 reviews. One owner describes 2.5 hours of failed docking attempts in a single morning, on a second replacement unit. Another had the dock stop working with the brush bar destroyed, and returned the machine three times before a refund.
Small sample, and an older machine. But navigation and docking are exactly what Australians reported breaking, and exactly what no independent test has confirmed Dyson has fixed on the R2.
The specs that decide whether it fits your home
Get the tape measure out before the credit card. Dyson Australia lists the R2 at 96mm tall, with a 40mm climb limit for thresholds between rooms and a side sweeper that extends 27mm to reach edges. Charge time is 6.5 hours (The Good Guys, 2026) for up to 60 minutes of cleaning (Dyson, 2026). If the step between your kitchen and hallway is taller than 40mm, you will be carrying the robot between zones, which defeats the dock you paid for.
The cleaning hardware is 21,000 Pa Twin-capture suction, a brush bar for the big stuff working with suction for fine dust, into a 2.6 L bin behind double filtration, filtering to 0.1 microns. The mop pads are Reuleaux triangles, a curved triangle of constant width whose three points keep contact with corners that a round pad rides past. That is Dyson’s positioning, unverified by any lab.
Between cleans the dock washes the pads in 75°C water, dries them with 45°C air and holds dry debris for up to 90 days (Dyson Australia, 2026). Whether the pad seals and the dock contacts survive six months of that is the open question, and nobody can answer it yet.
See the R2 Nurovi Wash+Dry on Amazon
Where the three Nurovi models actually land
If you want hard floors washed without touching a mop
The Dyson R2 Nurovi Wash+Dry is the only wash-and-dry robot in this family you can buy in Australia today, in stock at Dyson and listed at The Good Guys at AU$1,449 as at 12 September 2026. On tile, timber and vinyl it is the machine that does the job you are hiring it for.
If you already mop by hand, or the floors are carpet
The Dyson R1 Nurovi Dry (657032-01) is AU$949 on pre-order at Dyson Australia and runs the same Twin-capture system and 21,000 Pa motor, with no wet cleaning and no washing dock. That is the whole difference between the two. Your AU$500 buys floor washing and the dock that washes the pads, and nothing else in the cleaning hardware changes.
View the R1 Nurovi Dry on Amazon
If you came for the UV light
The Dyson R3 Nurovi Spot+Scrub UV has UV-assisted stain detection and a heated roller mop, and it exists in Dyson Australia’s 4 September 2026 newsroom post and nowhere else in this country. No buy page, no price, no date. It answers nothing you can act on this week.
And none of these three replaces the Dyson stick already in your cupboard. Stairs, couch cushions and the car are still your problem.
So should you buy the R2 at AU$1,449, drop to the R1, or wait?
Buy the R2 Nurovi Wash+Dry at AU$1,449 if your home is mostly hard floors and you are paying for washing plus a self-cleaning dock. Take the AU$949 R1 Nurovi Dry if you mop by hand. Wait if you want the R3 or independent test results — neither exists in Australia yet.
Said plainly: the Dyson R2 Nurovi Wash+Dry Australia price buys you hard-floor washing and a dock that cleans its own pads. It does not buy you proof that the navigation and docking Australian owners complained hardest about have been fixed, because no independent lab has tested this machine.
If your place is mostly carpet, spend the money elsewhere. The R2’s headline additions do nothing on a rug, and the Dyson Spot+Scrub AI measured 76% embedded carpet debris against a 78% average (Vacuum Wars, 2026). A carpet specialist at or above that average is the better AU$1,449.
If you do buy, use Dyson’s 45-day money-back window as your insurance. Run the docking routine hard in the first fortnight, in the rooms you care about, with the furniture in place. Send it home twice a day from the far corner of the house and watch what happens.
Picks: the R2 Nurovi Wash+Dry for hard floors, the R1 Nurovi Dry if washing is not the point, and the R3 Nurovi Spot+Scrub UV filed under “not available here yet”. Prices and availability checked 12 September 2026.
