Autonomous vacuum

An autonomous vacuum cleaner comprising:

• a housing with one or more of a controller, a sensor, and an automatic wheel assembly operable in combination to sense a surrounding environment and to navigate about the surrounding environment to perform a surface cleaning operation without continuous human input;
• a suction nozzle;
• a suction motor and a fan assembly operable to generate an airflow through the vacuum cleaner from the suction nozzle through a debris separator to a clean air exhaust,
• the suction motor and the fan assembly having an axis of rotation and a fan of the fan assembly rotatable about the axis of rotation, the axis of rotation orientated horizontally,
• the debris separator including a cyclonic separator operable to separate debris from the airflow, the cyclonic separator including,
• a cylindrical wall along a longitudinal axis, the longitudinal axis of the cyclonic separator being orientated horizontally, and
• a dust bin in fluid communication with the cyclonic separator, wherein the longitudinal axis of the cyclonic separator is transverse to a longitudinal axis of the dust bin.

An autonomous vacuum cleaner comprising:

• a housing with one or more of a controller, a sensor, and an automatic wheel assembly operable in combination to sense a surrounding environment and to navigate about the surrounding environment to perform a surface cleaning operation without continuous human input;
• a suction nozzle;
• a suction motor and a fan assembly operable to generate an airflow through the vacuum cleaner from the suction nozzle through a debris separator to a clean air exhaust,
• the suction motor and the fan assembly having an axis of rotation and a fan of the fan assembly rotatable about the axis of rotation, the axis of rotation orientated horizontally,
• the debris separator including a cyclonic separator operable to separate debris from the airflow, the cyclonic separator including,
• a cylindrical wall along a longitudinal axis, the longitudinal axis of the cyclonic separator being orientated horizontally,
• wherein the cyclonic separator further includes a first end wall located at the first end of the cylindrical wall, and wherein a clean air outlet extends through the first end wall of the cyclonic separator, and
• wherein the cyclonic separator further includes a second end wall defining a portion of a debris outlet.