DYSON is creating 200 new research roles on its Wiltshire campus as part of a £2,75 billion global investment plan.

The vacuum cleaner giant is looking to bring together the UK's brightest minds in science, health and engineering for the expansion which builds on a commitment to deepen research into advanced robotics along with investment into new specialisms.

The new roles will be based at its UK Innovation Campus, which is one of the largest research and development hubs in Britain.

Spread across two locations, at Malmesbury and Hullavington, it spans over 800 acres and is a base for 4,000 people representing 59 nationalities, most of whom are engineers and scientists.

Founder and chief engineer James Dyson said: "We are growing our research team to achieve radical leaps in the performance of our machines – underpinned by technologies such as solid-state batteries and robotics.

"The recruits will join a very broad team, from our Dyson undergraduates at the Dyson Institute to world-experts in their fields.

"Dyson is a very global business where research and development teams increasingly span Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, UK and the US.

"We sell in 83 markets globally and our supply chain, manufacturing and headquarters are in South East Asia.”

Dyson’s chief research officer Dr Mark Taylor said: "Dyson is built on new technology and we increasingly work in fields that many people would not have imagined us venturing into until recently.

"We are looking for people, from a range of disciplines to help develop the technologies which will be integrated into products that will be in millions of homes.”

Dyson’s research efforts are focused on fundamental scientific, mathematical and engineering breakthroughs across an increasing range of fields including energy storage, AI, machine learning, high-speed digital motors, sensing technology, and material science.

The discoveries made are applied to products across vacuums, hair care, purifiers, lighting, and un-announced new product areas.

The new roles span a variety of specialisms including electro-chemistry, electromagnetics, high-speed electric motor design, fluid-dynamics, embedded electronics hardware and software, turbo machinery, thermodynamics, spectroscopy, filtration, acoustics, and materials.

The campus is also home to the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology, where undergraduates study for their engineering degree alongside work on real Dyson technologies.

To enable the growing team and the deepening focus on research, Dyson invested in state-of-the-art laboratories on its two Wiltshire campus locations.

The advanced labs now cover an area larger than five Olympic sized swimming pools and include some of the largest and most advanced energy storage labs in the UK as well as suites of scanning electron microscopes, electromagnetic compatibility chambers, semi-anechoic chambers, microbiology labs, hair-science labs, air filtration chambers, and advanced rapid prototyping facilities.