Shark AV2501AE AI Robot Vacuum with XL HEPA Self-Empty Base, Bagless, 60-Day Capacity, LIDAR Navigation, Perfect for Pet Hair, Compatible with Alexa, Wi-Fi Connected, Carpet & Hard Floor, Black

It mapped my house within 2 or 3 runs. It starts up at its scheduled time and runs until depleted, charges, and then goes back out until the entire floor is done. I have 2 Huskies and this has been a lifesaver. Now, I only have to worry about the occasional corner or hard to get to areas and the couch. The only things that have stopped it so far were an errant sock and my shirt stays. I keep the floor mostly clear, but it just goes around most things when they are left around. (provided they are big enough for the sensors to detect them.) For reference, this is my 4th robot vacuum, the 3rd generation of Shark, the 2nd with self-emptying, and the 1st one Im happy with.

I bought this to replace my original shark robot. It is a good way to keep your home lightly cleaned. The drawback is that if you have a large room, you need to stop and clean or replace the mop pad. Good thing they send two.

I was so ready to absolutely love this vacuum and mop combo robot. I am a little disappointed. The vacuum and mopping the robot actually did was adequate. It vacuumed very well and mopped adequately for in between deep cleaning. In order to use the mop feature you have to designate carpet areas. I have area rugs in the kitchen and the living room. The carpet area zone feature would not let me designate a small and precise enough area for the rug so I ended up folding the rugs up and putting them in a chair or couch. This is not practical for every day usage so I will end up using the vacuum only function much of the time. This makes me really sad since the vacuum mop function was the main reason for the purchase. Another issue was I requested the robot to clean the entire house. It cleaned about a third of the area, went back to base and declared the job complete. I thought maybe it had gone back to base to chare but the battery was still at 40%. I waited a little while for the battery to charge completely and again requested a entire house clean. This time it cleaned about 40% of the requested area. My house still has not been completely vacuumed or mopped after two requests.

I’ve only had it for a few hours so I’ll only put 4 stars until I’ve had it longer and can better vouch for it but… I love it!! It’s amazing. As a working mom with a toddler, dog and spouse gone, it’s amazing to have this one thing off my plate and it makes me feel better about the condition the house is in every day. It’s gone over one small toy (a wooden shape) and made sound and just left it behind but I’m sure I’ll run into more issues in the future but I only expect so much out of it. It’s fairly quiet and I went over the area I did a test spot cleaning on with my dyson and didn’t really pick anything up. For something with this much function and so small I’m impressed.

Great for hard floors, kinda iffy on our low pile rug. We bought it to reduce the sweeping and vacuuming needed on our hard floors so its performing as we need it to. We have a 5yr old boy and a dalmatian so dirt and dog hair are forever on our floors. The tank says it can hold 45-60 days of debris but we can only get 7 days out of it. I guess that shows how much its really working. As per other reviews, it does get a lot of scratches. I even put felt furniture bumpers on it to prevent the majority of them but its still somehow managing to look like its 2 years old after a month of use. All in all it does what I need it to and I would recommend it to a friend or family member based on its current performance.

Okay a little context I have a 1400 single level house with laminate flooring throughout. I have 3 area rugs as well. The one in the living room is a short pile rug. My house is a new construction and my backyard is 3/4 dirt. I also have 3 young dogs that go in and out all day long. So, as you can imagine keeping up with the dirt and mess has been a royal challenge. I work full time with a lot of overtime and also go to college at an accelerated pace (2 classes every 5 weeks year round). This is my first robot vacuum, but I do use Shark brand vacuums. Vacuuming: As far as the linoleum flooring goes, it does an incredible job and I am very pleased. With the short pile rug in the living room, I do notice some dirt being left behind. Overall, it definitely helps, but the suction on the rugs is not quite as I imagined it would be. A deep cleaning will still be necessary and thats okay. Mopping: So, were talking about muddy/ dirt mess tracked in by my dogs. It gets bad fast. The mopping function does okay. It definitely doesnt remove all of the dirt in the problem areas unless you use the ultramop setting. Maybe theres a way to do this that I havent figured out yet, but what I have seen so far is you can only use the ultra clean and ultra mop settings on a 5x5 area at a time. If you consider the time it would take to have it clean an area of that size, redock, and then set another area, youd really be better off doing the deeper cleaning with a mop or steamer. On the areas that do not get as muddy and awful though it does do very well. So, if your house doesnt have caked on dirt in several areas, it should work fantastic just using the mop setting. Battery life is good. Charging time you can expect 10% battery in roughly 30 minutes. It will not run below 15% battery. The app is user-friendly and I definitely like it. Same with set up. In the app, you can label rooms, high traffic zones and carpet zones once it has mapped your house. Once you label the carpet zones, which has to be done for the mopping, the robot will go trace the outside of where you said it was for you to confirm it is correct. This is maybe my BIGGEST complaint. I wish they could put a sensor on this thing to determine/ verify given the approximate location of said rug or carpet. This took me forever to get relatively close as I have 3 rugs. It will go out and you have to follow it to ensure is traces the rug area but if its not right you have to wait for it to redock, redraw your rectangles and test over and over again. This can get quite frustrating. The self empty base is awesome and works great. The base is easy to empty and clean the filter. I thought the way the mopping pad attaches was rather cool. I thought it would be similar to a steam mop or maybe how a Swifer pad attaches being maybe a couple clips or velcro. It actually attached by similar to a zipper format. You slide a piece on the back through another opening and across. Then it stretches down, attached by velcro on the bottom, and then up and attached by a piece of velcro on the front. This may be a bit obsolete to some, but you definitely do not have to worry about your mop pad falling off mid clean (assuming its not on carpet.)