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

My new Shark, Roberto, saves me a lot of time! While he is cleaning, I can do other things! The mapping was easy and he seems to get more thorough each time he cleans. I love the hepa filter as we have bad allergies and this is helping eliminate dust. Also love that he empties himself!! Highly recommend!

This is my second room/house robot, so I have had a chance to see cheep verses middle expensive (Sharp). The Sharp with all its big time advertising isnt quite up to the TV boasting. First the negative, The software is sub-par as it doesnt provide any minute by minute up-date showing the current progress, as a result I have no idea how far along it is, in the current cleaning cycle. It need to show the line by line cleaning progress of where it is. Also it doesnt recognize carpet, it should speed up its cleaning suction speed when it is on carpet as my cheaper unit did. When I ask for its cleaning history (phone app), to see what its done, it wont show anything until the entire job is complete. As a result, I have to leave pet bedding and other items up off the floor all day long (which is a pain in the ). The good stuff is it has two cleaning front brush arms, a partial rubber center cleaning brush (less hair tangles but still some) and no bags to dump a big plus. Also my cheap unit always told me what it was doing (in a voice notice? the sharp just beeps when it completing a task, I have to guess what its up to..

Awesome until it finds a cliff

We have a husky and she shed a lot after winter. Shark keeps the floors clean and picks up fur. Given the amount of fur, 60 day container has to be cleaned out every 3-4 days. But that is not a problem since vac keeps ahead of collecting the fur.

Maps out all the rooms so you can select certain areas to be cleaned. Really does a great job of cleaning with no tangles in the roller so far. 1 week

I have a none LIDAR-radar one, all my baseboards have black marks.. this wont touch them.. also. when doing the mapping. remove everything. the is 6 inch or lower to the ground, it will see it. push bigger stuff around before it gets there if you dont want it mapped. i could not move my couch or love seat. so i got progress soup can and put the legs on them.. it mapped out the whole house perfectly. it too 7-8 trsy to see what i was doing wrong. walk with it and move stuff before it gets there. if it goes under furniture and see something hanging it will stop and turn.. the beam on the top mount only see what is directly in front of it when working.. mapping it sees 3 to 4 inches higher. i have many cats so i need it to go everywhere. The best thing is you can square off every room/area and they give you a name list to choose from. you can do the whole house of just the Foyer and back bedroom.. If it misses something there is a spot clean and you move the little square on you house map and it will go there. my older one had clue where to go. when here then way over there? no brains, this pots like mowing your lawn back and forth. if it sees something that appears in from of it , it wont bump it but go around it, so if you ad chairs.. it will go around it till it ti moved. Also, mapping does not pick up table legs or chair legs. i hope this helps. you.

I havent had my Shark robot long, but its put in a lot of hours in a short time. I have dogs, a dirt yard and my own hair has been known to kill old-version robot vacuums in no time. Based on the notifications I must not be the only one. If you forget to check the wheels for hair, no worries, the shark will stop vacuuming and let you know when its time to clean the hair out of the wheels. The spinning wheel pops right out and is easy to clean and the spinning brush has a door making it easy to remove and clean the hair out of. It also lets you know when the bin is full, so no stress about forgetting to check it. My expectations for the mop were pretty low. How much scrubbing power can this thing really put into my floors? I was pleasantly surprised. It did better than expected. Yes, I will have to mop myself, but this is great for in-between mops. The vacuum works well on hard floors and is pretty decent on carpets. It picks up short dog hair well but sometimes drags longer hair across the carpet. Im not complaining, I wake up to carpet lines and clean floors every day and I only have physically push a vacuum once a week now. Worth every cent!

We first purchased a Shark AV911S Robot Vacuum from Amazon. We named it Bob. It was just OK. It did a fine job of actually cleaning, but then, after less than 6 weeks, it started throwing notices that saying that the charging power source was incompatible with the charging station (we live in the US and have standad 120V power in the house). And multiple times it failed to return to the station for recharging, and just petered out where it lay. There was no room mapping feature, and I likened it to a blind man just feeling his way around bumping into things. If it got into a corner, sometimes it would take literally a minute or two just to get out of the corner. We renamed it (at the risk of being politically incorrect) Bob the Ret*rd). Interestingly, I was unable to write a review for the AV911S as Amazon aid there was too much review activity for that unit, and that only verified purchasers would be able to review. Hmmm....sounds fishy to me. So we finally gave up on it and returned it and purchased the Shark AV2501AE AI Robot Vacuum with XL HEPA and self emptying base - which is what we should have purchased in the first place. This robot DOES have room mapping, which is a great feature. It also has LIDAR, so it does not feel its way around just by bumping into walls and objects. It actively sees objects and avoids them without hitting them. We have only had this for a couple of weeks, but as I write this, I sent it to the master bedroom to clean, and voila, it went straight to the MB. So far so good, and I really like this robot (also named Bob. And this one, so far, remains just Bob).

This robot vac is amazing! I have tried other brands and this has surpassed them all for me. I read some of the other reviews and honestly they sound more like user error than product error. I‘be had mine for almost 2 years and have had zero glitching with the app unless it was because my WiFi went out so it logged me out of the app. But, it never deleted my map or anything like that. Also, one review said they couldn’t get parts; well you absolutely can. Maybe not direct from the manufacturer but there’s a multitude of different companies selling replacement parts on Amazon. I say get it! It makes cleaning so much easier, especially if you have kids or fur babies! I couldn’t use mine for a week while I waited for my replacement parts to get delivered and it really made me appreciate how much work it takes off my hands m, because I was seriously struggling to keep my 5000 square feet of living space feeling and looking clean.

The technology is amazing but I find the programming non-intuitive. Trying to map out the carpeted areas so that the moping function wont reach it is impossible. Naming the room is also another chore. Most irritating is that the price has dropped another $50 since I bought it less than 3 weeks ago and I have yet been able to test its full function since I will need my daughters help to program it. Wondering if I should return it and get a replacement for $50 less.