Shark AV911S EZ Robot Vacuum with Self-Empty Base, Bagless, Row-by-Row Cleaning, Perfect for Pet Hair, Compatible with Alexa, Wi-Fi, Gray

I previously had less expensive robot vacuum of another brand and it worked well for about a year until the pets killed it out of curiosity. I went about 6 months without it but definitely missed it with 2 dogs and 2 cats inside. I had major rotator cuff surgery some months back and vacuuming still irritates my shoulder so I went to looking for another robot vacuum to help. I settled on this one and love it! I run it at least once a day throughout the house common areas about half standard carpet and half LVP flooring. My house is large so it runs quite a bit. The battery charge can all the areas in one charge and I have it set to automatically return to station to empty when it gets full then it return vacuuming. It picks up pretty well and makes it much easier to keep carpets clean. I still vacuum weekly with my corded shark upright because cordless vacuums don’t have the power corded do but sure make life easier. This little guy picks up everything from flour to cat food, it’s low profile enables it to reach under cabinets and into corners and it’s pretty good at emptying its canister but sometimes will let you know it needs help and you have to manually emptying out the canister but overall it works great !

This Shark robot vacuum is a game changer and I love it! When I come home the last thing I feel like doing is vacuuming and this vac runs while Im away. My place remains clean despite the efforts of my two cats. Ive had this vac for nearly a year and Ive been regularly cleaning and maintaining its removable parts on a weekly basis. It keeps my place clean and vacuums in a nice predicable path, hardly ever getting trapped in a room or on a rug. I notice today however that theres oxidative growth over both charging plates. For the past few months Ive noticed that the vacuum cleaner will turn itself on at night in order to re-adjust itself on the charging base. I wonder if this new behavior is due to the corrosion. I will contact Shark and post updates here. Other than that, I have no issues and I love this vac.

Its a good vacuum but for what its being sold for dont buy it. There are far better robots out there. If you want to stay with Shark go with one of their LiDAR robots. They track a lot better. Pros: Self empty dock works great. No-go zones. Great suction and good pickup. Easy to maintain. Good edge tracking. Cons: Doesnt work in the dark due to being a camera system. Doesnt clean corners well. Tracking is okay at best, doesnt know where it is sometimes. App is okay, used to be worse.

I got it at a large discount and I like the self-emptying feature, so 3 stars. The cleaning performance and coverage are OK, about the same as my 1st generation roomba. The smart features are designed terribly. The creepy eye with an internet connection is a privacy concern and is useless for mapping. Why do you try to map walls while its so much easier to map the working area? You could use cheap ultrasonic radars for that. That would also allow to discover obstacles without bumping into or climbing onto them. When it tries to run over my bare foot, that actually hurts a bit. The map is not utilized for route optimization: robot keeps bumping into walls and ignoring doorways even after it has mapped out the room. It wastes battery while doing that. The docking algorithm is ridiculous - docking can take up to 3 minutes. It cannot climb the raised front edge of its own docking mat.

Our Shark robot arrived and it was well packaged but the boundary strips were missing. A call to Shark for the strips was frustrating to say the least. I had to jump through hoops to prove my purchase, including making a video of all the parts and the box that it came in and the Amazon box as well. Seriously? They failed to include everything and then I have to go through this to get the strips? I suppose I should be grateful because initially they said they couldn’t send them to me at all, but when I made my dissatisfaction very clear, they had a change of heart. Also, the representative had very broken English, and was hard to understand. Shark, you can do better for your customers. As for the robot itself, it’s just OK. I purchased it because it doesn’t need dust bags. That was a big plus for me. It’s a bit of a problem that there has to be enough light in the rooms. Otherwise the vacuum can’t see. I have a laundry room with an automatic shut off for the light so it won’t go in there unless I put a lamp in there. It also skipped one other room and I don’t know why because it’s well lit. It does all the other rooms but in a crazy scattered way. It will do one room a third of the way, leave to work on something else and then go back and charge for 2 1/2 hours. Then it comes out, rides around over areas it’s already done, finishes the room it didn’t finish before and then goes over other areas that it already did. It gets totally confused and finally I have to manually dock it. It just doesn’t know when to quit. In the end, it does get most of what I need so I’m keeping it but I prefer my iHome Nova robot that I have on the second floor.

I’m on I’ve owned another Robo vacuum before and it was not a smart mapping one,. The bumping into everything randomly was not a very good message, so I ended up returning it. Furthermore, it required me to empty it each time it runs. In the end, it really wasn’t all that convenient. I ended up looking for something that not only didn’t have Mark nothing but that it could empty itself after shopping around for a good value. My research told me to buy this one. This shark does everything, and it requires almost no attention from the user I could almost say that it’s actually a deep cleaning , I cannot believe how much dust catchers each time it does a cleaning. I have mostly carpet and when I walk barefoot on my carpet, I can feel the supple cleanliness of the clean carpet. It’s a luxurious ceilings. I am extremely extremely happy with this purchase excellent excellent value I highly recommend this product.

Does the job but does get lost from time to time and dies somewhere in the house which is a pain.

What a great piece of engineering. Fascinating what they’ve done with miniaturizing the drives and components, not to mention the programming. Truly impressive

Probably should have bought a brand new one. It was amazing when it worked. But buying refurbished is always a risk.

Started to make a loud noise after using it about 5 times. Looked online and followed possible resolutions to clean out dust bin, check wheels etc., but, did not correct problem. I was satisfied with performance until this occurred.