Customer Ratings & Reviews

I was replacing my IRobot and wanted to not have to constantly empty the tank or always cleaning the brushes (I have two large dogs). Didn't want to spend a grand on cleaning my floors and I'm so glad I didn't. There is no way the other brand could be better.

Baby Yoda has the force! Works so well! Better than I thought. I have 2 Siberian husky's and 1 malamute and this little critter works! My hard wood floors and carpet is so much cleaner!

Wife loves it, don’t believe the haters, works as advertised. Takes some runs to get dialed in but with the app it’s fun to watch you house get mapped. Been about a month and couldn’t be happier.

Works great and saves time on floors. Best investment we've made.

As a household with pets, we needed the ability to vacuum more without spending every day doing it ourselves. We schedule our vacuum times and it keeps the floors and carpets clean. Recommend the Shark Robot!

Will have a 100b Great Pyrenees dog. My husband hated the hair but not anymore. I love to come home to a clean floor everyday.

Mind blowing accurate,also super nice suction on this unit - They got it right with this one -!!!!!

This robot vacuum is the best! I bought this because I have 3 dogs and a husband that leave crumbs and messes everywhere. This robot has so many great features! It was extremely easy to set up, you just download the app and follow the prompts. Setup only took me a few minutes. The robot maps out your home, allowing you to do spot cleanings, or target area cleanings. It will take itself back to the docking station and empty itself if it’s full. There is a large debris bin that you detach and empty into the trash every few weeks, which is great for pet hair. The robot will also dock itself if the battery gets low. You can also control and find the robot through the phone app, or through Amazon Alexa. It cleans unbelievably well and leaves vacuum lines, which I love to see. You really can let this robot do all the work.

This vacuum is terrible. We decided to get this model after having an irobot vacuum for years. Huge mistake! We have an English mastiff who sheds a little bit and an Airedale terrier who hardly sheds at all. This vacuum clogs every single time it runs. I have ran it 3 times in one day unclogging it after each run with nothing changing. We were stuck with it during the coronavirus but I am hoping we can still exchange it and purchase an irobot again.

I have owned this for 2 years now. It is a phenomenal product. It vacuums if full returns to its station to empty then resumes where left off. I have a 1 story 1600sqft ish house and it cleans every room on one charge no problems. At the end of its clean it returns to its docking station and empties itself into the docking station and charges until needed again. I schedule 1 to run at 8am and one to run at 8pm. It has been kicked, shoved, hit by doors and stepped on by large dogs. It still works AMAZINGLY. I thought it broke 1 year in and called and complained that it was NOT sucking it’s dust bin into the station container but the filters were dirty. They sent me a replacement unit due to being PHENOMENAL customer service but had they helped me trouble shoot a little more I discovered 2 months later the unit they sent me a replacement for was perfectly fine and needed it’s filters cleaned to allow airflow. I now have 2 of these and they are both so amazing. I highly, highly, highly recommend this product and I’m not huge on doing such a genuine review like this. ***Maintenance*** There are 2 sections that clip off and remove one being the Hepa filter on one side I believe and the other being a foam filter preventing dust from entering the docking station. CLEAN THE FOAM ONE bi-monthly or you’ll be like me and think your unit broke after a year of dust and just dander caked into and the station getting no airflow to suck the things out of the vacuum.

This is my first ever usage of a robot vacuum in my home and I'm thoroughly impressed. This Shark IQ Robot vacuum has some great features that I never knew I needed until I saw this beauty roaming around my home. First off, this is a breeze to get up and running when you unbox it. Download the SharkClean app to your smartphone and it will walk you through it to get this on to your wifi network. Once connected, you'll see the controls within the app to get you up and running and this little vacuum will be eager to start cleaning. I am spoiled by using this after only a few days as it has been a joy to have this roam around my home and clean up little debris. The smart vacuum is truly smart as it maps out your homes layout to learn and increase it's knowledge of what and where it should be cleaning for the future. Within the app you're presented with a digital map of where the vacuum has roamed around and cleaned and where it has been able to learn it can get to. The cleaning process in our home has been so helpful with this device. We just pick up any loose clutter or wires out of the way of where the smart vacuum may go to. Then we are able to let this go do it's thing and methodically clean a room neatly row by row. You can literally see the markings of how it's gone up and down the carpet in orderly rows. The device pulls in the loose debris with circulating little brushes which sweep the small crumbs and such into it's suction bay. Now the thing with this vacuum that seals the deal for me is the self empty base. The vacuum will sense when it's filled up, return back to it's docking station, and empty itself out into the handled canister at the base station. After doing so, it's back out onto the floor to clean where it left off. Truly impressive and hassle free. I have watched this device at first to make sure it was safe within my home for almost an hour when I first used it. Now I trust it to let it run and I can leave the house to run errands and come back to a vacuumed floor and the vacuum is sitting recharging itself back on the dock. Amazing. The home mapping on this is impressive and will make more sense when you have this set up and working in your home. The suction power is pretty good for what it is. The self empty base is a real time saver as I can let the vacuum release itself into the canister and discard when I'm ready to as it can hold up to 30 days of dust/debris. The app will give you a lot of control over how you want the suction power to be, the rooms you want cleaned (after they have been mapped), and to set the vacuum up on a set schedule time to clean. Hoping that the self cleaning brushroll on this vacuum is helpful and lives up to what it says so I don't have to deal with long hair tied into the brushes. Have only used it for about a week so far to try this feature out, so only time will tell if this is as good as it's stated to be. I haven't had any luck with either Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant getting this Shark vacuum to actually work. I have them both activated and linked to my Shark account and neither seem to be able to respond to the vacuum and incorrectly state that it's offline. Yet I can see it is connected to my wifi and make it start immediately when I use the dedicated Shark app or the button on the vacuum itself. Hoping that this is a bug in the system that will get fixed soon as it continues to roll out. PRO: Convenience at its best Helpful to keep your home clean Maps your home to learn layout Self empty base is a must have CON: Unable to get Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant to work

As we can’t update our reviews, this product and the App are very early production so to speak; the current Shark integrations don't have all of the functionality as of 9/17/2019. Included in my review are some correlations to what they say it can do vs. what it can actually do today and overall opinion of use/construction/aesthetics. Great packaging, simple and minimal setup needs. For the robot, there are only two brushes to attach and that’s all, once the protective plastic came off the sensors & vents. The base is pretty big and had only a single power cord to connect. A great feature that they implemented, was a power cord wrapping bar. For me, the dock is right against a wall, directly under a power outlet; a full-length cord would have made a mess and/or made it protrude from the wall. This cord wrap made it very neat and saved space. A funny thing to note …when the robot & base station are tethered to each other, it looks like a toilet! All of the initial setup was done using only the App on my Galaxy S10+. Setup was a breeze and I got roughly 10 minutes of cleaning with the charge out of the box. After 4-5 hours, it was back to 100% battery. When the battery icon turned red on the robot, it rolled itself back to the charging station and within 10 seconds, the station turned on a vacuum and sucked the debris out of the robot. Pretty cool, but pretty loud as well. I had another robot vacuum that would die in the middle of the room when the battery ran out - I already like this one. The wheels are beefy and grippy, compared to ‘other round roaming’ vacuums that I’ve used. It went over a shaggy throw rug without issue, a seemingly common ‘leave your shoes here’ rug and the remaining vinyl flooring seamlessly. It has no issue getting cat litter off the floor and the bristles don’t shoot it across the floor; I do find that the trim brushes work very well, as I purposely left some litter against it, during my test runs. A downside to the cord wrap that I praised earlier, is that the removal of the dust bin is awkward when pressed up against the wall and the cord gets in the way. The amount of debris that gets collected is mind boggling; dust and hair that I don’t see or feel on the floor. During one run, it did get clogged on a dryer sheet that was left on the floor; it wrapped around the brush and it just sat there until the battery died. Even though it was the brush that was clogged, it alerted me that the wheel was jammed, so that was confusing. Another day, it ran twice -- one right after the other; the App confirmed the same. As a techie, I want to integrate it into the smart home. That’s where I hit a stumbling block; it seems as if the IQ robots aren’t “Google Assistant” ready … because when the Shark guy came out of the speaker to give me the battery status, it told me my “Ion” robot can’t be reached. So, I phoned support, who confirmed that the IQ robots aren’t quite ready for smart home integration yet, so a Google Assistant service update will be needed to fully support the IQ. I discussed this with a different support person (they were very responsive) who believes the ‘network team’ needs to get the latest version released. After about 10 days, there’s still no update. The mapping feature takes time. I’m at around 8 runs and 4 hours of run-time, but there’s still no floor map, so I can't really review that. So, if you want a robot that’ll return to the base, do some decent cleaning & will ‘eventually’ be Google Assistant friendly, then pick one of these up!

THE BREAKDOWN: Let me start out by saying this robot vacuum is really cool. I have never owned one before so this was all new to me. The packaging was very well done and like opening high end merchandise. In the box was everything needed to get this product up and running. The instructions for setup were very clear and easy to understand. After turning it on and syncing it on the base I let it charge for 6 hours. While that was charging I downloaded the app and created my account. The look and feel of this Shark IQ Robot is very sleek and stylish. The fit and finish are really elegant. The performance was very good. The first couple times that it ran it got stuck and did not make it back to the base station. After those 2 times it seems to have mapped better patterns every time. I am very impressed with the performance. I love the bagless self-empty base. This is so simple and easy to use and it doesn’t get all over you or spill out everywhere while trying to empty. I had zero issues with the app. I quickly downloaded it and created and account and was up and running quickly. The only wait time was the 6 hours I waited to let the Robot charge initially. The app pretty much does everything you want it to. You can just hit clean and it gets to work. You can set a schedule and map out your rooms. You can view the history along with maps and you can also control the cleaning mode. There are 3 modes you can choose from, eco, normal and max. The real beauty of it that you can start cleaning from anywhere. I start mine from work all the time! This Shark IQ Robot also has powerful pet hair pickup with self cleaning brush roll. It also has dual corner and edge brushes that you can watch swivel as it does its job. Now one thing to not is that it claims to hold up to 30 days of dust and debris but with me have furry friends I have had to dump it after a week. It does say that it supports Alexa or Google Assistant but personally I haven’t gotten that feature to work. PRO’s: -Very well built and stylish -Setup was quick and easy -Self-Empty Base -Self Cleaning Brush Roll -Navigation and Mapping Module -Dual Corner and Edge Brushes -Excellent phone app CON’s: -Price -Couldn’t get Alexa or Google Assistant to work for me -Takes a few runs to be able to find the basestation SUMMARY: Overall, I feel that this product is really good and has a great fit and finish. I like all the features, and I feel that there is definitely some room for improvement for the voice recognition. I would definitely recommend this to a friend if they are in the market for something like this.

I have had a few other robotic vacuums, mainly Roombas and other branded versions. Now it’s been quite a while since we used one as they either didn’t last long, the battery died or got tired of having to find it somewhere because it became stuck. I really like Shark products and they’ve come a long way since their beginnings, so when I saw they had this full featured robotic vac that empties itself we had to give it a try and are we happy that we did. Unboxing: The robot came in a pretty good sized box all carefully packed and inside were the robot, base unit, dirt canister, power supply, side brushes, carpet tray, a roll of magnetic strip, and manual. The robot itself is surprisingly light, sort of took me by surprise, but it’s plenty sturdy. The top of the device doesn’t have a carry handle so you just have to pick it up by its sides. On top you there are two buttons, “Clean and Dock”, and between those there’s a circular lens that looks like a upward facing camera, the manual states that’s a room sensor for mapping the room out. On the side there’s a recessed power switch, and on the front a bumper section that pretty much like all the other bot vacs we’ve had. The back is the dust bin and a port for the docking base to suck out the dirt once it docks. The bottom has a somewhat small looking brush roll that looks completely different than any of the other one’s we’ve used, it has rubber strips along with brushes. There are two latches you depress to remove the brush for cleaning. There’s also a door for the battery, with one screw holding it closed, which makes for easy maintenance if you ever need to replace the battery. That’s pretty much it, the only assembly required was putting the dust bin on the base, snapping the side brushes on their posts on the underside and plugging it in. Since we were putting the base on carpet you place the docking tray down first then put the base on this. This is nice as it gives the robot a solid surface to dock itself on. Setting up: I went ahead and set everything up, switched the robot on and placed it on the dock where it beeped a couple times, the dust bin collector turned on, “quite loud an moved a surprising amount of air”, then the battery led came on and it started charging. While I was waiting for that I went ahead and installed the app from the Google Play Store on my phone and worked on setting that up. You have to follow the directions carefully on the app, and actually have the app connect to the robot so you can enter your WiFi password so it can connect to the internet, you’ll also have to set up an account with Shark for all of this to work. Took me a couple tries to get it right, and you have to make sure you give the app permissions to connect. My phone at first due to security didn’t want to connect to it as it stated that the there was no internet access available with this connection and would disconnect “I just had to ignore the popup and let it connect”. After that and some updates to the robot and the app everything works fine. You may have to let the system update the software on the robot and app as Shark is tweaking and working on getting everything right and ironing out all the small bugs. Once this is all done you can start cleaning, “although you could start cleaning without the app and just press the clan button on the robot but you miss out on all advanced features if you don’t set it up”. Actual use: Once you press the “clean” button on the app the unit takes right off cleaning. There is an option on the app that you can set for different cleaning modes “Eco, normal, and high”. Putting the robot on high you can definitely hear a difference in the vac and how much air it moves out of the side vent. I used the high setting right away as I wanted it to get as deep into the carpet as possible. We have a lot of carpet, 3 bedrooms, home office, living room and hallway, so probably right around 1400sqft of it. I had just used our carpet cleaner the day before on all the rooms and gave everything a very good sweeping with our trusty old Filter Queen “nothing we’ve owned can beat it yet for deep cleaning”, so I knew the carpet was clean before using the robot, and would be a good test to see if it found anything we may have missed. We let the robot do its thing, and it was fun to watch, this one instead of just crisscrossing around the room and no real set pattern like the other robots, this one was very careful, going back and forth like you would mowing your lawn. It made sure it overlapped where it had just cleaned and to my surprise would correct itself in little steps to make sure it was following the right path “impressive that it can do that”. You still have to pick up anything that may tangle the rollers “charging cords, clothes, anything small and loose” but this one did an excellent job of getting itself unstuck / untangled and only once in many days of use did I have to rescue it “my fault too”. You can set the app to “evacuate and resume” and “recharge and resume”, which are nice as the unit will go back, empty itself and start back up. It doesn’t just start over at the dock either; it went back to pretty close to where it left off so it wasn’t wasting cleaning. You can also set up schedules for cleaning and once it learns / maps out your house “which you can see in the app” you can then tell it where to go to clean “pretty cool”. Being that we had just “shampooed” and heavily vacuumed the carpet before using this I didn’t expect much at all. Well to my surprise it somehow found a lot more debris than either of us expected. We do have one dog that’s a prolific shedder and that hair gets everywhere so we do vacuum a lot. It was just surprising as to how much this little guy found, we are both very impressed. Final thoughts: Both of us were very impressed with how well this robot cleans and how meticulous it goes about doing it, “like it’s on a mission”, it’s nothing like the other one’s we’ve had where they just run around aimlessly crisscrossing a room till it’s hopefully hit everything, this one goes about it in a very orderly fashion. The amount of debris it has picked up is really amazing, and not having to go hunt it down constantly “because I no longer hear it” is really nice. As an experiment I let the robot go around and clean the whole house, and then we took our Shark APEX upright, “about as much suction cleaning as the Filter Queen” and went over the areas the robot had cleaned. To our surprise there was very little dirt in the APEX canister, just a small balls worth of hair/fuzz and not even a ¼ tsp of dirt. This was after going over everything, carpet, tile, everything the robot covered. I would normally have a completely full canister on the APEX, instead it was all in the docks collection container, “super impressed”. The app itself gives you a lot of control over the robot, “just can’t drive it” and makes using it so much easier than ones we’ve owned over the years. We haven’t been able to get Alexa to connect to this yet but I know Shark is working on this and will get it working soon. You do have to remember to empty the dust bin, “it was very full” after 4 days, and have to make sure to clean out the filters every so often. These are very easily accessed and cleaning them only takes a few minutes. There’s also a filter on the dust bin in the robot itself, it’s easy to access after removing the bin, but it’s easy to overlook since the unit empties itself, just have to remember it’s there. We were also very impressed that after all this cleaning the brush roll is doesn’t have any hair in it to clean off. Normally this is a problem as I have long hair and always find it wrapped around the brush rolls of everything, the APEX is the only exception. The only thing is the dust bin on the dock does get messy inside and not everything comes out easily “especially hair” so you may have to reach in and pull a big clump off the filter screen inside, but for us it’s no big deal as cleaning out our filter queen or one of many other vacuums is messier. We also found that the power switch on the side,” if you happen to find your unit turned off and sitting there for no reason”, take a look and see if you have any door stops close to the floor “we have the little 3” rubber tipped springs”. When the robot is going around these, and in the right direction they may be the right height to press the power switch. This happened to us and as a solution he made a little door over it with some plastic and gorilla tape, simple solution and something engineering didn’t even notice. Ours just happen to be at the exact height to press it but it’s no longer an issue with the flap installed. If you want a really good robotic vac that costs a lot less than the other ones that also empty themselves then get this shark, you’ll really enjoy how well it cleans and now much less vacuuming you will have to be doing yourself. Shark keeps improving the app and software so over time this one’s going to be a real winner in our book.

Had the Shark IQ Robot for almost 3 weeks (cleaned 8 times so far). I watched her run around my house while I got lazy. My reviews on this robotic vacuum are based on my experience in comparison with 4 other robotic vacuums (2 different brands: 2 sensor based ones and 2 camera system based ones with wifi) that I currently own. Set-up and App functionality: Set up was a breeze, took about 5 minutes to get it up and running. Downloaded the shark app and got it connected to home Wifi, and set up a cleaning schedule. The app also shows the past cleaning history and when you click the past event it opens up the floor map to show what locations were cleaned. The app also sends you notification on the phone if its gets stuck and you can also command the robo cleaner to clean from the app. Love the app so far, it's simple to use and has the necessary functionality built in it. Haven't linked it to my google home and alexa app yet. This is a camera based robotic vacuum cleaner and is much lighter than the ones I currently own. How smart is it ? It is still learning its ways around. I have way too much furniture in my living area on the first floor and I have her programmed to clean my first floor (~1000 sq ft) along with my previous robotic vacuum. It did spend quite a bit of time learning the floor plan (4 rooms on first floor) and it got smarter every time it cleaned. It is optimizing its path by picking the longest path with the shortest cleaning time. It doesn’t bump hard against the furniture like my other ones do and it now started to slow down when its gets close to my furniture and I am guessing it will stop bumping into them eventually ones it learns the floor plan and the furniture locations. I am impressed by its learning capability and it never got stuck at any location so far. It did get a little disorientated (lol) when it tried to climb on the pedestal fan but it now stops when it gets closer. The map function got updated after 4 cleaning sessions and it's still learning. Unlike my other one, she follows a vertical path plan (row by row) to clean which I think is the efficient way to cover the entire floor plan. I used the supplied botboundary strips to mark the "no-go" zone and it worked pretty good and planning to order more to mark off the areas near my furniture. Functionality: It has 3 operation modes: Quite, Medium and High Suction mode. I tried only medium suction mode and It cleans for about an hour and the battery still had about 40% charge. You can program which mode you want it to clean on the app's daily schedule. You have to turn ON "Recharge and Resume ON" functionality for big floor plan by holding the clean button on the vacuum for about 15 secs and this will recharge for about 4 hours and cleans from where it left off. It’s a good function to have for big homes. Also, if you have pets there is a neat function (Evacuate and Resume) that you can turn ON that lets the vacuum return to the dock to empty its bin more often. I like the "self-empty" function on the base that sucks the dirt from the vacuum into the base unit when it docks and you don't have to worry about a cleaning the robo vacuum's dust bin - one more reason to be more lazy ;-). The base dustbin has a visible indicator (holds 30 days of dust) that tells how much dust it has collected so far. The self-cleaning brush is amazing and you don't have to worry about hair wrap and stuff getting on the brush head. My older one needed the brushes to be cleaned every month :-( and I love the self-cleaning brush idea. It also has 2 dual corner edge brushes which is neat for cleaning along the wall base boards where most of the dust accumulates. It has a power on/off button which I like as I can turn it off when I am gone on extended vacation. This is a very good function to have and not have to worry about turning off the cleaning schedule which I currently do on my other ones as they don’t have power off button. I have medium thick carpet, hardwood and ceramic tiles on the main floor and didn’t see any cleaning issues with the vacuum so far. The suction is good so far and I can't comment on how good it will be after a year so. I had my other ones between 2 to 7 years and I had to replace battery on one after 5 years and suction power was low on the one of them after 3 years of use (3 times/week). My only complaint on this is the power cord being short (3 ft) and I had to use an extension cord to get it the location I wanted. Overall, I like the features on shark IQ robot (R101AE) and would highly recommend it based on my experience of owning 5 robotic vacuums (price range $600-$1200) from 2 different brands. This definitely offers more features - more bang for your buck, and comes at a lower price point. Can't comment on its durability yet as I only had it for 3 weeks

For the size of this vacuum, it does a great job of keeping the floors clean.It's not as powerful as most high end upright vacuums, but it does a really good job.It picks up about 90% of the debris on my floor with it's first run. Some things pushed down into the carpet are a little tougher for it to get, and obviously items that are stuck to rugs or hard floors are going to need an actual hand to scrub and remove. Our rugs get pretty dirty with the pets, and kids constantly tracking debris into the house. Plus, they are always dropping bits of whatever they are eating everywhere. I let the Shark Robot loose in the house, and it did a great job for such a small vacuum. I was actually amazed at the size of some of the objects this robot vacuumed up,..ie. peanut M&M's, Nerf bullets, pieces of toys, and chunks of papers. I didn't go through the house before I set it free, because I wanted to see how far it would make it before getting stuck somewhere. It actually vacuumed for a while before needing assistance. A few times it was from tissues getting stuck in the wheels, the other times were from Nerf bullets getting stuck in the roller housing, or large pieces of plastic wrappers (my kids are slobs just half the time). The roller housing pops out very easy, and obstructions can be removed in seconds. The tissues in the wheels were just as easy to remove. Overall the maintenance is pretty easy, and once all the oddball obstacles are off the floor, the robot can do it's job without incident.I actually have 4 types of flooring in my house; high carpets, low carpets, hardwood and tiles. The Shark robot does a great job with all the floors, and can even move between them with relative ease.(see pic of different floor types) The "side brushes" actually do a great job at cleaning to the edges of the rooms. Most of the edges got pretty clean, but some small items still remained in a few locations. (I'm including pictures of one of my tiled floors near the edge. As you can see almost all of the loose debris was collected) This model boasts more suction power than the "best-selling" other robots, and I'm inclined to believe it, after seeing everything that this has picked up. I also love the fact that this little robot cleans itself. Right after it docks, you can hear the base kick on it's suction power, and pull all the debris from the robot. Everything is bagless, so just cleaning the filters and emptying the base on occasion, is all that is really needed under normal operation.The app is pretty essential, as it lets you set up an automatic cleaning schedule, and lets you pick the power setting (either standard, economy, and powerful). It also lets you tell the robot which room to clean. It's pretty easy to connect the robot to the wifi, using the app. Then it can even be voice controlled through the Alexa or Google assistant apps. So far it looks like you can get about an hour of cleaning per charge, and once the battery is low, or the dirt reservoir is full, it automatically docks to take care of that.The robot is actually pretty good about navigating around most areas, but can get stuck in narrow areas that it enters, and can't turn around. It's low profile lets it crawl under most of our end tables and different types of furniture. The robot also makes very tight turns around small obstacles, maximizing it's cleaning area. The self cleaning brush roller actually does a great job of not getting tangled up with all the pet hair it collects. Overall this Shark IQ robot, is a very smart self cleaning automatic vacuum. It may not be as powerful as some upright vacuums, but it does a great job for it's size. Plus it can do all the vacuuming in the house, while I'm out doing other things. I am very happy with it's capabilities and performance!

We have the best dog. His name is Linkin and he's the most loving, loyal, co-dependent dog we've ever had. I love him. But he sheds little black hairs all over the house. Because of this, I've been wanting a robotic vacuum for a while now. And since we bought a house recently (very excited!) that has an open floor plan on the first floor, I thought, "Why not? It'll be really useful." Along comes Black Friday at just the right time. Amazon and Best Buy had a sale on the Shark IQ Self-Emptying Robotic Vacuum. $250 off! So I took the plunge and bought it from Best Buy because they had same-day delivery. Enter "Chum" (name to be changed soon). He's the best little helper for all that hair that's all over the house. I thought these things were a gimmick. And paying $350 for one seemed really decadent (and maybe is, a little). But this little guy has already proved his worth. In the last couple of days, he's already vacuumed all the first floor area we'll give him access to. We don't let him go in our bedroom or master bathroom. But otherwise, he's got the run of the first floor. The dogs seem to be adjusting and it's loads of fun to watch him wander around the house tidying up. The one thing that I find most impressive is how well he manages to suck up all those little dog hairs around the house. He'll march his way into a corner, gently nudge a house plant or a shoe left on the floor out of the way and vacuum his little heart out. I understand why people anthropomorphize these little gadgets. He's taking care of a task nobody wants to do and does it with attention to detail. He moves quickly across hard flooring, carpet (or rugs, in our case) and kitchen tile. He'll occasionally struggle with the threshold between flooring types, especially if there's a height difference. But he turns a little bit and gives it another go until he gets passed the obstacle. This evening I was getting him to map the first floor of the house. At one point, he would go back to the dock to empty the dirt he'd sucked up, then wander (seemingly) aimlessly around the house looking for the odd corner that hadn't been cleaned yet. It was really quite endearing. So, I can definitely recommend a robotic vacuum if you're on the fence about buying one. Probably the hardest part about your decision to buy one will be what to name him (or her).

This little shark! So it does a great job. Its a little skittish on wood floors, but still sucks just about everything up. None of these work half as good as a traditional upright -but as far as robot vacs go this is a winner. We have had it for a little over a year. We run it from time to time to just keep things tidy and it does a great job. I have to clean its internals once in a while but i dont mind even a bit considering i get to see all the shizzle its snagging up from the abysmal pits of our floors. Speaking of abysses, it seems to never really know where it is. Now, we dont move stuff around too often. And the app has a display of the map its been building. But, i swear it thinks its in a dark souls game, or maybe resident evil. Its charger is in the kitchen and it starts there,, making its way back to the bedrooms. It comes back out, wanders around, and goes back to the bedrooms. -going from one to the other kinda haphazardly. It does a good job but i feel like it still hasnt learned our layout that well. We dont move stuff around but we also dont run it more than, idk, like three times a month-ish. maybe if it ram more it would know the place better. All in all we are pleased with it. I must add lately its started this clicking while its running but i think thats just a random piece of armor or the weapon of some fallen fighter its picked up in its gears. I like this device because i can have an AI robot in my home. I do wish that the app was a lot more interactive. The self empty is fine, it does this little tune which sounds like some other companies jingle from the commercials. And if the power goes out , when it comes back on the shark auto evacuates. What i mean by that is when the little robot goes to its base is sucks its contents into the base which is loud but only last for a sec or five. you get used to that but it takes a bit. I do recommend this machine but i would like to help the company trouble shoot a few lil design issues.,

Received the Shark IQ Robot and have enjoyed it. Very nice features with the self empty feature. Can schedule the days and times it'll auto clean. My only 2 issues are the mapping, it has done a few runs and hasn't mapped my home yet so maybe after 10 or so cleanings it'll get it. Also, it comes with the barrier strips to stop the vacuum from going in the areas blocked off but the strips don't have adhesive backing to make it a permanent off limits area. This honestly wouldn't be an issue but I have three cats and the they won't stay in position for long lol.

I purchased this when my wife asked for one after seeing an ad on Facebook. She was excited about the product because of its mapping technology. I saw the shark on sale at Bestbuy and pulled the trigger. So glad I did. My floors are very clean, we own three cats and a dog, and are cleaned every day . The battery last long enough to clean the entire floor of my large house. I gasped in wonder when the shark returned to its base to empty its tank then continued to clean the floor. I didn't realize my floor was covered in animal fur until I cleaned the main tank the first time. I'm just waiting for another sale at bestbuy and I will immediately scoop up another for my other floors.