Shark AV2501S AI Ultra Robot Vacuum, with Matrix Clean, Home Mapping, 30-Day Capacity HEPA Bagless Self Empty Base, Perfect for Pet Hair, Wifi, Dark Grey

One of the other reviewers mentioned she was skeptical of this machine, but after using it she changed her mind. That got my attention as it seemed a lot of money for JUST a cute toy. However, IT WORKS VERY WELL!! The app works well on my Android phone, After I followed the download and installations directions Completely and enabled LOCATION (which I Never do) after which the machine found the phone and they had a little chat. Neither Wi-Fi nor the app is strictly necessary for this to clean your house, but only to program cleaning areas and schedules. For example, before I got it to pair with my phone, after charging completely of course, I simply turned it on to see what it would do. First it got its bearings, spinning a couple times, located the dock, kissed it just to make sure, and then started cleaning my wood floors; All of them! It found its way around the dining table/chairs, didn't get stuck under the wood rocking chair, cleaned the area rug in the living room Just Fine, wandered into every room and did a Very Good Job of cleaning, even the back hall by the back door! It even found a little pile of course sand in husband's room and got it all (I wouldn't recommend feeding it sand deliberately. I don't think it was happy with that!) I was quite astonished how much hair and lint it picked up! There are things it can't do; toe-kicks for example as it's too tall to get into most of them. And being Round, it has a bit of trouble with some tight corners., and some edges at interface of floor and wall. Some of these places might need Human Intervention, such as in a broom or small hand brush. It can't really do a good job plush pile carpet if it's very dirty. It simply lacks the power and heavy beater bar of a monstrous upright. (But it doesn't claim to compete with those.) [EDIT] So I cleaned mine Really well with the upright monster to give the Shark a head start, and it worked very well. After a couple weeks of Matrix Clean every couple days it's even begun to lift the pile in high traffic areas,. Today for example, the carpet hasn't looked this good in Years!![/Edit] There is a setting in the App to allow it to return to the dock to recharge and resume cleaning, and one to empty itself and resume. What a Good Idea! I recommend that one for sure. I would Highly recommend this machine for Anyone, not merely for an elderly person. The Entertainment Value alone is worth what it cost me, not to mention the time saving issue. This Robot is nothing sort of Brilliant! Just Brilliant! **

I bought this vacuum during this year's Prime Day because I wanted to replace another brand that just wasn't doing the job picking up my German Shepherd's dog hair. I was constantly having to stop the other unit and pull hair out. After looking at online reviews on this one and another popular one and really reading the reviews, especially ones about dog hair I chose to purchase this one. So far I LOVE this one. I have all hard surfaces (wood and tile) in my house and it cleans both really well and here's why. First, the roller on it isn't a "brush" roller, it's simpler and hair doesn't get tangled up in it. When I first set up the vacuum it mapped my house and afterward, I was able to set up zones or rooms so I could select specific areas to vacuum such as high traffic areas, etc. After it mapped the house I could see the "map" of the house and it was pretty accurate. Then my vac started cleaning and I could even select the level of clean I want also. But wait, there's more! Lol I have the app on my phone so I can select clean, ultra clean, eco/normal/max. I have it on ultra clean. So here's the great part, my last vac was "random" whereas this one literally goes row by row to vacuum and it also does the edges. I have included a video so you can see what I'm talking about. Then my vacuum, aptly named "Hair Destroyer" will take itself home and the base will literally suck all the hair/dirt out into the basin storage and my vacuum goes back out on its' merry way to keep on cleaning! YASSSS The unit recharges nicely, is easy to make schedules (I have mine on Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat) and I haven't seen the hair on the floor. It is also cleaning smaller rugs by the doors well. The clearance height on it is a little higher (about 4 1/2 inches high) but it still goes under the couches and most other furnishings I have. I still have a dust mop for areas around plants in the corners, etc that are not wide enough for it to fit through - hey this thing isn't perfect but it's close. Next, you'll want to know that with as much dog hair that this thing picks up I empty it every 2nd day it runs to keep the bin in the base clean. Some people said it filled up quickly, well mine did the 1st couple of times also because of the amount of hair it picked up. This unit is not loud, it's quieter than my last one. I read reviews that said it was loud but it isn't. It plays a sound when it's going home to empty and then it plays a different sound when it's going back out. Neither bother me. Be sure to let it map the house, you'll be glad you did. Be sure to register it. I had one issue of it not getting the charge but I think it was user error and when I called customer service (CS) they were helpful and it was back to doing what it's supposed to do. The preliminary steps the CS rep used to determine what was wrong were in my opinion elementary, items I had already done but the customer service rep said it was required. Overall, I really wanted to write this review because I really love this unit. If any negative issues occur I'll update my review of course!

Good robot vac with self cleaning hopper. Easy to setup and allows for house mapping, spot cleaning, and errors show up on your phone's app. I would have given this 5 out of 5 but we have 5 dogs and on carpeting it doesn't pick up all the hair, balls it up instead. Hard surfaces no problem, and is great.

Set up was a breeze. It mapped out my house and went to work. I love the app on my phone, it lets me design the areas of my home ... kitchen, foyer, bedroom, etc. The vacuum does a fairly good job, even if it does occasionally miss a piece of pet food, or it may sweep a piece of dirt on to an area it's already been. It does seem to sense if it needs to vacuum an area more completely, like the cat litter that surrounds the litter box ... I can hear the litter going into the vacuum louder then softer and softer as more of it is sucked up. I mapped out the house when we were first moving in so I had too many boxes still on the floor. I suggest you try to remove everything you can during mapping so that the machine gets the entire picture, then it will work around chairs, etc. There is only a single room that does not get cleaned by Baby Shark, and that is one of the bedrooms with a shag rug. The sweepers got caught up in the fibers of the rug and I had to untangle them. I wish I could figure out how to have the vacuum do the rest of the room except the rug ... I think I can set up a more exact no-go zone eventually. You can set up a routine for the vacuum, but it's only a single routine. I was hoping to set up a routine to vacuum different rooms on different days, but that's beyond the (current) app's limitations. It is a bit loud when in the same room so I usually have it clean when I leave to drive kids to school. It seems to have a bit of an erratic pattern of cleaning but it still manages to get under chairs and close to baseboards. Corners are kind of hit-or-miss. It's not perfect, but I don't have to get out the broom much at all anymore, so I'm very pleased. I can heartily recommend ... and I plan to give these as gifts at Christmas!

absolutely abysmal cleaning and battery performance I bought this botvac to replace our Neato. The neato has been good but Neato is no longer producing botvacs and the support is all but gone. With that in mind we decided to replace the Neato even though it’s still performing well, at least for now. We started looking for a self emptying model and one that’s only a vac because we have very little hard floors, a mopping unit would be a waste. Not having a proprietary bag was a big plus too. We looked at a lot of reviews after much debate settled on the Shark AV2501S AI Ultra as it checked all the boxes and had decent reviews. $550 was on the high end of our budget but when the price dropped to $279 on Amazon we quickly pulled the trigger! The unit arrived over night and well packed as expected. We unpacked and put the botvac on it’s base and allowed it to charge over night before we even set it up. Setup went Ok, but the first indication of problems started as soon as we had it do it’s first mapping run. We watched it and it missed lots of areas that the Neato had no problem navigating even though the Neato is slightly bigger. We wanted to check the full cleaning power so we set it to max and turned it loose. It came of the base ran about 1 min and then returned to it’s base... WTH? First fail. Restarted the full house clean on max again and same result! Second fail! Ok, maybe it’s something I did wrong. Factory reset, set it back up, did another mapping run and sent it out again. SAME THING! Fail three. Ok, I’m a bit stubborn so I send it back out again with recharge and resume & evacuate and resume both on. It only makes sense right? Low and behold, it actually starts to vacuum the house but… after about 45 min it returns to it’s base to empty and recharge. WTH? It’s supposed to have a 120min battery life! 3 hours later it finishes it’s run. Almost 4 hours to vacuum the house... The Neato did it in about 1 hour with plenty of charge to spare. Fail four! At this point it’s been an all day affair. Frustrated we leave it to charge over night and try again in the morning. The next mornings attempt 2 went not much better. I deactivated the recharge and resume & evacuate and resume and sent it back out again with max. Shark states it has a 120min run time so we figured even though it was on max it should have no problem with our house which has 800sqft of open floor space. At first it wouldn’t start because it was asking to empty the dust bin. Ok, completely emptied the base and bot, blew them out with compressed air so they were squeaky clean and tried again. Success! It finally starts it’s run. At about the 40% battery remaining level or so I noticed the suction sound reduce down to the “normal” level. Not cool… It did manage to finish the run but I noticed it wasn’t picking up even small pieces of debris. Fail five! Ok, my butt is really getting chapped about now so immediately I sent the Neato out on max power as we always do. Keep in mind the Shark had already done a run and the Neato needs to have the dust bin emptied every time so it’s empty too. Time to compare the results. All the stuff the Shark clearly missed is gone and it only took about a hour as usual. Let’s see how much the Shark and Neato picked up. I took both dust bins and dumped them each onto a sheet of paper. OMG! The Shark performed abysmally. While I didn’t do any scientific measuring you can see the Neato picked up at least 5 times or more debris than the Shark. And that was right AFTER the Shark had done it’s run. Bottom line – the Shark’s performance is atrocious. The suction is poor, the battery life is poor and the mapping is poor. This thing is headed back to where it came from! So disappointed...

This Shark Robovacuum is great. We've had it in use for about 2 weeks. It vacuums half of my home (living room, kitchen, spare room and a bathroom) every night because of our 2 dogs and 3 cats. Make sure you find the little edge brush, its tucked into a corner of the packing material. I was happy to find out that it will eventually climb over my threshold between my living room and kitchen with is pretty tall (for a threshold) due to my kitchen floor being decorative stone. The Shark Robovac is a little loud when doing its job, but not horribly loud. When it backs into its docking station, the vacuum that sucks out the robovacs onboard dustbin is pretty loud...kind of like a shop vacuum. Its only on for a few seconds. Overall, I'm impressed with its cleaning ability. Its nice waking up eveymorning to clean floors. The other half of the house is a step down, so my wife has those rooms mapped out separately and has to put the robovac on that level to clean rooms individually. So far so good.

I’ve had the Shark Robot Vacuum for 6 months now so I figured it’s a good time for a review. I’ll mention the Pros and Cons and then our experience with it in a 900sqft house and our new 1,500 sqft house. Pros: Super meaty tires compared to our old Roomba so it has no issue getting over transitions/rugs/mats. Incredible mapping, makes the most beautiful little rows and patterns and doesn’t miss a single spot. App is nice and I like being able to create rooms or zones as well as off limit areas. Definitely the most intelligent robot vacuum I’ve used. Cons: Battery life is not as good as you’d expect or it at least doesn’t use its full battery. Gives up cleaning halfway through without telling you why. Meaty tires to help get over things but it also pitches itself up onto things (table legs, dog toys, etc) and then gets stuck. Suction power is questionable on carpet. When I first bought this, we were still living in our 900 sqft house. Our house was majority hardwood with a few rugs. The Shark was awesome. Deep cleaned the whole house in less than 45 minutes and seemed to have no issue picking up dog hair, dust, and dander. However, when we recently moved into a larger home with majority carpet, I noticed a big difference. All of a sudden it just won’t clean the whole house. It’ll do about half of it, then go back to dock and then it just stays there….battery will still show about 40% but I guess it doesn’t want to run below that?? It’s happened enough now to where I pick out half of the rooms to clean, let it charge all the way back to 100%, then I have it clean the rest of the rooms/house because it just WONT clean my whole house anymore. Also, with having majority carpet in our house now I noticed it does not pickup dog hair like it used to or other debris on carpet. Our carpet is definitely more plush than the rugs in our old house but if it can’t pick up a clump of dug hair I’m not sure what else it’s even picking up. I think if you have don’t have majority carpet in your house this thing would work great. Maybe I’m the only person struggling to have it clean my 1,500 sqft house in one go, I don’t know! But for how much these suckers cost it’s hard to not expect it to clean the entire house if it gives you that option and that’s what you select. If this thing ever dies, I probably won’t get another robot vacuum as I just don’t think they’re truly meant for carpet.

We have had this Shark robot vacuum for over 3 years now and “she” is still going strong. We run her at least 4 days a week. Pros: Price vs other robot vacuums. Suction is great. We have tile floors with multiple area rugs and she handles the transitions well. There are 4 long-haired girls and two dogs in our house and this thing handles the hair really well. There have been times when I’ve had to remove hair that got wound up around the roller but, considering the amount of hair shed in our home, that doesn’t happen very often and I don’t consider that a con. The capacity of the dust bin is good and I love that it doesn’t require bags. Money saver! The mapping feature is so nice, allowing us to decide exactly where we want/need cleaning. The scheduling feature is also a big plus. Cons: This isn’t a big deal to us but it might be to some… when the vacuum is emptying into the base dustbin, it is a little loud. Maybe not the best thing if you’re running it with light sleepers/baby/phone calls. You can buy replacement filters, rollers, brushes, etc. and they are easy to change out. It has been so convenient and saved me time between manual deep vacuuming. (Our “regular” vacuum is also a Shark product.) The fact that we’ve had this Shark robot vacuum for over 3 years, and it’s still going strong, makes me give 5 stars without hesitation. I definitely recommend it. I’m so pleased with the performance and durability, I’m actually considering possibly upgrading to the Shark Power Detect Never-Touch vacuum and mop combo.