Shark - AI Robot Vacuum RV2001 with Self Cleaning Brushroll, Object Detection, Wi Fi - Gray

Performs really well, mapping took two trips to get it where it’s gathered all its info. I have to say I am pleased with this vacuum especially it’s price and functions

Let me start by saying this , haha, I was totally skeptical that this would work as I wanted it to due to the fact I had a dog that sheds soooooo much and when i broom it’s impossible to get every Hair. BUT this met my expectations and more! I love to walk barefoot most of the time and let me tell you how impressed I was when I got up once it was done cleaning to feel my floor so clean ! 10/10 would recommend to anyone with high traffic in their home or fur babies. Oh and my first run of “baby zhark” was amazing. My dust bin had so much hair and debris in it. It was astonishing. Worth EVERY penny, thank you !

I have a small condo and “Dusti” is perfect. Cleans better than I expected.Mapping is taking a bit longer than I want but I can wait.

I've had a few robot vacuums over the past few years. But this is the first I've owned that was able to map my home, and what a difference that makes! This is the most accurate robot vacuum I've ever used. By accurate, I mean it has no issues getting stuck, or not finding its way back to its charging station. It navigates easily through our bedroom, walk-in closet, kitchen dining room and living with ease. It's even able to traverse over a sort of hump/divider in our house where the wood flooring transitions to tile. I haven't had any issues with hair getting stuck either, unlike previous robots I've had. It's combination of a brush/robber roller is an interesting way to prevent this from being an issue that works very well. Setup was equally good. It's easy to just open the app and add your robot. The app walks you through the process of adding the robot, getting it started with its "explore" run, and maintaining a schedule. I also like the ability to rename and label your rooms in the map that the robot creates. I also have it linked to Google Assistant so I can start the cleaning by voice or get its status. You can also designate zones or rooms that the robot shouldn't clean. For instance, I have an air purifier in one of our rooms, and I don't want the robot to vacuum next to it and accidentally pull its power cord. I drew a little box around that area and marked it as one not to vacuum. Pretty clever. Overall, this vacuum does an excellent job of cleaning every room and making it back to the dock with ease. The only problem I've had with the robot is it sometimes has problems vacuuming over the rug in my living room. It's kind of a shag rug, so think it's just sucking up some of the parts of the rug and getting caught. Pros: Excellent home navigation, great cleaning, easy-to-use Cons: It's a bit loud on hard woods, gotten stuck a couple of times on my shag-type rug

I already own an existing Shark Robot vacuum, so I'm pretty familiar with the line and have always been very impressed. The one that that really got me about the previous generations was how they blindly 'bounced' around the house almost cleaning at random - and I have been really impressed with the AI Laser Vision in this latest model. Firstly it does a quick run to 'map the house', and then going forward you can have it clean all rooms, or just specific ones that it knows how to navigate to. The AI movement is much more in line with what I've expect from a 'smart' robot - it navigates objects in its path without hitting them, accurately takes straight lines between points (for example back to the dock) and honestly does a great job of cleaning. One other new feature is that this model does not have a regular brush bar - it uses rubber strip on the roll, which on one hand is great - because you dont have to pull it out every other day and clean out the trapped hair. But wow is this thing loud. As I say, I'm familiar with the Shark line and is might be a combination of the rubber-strip roller slapping the floor, and just generally a more powerful vacuum - but its noticeable too loud to be in the room while its cleaning. If you are the kind of person who runs these while you're out of the house , then I would strongly recommend you look no further and buy this vacuum. Even if you are in the house while it runs, I would still recommend it - but dont expect it to run silently around the house. It might be that as the rubber strip starts to break in and soften, the noise might lessen - so I'm still big fan of the overall cleaning job it performs unattended, but I'll have to be selective about when it runs during the day/night. I reviewed this product as part of a technical evaluator scheme - but all the opinions express here are my own, unbiased observations using the product in my own house.

This latest iteration of the Shark IQ adds AI Laser Vision. What this equates to is much faster mappings of your home as well as superb object avoidance. I’ve never owned any of the previous Shark IQs (I’ve always purchased the other brand synonymous to robot vacs) and I’m very impressed overall, with a couple of caveats. I’ve been running the R201 for a few days now, first putting it through the ringer in the master bedroom suite of my home, which is equivalent to a Ninja Warrior course. Then I finally placed it in the garage. The master bedroom is about 300 sq ft in size with a king sized bed frame centered in the room, atop a very large shaggy shag rug. The rest of the room is hardwood. The underside of the bed had not seen a vacuum in months, and my two cats continue to spend most of their days napping under there. The biggest hurdle to me is the shag rug, which covers 75% of the floor. Most robot vacs get their side spin brushes caught underneath the rug preventing it from climbing over; I’m guessing this will confuse R201’s mapping algorithm. Shark R201: challenge accepted. The first run was the exploratory run. With AI Laser vision, it was able to map out a rough draft of my room in under 20 minutes! I was quite impressed. From there, it began its methodical path of cleaning the room, which took about 40 minutes. As I mentioned, it did struggle at times to get over the shag rug. After it returned to the dock, I was shocked to see the overflowing amount of filth it picked up when I emptied the large bin. Real nasty stuff. I waited for the vac to charge up to full (takes about 2-3 hours), and ran it again. Again, another bin full of dirt, dust, hair, and pet dander. Waited for it to charge to full, and ran it again. I did this about 6 times before I started to see the levels of dirt taper off. And with each run, the app was able to refine the recorded map even further. There were many hiccups along the way, but I attribute that to the difficulty in navigating through the shag rug. While in the master bedroom, I think the vac gave me 10+ errors ranging from the generic “Shark has experienced an error” to “Shark’s fluid reservoir is empty”. Wait what?! Fluid reservoir is empty?! This isn’t the mopping variant. Oftentimes, the Shark would just pause without cause. I don’t know if it’s done or needs to continue, but I'm guessing it had some trouble finding its way through the shag. Other times, it would actually say “low battery” but the darn thing is at 95% charged. The bugs need to be ironed out. When I finally moved it over to the garage, the Shark was in its element. It was able to map the garage in two exploratory runs and now it cleans the garage door every morning without any hitches. It is completely night and day moving to the garage. The garage floor is now clean to the touch. There is a small rug at the entrance to the home from within the garage, but it’s a low rug and the R201 can clean that, no problem. If there are low profile shoes lying around, it will try to climb over those because the laser paints a tad bit higher, so it’s best to get those out of the way. As a test, I placed random shoe boxes across the entire floor and it avoided them as designed and still completed its job. Although not required, the Shark Clean app will allow you to customize your home map with room names, do not enter zones and even high traffic areas. While the vac is running, you can even switch the power levels (eco, normal, max). One might question the sound level of this vac, especially if we are running this at bedtime. The sound is about normal for a robovac, more pronounced on hard floors and much quieter on carpet. In max power, it runs a bit louder. I think my favorite part of the vac is its ability to clean its own main spin brush. My current robot vac is often entangled in hair and I would have to remove it by hand; the R201 has special teeth that catch the hair and break it into pieces to allow it to pass through into the bin. Winner. The Shark R201 has a few underlying software and/or firmware issues. That I cannot ignore. But I can’t also ignore the fact that the hardware itself is very, very impressive at its price point. It has plenty of pick-up power and excels in methodical cleaning as opposed to the ping pong variant. It did struggle with shaggy rugs, so that's something to think about if you're in the market for one of these. If the Shark dev team can fix a few of the underlying software and/or firmware issues, then this robot vacuum is a very solid choice for your home.

The Shark AI home robot vacuum comes in with its latest model to help ease the burden of home cleaning while its integrated AI system is meant to map your home for ease of use. Lets dive and see if this is a good fit. Out of the box its pretty basic what you'll receive. You will get the main unit, dust bin, docking station, and simple set of instructions. The unit will come with a free downloadable app as just about most products come with these day. The app is not necessary to use the vacuum however the app system greatly enhances its viability. Im not going to get in to the specs such as run time, dimensions and so forth as that can all be easily found on Best Buy's website. Instead i don't want to waste any time and would rather jump right in to how well the unit performs. First off let me start by saying i have personally owned 3 other Shark robot vacuums and the reliability on these units surpasses my expectations and in some cases some of the more expensive brand name units out on the market today. This unit is by far one of my favorite to date and here's why. The unit comes with a upgraded IR laser which is constantly scanning your house trying to determine your floor plan. This makes it especially critical to find a good docking spot for your unit and then not moving it so that it can accurately map your home. On the first go around you will notice that the unit will bang around the home carelessly almost as if it has no purpose. What is actually going on here is it is trying to determine the layout of your home so that it can better clean. For me personally it took about 15 to 20 mins for it to get a rough sketch of what my floor plan layout looks like. The first sketch it made was horrible and looked like a 7 year old drew it with some of the lines not connecting. However as it cleaned some more and become familiar with where it was and the layout of my floor plan, everything started to clean up and look alot more professional. After it maps your home it will try to figure out what it thinks each room is i.e. kitchen, bathroom, dining room, etc. This part is not very accurate however its not a big deal as you can go in to the app and re-label everything. Also if you decide you want to move the docking station like lets say to the basement, then no big deal. Through the app you can delete your old floor plan and have it start to map a new floor plan for you. After mapping was complete, which took roughly about 20 mins, the unit then proceeded to clean the floors in a more uniform up and down pattern. Obstacle detection is not perfect but it comes very close to it all courtsey of the built in IR lasers which are constantly scanning. The IR lasers are actually pretty cool as you can not physically see the lasers however when i was recording footage of it cleaning you could seem them on my phones camera which made it look more futuristic. Anyways, the dust bin is of adequate size and was enough to clean my 2000 sq ft main level area. Noise level is moderate meaning you can still hold a conversation and watch tv with out it being too much of a distraction however you will hear it coming. The suction power on the Shark units has always been solid. As a pet owner who struggles to get hair fibers out of my carpet the Shark does a great job in assisting me in this area. While it will not pull every single fiber up it grabs about 80 percent of the hair in the carpet making a visible difference which was good enough for me. The unit does not struggle getting over raised dividers that separate rooms nor will you ever have to worry about the unit falling off a set of stairs as the sensors will always prevent this. Shark has always provided magnetic strips to assist in No-Go areas, meaning you lay these strips down blocking off certain rooms or areas you do not want the robot to enter. One really nice upgrade to the unit is that you can now set up these No-Go areas all via the app. Once the unit maps your home simple designate which areas you want cleaned more and which areas you don't want cleaned at all. I uploaded some pictures to kind of help show what im talking about. Here's the bottom line guys. Shark makes some of the best products out there and i can personally testify to their quality. The very first Shark robot vacuum i bought was about 4 years ago and that unit is still running strong with no issues. The fact that the new units have everything integrated in to its app system including setting up No-Go zones is a big plus. Over all this a sure fire bet that i feel will please just about anyone thinking of buying their own personal AI vacuum.

Bought this in "22" Over all does a decent job cleaning The App sucks. Cant access it to change parameter. We re arrange furniture every once in a while and we cant remap the area. Loses connection often. Has issue finding the doc as well. Sometimes gets lost under the couch. Not stuck just loses Wouldn't buy again since the app doesnt work right. Also, I bought thinking "self cleaning meant it was one that emptied itself. This is not the case. My mistake but I feel the description was a little deceptive.