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

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

LOVE this vacuum! We have 4 dogs and LOTS of hair! We have tried three different Roombas and none of them even came close to the job this Shark does; my floors haven’t been this clean in forever! I will watch for the next sale and buy another!

I bought this after doing a lot research. I thought it was nicely priced and had a lot of features considering the cost. It cleans very well sometimes going over the same area more than once. The self emptying is a particularly nice feature and on a cleaning run, it will often interrupt the cleaning to empty itself then start over where it left off. Its pretty good with hair as long as its not very long. I am not so sure that the bin on the base will go for 30 days as I usually empty mine after a week or at most 2 weeks. It is however not maintenance free... The filter in the robot as well as one in the base does need cleaning every now and then to maintain the great sucking power that it has and I usually take off the brush and remove the hair that is tangled there. As I have a baby in the house and hence lots of food particles on the floor, I activate the robot twice daily and clean the robot every 2 weeks though it is probably un-necessary to do it so often as the filter and brush are usually not very dirty at that time. My only negative comment is that there is no option for a remote to the best of my knowledge bearing in mind that the app to control the device doesnt work in all countries outside of the USA as I painfully found out when I tried to download the app. That unfortunately converts it from being really smart to being somewhat retarded as it learns the position of bits of furniture but if they are removed, it still avoids the area as if they were still there. I took off one star for this reason and would not recommend this particular unit if you live outside of the USA or its territories.

It does a excellent job. It learned map of house and I can easily use app to clean specific rooms. Easily climbs over high pile carpet and cleans. Transitions easily between hard surfaces onto carpet. Worth the money.

Great vacuum, east set up and use. I did have issues with installing the app and never got that cleared up, but works fine without it. It is a bit noisy and bangs into things…I like to have it clean when I’m gone. It doesn’t get stuck or get tied up into cords. It does a thorough job and cleans my 1600 sq for house on one charge! I love that it returns itself to the base and self empties!! Great purchase really

I bought this vacuum 4 months ago and its been one of the best purchases Ive ever made. We now have 2 golden retrievers and sweeping/mopping/vacuuming twice a week wasnt touching our floors. There were hair bunnies in all the corners of the rooms. I run this vacuum daily, sometimes twice a day. Its the hardest working member of my household and has a place in my heart for all it does for me ;) Huge time saver. Worth every penny. This was my first robot vacuum. I loved it so much I bought an old used earlier Shark model off Facebook marketplace. Def not the same. This model is much better. Having the dock to empty to is a game changer for a big home and lots of dog hair. Otherwise, Id be babysitting it all day and might as well do the vacuuming myself. It took about 2 weeks to see a change in it becoming more efficient as it had mapped out the house more. I love it. Cant say enough good things. Ill never not have one anymore.

This is product is really good and works. It gets stuck a lot but it does the job.

So this is really two reviews. One of the vacuum itself, the second of the management software. Vacuum/Robot: The vacuum seems to run great. It picks up well, doesnt get lost, its navigation seems to work well and the ability to clean a given room is nice when it has the map (more on this in software). It fairly consistently returns to empty at the base (I set it to empty every half hour when vacuuming, it mostly does that). They mechanics of the empty works pretty well, sometimes it gets stuck on larger debris (IE dried pasta the kids dropped, bottle caps, etc.) and errors out but thats only happened twice I think. I dont have any stairs in the area of the floor that it runs on, so I assume the stair sensor would work. Overall the vacuum/robot work as well as the software lets it from my experience. Software: Heres the Achilles heel of the system. So far the software from Shark sucks, and not like you want a vacuum to suck. I have a fairly heavily integrated automated home, lots of smart lights, a Roomba on a different floor, lots of google nest mini speakers. Im a cloud engineer by trade so I know my software and network integrations well, so this isnt really a user issue with the software. So far the software seems to log you out of the app about every 3-5 days. When it does this you have about a 25-30% chance that your map, settings, schedule and the rest is there, you just have to log in and youre good to go again. Theres also about a 25% chance that your map, or schedule or both has been lost. This means your room assignments could be gone, your vacuum may not know its schedule to run, and youd have to reset up these items. Then theres about a 45-50% chance that your robot had been completely lost, and you have to re-add it and set it up from scratch again. Shark consistently says an update will be pushed, and to wait 48 hours to see if the issues are resolved, but since it happens every few days its almost like the updates are causing this, or they arent really performing any updates and are just trying to get you off the phone. So long and short, top marks on the robot itself, and the self empty base. Theyre great. Good marks for functionality and setup in the software, you can name rooms, keep out zones, set schedules, alerting, maps, etc. ZERO MARKS for stability. I hate that about once to twice a week I am resetting my robot in some way, either completely re-adding it to the application and wireless, reconfiguring the schedule, redrawing the map, or noticing its missed its schedule and having to find out why THIS time. Ive owned it for just under a month (Dec 3 purchase Dec 30th review 2021) so far and Im not really happy, I hope Shark fixes the stability issues, because then it would be a great system, as it is its meh at best. So much potential taken down by buggy inconsistent software.

I was gifted this robot for Christmas (early) and I love it so much. Here’s what i learned thus far: 1.) Before you use your robot, vacuum your floors one good time first with a regular vacuum. Make sure to mop the floors too! This robot was made to maintain cleanliness, it’s not meant to clean up a floor left untouched for several days/weeks/months/years (you know who you are.) 2.) Make sure to set your robot to self-empty every 30 minutes and to also self-charge when the battery is low. Doing this will keep your robot cleaning in between charging sessions if your floor is large. 3.) We like to use pillows to keep the robot out of rooms or nooks he’s not allowed in. I’ll get the strips at a later date. 3.) We run our bot once every other day. 4.) This bot kinda forces you to keep junk off the floor. Want clean carpets? Pick up those clothes/cords/papers! This bot is good for fur control if you have hard floors and standard grade carpets. Thick, plush carpets with long strands are going to get caught in the brush (he got stuck on my super fluffy bath mat). I have an 8x10 rug and standard bedroom carpets you typically find average built (or cookie cutter) homes. Our robot cleans them very well and makes satisfying patterns on the carpets that really set a good, clean-feeling mood. We have two high shedding women and three ultra shedding cats. I clean off the spinner brush about once a week so that it won’t get clogged with hair. Also be sure to clean the filters monthly. If you take the time to care for your robot routinely, it will excel in keeping your floors fur and dirt free!

We haver had two Botvacs over past 5 years. Robot vacs are to do light cleaning, pet hair in our case. We still vacuum once a week. The shark works better than our most recent Botvac, which was a few years old. It is quiet, and self emptying is more helpful than I first thought it would be. Also faster. Last cost was much less than past Botvacs we have purchased.