Shark RV1001AE IQ Robot Self-Empty XL, Robot Vacuum with IQ Navigation

Shark RV1001AE IQ Robot Self-Empty XL, Robot Vacuum with IQ Navigation

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Forget about vacuuming for up to a month. The Shark IQ Robot Self-Empty XL combines the convenience of a self-empty base + IQ Navigation total home mapping for complete, efficient cleaning with the performance of Shark suction and self-cleaning brushroll. After each cleaning session, your robot vacuum automatically empties into the bagless base, which holds up to a month of dirt and debris.When charging is complete, both blue lights will illuminate steadily. It may take up to 6 hours to fully charge your robot.

Features & Specifications

  • FORGET ABOUT VACUUMING FOR UP TO 45 DAYS: A bagless, self-emptying base holds up to 45 days of dirt and debris.
  • POWERFUL SUCTION: Deep-cleaning power to take on large debris, small debris, and pet hair on carpets & floors. Filter type: Non-washable filter
  • NO HAIR WRAP: Self-cleaning brushroll removes pet hair and long hair as it cleans--no more hair wrap.
  • PHONE OR VOICE COMMAND: Schedule whole-home cleanings or target specific rooms or areas to clean right now with the SharkClean app or voice control with Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant.
  • TOTAL HOME MAPPING plus ROOM SELECT: Maps your home and lets you choose which rooms to clean right now.
  • ROW-BY-ROW CLEANING: Methodically cleans row by row and then navigates room to room for complete home coverage.
  • RECHARGE AND RESUME: The Shark IQ Robot vacuum will return to the dock, recharge, and can pick up where it left off.
  • Dimensions: 38.9"L x 26.3"W x 49.6"H
  • Weight: 13.23 Pounds
  • Warranty: 1 year limited warranty.

Pros & Cons

Pros

No issues to report yet. My house: about 1000SQFT of cleaning area (we keep dog gates on a couple rooms, making cleaning space smaller) roughly 90% hard surface floor and 10% carpet. First things first: out of the box assembly and setup was a breeze. Putting the front brushes on was just a click and setting up the home station took no time at all. The hardest part for us was finding a good spot to put the thing to meet the required 3 foot on either side and 5 foot in front. Connecting to it via the app was mostly simple. One thing I have learned over time, if you are like me and keep your location OFF all the time, make sure you turn it ON in the app for the first time trying to connect to your device. I don't know why, but it works like a charm every time I remember I have to do that. First run: We left shortly after setting the robot up, so I sent it on its way to do a mapping run of the house. It was quick and didn't have to travel a whole lot to map the entire place. I guess that is a testament to the laser module on top. It really does measure a far distance. The bot knows that there is a room behind my gate, but recognizes there is something blocking it from getting there, so it doesn't even try. Cleaning: It does an okay job on carpet. We have a stand alone carpet vacuum already, so this one doesn't hurt my feelings much. I mainly got the bot for my hard surfaces anyway. It will pull up loose hair and things on the surface of the carpet, but it is not nearly powerful enough to brush the deep stuff out, which was completely expected and I have no problem with it's performance here. On my hard surfaces, it does an incredible job. We have a 55lb mixed breed dog that seems to shed year round. It isn't long hair like a lab or anything like that, but she does drop a decent amount of fur. The bot does a good job of getting in all the corners and hard to reach areas and picks up darn near every bit of hair on the floor. I have noticed it won't pick up the blooms from my Christmas Cactus, but I don't care that takes me two minutes to pick up either by hand or with my handheld vacuum. Noise level on medium suction is really not that bad. If the wifey is working from home, she can just close her door and she can barely hear the bot running around the house. I have NOT tested on low suction or high suction yet, the thing just works well for me on medium. The loudest it gets is when it climbs over small ledges we have around the house. We have a hearth pad under the pellet stove that the bot insists on climbing up every cleaning cycle, and makes a little clatter, but nothing too bad. I don't think I personally would be able to sleep through the noise it makes, but some people may. On the weekends, I actually use the alarm it makes when it starts cleaning as my notification to get out of bed. I highly recommend going through your floor and finding small items to move out of its way. The thing is pretty intuitive in avoiding obstacles, but won't see anything shorter than 3.5 inches, I believe. We have a mat in the kitchen and a couple short blanket type things for the pup and a mat in front of the shower. The night before a scheduled cleaning, we go around and pick them up, shake them off and store them up off the floor so the bot can do its job thoroughly. Otherwise, unless the mats are really heavy or stuck to the ground, it will kind of just push them around. I mentioned the intuition of how the thing cleans; I love it. Most of the time we keep the kitchen chairs down on the floor, since we sit there all the time. Occasionally we will put them up on the table before a cleaning cycle and, though the bot normally can't clean where the chairs are, it will create new pathing and clean under the table because the chairs are out of the way. Maybe a basic feature in some people's minds, but it is nice to see the thing actively thinks about it's path and makes changes depending on changes in the environment. The app is pretty good. I am sure there are features I don't use, but I like the ones I do use. I have it on a schedule to clean the floors 2 times during the week while we are at work and once on Saturday in the morning. 3 cleanings a week seems adequate for the current shedding schedule the pup has. Maybe we will bump it up come warm weather, but only time will tell. I like the feature of cleaning on room, spot cleaning, or super cleaning specific areas of the house. For example, we brushed the dog in the foyer the other night, we got most of the hair in a bag, but there was still a mess. I sent the bot out for a run of the foyer area only and 15 minutes later, all of the hair was gone and the bot was back on the dock charging for its next assignment. Capacity: I don't really know what to say here, other than I won't let the thing go 6 weeks in between emptying. We empty pretty much every other cycle, so I don't have any data for y'all on how long can you go. I assume if you are a no pet household and run the thing once a week, the large capacity of the dock will probably last you months. If you have pets like us, I am sure you can push it to a couple weeks, but I prefer to empty the thing out. Part of the reason I got this model is because it has NO BAGS! I didn't want to contribute more plastic to the landfill than we already do. I have guilt free emptying every time, so we just do it often. Takes seconds to pull it off and dump it in your trash can. Serviceability: The manual will tell you how often to service the bot and dock. I forget everything, so I set some reminders on my phone for the monthly filter cleanings and other staggered replacement time frames. The parts are really easy to find here on Amazon and the Shark website. The removal and replacement of filters and general maintenance on the bot seems easy enough that the average home owner should easily be able to give it a good cleanup. All in all, I highly recommend this bot if you have a lot of hard surface like we do. This is my first bot, so I cannot give you a wild comparison between it and any other bot, but I can tell you, for a first time bot owner, this thing is slick. I don't know why I waited so long to buy one. It keeps us from vacuuming the hard floors every other day and saves a good amount of time. It also kind of forces us to keep the house a little less cluttered so the bot can really do its job. If you are looking for easy cleaning, get this Shark and you will not be disappointed!! As a disclaimer, I paid full price, I didn't get this thing for free for a review. I really do think it is a bad little machine. An edit 1 month into use, 26 January 2023: I set a reminder on my phone to clean the bot and filters every month, as recommended by the company. Removal was super easy and cleaning was easy as well. I use compressed air to clean out the bot really well and got a couple balls of hair out. Two filters on the bot were easy to get off and clean with air as well. On the top of the home base, the left side flips up and exposed two filters, I washed them both with water and let them dry. There is a filter in the collection bin you can remove and clean, I used compressed air again. The final filter is beneath the dust bin on the side of the home station, I blew that one out as well. Hopefully that wasn't too confusing, as it is super easy to clean with some compressed air. I also used a cloth to clean the sensors on the bottom and inspected all brushes for wear. I also want to reiterate what I said before, this thing is still as stellar for our hard floors and we have never had a cleaner floor!

Pros and cons. I bought this so it could keep our floors clean between weekly vacuuming sessions. With 2 kids, 1 dog and 2 kittens, our floors are constantly in need of cleaning. It does really well with crumbs and hair and fur and even picks up Legos, friendship bracelets, litter, winter salt, etc. I do need to empty the bin at least 1x a week and at least 1x a week I get a notification from the app that something is stuck in the dust bin and it’s preventing it from fully emptying itself. Usually it’s something big like a Lego. I will say it takes WAY longer to clean the areas of the house I want it to. It usually takes at least 3-4 hours to clean around 900 square feet. In that time it has to travel back and forth to empty itself every 30 mins and then will sit on the charger for a while to recharge, as it cannot do the full 900 square feet without charging. It also waits to get back to 100% before continuing, which means it takes longer to charge. It does get itself caught under our couches so I have to put things in front of them so it doesn’t go under them. I refuse to stick down the barrier strips because they have to be stuck there permanently and I don’t want them on any of my floors. It doesn’t have any trouble with the top of the stairs, it does detect it and doesn’t go down the steps. We have an area rug which has permanently rolled up sides and it does well getting over those too. I have seen it go over clumps of dog hair without picking it up, which is weird since it picks up Legos. I do like that it goes row by row so it covers an entire area. I don’t like that it misses things like the aforementioned pet hair. I also hoped that the app would let me send it to one area of the house to clean it - namely the room the litter boxes are in. However, every single time the robot runs it re-maps your house. You can see the history of where it cleaned and that also means seeing where it did NOT. So when I check the map a lot of times entire rooms are missing (like the room I want the litter cleaned, or the kitchen floor) or only partial rooms show up. Half the time I get sick of it and delete the entire map so it had to remap the house again and hope it gets to more areas. It is nice to be able to send it out to clean even if I’m not home, but I haven’t done that very often as I usually have to do a quick scan for toys, etc before letting it loose. I’ve also learned I have to flip it over and open up the compartment where the brush roller is housed - there will be so much hair/fur where the roller brackets are attached that it slows down or fully stops the roller. Once I pop the roller off I can remove the clumps at both ends and then pop back together quickly, but just another thing to think about. All in all I’m glad to have it, it does a mostly good job on the areas it does hit, leaving very satisfying vacuum lines and giving us some sort of baseline of clean before the weekend when the big vacuum is used, but it takes way longer than I expected, and the problems with the map/sending it to a specific area to clean bum me out with the money I paid. Oh! I will say if you ever have to call customer service with a problem, they are really helpful in getting the issue resolved.

Best purchase for our home so far. Since we bought this in late November, which I suggest getting since it was newely half off its retail price of 600 (gotta love black Friday), I have only had to get out the old vacuum once. I was worried that we would have to get it out more than that to get under our cabinets in the kitchen, but that is luckily not a problem. If I see something under there now I just push it to the middle of the floor if I know shark is going to clean that day. So here we go... Pros: -it literally cleans about 95% of your floors. Hair is not a problem, tangling on the roller is not a problem, larger debris is generally not a problem (I had some things here and there get missed the first go around, but I mostly see that it has problems on carpets, which we have mostly hardwood floors so not a big deal). -it mapped out our first floor, which is sizeable, in about 2 go cleanings. I was worried about this as a large amount of reviews stated that it took 30 or more cleanings to map their house out and it still didn't map it correctly. The one thing I noticed about these reviews is that they are mostly from from a year ago, so I'm assuming that there has been a software update since then to address this issue. It was super efficient at mapping. - I see this as a pro, but some might not, is that it teaches you to adjust your cleanliness behaviors. You need to keep the floors free of obstacles (as much as possible) in order for this robot to do its job, which means moving your shoes, picking up toys, moving chairs, etc. It was good for my wife and i to adapt better habits anyway and this was a good way to Kickstart that for our household. - if you have allergies, this thing picks up a ton of dust. Since we don't have a pet (yet) it mostly picks up some food, hair and dust on the floor. Man does it help. My allergies have been much better over the past 2 months. - some people gave the app negative reviews, but I found it helpful overall. It is simple, easy and quick to make adjustments on. -you really don't have to empty this but once a month. And, honestly, I could get away with maybe once every 2 months instead. Don't forget to do a monthly maintenance check and clean the filter, but this is a 5 minute routine once a month. Much easier than busting out the bulky vacuum all the time. CONS -speaking of the app, it needs a no go zone feature. The magnet strips, while great, don't effectively help in managing the bots path all the time. Make sure to tape it or use 3m sticky stuff to keep it on the floor otherwise your bot will try to suck it up and take it for a ride with it. The no go zone feature would be helpful for wire areas, furniture, or kid play areas. I hear it is supposed to come along sometime in the future, hopefully soon. -carpet cleaning is a little bit of an issue. We have a giant area rug in our living room and it sometimes has issues with picking up stuff. Luckily, the bot does 2 or 3 sweeps, which most times gets the debris or fuzzies on our carpet, but not all the time. This is indicated on YouTube reviews that I watched before I purchased this, so I knew what to expect. -it is slightly noisy and takes a while to clean. I advise to make the schedule while you are not home, because it can change your daily routine pattern. Generally, it takes about an hour and a half to clean our 600 square foot first floor. I keep it on normal mode, but there is a higher power suction mode that is louder. So get ready to turn the volume up on your TV. I did hear from a roomba user though that this bot is quieter, so I guess it's subjective. -this is more if a personal gripe, it might not be a big deal for you, but I was hoping to have a meet the Jetsons vibe when I connected it to my alexa. I wanted to say "alexa, clean the kitchen" and it do just that. Unfortunately, it doesn't do different room commands, it just does its normal full routine. You can do this through the shark app, which is simple and easy enough. So designate room names and tell it to clean just that room. Still, if you have a kitchen mess and you want to use verbal commands through alexa skills to do something while you are continuing chores or cooking, it would be a nice touch if it did it. Oh well, that's just me. Overall a great purchase. Currently, I got mine for roughly 315 and I am doing monthly payments with Amazon, which I love this feature of Amazon's payments. I pay it off in March in monthly installments of 64 bucks. It is worth the money compared to those roombas that cause double or triple the shark bot. I did a ton of research on different vacuums and this one is in the top 5 (as of right now). I highly recommend this to anyone with similar lay out as us (mostly hard wood floors with area rugs). I found the cons to be just nit picking at its performance, and overall it makes our life 80x easier. I give it a 4.5 out 5 for my personal home and I hope this review was helpful. 1 year update: Dog hair: Still going strong and still highly recommend for those with mostly hard wood floors or linoleum. In fact, I recommended it to my mom and dad and now they have one and love it. We did finally get to test it with some serious dog hair. We had an Australian Shepard (which has super thick and clingy fur) and another dog that visited for several days. Both are extremely active and were all over our floors and our one carpet area. They left a ton of fur and it did take 3 or 4 cleanings to get up about 80% of the hair. Whatever was left over was bunched up on the carpet and was easily removable thanks to shark. Just be prepared to wait a few days for the fur to be cleaned up in the carpet. If it's hardwood then it is cleaned up instantly. Hair and roller blade: I have not had any issues with the roller blades and hair tangling. I had to untangle some hair that rolled to the center twice. It is an easy fix. Take scissors and a quick snip and boom solved the problem. The big thing is that it doesn't hinder the cleaning ability of the vacuum. Parts: I haven't had to replace any of the parts yet on it. Just keep up with monthly maintenance and it will hold up. Clean the filters and the dust cup monthly and it will run smoothly. The battery life is still the same too. No issues with battery degradation. Errors and software stuff: so the errors are minor with this robot. It is the occasional bumper is stuck and that the dust cup needs to be emptied, which is nice if you forget to keep up with maintenance. The only issue I have with the software is that it used to be able to clean specific rooms when I originally got it, but now it doesn't allow me to do that at all. It's a bummer since sometimes I still stuff in the kitchen and I just want it to do that room, not an entire cleaning again. Also, and this is a small gripe, but I wish that I could have the robot automatically go to max suction mode every cleaning. Instead, I have to go to my shark app on my phone and change it from normal mode (which is its default cleaning mode) to max. Overall, I would still say this is a 4.5 out of 5. Minor issues, but still totally worth it.

Navigation is excellent. We just received the robot yesterday so this is a preliminary review. Setup was straightforward as was connection to wifi and the app on my phone. My biggest concerns are with the app, not the Robot itself. First, there are few directions within the app. Thus I had to search through the various menus and randomly press buttons in an effort to find something. Then on several occasions I found the item I wanted to find wouldn't show up at all until the robot completed it's first full cleaning. It's a learning curve I know, but they could have helped a lot more than they did. Then after the robot completed the first cleaning, magically, a map of the house appeared and once I got the image turned rightside up, it was simple to name the rooms. But herein lies a small issue. The app provides a list of room labels to choose from, but there appears to be no provision for customizing names. Hence, my wife's sewing room became the "Playroom." I knew there was a place to set the robot's suction power (Eco, Normal, Max) and after 20 minutes of re-searching, I found it. However the setting appears to apply to all the rooms to be cleaned. This is fine if you have all carpet or all smooth surfaces. Most of our floors are smooth but the master bedroom is a rather deep pile carpet. The app allows you to name each room and send the robot off to clean all, several, or just one. This is nice. But having that capability without the ability to set the suction level for each room separately seems rather brain-dead! That's my compaints so far. Lets move on to the more positive aspects of the robot. I mentioned, the fairly deep pile carpet in the bedroom. The robot handled it with aplomb. There was a noticeable change in speed and ease of operation but it pushed through without a whimper. I had it on normal power and would prefer "Max," but will try that later. The map it produced was remarkably good for a single cleaning run and I could easily determine which room was which, once I got it rightside up. " a single cleaning run" could be misleading. Two full charges were needed to complete the cleaning. The app does provide a decent report of the robots activity. It started cleaning at 9:56 am, then briefly docked 30 min. later (orientation ??) and resumed cleaning after emptying its dust bin. The battery ran low (about 30%) after 83 minutes of cleaning time. 3 hr. and 15 min. were required for the battery to recharge. It then cleaned (with an intermediate docking) for nearly 2 hours where it died in our bathroom with 5% charge showing in the app. We carried it back to the docking station where it exhausted the debris and began recharging. 6.5 hours were required from staart to finish. This isn't good, or bad, It;s just information for you. The app says 2276 sq ft were cleaned. This is about twice too much. About 1350 sq ft (gross outside dimensions) were available, but that includes closets, furniture, bathtubs, etc that block the robot. I did notice that it systematically recleaned numerous areas on the second charge, So I don't think their numbers are wrong, just duplicated. Its ability to navigate appears to be excellent. It does travel in long, precisely straight lines when it can. Though it seems to turn around at about 20 ', regardless. When it approaches a wall or furniture, it will slow and gently tap the barrier, or turn just before reaching the item. It typically turns corners around furniture efficiently, though there is sometimes a bit of wasted spinning around. Except for the time where it ran out of juice, it effortlessly relocated the dock to recharge and empty the onboard dust bin. We have a pet cat with 2" fur, very fine fur, that sheds constantly. There is no reason that cat isn't totally bald! The roller brush and side brushes seemed to handle it well. Both were relatively free of her fur. I know I will have to clean the axels and the roller every few weeks but it should be tolerable. If I think of it, I'll add to this review at a later date.

Shark, "there's dirt in the water with this beast" I have owned Roomba e3, Roomba e5, a Shark IQ and now the Shark AI robot vac. All worked well, but each had it's small quirks. The early Roombas required constant bin emptying, especially with multiple pets. The Sharks have one beater brush which was an initial concern, but oddly it did well with just one. The noise of the Shark AI is about on par with the Roomba but more noisey than the Shark IQ. A rat-a-tat from the brush on the Shark AI that was absent in the other Shark. Some of the little things make me think both these units are OEM from different suppliers despite their similarities (different filters, brush beater, slight variations in bin air flow). No privacy camera issues with it's Lidar mapping, it doesn't bump as often as the others and steers clear of obstacles. The map produced by the Shark AI is more accurate than the Shark IQ which failed to identify some rooms correctly and required multiple mapping scouting runs to get it right (Shark AI took just one pass to map correctlywith it's LIDAR mapping). The Shark AI has a spot clean option but it appears to be only a fixed size (OK, it's spot not area). You can set variable size Rooms to clean with both Shark models. One of the Roombas offered mapping but like the Shark IQ didn't always make an accurate map which is key to cleaning a specific room (assuming it's accurately mapped). The self empty is a big plus for me after chasing the Roombas to empty after every pass. All these robot vacs pack the dirt into their dust containers (you will be surprised how much they find). Since it's a blade like roller and not a brush it's better on hard floors although does quite well on others. Did I mention that I have Pets. Dirt, Fleas, Loose Fur they are all captured by all the robot vacs and are central to controlling them with daily or twice daily cleanings. Best way to control this issue with little effort. The Sharks run a pass and return to empty after about 30-40 minutes in use but they don't appear to judge bin fullness (the Roomba would notify full based on airflow reduction in my opinion). Both Sharks then go back out to finish where they left off. One of the Roombas did similar but the Shark AI was more accurate finding the same spot. The Shark AI did a better job with rugs on a flat floor where all the Roombas attempted to push the rugs or hang on their corners. The Shark IQ was marginally better having to be unstuck less often but it was not an issue with the Shark AI which was able to navigate on and off the rugs and clean them. If when I change the beater brush if it makes a difference in the noisey rat-a-tat then I'll raise the stars but for now it's a lower mark for that item, but not the cleaning capabilities.

This is a game changer in a multiple pet household. UPDATE 1: In my original review, I complained that you couldn’t see a map of where the vacuum actually went while cleaning. I figured out how to find this feature in the app. When you click on “History” a calendar pops up with all the days the vacuum cleaned highlighted. Click on one of those days and you will get a detailed report with a map coloring in the parts of your house the vacuum cleaned (see attached photo). I am still keeping it at 4 stars because it will not pick up some objects like coins and legos. Otherwise, we are very happy with it. ORIGINAL REVIEW: This is my first robot vacuum so I can’t really compare it against other models. We have had it for a few weeks now so I feel like I can give a proper review. I will update if my feelings change. We had been skeptical of robot vacuums for years but I wish we didn’t wait so long. This has been a game changer! Our house has multiple pets (dogs, cat, cockatiels) and we live in the country. To keep the floor clean, I needed to sweep at least once a day if not more. I also have a lot of furniture (obstacles) in relatively small rooms so I was concerned a robot vacuum would get lost, confused, or just not do a very good job. So far, this vacuum has gone above and beyond my expectations. Let’s start with the cleaning power. We have low carpets, laminate flooring, and stone tile. The robot does a great job cleaning all floor types. We had an Oreck vacuum for the carpet and I think the shark does a better job picking up the pet hair and dust. There is also some minor elevation changes throughout the house (0.5-1 inch high in some entryways) and the robot actually climbs over these areas really well. The app and the map: The app is relatively easy to use but I wish it would show you where the robot had actually been while cleaning on the map. The mapping is pretty accurate but I didn’t get it right until the second try. For our first mapping run, I thought it would be best to keep all things on the floor that would normally be there so the robot would be better at negotiating around things. This made a very confusing map and the robot had a hard time properly identifying rooms. You can name rooms during map editing but it is easier to do that if the borders actually make sense. Second round, I took all small/medium things (pet bowls, trash cans, etc) off the floor. Only furniture and large appliances were left on the floor. This was a much better map and even though there are usually these smaller things on the floor, the robot does a really good job tightly negotiating obstacles. Having said that, make sure you place the base in an open area because if anything gets in its way directly around the base, it will get confused and start circling things like table legs or get stuck in a loop somewhere near the base but never make it to the base. It tells you exactly how much open space around the base you need so take that seriously. The self emptying base is awesome. In the first few runs, we had to rescue the robot from cords and larger things like marbles and legos that sometimes got stuck but now that it is on a daily schedule and we moved all cords, there haven’t been any issues. Maintenance is really easy and intuitive on this machine. I just wish it could suck up larger things like legos and coins. Overall, I definitely think it was worth what we paid. My only complaints are that I wish the app showed the path of the robot on the map and that it could pick up larger things without those things getting stuck. Other than that, we are all very happy with it.

Cons

Works well except vacuuming gets slightly better every day. The media could not be loaded. Update 8: My robot has developed a leg fetish (see video), can someone recommend a good therapist for robots? Update 7: Cleans well except for any of the following when 1/4" to 1/2" long: thread, yarn, Doritos, felt, etc. I think it just needs a better brush. I'd trade the current tangle resistance brush for a brush that helped clean better any day. It is fun at parties though: Guest 1 drops a Dorito; Guest 2 steps on Dorito; I call: "Alexa, tell Shark to clean dining room"; Guests laugh hysterically as Shark IQ drives over Dorito fragments leaving them undisturbed. Update 6: When you press the Play (labeled Clean) button in the Shark app, if you pick the option to clean up to 3 specific rooms, you cannot clean the last room entered on the map, it won't let you scroll that far (they put the button over that option) so you can scroll it into view but you can't hold the scroll position in view with one finger while clicking the option with the other, if you let go of the position to click the option it goes back behind the button so you cannot click it. So make sure the last thing you add to the map is a no-go area so that all of the other rooms are options when sending Shark to clean manually (you can always clean the "hidden" room via Alexa though). Update 5: Mapping has completed. Labeling rooms is not intuitive, after you add each room, it makes you rename all of the previous rooms you already defined and labeled as follows: Define room 1, give it a name, define room 2, give room 1 a name, give room 2 a name, define room 3, give room 1 a name, give room 2 a name, give room 3 a name ... So I have my rooms defined, I have one Shark IQ set up, I can send my Shark to clean a specific room as follows (paraphrasing because I don't remember the exact wording): Me: "Alexa, ask Shark to clean the Family Room." Alexa: "Which Shark vacuum would you like me to use?" Me: "Shark". That's right, I have one Shark and I named it Shark, but every time I tell Alexa to do something with my Shark, it asks me to pick a Shark out of the following set of Sharks: [Shark]. Shark app will not let you schedule cleaning of a room or a set of rooms. You can schedule when to clean everything, you can't schedule when to clean something. I want Shark to start cleaning after everyone has left for school and work, and I want it to finish before anyone gets back. Unfortunately, because it takes about 2.5 hours to clean my house, between, emptying and charging it finishes around 6 pm. We start getting home from work and school around 2 pm. So, I tried scheduling rooms through Alexa Routines. The only way you can schedule the Shark skill in Alexa is to schedule Alexa to ask you what you want the Shark to do. I tried using Google Assistant as outlined in the documentation found in the Shark app but Google Assistant can't find the Shark ROBOT service as described in the Shark IQ documentation. But I was able to schedule cleaning of 3 rooms a day so that the robot is always dormant while we are at home and every room gets cleaned every 24 hours: I used Google Assistant Routines to have Google Assistant tell Alexa what to tell the Shark to do, it works flawlessly. The hard part was setting up 10 "Say something" commands for each schedule: First "Say something" command tells Alexa which room needs to be vacuumed, the next 8 "Say something" commands in each Routine I put four spaces in (not sure if quantity matters) that pause Google Assistant long enough for Alexa to ask which of my one robots I want it to use, and the last Say command says: "Shark". So to schedule my Shark IQ to clean specific rooms at specific times on specific days I put a Google Mini next to an Echo Dot and the Google Assistant takes care of the schedule, the Google Mini tells the Echo Dot what to do, the Echo Dot then tells the Shark what to do. Rube Goldberg would be proud. Update 4: Scheduled runs often fail complaining: "... cannot run because its dust cup is missing." So I may need to find the dust bin sensor and hard wire it to always report present since it often reports missing even though dust bin is properly inserted and latched. The only time I have ever removed the dust bin was to clear dust cup error. Update 3: New firmware today: V3.4.11-20191015V3.6.18-m149-Oct 26 2019MesaM1.8.20MesaB0.1.1S2.0.107 I wish they would publish change logs. Update 2: This is what I want before I give this product 5 stars (some of these features probably already exist for this product already but won't be enabled until mapping is complete): 1. Ability to get rid of BotBoundaries and instead draw boundaries on map. 2. Ability to give robot verbal hints about where a new dry spill is as in: Alexa, tell Shark to clean Kitchen Southwest. What I'd like that to do is imagine that each room has 9 dots: NW, N, NE, W, Center, E, SW, S, SE. Center is default. When you send it to a room it starts at the dot specified where W and E caused it to clean a third of the room first traveling N to S and S to N, N and S cleans a third traveling W to E and E to W, and NW, NE, SW, and SE start by cleaning a quarter of the room and sending to the center cleans third of the room first either traveling N to S or W to E, whatever it normally does when cleaning the whole floor. This way when you want to clean up a spill of dry goods you can send it to the point of nine closest to the spill in that room to start. 3. Ability to see location of robot on map in app. Helpful when you need to find robot for any reason but you can't hear in stereo. For me, using the existing find robot feature is like playing the game hotter colder as it only tells me if I'm getting closer or not each time it plays sound because I can't hear in stereo. Update 1: After I wrote my original review I noticed that the cleaning history was updating but the app said that it couldn't connect to my Shark. So I now think that there really was just an issue with Shark's servers. Day 1, no connectivity issues. Day after posting my review: no connectivity issues. The Shark has cleaned my house 25 times but says map is only 40% complete. The incomplete map that it won't let me edit yet looks 100% accurate and 100% complete. So I'm raising my rating from 1 star to 4 stars instead of 5. Next week if mapping still isn't finished I'll lower it to 2. After mapping is complete and I've been able to test all the features I might raise rating to five stars. So far, it has cleaned house well on schedule, alerts me at work when it gets stuck (now averages getting stuck less than once a day) so I can send one of my kids to get it up and running again. I wish it came with three times as much BotBoundary. Original: As soon as it installed firmware version V3.4.10-20190826V3.6.15-1321-Aug 27 2019MesaM1.8.2MesaB0.1.1S2.0.102 it could no longer stay connected to WiFi, so to control this vacuum by smartphone or voice you need a WiFi robot capable of turning the Shark IQ RV1001AE off, waiting 10 seconds, then turning it back on. I have two subnets/SSIDs, one mesh (Google WiFi), one not (Google Fiber's Built in WiFi). None of my other wifi devices at home have any trouble staying connected to either network. I've tried my Shark on both since the firmware upgrade, it disconnects from both. So it can still vacuum the whole house on a schedule, returning to base to empty and to charge on it's own. I just don't get notifications when it gets stuck, and I can't send it to go clean a specific room in my house without first walking over to the charging base, turning the vacuum off, waiting a few seconds, and then turning it back on. If the noisy vacuum interrupts a conversation, I can't pause it with my phone, I have to get up and press the Dock button or turn it off. Also, when it gets stuck, it usually gets stuck right when it starts working as one of it's wheels will slide off the side of the charging base ramp pad and somehow get stuck on the of the pad with the stuck wheel on the carpet but the ribbed side of the wheel stuck on the corner of the ramp.

Lasted almost two years, good for light surface cleaning. The media could not be loaded. Bottom line: with regular maintenance, this will lightly clean your floors for over a year but won’t last a long time. We ran it three times a week and still needed a push vacuum to get the deeper down dirt once a month. September 2022: it gets stuck on things like thresholds that were no problem before. On the fourth call to customer service, it was determined that the robot was not repairable, so it cleaned three times a week for a 1.75 years = $1.25/cleaning. American Express should replace this with the extended warranty protection. Customer service is pretty helpful and knowledgeable but the first call should have included adding my information to the database and logging my call as well as giving me the information that the third call did. The battery only charges to 80% now. Summer 2022: still running strong. I set a reminder to clean it every four weeks when we got it. It’s not perfect though – when we vacuum with the Dyson standup, we get about the same amount of junk in one pass that the Shark does in a month. Summer 2021: this thing really works. Highly recommend cleaning it every four weeks if you have hardwood floors, a small dog, and a cat. it does smell when it docks. November 29, 2020: We have a five-year-old Roomba that we limped along for the last year without a dock because it quit working. The Shark (Bruce) is much quieter and does not bang into walls and furniture as violently as the Roomba did, but there are a few downsides: ⁃ Bruce requires 35 square feet of empty space on a wall. Around here, this is expensive real estate. Our main floor is about 800 square feet (although the map said 560 which is more accurate of the Shark-able area) so you can imagine that amount of space is hard to come by. The Roomba, God rest its soul, only needed about 4 square feet, and it did not mind the darkness under things so you could hide it. ⁃ Bruce requires the lights stay on. Since we are home almost 24/7 on zoom meets now due to COVID, one of the great things about the Roomba was the ability to block off the living room side of the house and have it clean that at night, then move it into the bedroom side of the house during the day. ⁃ I will miss the spot cleaning mode from Roomba. If I spill something dry, I could set the Roomba on that spot and hit a button and let it clean that area. Once the map gets done, you can clean by room - it’s not the same. Also apparently you can’t carry it to a different floor for cleaning as needed without messing up the map. ⁃ We have a screen-porch-turned-sunroom that is a couple of inches down, so I’m not sure if that can be cleaned at all since it’s supposed to make its own way everywhere. This thing constantly humps my bathroom scale and floor lamps so maybe it can make it back up the step plus a steep threshold. Edit: turns out it ignores the boundary strip underneath a cotton throw rug and appears to use the cliff sensors to not go over the threshold. ⁃ Speaking of the map, it seems like if you change the configuration of your furniture, it might confuse the robot. From other reviews, it sounds like the robot needs a large number of passes before it makes an accurate map, so you may have to delete it and start over if you move something it can’t get under. ⁃ This might sound paranoid, but it has a freaking camera on the top, which is probably part of its optical system, and likely does not transmit any images or video or store them. It’s still a little disconcerting, and a cat riding it in a shark costume is probably discouraged. ⁃ It would be nice if the app had the ability to stop it. It’s fairly quiet so I could potentially run this while I’m in calls but would need to be able to stop it if it gets too close or too loud, and the app seems like it would be a good place to do that. I could then start it again once I get off the call. ⁃ It would be nice to have an online user community so I can ask stupid questions there instead of calling someone or asking online. It’s only been running an hour so far, but we will try this out and see if there’s a way to make it work in our space because it seems to do a nice job with our dog and cat hair. Time will tell how well it keeps up. November 29, 2020, 10 PM The place where we had the most room for docking was in our very dark bedroom. The blue lights on this unit are bright enough to light up a runway (some hyperbole here). Thank goodness we have black duct tape, but now we have a brand new shiny robot with black duct tape on it. First world problems, I guess. December 4, 2020, 10 AM The map is now reading 1700 square feet. That is absolutely not possible for a house that measures 35’ x 25’ on the outside. It still does a great job cleaning though, and it awkwardly manages to dock in a much smaller area. Even though it doesn’t hit things as hard as Roomba dead, there is a fair amount of white paint around the edges from our trim.

Dumbest Robot Vacuum in the World. This vacuum needs some serious software work. Mechanically, the robot does a pretty solid job despite having single brushes to gather, but main brush is good, the three suction modes are great, and it cleans pretty well. The drive system is actually VERY impressive, and this thing crawls over deep throw rugs easily, and unfortunately it crawls over power cords, loose clothing, pet toys, most anything under an inch tall and it jams itself up. Not a big deal, keep the junk off the floor and it's great. The self-emptying feature works very well, but on occasion the self-empty door on the robot will get caught with a hairball or a chunk of something. Still, very powerful, very nice to only have to empty it once every few days. The Android app couldn't find the vacuum right out of the box, but the iPhone app picked it right up and registered it. Again, not a big deal because I had both, but could cause some people issues. The schedule is nice, might be nicer if you could schedule more than one time per day and/or schedule rooms individually, but whole-house one time a day is sufficient. I used the no-go strips but somehow the vacuum always got over/around them. The Shark Clean app is pretty nice and the idea of the house being mapped out and being able to build and name rooms and build no-go areas is great in concept, but it just flat doesn't work. This vacuum is supposed to map the house, establish cleaning patterns, and even empty itself and return to the pattern where it left off, but when you watch it operate, the thing is just completely retarded. As it takes off, it tends to clean the area around the base most frequently but the pattern is neither regular nor random. It attempts to run parallel to walls, but after a while you see that it varies by up to ten degrees. It still runs parallel to its own tracks and cleans OK, just odd. When it needs to empty, it returns to the dock via weird routes, multiple stops and course adjustments, sometimes sitting in one place and spinning 270 or 360 degrees several times before it blunders back to the dock, where it takes several approaches to dock and empty. When it tries to return to the pattern, an equally drunken and confused behavior gets it back there, after wasting considerable battery and time, and resumes. There are times it will miss entire rooms yet there are times it cleans the same room repetitively until returning to the dock. The cliff sensors tend to shut the unit down if it goes over a heat register or transitions to a dark surface from a light one. When checking the Shark Clean app, the "home" circle that represents the dock tends to move around, sometimes even into no-go zones and then the unit won't run at all, it just sits on the dock confused or can't return to the dock and just sits until it's dead. It took me three map rebuilds to realize that I had been trying to run it at night and the robot relies on the camera on top to view and memorize the ceiling, so it couldn't map or clean effectively when the rooms were dark. Working from home, having this thing rumble and bumble around during working hours is annoying, but using it after dark is completely fruitless. All in all, it hasn't been worth even the deeply-discounted price I paid for it, and it is far less effective than a "dumb" Roomba that's a quarter of the cost that just wanders randomly and doesn't empty itself. Very disappointed, going to run it until it dies and look at a Samsung or iRobot or something else that's smarter.

German Shepherd, 1: Shark, 0. We recently tore out our carpet and replaced it with vinyl because the carpet had so much embedded dog hair, even with using a Dyson Pet vacuum on a regular basis. With the new floor, it seemed like a great time to get a Shark so it could run daily just to keep up with the hair. The Shark will run for about 30 minutes then will give a "error 2" indicating an obstruction. The Shark will roll up hair so tightly that it just jams up in the roller. After pulling it out, it will run again. It does go back to the dock periodically to evacuate the collected dirt. But then I also noticed that even after evacuation, the unit seemed to just run over dirt and small particles and leave it behind. I pulled the bin out of the unit to see what was happening. Just after the evacuation process, the photo shows what is happening... the dirt bin is jammed with dog hair and the evacuation process doesn't get rid of it. So, of course, not much is going to get vacuumed up. I tried running the unit on the maximum power setting to see if it would handle the hair better. Nope. That's why we call our dog a "German Shedder". On another note, the unit still seems to be struggling with developing a decent map. There is one bedroom that the unit has only found once in multiple cleanings. It's curious how the unit will go back and forth over an open area, and miss an entire stripe. Sometimes, in the middle of going back and forth in a large open are, the unit will seem to pause and then head off in a random direction before finishing and never come back. I see that other buyers say that it takes 50 or more cleanings to get the map right.. so I will keep trying. THREE MONTHS LATER: In the last few weeks, the unit has had new issues. The unit will do a half-baked cleaning, and then return to base with still 50-60% charge left. It will sit there for a random number of hours and then take off. When it takes off, it just does a random walk from room to room sometimes just going to a room, spinning circles and doing random motions before going to the next room. I called tech support. They said they would install new firmware. No change. They had me remove the pause and recharge setting. Now, it no longer randomly takes off. It does periodically leave its base for a few feet and then return. But now, when it does a cleaning, it cleans first and then proceeds to randomly wander around from room to room, it spins and really never follows a pattern in each room. It continues until the battery dies. Called tech support. They started to ask me questions like who is my ISP, what brand of router do I have, where am I located. Well, I'm no tech genius but I can see that they are just wasting time to get past the warranty period. They seem to call me every couple of days and leave a voice mail. The caller speaks very softly and seems to have a heavy foreign accent, so I have no idea what they want. I have tried calling back and just end up on hold. So the unit may work for some people, but mine does not and support is not very good. ANOTHER UPDATE NOV 2020: After multiple phone calls and e-mails, I finally found somebody that decided that multiple drive wheel errors was an actual concern. They asked that I pay $25 shipping to send me a new core. I would have to switch out the wearing parts from my old unit. Then.. radio silence for days. Finally, I get a shipping notice and an e-mail saying that my credit card had been rejected. But then they tell me that they will waive the fee. (BTW, my credit card is fine.. not sure why it rejected). Things are getting better. Then, on the arrival date, I discovered a TOTALLY NEW complete system had been sent with no request to send back the old unit. The new unit is great. It cleans in a logical manner, it doesn't do random stuff, and I have had zero errors over the last 3 cleanings. Better yet, the map is looking good whereas the old unit never could seem to come up with a map. So, I increased my rating from a 1 star to a 3 star... 5 stars for a great unit and good customer service... averaged with 1 star for the 3 months of abysmal support.

Price is right for a self emptying robotic vacuum cleaner but needs improvements. First the cons and pros: Pros: 1. Bagless self emptying base. No repeat customer for life proprietary bags that cost $$$. Easy to empty. 2. Mapping technology that over time makes a virtual map of your house so that you may send your vacuum to certain rooms or areas. (Yet to be tested. Still waiting on my vacuum to build a map. Instructions say it can take more than 10+ full runs depending on size of home) 3. Brushless tangle free brush. Even though it says it is tangle fee, hair is still building up in the main brush and will require maintenance every so often but nothing compared to my Chinese knock off brand vacuum that would need cleaning constantly. It's definitely an improvement over traditional older type brushes. But at what cost? I am not convinced that the brushless brush is as effective because I am noticing hair that it misses on the floor. Time will tell. 4. It plays jingle's when connecting and disconnecting from the base. Cons: 1. Virtual map doesn't support virtual boundaries. You have to use the boundary tape that comes with it in order to prevent the Shark from cleaning places you don't want it too. I am not sure why this can't be added to the current mapping technology. I have not tested the boundary tape yet. 2. Probably the most annoying and easiest problem to fix. Vacuum always vacuums at medium power. If you want it to vacuum at max power you have to select this manually every time the Shark starts a new run. A design flaw? Lazy coding? My cheapo Chinese knock off vacuum allowed this no problem but not a Shark branded vacuum? Very odd. 3. First initial wifi setup gave me problems. While following the Android on screen prompts on the Shark app the vacuum kept losing connection and requiring me to start the process over. After about the 5th attempt and rebooting the vacuum several times did it finally work randomly. 4. When the Shark becomes stuck or I have to pause it temporarily, I'll then resume it using the physical clean button on the vacuum and it'll sometimes not respond to the button press. I have to press the dock button and that'll get it moving again. It's odd. 5. So far one time I found the Shark vacuum in an endless loop of trying to clean or maneuver over a hose on the ground that was part of a handheld rug cleaner. I heard it in the background making the same noise. Upon my inspection I saw the Shark run over the hose, back up, and run over the hose again in a continuous never ending loop. It was almost like it was trying to kill my rug cleaner on purpose. I've seen this happen with inexpensive robotic vacuums where they get stuck and perform the same steps in a continuous loop until it runs out of power. This tells me there isn't a fail safe within the code that if the vacuum performs the same steps over and over that it should try something different. This concerns me because this can end up ruining rugs and carpet and possibly other things if it's wheels keep running back and forth in the same spot. Details: This was an upgrade, at least I like to think it was an upgrade, from a Chinese knock off brand named Xiaomi Robot Vacuum Cleaner. Main reason for the upgrade was because I needed the self emptying base so I didn't have to empty the vacuum cleaner every day. It also has the added bonus of being bagless so you aren't a repeat client for life buying proprietary bags like the Roombas. Also the tangle free brush so I don't have to cut through hair and clean the brush weekly. This vacuum seemed to fit the bill. The first 5-10 times the vacuum cleaner wouldn't make it back to its base to empty or to charge. It would hug the wall as it would try to retrace it's steps to get back to the base station. Ultimately it would fail, get lost and run out of battery power. However I guess it started to map my house out over time and it got smarter and eventually started to make its way back to the docking station with more precision. Overall time will tell if this robotic vacuum cleaner is worth the money. It was priced right for me but it may not be priced right for everyone.

Average robot vaccuum. Will try different brand next time. This is my first robot vacuum, which has been very helpful. However, I have several complaints: 1. The shark will chill under one chair for 10-30 minutes. It’s really annoying how when I run it for an hour he sits under one or two chairs when there is vast open floor space left untouched. 2. The vacuum follows you around. No matter where I go it keeps following me. There is definitely a sensor that causes it to follow moving objects. I was inspired to write this review because I was working on my laptop and the shark was under my feet for 30 minutes. 3. Sometimes the vacuum won’t return to the dock. For example, it was vacuuming under one barstool for 20 minutes so I sent it to the dock. It continued to vacuum for 5 minutes so I picked it up and placed it near the dock. 4. Connection issues with the app. There have been a few instances where the app would not work to control the vacuum. 5. The 30-45 day resevoir fills up in 4 days. I live in a house with two adults and one dog, yet I have to empty the chamber every few days. 6. The suction power is much less than a traditional vacuum. I would only recommend using this vacuum on hard floors. It is incredibly weak on carpet. Overall, the vacuum is helpful, but the AI needs serious work.

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