AV1002AE (2nd Generation)

I have a Shark robot vacuum with the auto-emptying feature. The auto-empty is a HUGE part of making this work smoothly. The Shark is also much smarter than previous brands (iRobot and EcoVacs) that I tried. I've had mine for over a year and absolutely love it. I have used it with both wood floors and carpet, and 1-3 cats (2 of them with long hair that shed A LOT) and it easily keeps up with all of that. It's also good at avoiding most hazards like cords and cat toys. Costco usually has a recent model of the Shark robot on sale, I've sent a few people there for it. Looks like right now they have a vacuum + mop combo for $479, and you should be able to just not use the mop function if you don't want to. The Shark app is pretty decent, it will map your home and allow you to label rooms and track robot status. You can schedule whole-house cleaning through the app, or do manual cleaning for individual rooms. My only complaint is that I can't schedule individual room cleanings, I have a couple spaces that need daily vacuuming vs every few days for the whole house. Edit - it also has voice control available through Alexa and Google, but I haven't tried that as I use AppleHome which doesn't integrate with Shark.

I have a Shark self-emptying model that's done amazingly well with up to 3 (long haired, highly shedding) cats on both hard flooring and carpet. I got mine from Amazon a couple years ago, but Costco has the newest model on sale. It's smart enough to map the house and you can name the rooms, and with the HA plugin you can do some advanced scheduling beyond just "run" that the Shark app offers. In my case, 1-2 rooms always end up worse than the others, so I run those more often and will schedule them with HA once I get that finished.

I have an automic shark vacuum that goes around the house. I vacuum the couch daily. I brush the cat daily as well. I have an air purifier. I have a litter robot. I also harness and backpack trained my cat 

We sold our old roomba for cheap and upgraded to a newer Shark model a couple years ago. We upgraded solely for the self emptying feature because we would always forget to clean out the roomba’s dust bin, but the shark robot is superior in literally every way which was a nice surprise.

Not the very best performance/features, but Shark is the only one with bagless auto empty and that is a deal breaker for me. Proprietary bags just feels like yet another subscription. We have one Shark vac and two Shark mop/vacs (in a 3 level townhouse). Got a great deal with Capital One shopping around Black Friday. We love them and they work well enough for us. Though some other brands definitely get better reviews for performance and better smart features.

We have the shark too. Ours seems like it’s okay with the floor mapping but I would agree the pick up level is garbage. It leaves lines in the carpet for the illusion that it vacuumed but isn’t great at picking up hair especially hair embedded in the carpet. I have heard great things about eufy robos but can’t attest to it myself. A close friend has 3 cats and said it gets the job done.