PowerDetect 2-in-1

My shark power detect no touch does a fairly good job, other than messing up the rugs (rug dependent) it does a great job. Mopping too. But I always vacuum and mop twice because my dogs crowd while playing around it

I’ve had two of these for 5 years. https://a.co/d/08WVyNZY Still going strong. I’ve had at least 10 different robots over the years, these are the only ones to ever last longer than 2 years for me. I upgraded to the “shark never touch” that mopped and vacuumed, total junk it lives in the garage already.

Respectfully I disagree. Neither Vacuum Wars or JustADad are even remotely unbiased. JustADad shows huge bias toward companies he likes, like Dreame or Mova, and pretty clear disdain toward ones he doesn’t, like Narwal. Go watch his Narwal Flow 2 first look. I actually wrote a whole post on here breaking down all the hypercritical stuff he nitpicked, and it really felt like it came down to him just not liking the brand. I like him more than Vacuum Wars overall, but it would be dishonest to call him unbiased. Vacuum Wars is a different issue. It’s less overt, but it shows up in how they rank and present things. The Shark NeverTouch UV being ranked 13 out of their top 20 out of hundreds of robots, is a perfect example. Pretty much every other reviewer that actually used it called it junk with an unusable app, yet it still lands right in the middle of their rankings. That kind of disconnect is hard to ignore. Same thing with the Dyson Spot and Scrub AI. That’s basically a reworked Roomba 705 with a massive markup and somehow an even worse app. A ton of reviewers said it was a joke and borderline unusable, yet Vacuum Wars put out “this is the first Dyson robot vacuum we can recommend.” That’s a $1,300 product. People are going to buy that based on a recommendation like that, and there’s no real way for the audience to verify how they got there. That’s my bigger issue with them. The ratings aren’t transparent, the weighting isn’t clear, and you never actually see all of the testing in one place. It makes true apples to apples comparisons basically impossible. On top of that, the scale of what they claim, the size of their staff versus the view counts they pull, it just feels off. They say they don’t take money and aren’t paid for reviews, and sure, maybe that’s true, but there’s no way to independently validate any of it. The whole thing just feels weird, especially with how inconsistent some of the outcomes are. None of this is even touching all the AI controversies they continue to find themselves in. At least JustADad runs the same tests over and over on every robot and shows them start to finish. Even if I don’t agree with a lot of his takes, I can actually watch the performance and make my own call. That alone makes his content more useful on a practical level.

I get what you’re saying, and I agree with the broader point that nobody is truly unbiased. That’s just reality. Where I think this has gotten a little out of hand is treating “they don’t take review units” like it’s some kind of silver bullet that automatically makes them more trustworthy than everyone else. I understand why that feels more independent, but it’s pretty standard across a lot of industries for reviewers to accept units and still do really high quality, critical work. Look at channels like Gamers Nexus, MrMobile, Linus Tech Tips, Hardware Unboxed, or Hippyotech. They all accept review units, and they still put out strong, honest reviews that will absolutely call companies out when something isn’t good. So for me, accepting a review unit doesn’t really invalidate anything by itself. I think what matters more is consistency and transparency in how conclusions are reached. With Just A Dad, I’m not saying he’s paid or doing anything shady. But even something like repeated bad experiences with a brand can create bias, even if it’s understandable. That’s just human. It doesn’t make his content useless, it just means it’s not completely neutral. With Vacuum Wars, my issue is less about bias and more about how the results are presented. When you’re putting out definitive rankings and scores, but you can’t clearly see how everything is weighted or directly compare tests across products, it’s hard to call that fully transparent. Especially when some of the placements don’t line up with what a lot of other reviewers are seeing. So I’m not trying to say either of them are worthless or that you can’t get value from their content. I just don’t think “they don’t take review units” is enough to put them above everyone else, and I don’t think it automatically makes them the most transparent either.

I have two sharks. Most are well under 1k. My main reason for buying shark is they don’t have bags, the dock uses a bin that you just lift and dump in the trash. A lot of people give shark crap because they don’t have the best app. The app is fine. It’s basic and does what you need. Honestly once it set up and running on a schedule I rarely touch the app. I just purchased the shark stratos never touch for $500, mops and vacuum. Been running daily for 3 weeks and haven’t needed to touch it except to add more mop water and rinse out the dirty water. Has not got stuck or lost once. My other shark is about 5 years old. While it’s in need of a new battery, I have no issues with it, I clean out the bin and filters once every 30 days. Both have been great, the price is good and the robots do everything I need to keep my floors free of dog hair and looking new.

Absolutely avoid the Shark! We bought one, the app is beyond woeful! We now have a QV35S, the RoboRock app is great & the robot is too. All Roborock’s are great, other than the Q10 S5 model, we returned ours in less than a week after countless problems which others have too.