Shark - Shark AI Robot (RV2000 Series)

We have the Roomba j7+ We did a fair amount of research before getting it and watched YT videos comparing all the different makes and models and this was highly rated for pet hair. It’s pretty good - but like others have said you do have to spend time cleaning the hair out of the wheels which is an annoying and dirty job and also I find that I don’t run it very often because the sound makes my dog bark so I have to only run it when the dog isn’t in the house, which isn’t that often (of course, I could try to get the dog used to it, but I haven’t taken the time to do that) As an alternative to a robot we also recently bought the Shark Auto Detect and we are loving it! It’s cordless and really lightweight. It’s so easy to maneuver picks up tons of hair and has really good rollers that don’t get stuck on hair. I actually was looking forward to vacuuming today, which is crazy. I never thought I would say that!

Well it's definitely not the BEST robot vacuum, because I'm a little on the cheap side and I don't have to have the best thing, but I really like my shark vacuum because they have a patented "lint roller" that keeps pet hair and string from getting tangled or building up on the roller. It's the lidar kind with the self empty base. The self empty base is a must have imo. Running this daily keeps the pet hair tumbleweeds from taking over the house. Doesn't do great on carpet though.

That’s the only thing; I had one too and it worked good.

After three years, I just had to get rid of our shark AI becasue our pup had an accident, and well the rest is history. I loved our shark and while I'm inclined to purchase the same one again, I'm wondering if there is something better for no more than $500.

I had our bagless Shark for three years with no issues

I had one of the higher end Sharks, can't remember the model, and I thought I liked it. It touted laser mapping, advanced schedules, etc. But then I got the Roborock Q Revo and it absolutely blew me away; made me realize how shitty the Shark was. At every level it's better: primarily it cleans way better, but also the app is better, it's actually easy to get replacement parts, and a ton of minor things that make it feel polished, like the robot will announce on its own device speaker what's happening, like why it got stuck or why it's returning to a dock. Contrast this with a few friends of mine that have even worse vacuums than the Shark: theirs get stuck all the time, can't find their way home to the dock, they end up not using it at all. Long story short, based on my experience it's absolutely worth spending good money to get a good robot vacuum.

Just bought one for my dad’s house actually. So I can give a vaguely informed opinion, rather than just moan about them from a position of complete ignorance, like some of the other commenters.  Over the last 20 years the tech has improved, but isn’t perfect. This one (Shark) uses LiDAR to map the house. But the software is a bit crappy (for example if it misses a room when mapping because something was in the way, you have to map the entire house again.) Having the LiDAR based map means it’s far less haphazard and much quicker to clean.  However these are suited to large, empty ish rooms, not your typical small British house with stuff getting in the way. The robot can spend a lot of its time fidgeting around the obstacles.  The suction is OK for basic cleaning but if you have pet hair on carpets, forget about it. This model empties itself into a base when it returns, which is handy, otherwise you have to clean them out on each use, which negates some of the time you would have saved.  It’s useful for a house with a person who struggles to manoeuvre a large heavy vacuum, and which doesn’t get too dirty. (My dad has a cleaner who will clean it “properly” once a week.) For generally keeping on top of things, it’s handy. But in no way would this model be fit to replace a proper full sized vacuum cleaner. 

I've got a Shark something-or-other that has a "matrix clean" function (Dreame does something similar, I think) where after it finishes an area/room, it goes back and does it again running perpendicular to the run it just finished. I don't have any idea about the *actual* efficacy, but my spouse ("it's not vacuumed until you've gone over the same spot in 3 different directions") ***loves*** it. Since 'perception is reality', our carpets are cleaner because my spouse perceives them to be so.

Good unpopular opinion apparently. I had a coworker that would vacuum without glasses and miss half the floor. I feel the same way about robot vacuums I currently have the top of the line shark with ai and can’t it to work reliably, maybe I don’t have the best setup. I kinda prefer pulling out my shark, or Dyson and knowing for a fact it’s clean.

I was skeptical about getting one, saw my inlaws brought a cheap one and it was ok, they have now had it for about 5 years, we have a 5 year old and decided let's get one, we went for a shark with Lidar. This is how good it is, I forgot to stop the scheduled clean as it was Christmas and her play room is a mess, it actually cleaned where it could get, didn't suck up any of the board game that was out on the floor  and didn't get stuck. The issue we have is the docking station is big and we don't have anywhere to store it so it's out of site.  We have it on every other day, and I thought I would check to see what it does, if every other day is too much. I emptied before it cleaned and I was shocked at what it picked up.

4 cats and hair about as long as yours. Shark robot with no-wrap. The beater has blades instead of brushes. Now “no wrap” doesn’t mean “no wrap”. The hair migrates to the ends of the beater bar. Still have to unclog the thing at least once per cycle (run it 1x/wk).