Shark - Matrix Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum with Precision Home Mapping and Extended Runtime, Wi-Fi Connected - Black

I am pleasantly surprised. I run this vacuum once a day seven days a week. I have had to vacuum with my traditional vacuum once since purchased. I clean the main hub and filters daily, empty the container daily and clean the dust out. I clean the vacuum between uses, very easy maintenance but with 4 dogs i expected it.

Mainly use on hardwood floors for cleaning up cat litter and fur and it does a great job.

I've held off from jumping on the robot vacuum trend because I was very skeptical of their performance abilities, and I must say, this Shark Robot Vacuum has really proven my skepticism wrong. As a household with pets, there's no way this vacuum would replace my regular vacuum, but it does provide excellent supplemental vacuuming between my regular vacuuming, which still results in a lot of time saved for me. I wasn't sure how well the Robot Vacuum would work out in my house with the many obstacles to go around due to furniture and cat toys. The initial run (prior to mapping out my house) proved just how well the vacuum does navigating around all these things. It only vacuumed up one small cat toy, which got stuck in the roller and I was easy to remove, and then it did get caught up under a dining room table chair. (I ended up mapping the dining room table area as a "no-go zone".) My house is mostly hardwood flooring with carpet in the bedrooms and one hallway which leads to two of the bedrooms. During this initial run the vacuum had to go to the docking station to empty before it was done vacuuming the entire space. Afterwards, when emptying the canister on the docking station, I was impressed by the amount of debris that the vacuum picked up. I was especially impressed with how well it picked up the cat hair - big win as a pet owner. While the vacuum does an excellent job picking up in the areas it directly rolls over, there is still much room for improvement with the little spinner brush that is supposed to reach out past the diameter of the vacuum to get near baseboards and edges. It does okay, but it doesn’t get everything, especially at the edges of corners, doorways, cabinets, etc. After this initial cleaning run it was time to map out my house. It's best to pick up any clutter laying around and let the vacuum go do its thing. I was impressed with how quickly the vacuum was able to map out the areas I allowed it to access. I decided that I only wanted it to run primarily on the hardwood floors because those areas are the highest traffic areas of the house, and typically require the most attention. (Additionally, while it did do a pretty good job on the carpet, it didn't seem to like vacuuming up longer hair [mine]. After vacuuming in the main bedroom I noticed it left a small bundle of hair behind.) The results of the mapping appear in the Shark Clean App and you can label the rooms in your house. From there, you can set up specific cleaning schedules for each identified area mapped. For me, my laundry room to the connecting hallway needs to be vacuumed every day because of my cats' litter box. This is where the robot vacuum shines. I set it up for those two areas to be cleaned daily and now it's something I don't have to worry about during the week and the vacuum does a great job picking up that debris. Another nice feature of the vacuum and the app is that you can set up certain areas to receive the Matrix cleaning (deep cleaning). I appreciate this feature because I have a rug in the living room that I was able to utilize this feature on. Further, the app also keeps record of the cleaning events and provides information regarding the date and times of cleaning, what (if any) issues occurred, how many times it returned to the dock, and more. It’s a really nice feature of the app to make sure the vacuum is doing what you want. The vacuum itself was easy to set up and figure out how to use. The Shark Clean App is great and runs very well. I only experienced a couple slight freezing hiccups when saving the map. I have been very impressed by the performance of the vacuum, it navigates around my house way better than I ever imagined, and it really does a good job vacuuming up debris. The battery life seems to be excellent as well. After the first initial cleaning which took a little over an hour, there was still about 40% battery life left. Overall, if you're looking for something to automatically clean areas that tend to have debris buildup between your regular vacuuming, especially in a busy household with pets, I would highly recommend considering this Shark Robot Vacuum. I am very happy with the time it has already saved me.

Shark matrix scans and cleans as it should. It does bump into thing a bit but it manages to cover all of the floor . It doesn’t seem to clean in both directions which I expected it to do but otherwise it seems to work as advertised.

Its a good vacuum but the mapping could us some fine tuning.

We replaced another automatic vacuum with this Shark Matrix and have been very happy with it. This one runs in a systematic way so it does not miss spots and waste time running back over places it has already been. It re-empties during a cycle when needed too. It is much more efficient for those reasons; but if you have pets that puke or go to the bathroom on the floor, make sure to clean that up before the Shark finds it. We have a long-haired cat that must be trying to go bald; but the Shark keeps up without a problem since we have it running daily Monday thru Friday using the app scheduler. It was very easy to set up and get it running.

Honestly love this. It is so perfect for my downstairs spaces. It’s nice to be able to program run times while everyone is gone

I love this time-saving product. I have named my product, Optimus Grime and he does a great job!!! I love the Matrix Clean feature for a more thorough and deeper cleaning. I am also thrilled to see the perfect lines in my carpet when Optimus Grime finishes in my living room. It is amazing to empty the dirt canister to see what was picked up. I am however disappointed that I can't get my cat in a shark costume and ride on top.

Great product. Love the time it saves. Easy setup.