I bought one of these the last time it was on sale here. I absolutely love it. I have a dog that sheds and it does a good job. It isn’t maintenance free though. You still have to clean the internal filters periodically. That said for this price it is excellent.
I’ve bought two from Woot, both around the same price we have here.
Overall I love them. There is some maintenance involved- weekly I pull the bot and base apart and blow out all the dust and crud in the filters. They both run 5 days a week with weekends off.
In one pass, they do pretty poor jobs (humans can do better) but since they run without human intervention day after day… They’re pretty great a picking up everything eventually. I have 4 cats and dust bunnies like you wouldn’t believe and they handle 2 bedrooms / kitchen / bathroom without a problem.
So, if you’re on the fence about getting a robot vac, this is the sign you’re looking for. Yeah, you have to give them a once-over once a week to make sure its all working, but overall I’m a fan and I’d buy a third one if I had room for it.
I have one of these too, and I love it. BUT, the mapping function doesn’t work. It’s never been able to produce a map of my house that is anywhere near what my floor plan looks like. So I can’t really do the “Alexa, tell sharkbot to clean the kitchen” type commands.
Real world, how good have these been at avoiding things left on the ground? Kids’ toys, books, the odd charging cable, etc.
And the hair wrap, how well does it tame that?
Love my refurb(rox0rs) Shark stick vac, also from Woot. That anti-hair wrap brush work is the best. We have a husky and four long haired humans, but that vac keeps going without blinking.
Automating that sounds like a dream.
Though I didn’t get it from WOOT, I do have one of these. IT’s been banished to the 2nd floor of our house and currently, only vac’s the landing/catwalk and we will let it in the bedrooms from time to time. So, I’ll just cut to the chanse.
Good luck getting the thing to map your house correctly. Even after 30+ times of running before accepting the map that it TRIES to make, it still won’t do it right. Shark doesn’t seem to be able to figure this out.
It does beat the furniture a bit more than I care for. That’s why we put it on the 2nd floor and put a Debot N8+ Pro on the 1st floor. Though not as bad as our iRobot Scooba, it’s pretty darn close.
The No Bag system is nice but doesn’t make it any more comforting while it’s beating down the walls and furniture.
The Mag strips are outdated, so post-Neato days.
Only had it for 8 months so time will tell but it’s only doing it’s duty once a week so I’m hoping it will last a while.
We got one from Woot about a year ago, for the same price, to replace our dying basic model Roomba. We have several animals including a bird that likes to throw food out of his cage, so our house is a mess most of the time. We have it set up to clean M-F and when it cleans it does a good job, so we only use a regular vacuum before guests come over.
Like other commenters have said, it looses it’s map, but when the map works it can clean a specific room with a command. I find it keeps my map for between several weeks to months before it forgets, typically after it gets stuck and lost for a day so it has a dead battery. And while it forgets the rooms, it remembers the map of the house. You can not schedule it to clean a specific room however, this is a limitation of the app that I wish they would fix.
The battery life is good and if during cleaning it needs a re-charge it goes back to the dock before resuming cleaning later.
It does seem to get stuck on things easier than the Roomba we had did, but it much quieter and doesn’t have to be emptied daily. It also seems to have issues with stairs, I have often found it at the top of the steps with 1 wheel off the edge.
My biggest complaint is that when something gets stuck in the transfer from the robot to the base, there is no way to know other than by opening the app to see why it didn’t clean today. None of the lights on either the base or robot light up like they do for other faults.
Does it lose its map after you already “accept” it? Mine would lose its map too but I found if it got stuck and came up missing, it would lose the map. The one time I gave up and told it to accept it, it didn’t seem to lose it. Where it’s at now, I don’t care about the map. It’s not cleaning a large space and if it got too lost it would just fall down a flight of stairs (might do it some good) or it will spend (like it has) 30 minutes trying to find its a docking station that’s only 4 feet away.
Though I didn’t mention it, their service isn’t the best either. I called when I was trying to set it up with my phone and it took them over a week to get back to me. By then, I figured that their app likes Android 11 or 12 better then 9. So, I set it up on a tablet, then put the app on my phone and it worked great (the app did, not the robot).