- INCREDIBLE SUCTION: Powerful Shark suction picks up dirt and debris on all floor types—tackling even the toughest of messes in your home.
- NO SPOTS MISSED: With Matrix Clean Navigation, the vacuum cleans in a precise matrix grid taking multiple passes over dirt and debris for whole home, deep cleaning coverage.
- IT EMPTIES ITSELF: The bagless, self-emptying base holds up to 30 days of dirt and debris while its true HEPA filtration captures and traps 99.97%* of dust and allergens (*down to .3 microns).
- PRECISION HOME MAPPING: 360° LiDAR vision quickly and accurately maps your home so your robot can methodically clean detecting and avoiding objects in its path, day or night, adapting to everyday changes in the home.
- PERFECT FOR HOMES WITH PETS: With powerful vacuum suction, Shark’s self-cleaning brushroll, and HEPA filtration system the robot captures pet hair, dust, dander and allergens with ease.
- HANDS-FREE CONTROL: Set a cleaning schedule, initiate on-demand cleaning, or activate cleans all with sound of your voice using Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant.
- EXTENDED RUNTIME: Up to 120 minutes of runtime for whole-home cleaning. And with Recharge and Resume, the robot will return to the dock, recharge, and can pick up where it left off.
- BUILT, TESTED, AND PERFECTED: Shark puts their robots through rigorous testing to guarantee reliable, and high-quality performance.
- WHAT’S INCLUDED: 1 Shark AI Ultra Robot, 1 HEPA Self-Empty Base, and 2 Side Brushes.
7 reviews for Shark AV2501S AI Ultra Robot Vacuum, with Matrix Clean, Home Mapping, 30-Day Capacity HEPA Bagless Self Empty Base, Perfect for Pet Hair, Wifi, Dark Grey
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Brandon –
TL;DR: This robot vacuum is awesome and worth every penny. Highly recommend this vacuum to everyone, my wife agrees! Happy wife, happy life! Might buy another for my upstairs. For a robot vacuum, it does what I expect and makes my life easier. I don’t make it pick up large debris, robot vacuums seem to perform best with small debris. Large debris may get stuck or caught. Lidar works phenomenal, but with some hiccups when mapping house (mostly human error). Routing around obstacles works well, slows around objects and if anything is bumped it’s so light and cushioned, it’s not a problem. 5 stars overall. 4 stars deep cleaning and suction leaving room for improvement, it’s a robot vacuum, what do you expect? Probably has Alexa integration, but I use Google assistant and it works great!
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I ordered this back in July 2022 and got it end of the month. I waited some time to let the excitement die a little before posting a review, but it never really did. This is my first robot vacuum and one of the best purchase decisions I have made this year. When researching for the right robot vacuum, I found that most of the highly rated vacuums don’t seem to make it past 6 months or a year when reading reviews. Also manufacturers seems to make new models every year, so finding something that is reliable and lasts longer than this timeframe is hard to find. Of course, I am only onto my 5th month of owning this vacuum.
When I broke the vacuum out of the box, my first inclination was to take it out and get it started. But thinking about the other reviews I have read on this vacuum and others like it, I wanted to read the instructions first. This is not a regular vacuum that you plug in and push. It has lots of little parts that make it different and potentially not taking care of it properly could damage the device. So anybody reading this, read the instructions first. Understand how to properly take care of it and clean it. Also, comparing to other reviews, clean it regularly.
Now for my somewhat long review:
Is it quiet? Yes and no. It is a robot vacuum, how loud do you expect it to be? You’re not doing the work, but it is. It is quieter than a regular vacuum, but no idea how quiet other robot vacuums are. If a robot vacuum is loud or quiet, who cares? What matters is that it can clean stuff.
Can you watch tv while it runs? Yes you can watch tv. Just turn up the volume a little, no need to blast it like when running a normal push vacuum.
Can it pick up everything? No, it’s a robot vacuum. Don’t put too much trust in it. What I typically do is remove all obstacles (cords, bags, blankets) from the ground and any larger debris that might get caught in the motors (cotton balls left from the dog, pieces left behind from chewed up toys, strings from rope toys).
Dog hair? My dog constantly sheds, but has short hair. I run it twice per week on thin carpet and once per week on hard floors. I don’t notice the dog hair until I see what the vacuum picked up and it does a great job! The majority of stuff this picks up is dog hair and a lot of it. For longer haired dogs or thicker haired dogs, I assume this will get the job done as long human hair doesn’t get stuck at all like my regular vacuum does.
Small leaves? It picks up small leaves and debris similar size, but may leaf some behind. It also might get caught in spinning brushes and make a slightly louder noise on hard floor. I waited for it to finish and then pulled the leaf out, no harm.
Dog kibble? Ok this one was an accident, didn’t see it against the brown colored floor before starting vacuum. Sounded like the robot was choking and about to die, literally. I had to stop it right away and retrieve the small rock sized (width of thumbnail) dog food from the vacuum.
Can you run it when away from home? I read too many horror stories of vacuums cleaning pet poop, but it is not the reason I don’t start it when I’m not home. Like the last two points, if something gets caught, you need to be there to fish it out. I may have spot checked the floor, but even that sometimes isn’t good enough. Also, one time a week or two ago, it finally got confused and couldn’t move past a futon leg. It kept spinning back and forth (maybe for 5 minutes) until I nudged the futon half an inch, then it broke free of its endless loop. This was the only time this ever happened since I got it. Every other time it does an excellent job of finding its way through, even finding its way through a jungle of table and chair legs.
Lidar mapping floorplan? Simply amazing! I had it map 4 different rooms. The first time was great, but missed a few minor areas, of which was my fault. I left things on the floor and in the way of the robot when it mapped the floorplan. The second time, I removed the obstacles, but it didn’t map another room properly. The third time, I removed a chair, which the robot vacuum had just enough clearance to fit under (1st time it went under, 2nd time it did not), so that it can map that area of the carpet and not count it as a wall.
Lidar in general? It works great to avoid obstacles and get around legs of any sort. Only thing is if the leg is curved, like my kitchen table, it doesn’t know when to properly maneuver around it. But no worries! The bumper is amazing! It lightly bumps in to obstacles and the vacuum does a minor adjustment to figure out how to go around it.
Damaging furniture? Nope! Doesn’t happen. The robot is so careful around obstacles and even when it does bump things, its lightly bumps it and doesn’t scratch or anything. When it approaches obstacles (walls or furniture) it moves at a slower pace. This thing is intelligent.
Suction? For a robot vacuum, it does everything it needs to and does it very well. There are different levels for suction in the app, I have only needed to use the normal section. The max suction I have never needed to use, but it is an option if things get too out of hand. There is also an ultra clean option, not tried it, but think it just spends more time going over stuff. If I ever try ultra clean option, maybe need to change deep clean star to a 5, but I’m making the assumption that it will never perform as well as a normal vacuum.
Battery? I run two rooms per day I run it, but sometimes do all 4 rooms when I forget to run it. It lasts easily to finish all 4 rooms with charge left over. I’m guessing lowest percentage of battery life was 35% or 40% after doing all 4, this is a wild guess though, could’ve been higher. For 2 rooms it’s usually at 60% after it’s done, that I know for sure.
Emptying? It has a bin that it empties to. If the robot either runs for too long (or not sure if it senses if it is full of junk) it may return to the docking station to empty itself. This system works great, but the bin needs to be cleaned out occasionally. There is also a filter in the bin system that needs to be cleaned, just like regular vacuums may have.
App? No issues running it on my Android. Can select rooms and see the layout easily. Drawing rooms works great as well!
Robotiness? It makes all the noises a robot vacuum should and it’s awesome! Just thought you should know! Beep boop boop!
Ratings: I give it 5 stars because as it is a robot vacuum, it meets all of my expectations. 4 stars on deep cleaning and suction because it isn’t perfect, but is excellent as a robot vacuum. I haven’t used my regular vacuum in the areas that this one runs because it seems to do such a great job. Integration with Google works great! I don’t use Alexa with this one. Again, this is one of the best purchases I made this year. Definitely recommend this vacuum to everyone. Don’t spend $1k on something else.
Dalaa Ramadan –
Shark 2 in 1 Mopping has stopped working after just use of 1.5 years. I bought it on amazon paying C$750 and found it is not worth the money. Few issues which I think are important to know for this model
1. It has 2 different installations, one for vaccum and other for mop. The vaccum collects dirt in the main base, but the Mop install collects dirt in the installation itself. What this means is that dirt and water remains in the same installation causing it to clog due to moisture (which happened to me) and then stopped working by not identifying the mop install.
2. The AI algorithm not very good, I have faced issues where it gets stuck in a loop and I had to restart it. This happens for one of my room and multiple times.
3. Limited warranty: This is the biggest issue. Shark has only 1 year warranty for a $700+ product. Looks like they don’t have any confidence in the product. They will need more money for any issues post 1 year and don’t guarantee a solution.
My usage has been very decent for a 500 sq feet home and have used it with care. Still it stopped working on me. I would not advice this product.
kimahsk –
Using it for about a year and no complaints. Good robot, clean well.
Has fragrance in the ingredients. Very misleading –
Très bien, mais l’application n’est pas très conviviale
Iaroslav G –
Love it
Debbie –
It’s a great vacuum/floor cleaner. Does exactly what’s it’s supposed to do and does it well. The app, however, is a real waste of time. It’s annoying having to always sign in, and super annoying navigating it. I don’t need that much organization in my life. Appliances really don’t need apps! What’s next? A push broom with an app?? Would give it a 5 star if the app was easy to use, but it’s just not. Not time saving, not logical and certainly not practical. It’s just not. What I do think is exceptional on this machine is, the ‘non tangle’ brush and that the machine stops if it picks up something that will damage it. In question was a ‘tack’ it picked up and it shut down immediately. Love this feature. As for the floor cleaning option, it washes well, but I hate to clean any machine, so I will just use it for vacuuming as the dust bin is so easy to empty, and cleaning the washing liquid out of the washing component is not my kind of fun. Worth the $$ to me, but I should have got the model that just vacuums, and saved a few bucks.
Debbie –
I did not get the highest model, but being a lover of shark vacuums I did purchased the self cleaning vac mop model to see if i would like a robot vac.
All I can say is WOW!!! We have 2 dogs whose job is to shed, 4 cats, a cocatoo, hubby and kids.
The first picture is random run, the second was from after returing to dock to empty and then back to point it had stopped at to finish.
The 3rd is from a whole house programmed run. 4 rooms, 1 bath and hallway. The last one the pad from cleaning one room with the mop function. That blew my mind, it is not a frequently used room and had been washed a couple days before.
Using a broom or cordless stick vac(not Shark, was a bad girl, i can say it will soon be replaced with a Shark version, no more straying from Shark)it looked like i could make a toupee daily!!! This robot vacuum 3 toupees in one cleaning! This was on normal mode, may try matrix next time and see what she finds!!!
Love how she mapped the rooms, it was very accurate and let’s you know the size of the rooms, and also the size of cleaning it does. It was very impressive!!!
The mop feature worked great too. I have no complaints, no streaks, dried quickly and was not sticky.
My goal is to get the shark robot vacuum wet/dry model that auto fills cleaning fluid too. I can not believe how much crud it finds and how clean the floors are.
I do have some furniture it can not go under, but it does get under enough to help control dust bunnies, especially if able to go around the full piece of furniture. I will see if this helps lessen dusting since the floors are so much cleaner.
It really is not that loud when it empties itself. Very quiet when working. I love that she can be programmed her to sweep the whole house and she does at 0300 daily. Off she went with no prompts. Could not be easier!!! She loves working nights! HA HA.
I am not technically savy, so it took me a couple minutes to figure out the app. But, once I did, a piece of cake to set her up!
Now to see if she does hold 60 days of this crews fur and dirt!!! I have confidence in Shark, that it will!!!
If your home has two levels you would need 2, I have one room that has a step down into, I just place her in the room, push clean and off she goes.
I am impressed that my floors do not look like they need to be swept again a few hours afterwards. I do not have carpet, but i do have a dog rug that absorbs all with shag pile under their food and water bowls, and she goes right over it! Its time to put the one down by the front door like that one, and I am pretty sure she will not have a problem with it.
I am very happy that “Rosy” loves to keep my floors clean!