Shark AV2501AE AI Ultra Robot Vacuum – Powerful HEPA Cleaning with Smart Mapping & 60-Day Bagless Base
- 💨 Incredible Suction: Shark’s signature high-performance suction tackles dirt, dust, and stubborn debris on both carpets and hard floors.
- 🧠 Matrix Clean Navigation: Uses precision grid pattern cleaning, making multiple passes to ensure a complete whole-home clean with no spots missed.
- 🗑️ HEPA Self-Empty Base: Holds up to 60 days of dirt and debris with a HEPA filtration system that captures 99.97% of dust and allergens (down to 0.3 microns).
- 📍 Smart Precision Mapping: Equipped with 360° LiDAR navigation to map your home in real-time and navigate efficiently while avoiding obstacles—even in low light.
- 🐾 Pet-Friendly Design: Combines ultra-powerful suction, a self-cleaning brushroll, and HEPA filtration to capture pet hair, dander, and allergens effortlessly.
- 🗣️ Hands-Free Control: Compatible with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, allowing voice-activated or app-based cleaning control on demand.
- 🔋 Extended Runtime + Recharge & Resume: Runs up to 120 minutes and automatically returns to recharge, then resumes cleaning where it left off.
- 🔧 Built for Quality: Engineered and tested to ensure long-lasting, dependable robotic performance.
- 📦 What’s Included: Shark AV2501AE Robot Vacuum, XL HEPA Self-Empty Base, and 2 Side Brushes.
Brand: Shark
Model: AV2501AE
Color: Black / Bronze
Special Features: Smart Mapping, LiDAR Navigation, Bagless, HEPA Filtration, Pet Hair Removal
Dimensions: 13.08″L x 8.43″W x 13.9″H
We determined that from a feature/price standpoint, the Shark AV2501AE AI Robot Vacuum would fit our needs...
1. Good suction
2. Programmable defined areas to clean
3. Self cleaning dirt bin.
4. Wifi connected
Upon receipt, the first order of business is to turn the Shark loose and map out your entire floor area. It will determine the perimeter and transfer the result to the app. Depending on the size of your living area, it may take an hour or two.
Once the floor plan is completed, you can then specify rooms. This is a great feature. Instead of sending the vac out to clean the entire space, you can limit it to any of the one or more rooms you have specified.
Then comes the test run. We instructed Rosie to go forth and clean the most heavily trafficked area and specified Max Suction and Matrix cleaning mode. It took about an hour and half. During that time, she will periodically return to the base to empty the dust-bin, then go back to where she left off and resume her duties.
Upon completion we checked the recovery bin and were amazed at the volume of dust and dirt that this little worker vacuumed up! She's hired!
We're so satisfied with the cleaning result of this Shark AV2501AE AI Robot Vacuum we decided to buy another unit for the upstairs main living area.
Any deficiencies we've observed are with the app. For instance: you can set a schedule for cleaning, but you specify individual rooms. It will only schedule the entire mapped area. Rosie would have to run 6 or more hours and most of the time, we don't want her running that long.
It would be great to be able to set a schedule so that on Monday, clean the main living area. On Tuesday, clean the main bedroom. Wednesday, clean the office and 2nd bedroom.
Why Shark has not included this feature in it's software is a real regret with the software side of this unit. As a consequence, we send Rosie out manually to do a specific room or area. It's not a deal breaker by any means, but it's the only reason I knocked off one star.
We bought this on sale, and it made for a very affordable and attractively priced robot vac. In fact, we bought a second one to take care of the upstairs main living floor. Rosie is responsible for the lower level, which comprises 1,500 square feet. Cleaning the Family Room takes a good 1-1/2 to 2 hours.
"Carson" takes care of the upstairs. That is 2,500 sq. ft. and, as you can imagine, cleaning the entire floor space would take up most of the day. Hence: manually specifying specific rooms on alternating days.
When all is said and done, the Shark AV2501AE AI Robot Vacuum deserves a solid 5 stars, but gets a demerit for the limited software. Here are the basic reasons that make this vac a satisfying purchase...
1. Does an excellent deep-cleaning of your floors and carpets.
2. Operates in a matrix grid pattern for precise coverage.
3. Self cleaning bin is great. You just have to remember to empty the main collection bin regularly. (It's easy to forget to do this.)
4. You can tell it what room to clean and when, all from the comfort of your recliner.
We are very happy with the Shark AV2501AE AI Robot Vacuum, and think you will be, too!
Setting up the device was a breeze. The instructions were clear, and within no time, I had it charged and ready to map my home. Compared to older models, this one really impressed me with its near-perfect mapping accuracy. It was able to learn the layout of my house with minimal issues, and the smart navigation system has made a noticeable difference in its cleaning efficiency. It reaches all the nooks and crannies without getting stuck, and the mapping precision is definitely a major upgrade from older versions I’ve used.
When it comes to performance, I couldn’t be happier. The vacuum does a fantastic job cleaning my floors, and I especially love how it leaves those perfect vacuum lines in the carpet. There’s something so satisfying about coming home to freshly cleaned floors with neat, even strips. It does a thorough job of picking up dirt, dust, and pet hair, leaving my home looking spotless without any extra effort on my part.
The noise level is pretty reasonable as well. While it’s not whisper-quiet, it’s not overly disruptive either. That being said, I rarely run it while I’m home—I usually schedule it to clean while I’m at work. That way, I can come back to a clean house without having to hear it in action. The suction power is impressive, especially for a robot vacuum, and it handles both carpet and hard floors with ease.
Another small but enjoyable detail is how sleek and modern it looks when it’s docked. It blends into the room nicely and doesn’t look out of place sitting on its charging station. It’s a great addition to the home, both in terms of function and design.
Overall, I’m extremely happy with this purchase, and I would definitely recommend this model to anyone considering a robot vacuum. Despite being used, the condition was excellent, and the performance has far exceeded my expectations. If you’re on the fence about buying a used one, don’t hesitate—this product proves that you can get great value without sacrificing quality.
It has great suction but it’s pretty quiet. It does a thorough cleaning job and gets the corners decently. The battery life is decent. On the normal mode, it’ll do my 1000 sq ft condo in one charge. There are also MAX (stronger) and ECO (lighter) suction modes, but I haven’t tried those. The vacuum doesn’t “clean by braille” like older robot vacuums used to do, bumping into everything to determine where walls and obstacles were. This guy seems to be able to “see” his surroundings.
The app works great and I love that I can see the battery life and tell my Alexa to send my robot to clean a specific room. The vacuum starts by making a map of your home and then you label each room so it knows where to go. There is one drawback: it has to sense the whole house in one trip. This means you can’t map multi-story homes (not a problem for me, but it is for friends who have 2-story homes). When it made the map of my house, I had a room closed off for storage that I didn’t need it to clean, but I’ve now made the room into an office. Instead of adding the room to my map, I have to erase the old map and send the robot around to map the whole house again, and then reassign the room boundaries.
Another drawback is that the Alexa integration is a little clunky, in that it always asks for the robot name even though I only have one vacuum.
“Alexa, ask Shark to start cleaning the living room.”
“Which robot?”
“Bruce.”
“Okay, your robot is now cleaning.”
Alexa doesn’t recognize the request if you ask using just the robot name (“ask Bruce to clean the living room”). I wish they would eliminate the extra question when you only have one robot. Not a big deal but it is annoying.
Overall I’m very happy with my vacuum and it’s saved me a lot of time and effort that I used to spend keeping dog hair under control.