Shark Matrix Plus Robot Vacuum and Mop with Self-Empty Hepa Base, Sonic Mopping

I think we've waited long enough for technology to mature that these things now just work. As an engineer I was skeptical about how well these vacuums may actually work. I was even more skeptical of the mopping function. But, I have to admit that this unit works great! Much better then I would have expected. The move to lidar is important and probably was the final piece that made this unit work as well as it does. There's not a lot of information on how to use the app, but if you just accept that you need to spend time playing with and learning new technology the app works just fine and has a lot of good features. The auto mapping of the house is quick and painless. I think you should plan to spend time adjusting rooms, adding zones, and carpets. It's a complicated problem to solve and if you just tackle these things one at a time over the first couple of weeks of owning the problem things work great. We added rooms first and then adjusted the size of the rooms. One thing that wasn't clear on the phone app is that you can zoom in pretty far to really adjust the room dimensions and this is key. We have rooms that adjust from carpet to tile and getting those adjusted correctly took a few passes with zoom in the app each time to adjust the line. Same thing with setting carpet areas and other zones. After a month of use we have all rooms, carpets, high traffic, and keep out zones mapped. Mopping wasn't documented very well and at the end of the day there's really no magic to it. Swap the dirt tray with the mopping tray, spin the unit on the stand and open up the app and it knows that it's mopping. To be honest this wasn't documented well at all prior to trying it and figuring it out; but, again if you accept that it's new technology and expect to have to tinker and adjust then you should find that you can make it work exactly as you want. One surprising thing is that it doesn't bug our dog. We have a 9.5 year old border collie who constantly attacks the non-robot vacuum but she sleeps right through "sharky". One final thought is it's supposed to work with Alexa. Tried to set that up but haven't made it work. Not a big deal for me as the phone app works between two different phones (my wifes and mine) seemlessly; so, to be honest haven't even spent time trying to finish setting it up. This has been a great product and I would highly recommend it based on our experience of using it over the past several months.

I bought this a month ago and was worried it really wasn't doing anything until I emptied the trap after one week. I was amazed at how much it was getting up. My house stays cleaner between cleans because of the scheduled daily vacuuming. I love that it maps my house and gets every nook and cranny every time.