At Kohl’s, we offer a wide variety of vacuum cleaners from Shark, all designed to keep your home looking its best. The bar for us in the testing labs is around 10 grams in order to keep your floor maintained shark pet hair vacuum in between cleanings. For more than 30 years innovation has been hardwired into everything we do. We bring this innovation to you by designing and building robots to enhance life for you and your family.
The Ecovacs T9+ Robot Vacuum and Mop Combo earned the approval of a family dog during the at-home testing phase, something that can’t be said about many machines. It’s quiet and subtle, and thanks to the TrueDetect 3D technology, it even steered around the pet at times. Pet hair, zip-tie scraps, screws from home projects, and other debris shark pet hair vacuum were no match for its strong suction power. Some do, including a version of our top pick, the iRobot Roomba i4+ EVO, and our also-great pick, the Roborock Q5+. Self-emptying robot vacuums come with a big charging dock that sucks debris out of the robot through a trapdoor in the dustbin and stores it in a disposable bag or a bagless bin.
All of our picks can clean your hard floors and carpets, even in large homes with pets. It’s worth noting that the Roomba i4 is the same robot vacuum as the i3 Evo, so pick up whichever offers the best price. A good app has easy controls to stop and start your vacuum, scheduling options (including do not disturb-hours), plus good mapping features. My biggest frustration with apps is maps that are fiddly to update and / or crash and must be rebuilt constantly.
But the Roomba bot can easily pay off in the long run because it’ll last longer. In fact, several Wirecutter staff members have owned Roomba 600-series bots for several years and have found them to be sturdy and reliable. Siri Shortcuts worked a little better in our tests since we could customize the wording of our voice commands, but their overall functionality is limited. For example, you can’t use Siri to set up Automations as you can with Alexa and Google Assistant—though to be fair, Automations on those two platforms are pretty limited, as well.
They’re also some of the shortest, so they can fit beneath more pieces of furniture. Like the Roomba 694, the Eufy 11S is semi-random in its navigation, so it’s best for cleaning just a few rooms at a time. It’s not great at getting pet hair out of plush rugs, but it works fine for keeping bare floors and short rugs pretty tidy.
They offer both vacuuming and mopping abilities for houses big and small. That means enjoying the benefits of kicking back and relaxing while these hands-off cordless vacuums do the hard work for you. Some are ranked among the best vacuums for pet hair and the most impressive vacuum-mop combos. Save when you bundle robot vacuums and mops that automatically work in perfect sequence, giving your floors a comprehensive clean.