Shark RV2310AE Matrix Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum

Mostly. It picks up a surprising amount of dog and cat hair, and the roller often stays clear. With very heavy shedders, though, hair can clog the bin or jam the brushroll on the RV2310AE, so plan on clearing it by hand now and then.

Usually accurate. The RV2310AE uses 360-degree LiDAR, maps quickly and cleans room by room in neat rows. A few maps come out incomplete, though, and fixing a missed area can mean redoing the whole map rather than editing the one room it skipped.

Sometimes. A recurring complaint is the robot losing Wi-Fi, or the app failing to connect or register it, which can mean going through setup more than once. Plenty of RV2310AE units stay connected without trouble, but if yours drops off, getting it back online can mean starting setup again.

On a cluttered floor, sometimes. It can wedge under furniture, the side brush can snag or come off, and the brushroll can jam, which means stopping to rescue it. On tidy floors this rarely comes up, so a quick pickup before a run makes the RV2310AE far more hands-off.

Mostly. The robot empties itself into the bagless base between runs, and Shark says the base holds up to 45 days of debris. Now and then the auto-empty fails when debris blocks the bin door, so the RV2310AE's own 0.19-liter bin occasionally needs emptying by hand.

Shark rates it at 90 minutes, but the battery can run down quickly in real use. When that happens the RV2310AE goes back to the dock, recharges and then finishes the job, so a large home still gets done, just not in one go.

Fairly quiet. On hard floors the RV2310AE is often quiet enough to run overnight while the house sleeps. It isn't silent, and a couple of households found it louder than robots they'd owned before, so a light sleeper near its route may still notice it.