One of the weirdest sights you just get used to while working in a tech office is the fleet of robot vacuums roaming the floors for cleaning tests. You start to humanize them, turning the mild aesthetic differences of these grey plates with wheels into distinct personalities. It’s cute, not annoying, when they bump into your feet.
But normal consumers can only pick one robot vacuum child. And while the $500 cost is pricey, the Shark Ion Robot Vacuum Cleaning System S87 is pretty powerful.
You’ve heard enough jokes about Roomba uprisings to basically know what a robot vacuum is. The Shark Ion Robot Vacuum Cleaning System S87 is a 12.5-inch disc with a short 3.4-inch height for rolling around your dirty floor and underneath furniture into especially filthy corners. While there’s no laser navigation, it still provides a thorough cleaning by bumping into objects. And the suction itself is strong, able to pick up fine grain and large debris in a single pass on carpets when using Max settings.
The S87 runs for nearly two hours before returning to its dock for a three-hour charge. Through the mobile app you can make the most of those two hours by checking on previous cleaning cycles, finding where the vacuum is, ordering it to return to the dock, and setting up voice commands through Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. However, there is no direct remote control.
And for when you need to do some cleaning yourself, the S87 also comes with a convenient hand vacuum for your money. It slots into the same dock and has attachments for dusting, digging into crevices, and cleaning pets. Sometimes you need to reach places a lowly robot can’t.
For more on the Shark Ion Robot Vacuum Cleaning System S87 check out the extensive review on our sister site PCMag.com. For more on helpful robots check out this blood-powered robot fish and this robot lifter that studies your biceps.
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