The conversation surrounding the best robot vacuums is a multi-faceted one in which four or five brands have a word at any given moment, fluctuating very few months as someone releases yet another new model. But regardless of the stiff competition that the Roborocks and Eufys of the world continue to pose, the Shark vs. Roomba debate is forever a heated one — exemplified when even a generic search of “robot vacuum” on Google triggers the “People also ask” box to populate with “Is Shark or iRobot better?”
Cementing a definitive answer on the better robot vacuum brand is tricky when “better” is a subjective term swayed by what a shopper needs their robot vacuum to excel at. Some may consider the better robot vacuum to have more advanced navigation that leads to less babysitting, while others may classify the one that squeezes out a sufficiently thorough clean for less money as the better value.
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This would have been a very different article to read had you stopped by any time before March 2025. Before then, iRobot and Shark were both kind of plateauing in terms of the variety of their respective lineups. It was like a competition to see who could be the most mid — especially compared to the robot vacuums announced at CES.
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