SharkNinja

Year: 2023

Award: Robotics & Automation Awards

Award Name: The Best Use of Robotics or Automation in Cleaning and Sanitation Award

Company: SharkNinja

Most robot vacuums in homes do not have the suction power or the brushroll speed to be able to clean high pile carpet as thoroughly as a cordless vacuum.

Additionally, due to the preset navigation patterns, there is high likelihood that some debris will be missed during routine cleaning that a human would make additional passes with a handheld vacuum to clean in a high debris density scenario.

Shark robotics utilized a combination of sensor technologies, bespoke navigation patterns and machine learning techniques to create a unique feature that delivers on ’cleans until the job is done’.

This feature enabled best-in-market cleaning performance claim for the product, a highly satisfied user and an intelligence lever to the overall product story.

Internally named CleanSense, the cleaning robot utilized a pair of emitters and a receiver strategically placed in the robots airpath to detect the amount & type of debris during cleaning to implement a cross-hatch cleaning pattern.

The robot additionally remembers the location of the debris and over time creates a routine that targets ’high traffic zones’ in a home to deliver on truly autonomous cleaning.