Shark PowerDetect UV Reveal

The UV Reveal is Shark's March 2026 flagship and the first robot vacuum-mop to hunt invisible messes with UV light plus an RGB camera — and unusually for a headline feature, reviewers say it actually works. Vacuum Wars called it Shark's best robot yet and put it in their Top 20 for the first time in over a year, on the back of a 183-point dried-stain score (average: 94) and Shark's best-ever obstacle avoidance. It's too new for meaningful Reddit owner history, so most of what's known comes from professional testing rather than long-term owners.

The practical experience splits down the middle. Vacuuming is genuinely good — 88% carpet deep-clean, 91.5% pet hair pickup, and roughly 2,000 sq ft of coverage per charge. Mopping removes stains better than almost anything tested, but it floods floors doing it: nearly 5x the average water output, with floors staying wet for half an hour. TechRadar's 'power washer in the hands of a caveman' line sums up the consensus — powerful hardware, immature software. The SharkClean app has no mop zones, no room-specific controls, and no multi-floor mapping, which competitors half this price offer.

This is for hard-floor-heavy homes that want stain hunting and a bagless dock, and who don't mind wet floors or a basic app. At the $1,299.99 list price it's a hard sell against an Ecovacs T80S at under $550 or a Roborock flagship with a far better app; at the $699-$849 sale prices it's already hitting, it becomes an interesting pick. Carpet-heavy homes and app tinkerers should look elsewhere.