This robot has it all: near-complete cleaning capabilities (including floors, walls, and drains), a powerful battery with a six-hour underwater charge, AI-powered dirt detection, and a robust mobile app. It also has the ability to skim the surface of the pool. After you’re done cleaning, the AquaSense 2 Ultra floats, so collecting it is just a matter of grabbing it from the deck. After a quick clean, drop the robot on the included charging stand to keep it juiced up, no cables needed.
What’s not to love? Just two things, really. Incredible cleaning capabilities require a formidable chassis, and to say the 29kg Beatbot AquaSense 2 Ultra is an understatement would be an understatement. Getting this robot out of the water can be a difficult task, so work on your wrists if you plan to buy one.
There’s also the price: At nearly $3,000, it’s the most expensive battery-powered robot on the market, though most competitors are at least in the ballpark. If your budget is tighter, you can get many of the same services from Beatbot’s Sora 70, which retails for just $1,499.
Pool Cleaning Robot With Better Battery Life
The traditional way to use a pool robot is to keep it frozen and charged, then drop it into the pool when you need it. Take it off at the end of the run, clean the filter basket, and repeat.
An alternative may appeal to lazy pool owners: Drop the robot in the pool and leave it there for a week or two, let it run on a repetitive schedule, then only clean it when the battery dies.
The trick to this strategy is that few pool robots have large enough batteries to allow for more than one or two deep cleans. But with its new M1-AI series, iGarden drops a massive 12,500 mAh battery into its stylish pool boat, allowing for up to nine hours of runtime in floor operation alone. (It can also build walls and waterways, of course, but that will eat up more juice.) The robot also includes cameras that use an AI-powered algorithm to detect debris. In normal mode, the robot first follows an S-shaped path, then turns on the camera to hunt down anything it missed, making for a more efficient cleaning.
