Yeah like, seriously? even in this case he'll go for wet socks instead of wearing proper shoes? He could have made a shoutout to Vessi by wearing their shoes for once
that unidentified organism is likely a dragonfly larvae. They are kind of like an aquatic cicada, they will eventually come out of the water, molt that shell and turn into a dragonfly. The larvae will feed on mosquito larvae, then once they molt into adult form, they eat adult mosquitoes. Truly a great insect! (for all of us who hate mosquitoes)
Damn, Beatbot must have paid an INSANE amount of money for an entire 11 minute video showcasing the product and to a channel with 15.6 million subscribers.
@@DougTheFresh yea, with a proper filtration vacuum setup, you can clear all debris they poured in Linus' pool in what, maybe a couple hours/filter cleanings? It doesn't feel like we have reached Roomba of the pool levels of cool yet... not for pools that get real dirty on a bad windy day.. Maybe if you lived in a cookie cutter neighborhood with no trees for miles.
@@th3R0b0tyeah I'm shocked at the sheer number of people defending the bot by saying if you have leaves in your pool you're an idiot for having trees near the pool
Seriosuly, this is a piece of garbage. The Dolphin Nautilius Plus does an amazing job, needs far less maintenenace and its very rugged for 1/3 the price
The amount of leaves in linus' pool wasn't even that unreasonable. That is what would be in my aunt and uncle's pool every time we took the cover off and we were over there every weekend, it took us 15-30 minutes to clean it up with a skimmer basket and the vacuum. The fact that this robot took 6 hours, and three charges over multiple days doesn't speak highly of its usefulness. I feel like it needs a bigger basket and battery, or just stick to the ones that are plugged in and drag the cord around floating on the surface.
The bots only usefulness is in scrubbing but there are others out there that are way cheaper. My brother uses one that connects to 120v and it does an amazing job scrubbing everything. No idea why they want to go cordless here.
I think they should make it to where it goes back to its dock and charge itself like a roomba, but no clue how they would automate dumping since the contents are wet
its cute but its way too small for the job. tell me when its 6x the size, has a cord, and goes to land to return what it has collected and returns to work.
This isn't something you would want to use at the start of a pool opening. The initial skimming and vacuuming debris with the traditional vacuum using the pool pump/filter is the way to go. But robots like these are well worth it when it comes to the day to day maintenance of keeping dirt/leaves/animal leftovers off the bottom and scrubbing initial algae buildup. I think the surface skimming thing on this is overrated. Most pools already have a skimmer that collects surface debris. You can skim the rest with a net in 5 minutes. You really just need something that does the bottom and sides. I have a dolphin vacuum we got off Amazon that is 1/3 of the price and kicks ass. It's tethered to power and not battery operated. But after watching this I'm kind of glad.....the Beatbot looks annoying to have to fish out.
@@JCD87 Probably. I was just making a joke anyway. The outside of his house is always blurred in videos, likely to stop people from doxxing him and turning up on his doorstep.
@@jason55189 It spent two days and numerous requirements for the basket to be cleaned out and the pool still had a ton of debris in it. That was not adequate for a cleaner 1/4 the cost of that thing.
@@0525ohhwell I don't think they glossed over it. I looked at that video and thought it would just be easier to do it yourself. Looked like a lot of emptying a tiny basket.
@@0525ohhwell Eh, even the second case was contrived. If you could throw this thing into a pool and go make a sandwich, come out and empty the basket, go for a walk, do it again ... I guess that's fine. Not for me, but fine nonetheless.
"And as I do, I will slowly shut down my higher brain functions... un-making myself... leaving just enough to appreciate my surroundings... to extract some simple pleasure from the execution of a task well done. My search for truth is finished at last." -That little pool cleaning robot: Zima Blue.
Giving someone pointlessly a robot that let the pool get that dirty in the first place, also looking at the nasty yard too, is a pointless action in itself.
Jokes aside, I'd watch a video of someone attempting to make a vacuum work in the pool. I mean, so long as it uses brushless motors and you're able to conformal coat the electronics, I don't see why it wouldn't work...
Fun Fact : South Africa has very few inventions to its name, but one of them is the Kreepy Krauly, a self running pool vacuum cleaner which used an interesting water hammer effect to chucka-chucka-chucka around your pool. Aside from not being able to do the surface of the water, it pretty much does the job this robot does at a tiny fraction of the price. 90s Tech for the win!
I was going to comment on this haha. For literally so much less, I have something that runs all the time and the bottom of the pool is always clean... And you add the leaf catcher on the water output jets and you have no leaves... Overall, less cost, holds more debre and is quicker and you don't have to take the whole thing out the water to charge it even if there were not many leaves... Somethings are not good to IoT ... this is one of them lol ....
@@stoned9017 they rely completely on your pump to work. the right pump on the right pool and they will work great. there are plenty of other better options out there though. and also you still don't need to go this route. a plug in cleaner will still do way better than this.
My dumb ass thought "wait, is he unpacking a robot in the RAIN?!" ... it took me an embarrassing few seconds to consider that said robot goes in a pool.
The idea of having a bot to clean your pool is great. But this bot doesn’t seem to be too practical. I mean, you have to interact with it so many times to get the result. Maybe increasing its side to fit more battery and trash… or maybe having a “station” on the side of the pool so it can charge and clean itself
Yeah, if the robot had a floating station where it could dock and dump all the trash (the station would then suck it from the robot to a trash can near the pool) and then continue its work, that'd be great. Battery life is still an issue though.
@@williamjones4483Yeah thats something most people seem to be missing due to the visual nature of the video. This robot basically maintains a clean pool for you, like he said, its not a miracle worker for a pool this nasty.
This is known as pool bot-wave duality.... it is a result of the quantum zeno or "Observer" effect, once a bot is not observed, it exists in a sort of superstate of both functional and non functional, once observed(please note, observe and observation here do not necessarily mean conscious observation, though we are unsure of that in entirety, it means any sort of system meant to observe the state of said bot.
@@FacelessMage117 Schrodinger's pool cleaning robot. Is it still picking up leaves at the top of a pool? Has it stopped working and began contemplating its existence at the bottom? Only once you look at it do you pick a universe with one of the options true.
As a pool tech i feel safe knowing that no robot can do a better job than me. It would take me 30 min to make the second pool clean. The first pool would take 2 visits and about 2 hours.
I think you're missing the point. It won't out clean a human in a single day. But it's a one time payment that will require minimal maintenance and could save money over several months. It's not going to completely clean a pool in a day but if you use it every week or every other week it should be able to maintain most pools well enough that you shouldn't need to hire a pool tech.
Including the glass? If you only spent a portion of 30 minutes looking for glass shards in a filled pool, I wouldn't remotely feel safe using the pool. Not that I'd trust the bot either mind you.
@@sushsidnd lol. No, you don't understand as you obviously didn't look up the price of this ($2,200 before tax) and have never paid for someone to clean a pool or cleaned one yourself. This bot is absurd both in how poorly in operate and the cost. And if you want automatic, there are many automatic cleaning devices that use your existing filtering, much cheaper, and much better.
and once it has reached peak performance... he will do the final act of art that every real living thing does. destroys itself until only basic parts are left.
tbh its a two way gesture, its content for linus aka he acc went +money on this vid, but its still nice of him to offer it since he could do many other vids, but he choose this idea or well the writer/and or mananger, which helps 2 ways
I guess the idea is that regular maintenance prevents that. For example; if you vacuum your house once a year, then you'll need to empty your vacuum cleaner multiple times and it'll take you ages. Whereas, if you did it once a day, it'd take you a fraction of the time and have a fraction of the dirt to clean.
If the robot had a floating station, or a partially submerged station at the edge of the pool, where it could dock and dump all the trash (the station would then suck it from the robot to a trash can near the pool) and then continue its work, that'd be great. Battery life is still an issue though.
@@seigeengine While I won't vacuum every day, I would use a robot vacuum cleaner a day. It cleaning the house daily keeps it at a low-level which means that I don't need to manually vacuum nearly as much.
i paid 800$ for a cabled one, does stairs with no problem, has 2 baskets, and unlimited runtime. chuck it in the water once a week and in 5 hours it's done for a whole week. fish it up like a crab trap and be done with it.
@@Paronakyeah the use case for these isn’t you let your pool get super dirty and then you babysit it, you’re supposed to chuck it in every so often after normal use and it maintains the pool. I’m generally grumpy as hell and I thought it seemed fine for that.
If you're the kind of person that pays for your pool to be cleaned instead of doing it yourself, this thing could probably replace that almost entirely apart from one yearly maintenance so this could end up saving you money over 2 or 3 years, of course that assumes it will last that long, but there is definitely people where this would be very beneficial to them
@@TypicalZoomerwrong! They are usually water resistant, meaning they can resist water for some amount of time. Exposing it to water also still breaks warranty. Water proof means it will survive forever within water so long as nothing else damages it.
The $2,500 price tag for the pool robot seems excessive, especially since it lacks the capability to autonomously leave its docking station for cleaning. This limitation requires manual operation, making it impractical for use while away or asleep. Despite my experience with high-end pool robots featuring advanced scheduling and app integration, I now recommend opting for the most affordable model available that includes essential components like a filter, cable, and available spare parts. Essentially, a pool robot's primary function is to circulate water through a filter. By choosing a less expensive model, you can keep the robot in the water for daily cleaning, simply managed with a remote switch or timer. The additional features like motorized brushes and side cleaning are unnecessary and often overhyped. In my experience, including with three Zodiac models, pricier robots tend to fail more quickly. For minimal maintenance, using a manual brush twice per season is sufficient.
I'm sorry but I think a traditional pool vacuum is superior to this thing in pretty much every way. Way less complicated, runs on grid power instead of a battery, can go up stairs, doesn't need to be constantly emptied, less expensive, more reliable, does not need an app to work, and they're just better at cleaning the bottom and walls of a pool. Along with a traditional skimmer which also uses grid power and brings the floating debris to it, is just better if you are more interested in having a clean pool than showing off your expensive toy to your neighbors. Sometimes the adage "if it ain't broke don't fix it" proves to be very true. The only scenario I could imagine a robot pool vacuum being better than a normal one would be if the robot was like a normal one with a hose, access to grid power, and used its sensors to guide itself around the pool instead of moving haphazardly, and even then I'm not sure if it would really be worth it.
That could actually work reasonably well. Add a diversion route with a screen for the water, stick a hydroelectric generator in the diversion for primary power, use some fiber-optics (preferably TOS-link, for easy availability), and most or all of the issues with this one go away.
@@infernaldaedra I really feel like this is a problem with the way LTT does sponsored videos, like I get it, they're getting paid for it and he never lied in the video and he showed us exactly how effective the product was but I can't help but really notice that he never said a single negative thing about the product. And I know I know, if you're reading this Linus, it's not a review like you always say on the Wan Show but you are showing the product and intentionally withholding information from me, the viewer who by your own admission, is supposed to "be your boss". I've watched this channel for years and I know that Linus knows that this product is an overpriced and impractical piece of crap and if it wasn't sponsored he would be the first one to grill it for what it is but he doesn't and that really affects how much I trust what he says. He's supposed to be nurturing the parasocial relationship with me so I stay invested and buy his merch but when he makes a video like this, that relationship takes a hit that can't just be repaired by one good video. Obviously I'm not blindly following everything he has ever said but I want to be able to just listen to what he says and not have to put in the effort to really question it, how can I watch his next video and not ask myself what he is withholding from me? This channel is supposed to be a form of semi-informative entertainment, how can I be entertained if I'm not being informed in good faith? I know sponsors aren't gonna want to pay LTT a ton of money to have their product grilled for all to see but at the end of the day that's not my concern, all I care about is the information and the entertainment and I'm not happy if Linus isn't going to be truthful with me.
@@absalomdraconis you wouldn't even need fiber optic cables, you could just attach a waterproof copper cable to the hose for electricity and data if you want to communicate with it the cable could connect to a Wi-Fi hub above water to let you remotely control the vacuum with your phone with live video on board and arrows for which way you want it to go. Hell, they could go all in on being smart and let you remotely access the vacuum through the internet so you can make sure your pool is clean no matter where you are. It would be a bit more complicated than just controlling a robot since the suction is being provided by a real pump on the side of the house instead of a tiny one on board so you have to link those things together but that would be a genuinely good product and with how much money upper middle class/ wealthy people spend on pools, I'm sure there's a good market for it. With how many of these stupid pool robots companies are selling, I'd have no doubt an actual good one which took the benefits of regular vacuums and combined it with technology, would be successful.
@@drabberfrog jesus christ man, maybe u need a break from youtube for awhile? It aint that deep. Linus is a Canadian dad in his 30's that talks about tech, not an Oracle.
Lets say a traditional cleaner requires you to spend 1-2 hours to do it, every time you do. Well: What is your time worth? And beyond this - if it's making it easier to do something, for someone who has limited mobility, or other disability that uses a pool as a means of comfortable exercise: Then this is actually kind of perfect. Automation is coming, and lets face it: This is really early on. We are going to see a version 2, 3, 4. We are going to find someone who solves the "pool clean, and lawn cut all in one robot" that just does it all - or maybe you get a core base with add ons. Or you get a humanoid robot that uses human tools or... So many different approaches. So no: This is not a product FOR YOU. But clearly, it's for someone out there.
I had this same exact issue with a wireless bot. Unless the water is crystal clear, you will loose it. Or at least I did with a larger pool. Good luck trying to find/fish out the bot in a 12 ft deep, 25x50 ft pool. But if the pool is already pretty clean and this is just doing maint., this is a great tool. Great to see the app actually works. And there's backup buttons on the device. I went through 3 different models that had apps that were flaky at best, completely unusable most of the time. Just gave up and went for a traditional AC tethered model at that point.
Tbh, i like tech and all. But my parents had pretty much this 15 years ago. Sure that one had a cable on it and this would be a little easier since you don't need to get that. But just the fact this has a battery is not great IMO. Batteries degrade, die and cause all sorts of issues. Obviously they are also useful for a lot of things or necessary but i don't think a pool cleaning robot really needs one. Id rather have it on a cable and plugged in since its always going to be there anyway.
The cable would have to be thick and strong enough to double as a way to fish it out of the pool because owners are 100% going to be trying to use it for that.
I'd never use one of these (I'll never have a pool, not because I don't want one, I just could never afford one), but I love seeing the new technologies like this. Pretty neat.
This thing is a wild piece of tech, and it's amazing that anyone built it. But I'm not really sure how this is tons better than the standard vacuum that connects to the pool pump and handles the bottom and sides. Sure, the skimming feature is nice. But that's what a skimmer basket is for.
as someone who works at a pool, these things are really nice for when it's only minorly dirty on the bottom of the pool. and the ones who have a control panel on the surface and are hooked up with a wire work really nice especially if you wanna mess with it while it's underwater
Agreed. My neighbour has one of these, and it's not bad at all. Trick is to not let dirt build up. He runs it every night so it's done in the morning. That way the basket is never too small and it can run the program on one battery cycle. His pool is immaculate.
Summers now are much hotter than they used to be. That being said, the fact the owners didn't even cover the pool with a tarp or something is pretty stupid, especially in the PNW.
Summers are warm and have few rainy days (especially the semi-arid south & central Okanagan). The City of Vancouver has popular public outdoor pools open from May/June through September (and people campaigning to keep them open through October). Few people are probably using their pools on a rainy January day, but 2/3 of the year is reasonable pool weather for much of the province.
@@geoff5623 2/3 of the year? Lol no. You probably have 2-3 months of pool weather in the PNW. Edit: and listing pools people swim laps in is not comparable to a pool at your house you sit in and drink wine.
@@username8644 the public outdoor pools have more area for splashing around than for swimming laps. June through August are sit-in-the-pool-with-a-drink-to-cool-off weather, but many people are at the beaches, in much colder water, April through October.
@@geoff5623 Yeah because the water in the ocean never gets warmer. It stays at a constant temperature almost year round, that's what makes the water so dangerous in the PNW. So that point isn't really relevant. Edit: also it's not very common to see people bathing in the ocean at any time of the year. Some do dock jumping, but nobody stays in the water. And if they do they are wearing wetsuits at a minimum. Edit: also why are we even arguing about this😂
@@gbpg2016 you would be suprised if you knew what kind of machinery are people from russia or even poorer parts of the world playing league of legends and counter strike on lol
@@sim6446You can't play LoL or Dota on 4 gb of storage though, because they're just straight up larger than that. This thing has worse specs than a five year old lower end phone
Honestly I feel like a product like this could be so much more practical if it were “tethered.” You could have a unit on the side of the pool connected via a hose which could provide vacuum for extracting waste, so you don’t have to dump the robots collection tank constantly. This could also include wiring for power to extend its clean time effectively infinitely, and provide connectivity so you can still interact with it under water via the app.
Yeah those already exist and have existed for quite a few decades. Look up automatic pool cleaner and you'll likely find ones that float on the surface and clean the top of pools in minutes.
@@kingzach74 I've been encountering those more and more often in recent months. I'm pretty mixed on their effectiveness though. I feel like there is not a substantial improvement to surface cleanliness over just making sure you have skimmers with functional weir gates.
No this thing actually looks like a horrible deal for $2.2K. You'd probably spend less time actually cleaning the pool yourself than dealing with the small basket and poor battery life. The cleaner failed both times in that it (i) was unable to clean the small particles out of the neighbor's pool and (ii) took two days and a lot of user involvements to clean a couple of handfuls of leaves. The conclusion should have been that it is not worth the $2.2K that they are asking for due to the slow clean rate, small basket, and lower-than-advertised battery life.
We have a similar robot from about 10 years ago that just goes in random patterns and has a cord, works well and was 500€… I think it’s called moby, and I assume this thing is not 4x better and won‘t last as long with the batteries…
Dunno, I think my Dolphin T45 is almost a thousand dollars cheaper, has no chance of getting lost to the deep, doesn’t need to charge, WiFi works under water, and can handle stairs.
@@hammerth1421 most decently modern pool robots have some form of app controll and just work. This thing seems like someone said "lets remove cable because cables bad" and then slapped AI on it to make even more money. It doesnt look like it has any other selling point
Pools have always seemed too much of a hassle to me because of the upkeep and having strangers in my space. But if I could just drop this lil guy in once a week that would really make pool ownership much more realistic. In my case I live in Minnesota, so I'll probably just get a place on a lake for a reasonable price, but if I were to ever move out of state, I'm remembering this lil guy.
His stance is, "you should buy things based on the features they have today, not those they promise in the future." But that doesn't mean future updates aren't a pro.
This bot is a cool idea but there are other products that just work much better and are much cheaper than this robot costs. Sure those products may require actual physical work but youre done in half an hour to an hour at most if you didn’t let the pool get too dirty.
Honey, can you skim the pool? Sure thing, I just need to finish inventing this robot, writing an app, and once it's all charged, should be done in only three days.
They said it's supposed to return to the same spot you dropped it in the pool, but it was unclear if it returned to cleaning in the same spot after it surfaced to get the filter cleaned. I don't know if it would benefit from having a spot clean mode, like floor vacuum robots have, where it would stay cleaning in a small area if detected that it was picking up more debris than usual. These robots seem to commonly oversell their intelligence, like older Roombas that mostly just picked a random new direction whenever they bumped into an obstacle. The strategy works well enough though for general cleaning maintenance (the mid-generation models did better at cleaning multiple rooms with the infrared lighthouses to mark doorways), and doing the stripe pattern along the floor is probably more for making people think it does a thorough job than actually being any more effective than a random walk.
If you need to babysit the thing, doesn't really have any advantage over you grabbing a long pole and broom or vacuum and vacuuming the pool yourself which is so much faster....I think they need to introduce a docking station that goes on the pool edge, into the water, and the bot can dock and unload the basket for emptying, into a much larger basket which the user can then pick up in one go and empty it. Instead of picking up the robot so many times just to empty out a handful of debris, its pathetic.
My pool was in about the same condition as this when I initially cleaned it with the Beatbot Aquasense Pro. It took me three weeks of scooping debris with a net and using the robot in between working two jobs, so there were only a couple of days a week when I could dedicate an entire day to cleaning it. It was a delicate balancing act of maintaining the correct pool chemical levels while also manually cleaning the pool. Of course, the robot performed exceptionally well, and now I only need to use it every few days or after a storm. It's been an absolute beast!
Insane neighbor throws robot into pool
Real
Saw a video this morning "my wierd neighbor on sandals threw a Roomba in my pond and now it looks like a pool"
Linustech 👏
*innocent robot
Yeah 😅
Sandals + Socks + Rain = Pure Linus mode.
+Scummy Pool
Wears a rain jacket, let's the feets fly
I knew they were in British Columbia but I didn't know that meant British weather...
Sounds relaxing AF honestly.
Yeah like, seriously? even in this case he'll go for wet socks instead of wearing proper shoes? He could have made a shoutout to Vessi by wearing their shoes for once
that unidentified organism is likely a dragonfly larvae. They are kind of like an aquatic cicada, they will eventually come out of the water, molt that shell and turn into a dragonfly. The larvae will feed on mosquito larvae, then once they molt into adult form, they eat adult mosquitoes. Truly a great insect! (for all of us who hate mosquitoes)
i was wondering what it was, alien-looking-freak-bug. thanks for the comment!
Looked like a shrimp. Good to know its an ally
Dragonflies are so cute!
My mum loves them, they're like water butterflies, and they eat mosquitoes. They're awesome!
All my homies hate mosquitos.. except Batly.
Came here say this. It looked a lot like a dragonfly larvae.
Damn, Beatbot must have paid an INSANE amount of money for an entire 11 minute video showcasing the product and to a channel with 15.6 million subscribers.
Sponsors pay the bills
And it totally sucks too lmao
Buy a polaris
@@DougTheFresh yea, with a proper filtration vacuum setup, you can clear all debris they poured in Linus' pool in what, maybe a couple hours/filter cleanings?
It doesn't feel like we have reached Roomba of the pool levels of cool yet... not for pools that get real dirty on a bad windy day.. Maybe if you lived in a cookie cutter neighborhood with no trees for miles.
@@th3R0b0tyeah I'm shocked at the sheer number of people defending the bot by saying if you have leaves in your pool you're an idiot for having trees near the pool
This video did a wonderful job at convincing me not to buy this product.
my dad wanted to buy it but my mom forbade it. She likes the pool guy i guess
Seriosuly, this is a piece of garbage. The Dolphin Nautilius Plus does an amazing job, needs far less maintenenace and its very rugged for 1/3 the price
The amount of leaves in linus' pool wasn't even that unreasonable. That is what would be in my aunt and uncle's pool every time we took the cover off and we were over there every weekend, it took us 15-30 minutes to clean it up with a skimmer basket and the vacuum. The fact that this robot took 6 hours, and three charges over multiple days doesn't speak highly of its usefulness. I feel like it needs a bigger basket and battery, or just stick to the ones that are plugged in and drag the cord around floating on the surface.
The bots only usefulness is in scrubbing but there are others out there that are way cheaper. My brother uses one that connects to 120v and it does an amazing job scrubbing everything. No idea why they want to go cordless here.
I think they should make it to where it goes back to its dock and charge itself like a roomba, but no clue how they would automate dumping since the contents are wet
Or some method of self-emptying and finding its way back to its charger - sort of like the robovacs with base stations
its cute but its way too small for the job. tell me when its 6x the size, has a cord, and goes to land to return what it has collected and returns to work.
This isn't something you would want to use at the start of a pool opening. The initial skimming and vacuuming debris with the traditional vacuum using the pool pump/filter is the way to go. But robots like these are well worth it when it comes to the day to day maintenance of keeping dirt/leaves/animal leftovers off the bottom and scrubbing initial algae buildup.
I think the surface skimming thing on this is overrated. Most pools already have a skimmer that collects surface debris. You can skim the rest with a net in 5 minutes.
You really just need something that does the bottom and sides. I have a dolphin vacuum we got off Amazon that is 1/3 of the price and kicks ass. It's tethered to power and not battery operated. But after watching this I'm kind of glad.....the Beatbot looks annoying to have to fish out.
I've watched enough pool cleaning tiktoks to know... absolutely nothing about this.
"follow ya boi for the pool work"
Indicating you've been paying possibly TOO much attention! 😂
Pool cleaning & Pressure washing are my ASMR 😂
@@ThomasPrettyman01 thep00lguy!
@@ThomasPrettyman01 it’s “holla your boy” not follow
And giant censored background
Did someone tried geoguess? 😂😂
I'd hate to live where Linus lives...
Imagine living with constant blurry surroundings...
That's all of the Pacific Northwest 😂
I love it though
Im guessing the blurr was his neighbors property, he showed bits of his own house without blur.
@@JCD87 Probably. I was just making a joke anyway. The outside of his house is always blurred in videos, likely to stop people from doxxing him and turning up on his doorstep.
@@JCD87r/woosh
Maybe the camera just needs glasses
Fair play for them not hiding how well/not well the product works. Genuinely shocked the company wanted this to go out.
If you have a pool, you know its not that worth compared to having a vacuum attached to your pump
@@jason55189 It spent two days and numerous requirements for the basket to be cleaned out and the pool still had a ton of debris in it. That was not adequate for a cleaner 1/4 the cost of that thing.
They kinda glossed over how much hands on that thing needed.
@@0525ohhwell I don't think they glossed over it. I looked at that video and thought it would just be easier to do it yourself. Looked like a lot of emptying a tiny basket.
@@0525ohhwell Eh, even the second case was contrived. If you could throw this thing into a pool and go make a sandwich, come out and empty the basket, go for a walk, do it again ... I guess that's fine. Not for me, but fine nonetheless.
"And as I do, I will slowly shut down my higher brain functions... un-making myself... leaving just enough to appreciate my surroundings... to extract some simple pleasure from the execution of a task well done. My search for truth is finished at last."
-That little pool cleaning robot: Zima Blue.
I was just thinking of that episode when Linus showed the cleaning robot. It was a sad one.
Such a good episode!
@@EmpressEmbethagreed, probably my favorite in the entire series tbh. artstyle was a little wonky but that was the point i’m sure :)
best show there is... unlike anything LTT is putting out as of now
@@gamesnic I mean you can just not watch the channel if you want. That is a thing you can do.
That pool is so dirty I was fearing Shrek would pass by and yell to get out of his swamp.
Ikr, I could almost hear shreksophone playing in the background.
"It's all ogre now."
💀
Giving someone pointlessly a robot that let the pool get that dirty in the first place, also looking at the nasty yard too, is a pointless action in itself.
That pool is so dirty Shrek would stare at you and say: you're disgusting
Rare moment, a tech youtuber outside
This guy is a billionaire. This is a set inside the warehouse
@@UCm0i6w5lBlRthCtZEoj99tg what do u mean 😂
@@SteveMelvin-g8whe's a billionaire tech youtuber, of course he'll do anything not to go outside. Even if it costs millions, he'll just write it off
Right
@GHOSTSTARSCREAM Poe's Law
I threw the Roomba in the pool and it worked for a while. But then it stopped. Maybe it needs the docking station as well. BRB.
😂
You need to apply Epoxy Resin first! Did you not watch the preview video?
Rookie mistake, you forgot to set the RGB to Blue didn't you? Everyone knows blue stuff is water immune.
Jokes aside, I'd watch a video of someone attempting to make a vacuum work in the pool. I mean, so long as it uses brushless motors and you're able to conformal coat the electronics, I don't see why it wouldn't work...
This thing should have solar charging and it should live in the pool 24x7.
They should've just never made it wireless to begin with tbh
that tiny amount of surface area would not be enough
@@IIIIIIIIIIIllllllIIIIIIIIIII yeah but it doesn't have to clean the whole pool everyday, just once a week I guess.
Ah yes, main electricity in the pool, genius idea.
Don't think it would work. But no reason not to have a docking station for it to charge at.
Honestly, it's kinda cute the way it just pokes out of the water like that when it wants you to empty it. Like it's asking for uppies.
I hope Zima Blue is happy cleaning Linus’s pool.
Came to the comment section looking for this comment, wasn't disappointed
Was JUST about to mention it haha
I'm not
This is only the beginning of its journey, or perhaps the end
robot gains sentience, comes out of the pool, first human it meets is in sandal with socks, robot cralws back to the pool and does a factory reset :-D
Fun Fact : South Africa has very few inventions to its name, but one of them is the Kreepy Krauly, a self running pool vacuum cleaner which used an interesting water hammer effect to chucka-chucka-chucka around your pool. Aside from not being able to do the surface of the water, it pretty much does the job this robot does at a tiny fraction of the price. 90s Tech for the win!
I was going to comment on this haha.
For literally so much less, I have something that runs all the time and the bottom of the pool is always clean...
And you add the leaf catcher on the water output jets and you have no leaves...
Overall, less cost, holds more debre and is quicker and you don't have to take the whole thing out the water to charge it even if there were not many leaves...
Somethings are not good to IoT ... this is one of them lol ....
Yep
Another fun fact - The worlds first digital laser was invented in South Africa
And the shittest cleaner on the market. Don't ever buy a creepy.
@@stoned9017 they rely completely on your pump to work. the right pump on the right pool and they will work great. there are plenty of other better options out there though. and also you still don't need to go this route. a plug in cleaner will still do way better than this.
Imagine the amount of brain-eating amoeba you could get by jumping into this pool before it was cleaned.
I had a brain eating amoeba once, poor guy died of hungry
@@KirbyAyanami RIP Mr. Amoeba.
@@Slavolkowhen we have brainrot. they cant eat anything
The good news is, then Robert Kennedy, Junior suddenly starts making sense!
@@timeliebe You can not like him, but the current resident would be more fitting of this joke.
Needed to stop midway and say: I really hope no one gets hurt.. but, the 'you threw glass in the pool? What the hell!' still really got me! xD
Its most likely filter glass from the first pool its not sharp
Only Linus would clean a pool in the rain with socks and sandals.
My dumb ass thought "wait, is he unpacking a robot in the RAIN?!"
... it took me an embarrassing few seconds to consider that said robot goes in a pool.
The LTT intro box popping out of the box is pure genius and i am here for it
The idea of having a bot to clean your pool is great. But this bot doesn’t seem to be too practical. I mean, you have to interact with it so many times to get the result. Maybe increasing its side to fit more battery and trash… or maybe having a “station” on the side of the pool so it can charge and clean itself
with the pool station, that's a good point - you could put it as a feature request for the Beatbot company
Yeah, if the robot had a floating station where it could dock and dump all the trash (the station would then suck it from the robot to a trash can near the pool) and then continue its work, that'd be great. Battery life is still an issue though.
Honestly i think it would be great for scrubbing floor+wall, just get most of the leaves out yourself beforehand and it should work fine.
@@williamjones4483Yeah thats something most people seem to be missing due to the visual nature of the video. This robot basically maintains a clean pool for you, like he said, its not a miracle worker for a pool this nasty.
@@williamjones4483 Are you referring to the first or second pool?
1:56 the brainrot has gotten to Linus.
underrated comment 💀
got his ass
preposterous
GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD
Watching a whole 11:41 video for a pool cleaning robot I will never need. XD
0:52 Key framing the grey LTT box coming out of the cardboard one and going into the intro was smoooooooth. Love those little touches.
Yeah I had to look at it twice to check
Every pool cleaning robot stops working the second you turn your back. Prove me wrong
First, i would need a pool. Can you help me with that?
This is known as pool bot-wave duality.... it is a result of the quantum zeno or "Observer" effect, once a bot is not observed, it exists in a sort of superstate of both functional and non functional, once observed(please note, observe and observation here do not necessarily mean conscious observation, though we are unsure of that in entirety, it means any sort of system meant to observe the state of said bot.
The dumb ones are decent at least lol, though still not great.
@@FacelessMage117 Schrodinger's pool cleaning robot. Is it still picking up leaves at the top of a pool? Has it stopped working and began contemplating its existence at the bottom? Only once you look at it do you pick a universe with one of the options true.
@@its_dey_mate FACTS, you go inside and come check every few minutes to make sure its working
As a pool tech i feel safe knowing that no robot can do a better job than me. It would take me 30 min to make the second pool clean. The first pool would take 2 visits and about 2 hours.
I think you're missing the point. It won't out clean a human in a single day. But it's a one time payment that will require minimal maintenance and could save money over several months. It's not going to completely clean a pool in a day but if you use it every week or every other week it should be able to maintain most pools well enough that you shouldn't need to hire a pool tech.
Including the glass? If you only spent a portion of 30 minutes looking for glass shards in a filled pool, I wouldn't remotely feel safe using the pool.
Not that I'd trust the bot either mind you.
@@sushsidnd lol. No, you don't understand as you obviously didn't look up the price of this ($2,200 before tax) and have never paid for someone to clean a pool or cleaned one yourself. This bot is absurd both in how poorly in operate and the cost. And if you want automatic, there are many automatic cleaning devices that use your existing filtering, much cheaper, and much better.
Kreepy Krawlys has been around south Africa for a very long time. And we don't really have pool techs (some but not a lot)
true but its nice to have something brush the algae so your filters can pick it up when you arent hand brushing
One day this robot will be so upgraded, that it invents its own shade of blue to use in its art.
and once it has reached peak performance... he will do the final act of art that every real living thing does. destroys itself until only basic parts are left.
Your neighbour is very lucky to have you 😂
Indeed... I didn't expect the pool to be blue tbh
This time...yes😂😂😂
Considering the neighborhood I'd figure they've been very lucky their entire lives.
tbh its a two way gesture, its content for linus aka he acc went +money on this vid, but its still nice of him to offer it since he could do many other vids, but he choose this idea or well the writer/and or mananger, which helps 2 ways
He has a very bad neighbor to let the pool get that bad. The rest of the yard looks as well maintained.
That basket clogs way too quickly for this to be of any use lol
I guess the idea is that regular maintenance prevents that.
For example; if you vacuum your house once a year, then you'll need to empty your vacuum cleaner multiple times and it'll take you ages.
Whereas, if you did it once a day, it'd take you a fraction of the time and have a fraction of the dirt to clean.
If the robot had a floating station, or a partially submerged station at the edge of the pool, where it could dock and dump all the trash (the station would then suck it from the robot to a trash can near the pool) and then continue its work, that'd be great. Battery life is still an issue though.
@GHOSTSTARSCREAM Uhhh no. he is correct you are wrong
@@seigeengine
While I won't vacuum every day, I would use a robot vacuum cleaner a day.
It cleaning the house daily keeps it at a low-level which means that I don't need to manually vacuum nearly as much.
@GHOSTSTARSCREAM No, they were right
I like how the pre-intro leads into the animated intro. Nice touch editing dept.
"My neighbour has a pool" is the most indirect flex I've heard
Alternate title:
Linus was fed up with his neighbors mosquito breeding ground
Yeesh, $2200 for it. thats insane.
Naw that's about right, some roombas are a grand plus and they don't have to deal with water and caustic chemicals
i paid 800$ for a cabled one, does stairs with no problem, has 2 baskets, and unlimited runtime. chuck it in the water once a week and in 5 hours it's done for a whole week. fish it up like a crab trap and be done with it.
@@Paronakyeah the use case for these isn’t you let your pool get super dirty and then you babysit it, you’re supposed to chuck it in every so often after normal use and it maintains the pool. I’m generally grumpy as hell and I thought it seemed fine for that.
you do realize this is for a pool? pools aren't cheap lol
If you're the kind of person that pays for your pool to be cleaned instead of doing it yourself, this thing could probably replace that almost entirely apart from one yearly maintenance so this could end up saving you money over 2 or 3 years, of course that assumes it will last that long, but there is definitely people where this would be very beneficial to them
Imagine wearing a water resistant cap because it's raining but still wear socks and sandals
Sealskinz makes waterproof socks. Maybe next on the list for LTT.
That intro transition was smooth asf
Please tell me this is an episode in a new series "Products that never needed to exist".
0:53 I like how you all get more and more creative to launch the intro clip. I linked this one, it came out of the blue.
8:36 I was about to lose my sh** when he leaned down with a phone in his breastpocket like Linus did
Every phone these days is water proof
@@TypicalZoomerwrong!
They are usually water resistant, meaning they can resist water for some amount of time.
Exposing it to water also still breaks warranty.
Water proof means it will survive forever within water so long as nothing else damages it.
The $2,500 price tag for the pool robot seems excessive, especially since it lacks the capability to autonomously leave its docking station for cleaning. This limitation requires manual operation, making it impractical for use while away or asleep. Despite my experience with high-end pool robots featuring advanced scheduling and app integration, I now recommend opting for the most affordable model available that includes essential components like a filter, cable, and available spare parts. Essentially, a pool robot's primary function is to circulate water through a filter. By choosing a less expensive model, you can keep the robot in the water for daily cleaning, simply managed with a remote switch or timer. The additional features like motorized brushes and side cleaning are unnecessary and often overhyped. In my experience, including with three Zodiac models, pricier robots tend to fail more quickly. For minimal maintenance, using a manual brush twice per season is sufficient.
Chatgpt?
I'm sorry but I think a traditional pool vacuum is superior to this thing in pretty much every way. Way less complicated, runs on grid power instead of a battery, can go up stairs, doesn't need to be constantly emptied, less expensive, more reliable, does not need an app to work, and they're just better at cleaning the bottom and walls of a pool. Along with a traditional skimmer which also uses grid power and brings the floating debris to it, is just better if you are more interested in having a clean pool than showing off your expensive toy to your neighbors. Sometimes the adage "if it ain't broke don't fix it" proves to be very true. The only scenario I could imagine a robot pool vacuum being better than a normal one would be if the robot was like a normal one with a hose, access to grid power, and used its sensors to guide itself around the pool instead of moving haphazardly, and even then I'm not sure if it would really be worth it.
That could actually work reasonably well. Add a diversion route with a screen for the water, stick a hydroelectric generator in the diversion for primary power, use some fiber-optics (preferably TOS-link, for easy availability), and most or all of the issues with this one go away.
@@infernaldaedra I really feel like this is a problem with the way LTT does sponsored videos, like I get it, they're getting paid for it and he never lied in the video and he showed us exactly how effective the product was but I can't help but really notice that he never said a single negative thing about the product. And I know I know, if you're reading this Linus, it's not a review like you always say on the Wan Show but you are showing the product and intentionally withholding information from me, the viewer who by your own admission, is supposed to "be your boss". I've watched this channel for years and I know that Linus knows that this product is an overpriced and impractical piece of crap and if it wasn't sponsored he would be the first one to grill it for what it is but he doesn't and that really affects how much I trust what he says. He's supposed to be nurturing the parasocial relationship with me so I stay invested and buy his merch but when he makes a video like this, that relationship takes a hit that can't just be repaired by one good video. Obviously I'm not blindly following everything he has ever said but I want to be able to just listen to what he says and not have to put in the effort to really question it, how can I watch his next video and not ask myself what he is withholding from me? This channel is supposed to be a form of semi-informative entertainment, how can I be entertained if I'm not being informed in good faith? I know sponsors aren't gonna want to pay LTT a ton of money to have their product grilled for all to see but at the end of the day that's not my concern, all I care about is the information and the entertainment and I'm not happy if Linus isn't going to be truthful with me.
@@absalomdraconis you wouldn't even need fiber optic cables, you could just attach a waterproof copper cable to the hose for electricity and data if you want to communicate with it the cable could connect to a Wi-Fi hub above water to let you remotely control the vacuum with your phone with live video on board and arrows for which way you want it to go. Hell, they could go all in on being smart and let you remotely access the vacuum through the internet so you can make sure your pool is clean no matter where you are. It would be a bit more complicated than just controlling a robot since the suction is being provided by a real pump on the side of the house instead of a tiny one on board so you have to link those things together but that would be a genuinely good product and with how much money upper middle class/ wealthy people spend on pools, I'm sure there's a good market for it. With how many of these stupid pool robots companies are selling, I'd have no doubt an actual good one which took the benefits of regular vacuums and combined it with technology, would be successful.
@@drabberfrog jesus christ man, maybe u need a break from youtube for awhile? It aint that deep. Linus is a Canadian dad in his 30's that talks about tech, not an Oracle.
Lets say a traditional cleaner requires you to spend 1-2 hours to do it, every time you do. Well: What is your time worth? And beyond this - if it's making it easier to do something, for someone who has limited mobility, or other disability that uses a pool as a means of comfortable exercise: Then this is actually kind of perfect.
Automation is coming, and lets face it: This is really early on. We are going to see a version 2, 3, 4. We are going to find someone who solves the "pool clean, and lawn cut all in one robot" that just does it all - or maybe you get a core base with add ons. Or you get a humanoid robot that uses human tools or... So many different approaches.
So no: This is not a product FOR YOU. But clearly, it's for someone out there.
3:24
My guy: It has 20 sensors but I don't actually know what they do.
Linus: Sick!! 🤘
lmao.
No more skibidi toilet, We now have scrubidi pool
I had this same exact issue with a wireless bot. Unless the water is crystal clear, you will loose it. Or at least I did with a larger pool. Good luck trying to find/fish out the bot in a 12 ft deep, 25x50 ft pool. But if the pool is already pretty clean and this is just doing maint., this is a great tool.
Great to see the app actually works. And there's backup buttons on the device. I went through 3 different models that had apps that were flaky at best, completely unusable most of the time. Just gave up and went for a traditional AC tethered model at that point.
Throwing glass in your bosses pool is WIIIIILDDDDD
That thumbnail made you look 20 years older
Dunnoi..makes him look like a junkie. The beard was better.
Beardless Linus is scary Linus
Why has he aged in the thumbnail.
No way I just watched a robot clean a pool for 11 minutes
Tbh, i like tech and all. But my parents had pretty much this 15 years ago. Sure that one had a cable on it and this would be a little easier since you don't need to get that. But just the fact this has a battery is not great IMO. Batteries degrade, die and cause all sorts of issues. Obviously they are also useful for a lot of things or necessary but i don't think a pool cleaning robot really needs one. Id rather have it on a cable and plugged in since its always going to be there anyway.
The cable would have to be thick and strong enough to double as a way to fish it out of the pool because owners are 100% going to be trying to use it for that.
How many phones, tablets, laptops and other tech have you owned in the past 10 years? Get over yourself.
@@stevethepocket
The one I used to have was designed for it. The cable had a built in steel wire.
I'd never use one of these (I'll never have a pool, not because I don't want one, I just could never afford one), but I love seeing the new technologies like this. Pretty neat.
2:16 The WHAT??? 😮😮😮
Q
This thing is a wild piece of tech, and it's amazing that anyone built it. But I'm not really sure how this is tons better than the standard vacuum that connects to the pool pump and handles the bottom and sides. Sure, the skimming feature is nice. But that's what a skimmer basket is for.
Why mess with perfection?
For those who didn’t watch the video, disclosures at 0:34 and 4:04. You can put the pitchforks down now.
as someone who works at a pool, these things are really nice for when it's only minorly dirty on the bottom of the pool. and the ones who have a control panel on the surface and are hooked up with a wire work really nice especially if you wanna mess with it while it's underwater
Agreed. My neighbour has one of these, and it's not bad at all. Trick is to not let dirt build up. He runs it every night so it's done in the morning. That way the basket is never too small and it can run the program on one battery cycle. His pool is immaculate.
an EXTREMELY well masked skibidi toilet joke? holy moly, who wrote this script? what a genius
Zima blue's journey starts.
In 2000 years, our little buddy here will be a famous artist.
So basically it’s just like those robot vacuum cleaners. You spend more time holding its hand than it would take you to just do the job manually. 😂
I'm so happy the intro is back, I'm going to start saying it from now on whenever I see it, because I'm so happy it is back.
this is violently upper-middle-class
The robot was useless enough to bump them up to upper class
@@lester44444 fr fr. Linus grows more and more out of touch with each passing day it seems
Me who can't afford a pool let alone a pool cleaning robot: "Hmm, interesting."
Why does an in-ground pool need a robot to do the surface skimming? You should have a skimmer basket for exactly this reason?
exactly. This this is stupid in so many ways.
If you are wondering if BC is a sensible climate to have a backyard pool, keep in mind this is literally the closest Canada has to California.
Summers now are much hotter than they used to be. That being said, the fact the owners didn't even cover the pool with a tarp or something is pretty stupid, especially in the PNW.
Summers are warm and have few rainy days (especially the semi-arid south & central Okanagan). The City of Vancouver has popular public outdoor pools open from May/June through September (and people campaigning to keep them open through October).
Few people are probably using their pools on a rainy January day, but 2/3 of the year is reasonable pool weather for much of the province.
@@geoff5623 2/3 of the year? Lol no. You probably have 2-3 months of pool weather in the PNW.
Edit: and listing pools people swim laps in is not comparable to a pool at your house you sit in and drink wine.
@@username8644 the public outdoor pools have more area for splashing around than for swimming laps.
June through August are sit-in-the-pool-with-a-drink-to-cool-off weather, but many people are at the beaches, in much colder water, April through October.
@@geoff5623 Yeah because the water in the ocean never gets warmer. It stays at a constant temperature almost year round, that's what makes the water so dangerous in the PNW. So that point isn't really relevant.
Edit: also it's not very common to see people bathing in the ocean at any time of the year. Some do dock jumping, but nobody stays in the water. And if they do they are wearing wetsuits at a minimum.
Edit: also why are we even arguing about this😂
I still cannot digest Linus without a beard.
LTT has basicaally become Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous for nerds.
we live in a world where rich people's pool cleaning robot has better specs than their main pc
4GB of storage is better than their main pc? Now that’s wild.
@@gbpg2016 you would be suprised if you knew what kind of machinery are people from russia or even poorer parts of the world playing league of legends and counter strike on lol
@@sim6446You can't play LoL or Dota on 4 gb of storage though, because they're just straight up larger than that. This thing has worse specs than a five year old lower end phone
"you threw glass in my pool??"
And thus the story of Zima began as a humble pool cleaning robot.
The simple pleasures of a little robot.
5:16 That's what you get for wearing socks with sandals when it's raining.
Cleaning my pool manually is probably the most peaceful and self satisfying chore I do. I’m sure there’s others out there 😂
The robot is like: "Bruce Bruce, I am living the dream!"
Nahhhh
Honestly I feel like a product like this could be so much more practical if it were “tethered.”
You could have a unit on the side of the pool connected via a hose which could provide vacuum for extracting waste, so you don’t have to dump the robots collection tank constantly. This could also include wiring for power to extend its clean time effectively infinitely, and provide connectivity so you can still interact with it under water via the app.
Yeah those already exist and have existed for quite a few decades. Look up automatic pool cleaner and you'll likely find ones that float on the surface and clean the top of pools in minutes.
@@kingzach74 I've been encountering those more and more often in recent months. I'm pretty mixed on their effectiveness though. I feel like there is not a substantial improvement to surface cleanliness over just making sure you have skimmers with functional weir gates.
This is 100% finding a video to fit the sponsor but it's also a good video lmao
No this thing actually looks like a horrible deal for $2.2K. You'd probably spend less time actually cleaning the pool yourself than dealing with the small basket and poor battery life. The cleaner failed both times in that it (i) was unable to clean the small particles out of the neighbor's pool and (ii) took two days and a lot of user involvements to clean a couple of handfuls of leaves. The conclusion should have been that it is not worth the $2.2K that they are asking for due to the slow clean rate, small basket, and lower-than-advertised battery life.
It's more economical to just hire a pool guy at that price point, especially if it's a company that handles all of the chemicals for you.
Oh, I loved that little trick with the intro at the beginning! :D
We have a similar robot from about 10 years ago that just goes in random patterns and has a cord, works well and was 500€…
I think it’s called moby, and I assume this thing is not 4x better and won‘t last as long with the batteries…
Dunno, I think my Dolphin T45 is almost a thousand dollars cheaper, has no chance of getting lost to the deep, doesn’t need to charge, WiFi works under water, and can handle stairs.
@@hammerth1421 most decently modern pool robots have some form of app controll and just work. This thing seems like someone said "lets remove cable because cables bad" and then slapped AI on it to make even more money. It doesnt look like it has any other selling point
In a few hundred years this robot is gonna make amazing Art.
Lmaoo wall E?
It was so adorable seeing Zima just swim along the surface in that final shot. A little happy robot just doing what makes it happy.
Pools have always seemed too much of a hassle to me because of the upkeep and having strangers in my space. But if I could just drop this lil guy in once a week that would really make pool ownership much more realistic.
In my case I live in Minnesota, so I'll probably just get a place on a lake for a reasonable price, but if I were to ever move out of state, I'm remembering this lil guy.
Do i I have a pool? nah. Do I even plan on getting a property for a pool? HELL NAH! Did I still watch the video? yee
The talking point of "we expect this to get better with firmware updates" is notably contrary to your uninfluenced perspective.
This. 😂
No, it's based on our observation. During the time we had the product it was already getting updates that improved it. Relax, bud. -LS
@@LinusTechTips That's totally fair, I could also come to that conclusion from the video.
You sell a product for cash - it has to work perfectly from the get go. No excuses.
His stance is, "you should buy things based on the features they have today, not those they promise in the future." But that doesn't mean future updates aren't a pro.
this would have been a great video if it showcased something we're interested in
0:07 No really, What is that?!
a shrimp maybe???? idk
I’m a bit late but it’s an amphipod, a relative of shrimp
1:56 scrubidy toilet brush is exactly what people do all kinds of things in the toilet excuse me pool😅😅😅
I don't even have a pool and still I loved watching this technique. Awesome thing to throw in the water after a day of swimming.
3:30 my arrakis, my dune
Man I missed seeing that LTT intro.
That intro transition was clean af
I'm sorry, this man set up an entire computer cooling system into his pool, then he never actually used the pool? Goblin behaviour, Linus.
My conclusion for this video was that, even manual cleaning seems like a better idea
7:52 wants to be picked up is kinda cute
Did we just get called poor in 55 different languages?
This bot is a cool idea but there are other products that just work much better and are much cheaper than this robot costs. Sure those products may require actual physical work but youre done in half an hour to an hour at most if you didn’t let the pool get too dirty.
If nobody does this, then nothing evolves. Remember robot vacuums 15 years ago? Now? Same same.
This was awesome. I love seeing tech outside of computers. More like this please!
Honey, can you skim the pool?
Sure thing, I just need to finish inventing this robot, writing an app, and once it's all charged, should be done in only three days.
Doesn't look like it maps out anything, just moves around in the patterns every time it hits a wall
They said it's supposed to return to the same spot you dropped it in the pool, but it was unclear if it returned to cleaning in the same spot after it surfaced to get the filter cleaned. I don't know if it would benefit from having a spot clean mode, like floor vacuum robots have, where it would stay cleaning in a small area if detected that it was picking up more debris than usual.
These robots seem to commonly oversell their intelligence, like older Roombas that mostly just picked a random new direction whenever they bumped into an obstacle. The strategy works well enough though for general cleaning maintenance (the mid-generation models did better at cleaning multiple rooms with the infrared lighthouses to mark doorways), and doing the stripe pattern along the floor is probably more for making people think it does a thorough job than actually being any more effective than a random walk.
@@geoff5623
It maps and it does. Takes some time, but it does make a proper map of the pool.
If you need to babysit the thing, doesn't really have any advantage over you grabbing a long pole and broom or vacuum and vacuuming the pool yourself which is so much faster....I think they need to introduce a docking station that goes on the pool edge, into the water, and the bot can dock and unload the basket for emptying, into a much larger basket which the user can then pick up in one go and empty it. Instead of picking up the robot so many times just to empty out a handful of debris, its pathetic.
My pool was in about the same condition as this when I initially cleaned it with the Beatbot Aquasense Pro. It took me three weeks of scooping debris with a net and using the robot in between working two jobs, so there were only a couple of days a week when I could dedicate an entire day to cleaning it. It was a delicate balancing act of maintaining the correct pool chemical levels while also manually cleaning the pool. Of course, the robot performed exceptionally well, and now I only need to use it every few days or after a storm. It's been an absolute beast!
That pool was actually gorgeous at the end.
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