Beatbot Aquasense Pro Cordless Robotic Pool Vacuum Cleaner ZDNET's key takeaways The Beatbot Aquasense Pro is a robotic pool cleaner designed for comprehensive maintenance and heavy-duty cleanups.
It features a 5-in-1 cleaning system that uses AI to optimize cleaning paths with up to 9.5 hours of operation.
However, it weighs 24 pounds, has limited 2.4GHz Wi-Fi connectivity, and is pricey. View now at Amazon
Living in Florida means that hurricane season is part of life. With our latest run-in with Hurricane Helene, we got lucky and dodged the brunt of the storm, but still got hammered by thunderstorms.
During one such storm, a flash of lightning struck, followed by a deafening boom. I jumped up from my laptop, wondering what had just happened. A quick inspection revealed that lightning had struck a longleaf pine tree in the public preserve behind my home: the entire top was completely blown off.
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The top of the tree exploded into fragments that flew across my backyard, smashing into the patio screen and, most notably, all over the pool. The water was littered with debris and large chunks of wood -- some weighing up to 10 pounds. One piece I jokingly called the "Gandalf staff."
I couldn't believe the damage to the tree, and it quickly became clear that cleaning this up would be a daunting task -- my pool maintenance guy told me not to run the pool skimmer and filter with this much debris in it. Everything needed to be manually removed. But I had an ace up my sleeve: the Beatbot Aquasense Pro, a fully autonomous robotic pool cleaner I had been using since March.
Pool patio littered with debris from exploding tree. Jason Perlow/ZDNET
The Beatbot Aquasense Pro isn't just any pool-cleaning robot. It's packed with features that make it one of the most advanced robotic cleaners on the market today. It can handle every aspect of pool maintenance from the water surface to the pool floor, and even the walls and waterline.
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