Beatbot AquaSense Pro

The AquaSense Pro was the machine that opened the premium end of the cordless pool-robot market. Beatbot, a Chinese manufacturer, unveiled it at CES in January 2024 as an all-in-one cleaner, and the claim rested on one trick its rivals did not have: a ballast chamber that fills with water to sink the robot like a submarine and empties again to float it back to the surface. That is what lets a single machine do the pool floor, the walls, the waterline and the water surface, instead of specialising in one of them. Nine motors drive it. Two sets of roller brushes turn at different speeds front and rear, two suction ports draw water in at a rated 5,500 gallons per hour, and the rest handle propulsion and the ballast. Navigation is ultrasonic rather than optical — the manufacturer calls it SonicSense — and the robot builds a map of the pool, then covers the floor and surface in S-shaped passes and the walls and waterline in N-shaped ones. The controller is a quad-core Cortex-A7 industrial SOC running Beatbot's own operating system, with twenty sensors including two gyroscopes and two ultrasonic units. The published numbers put it in the large-pool class: 11.35 kg, 451 x 403 x 263 mm, a 10,000 mAh battery good for five hours of floor cleaning or 9.5 hours on the surface, three hours or so to recharge in the dock, and a recommended pool floor area of up to 300 square metres. Two filters, one coarse and one at 150 micrometres, share a 3.7-litre basket loaded from the top. The robot is rated IP68 and works between half a metre and three metres of depth; the charging dock is only IPX4, so it stays out of the water. One function is genuinely unusual for the category and worth naming: ClearWater, a clarification mode in which the robot disperses a clarifying agent through the pool rather than merely filtering it. Beatbot sells the agent separately, which is the commercial catch. The model is no longer the company's flagship — AquaSense 2 Ultra took that place in 2025 and AquaSense X in 2026 — but Beatbot still sells it, at 2,199 dollars in its United States store, and still publishes its full specification. The warranty is two years.

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