Dolphin EON 100

The EON 100 is the entry point to the cordless line that Maytronics, the Israeli company that has built Dolphin pool robots since 1983, showed at CES in January 2026 as its answer to Chinese newcomers such as Beatbot, Aiper and WYBOT. It sells for 899 dollars against 1,199 for the EON 120d. It shares the feature that makes the line interesting. The impeller sits low in the body, so the robot keeps working in about 20 centimetres of water and cleans the tanning ledge, the Baja shelf and the top step — the parts of a pool that almost every other robot leaves to be scrubbed by hand, because they need full submersion to run. A set of jets the manufacturer calls JetIQ lifts and steers the machine over stairs and around curves, and SmartMap navigation adapts the path to the shape of the pool. The chassis, its outer dimensions, the two active brushes, the 15,140 litres an hour of suction, the 15-metre pool rating and the 1.5, 2 and 2.5-hour cycles are identical to the 120d. What is missing is worth stating precisely, because the manufacturer's own materials disagree about it. The launch announcement says the EON 100 has every feature of the 120d except DebrisLock, the backwash system that rinses the filter while the robot is still in the water; the American product pages for the two machines contradict that in two further places. The 100 is quoted at up to one week of pool cleaning on a charge against two and a half weeks for the 120d, and its specification sheet marks waterline scrubbing as absent, although the same page lists the water line among the surfaces it covers. It is also a kilogram lighter, at 10 kilograms, which is consistent with a smaller battery. The catalogue records the discrepancy rather than resolving it: the honest reading is that the 100 reaches the same places but works through the pool in more, shorter passes and wipes the waterline instead of scrubbing it. Filtration is a fine 70-micron cartridge with top access and a full-filter indicator, cleaned by hand. Scheduling, alerts and diagnostics run through the Maytronics One app, but only when the robot is out of the water — radio does not pass through it, and unlike the surface-buoy solutions used by some rivals the EON has no relay. Warranty is one year on the product page.

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