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This powerful new AI robot cleans your pool while you relax

While robots vacuum floors and mow lawns, this $5999 AI pool cleaner represents the ultimate in automated luxury for Australian backyards.

The Beatbot AquaSense 2 Ultra
The Beatbot AquaSense 2 Ultra
The Weekend Australian Magazine

WHAT IS IT? Behold, it’s the “world’s first AI-powered pool-cleaning robot”.

MATE, THESE AI ROBOTS ARE GETTING OUT OF HAND. THEY’RE NOW VACUUMING OUR FLOORS, MOWING OUR LAWNS, AND EVEN PROGRAMMED AS ROMANTIC PARTNERS! I TELL YOU WHAT, WHEN THEY COME FOR OUR BARBECUES IT’S ALL OVER. Relax, will you? This thing will perform all the pool cleaning chores while you sit on a lounger, on the cans, idly watching it.

SOLD! HOW DOES IT WORK? Equipped with 27 sensors, a quad-core processor and an AI camera, it “actively hunts down” dirt. It uses AI to map your pool, then cleans the floor, walls and waterline, and floats itself in order to skim the water’s surface. It’s all controlled via an app on your phone.

HOW ABOUT RECHARGING? When the battery runs low, the 13kg, tank-like unit will automatically park itself at the water’s surface and send you a notification.

VERDICT? One day, mark my words, these robots will rise up and enslave us all. But on the plus side, your pool will look mint.

$5999, beatbot.com.au

Ross Bilton
Ross BiltonThe Weekend Australian Magazine

Ross Bilton has been a journalist for 30 years. He is a subeditor and writer on The Australian Weekend Magazine, where he has worked since 2006; previously he was at the Daily Mail in London.

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