Cleaning up efficiency was very good throughout my testing, but not best– and not quite 100 percent, as the supplier assures. I ran many tests with various particles conditions, the very first sought a heavy windstorm filled my swimming pool with leaves. After 90 minutes, the AquaSense Pro suddenly quit and remained on the floor, its particles basket completely full. Other tests found the robot cleaning nearly whatever; my synthetic test with silk leaves ended with simply two leaves left in the pool, one on the floor and one on the surface. However another test discovered a reasonable quantity of debris left behind, in spite of there not being much in the pool to begin with. Again, I discovered the robotic cleaned up much better on the flooring than the surface area.
The robot is expected to come with a remote control, so you can direct the robotic by hand around the swimming pool and tell it to climb to the surface area as needed, but the remote was missing when I opened its box. Beatbot asked me to use the remote from an earlier version of the product, which I ‘d received while it was still undergoing beta screening. Sadly, I was never able to get this remote to couple with the shipping AquaSense Pro, so I couldn’t actively test it.
With a retail price of $2,199 (there was a $500 pre-order discount available at press time, dropping its cost to $1,699), the AquaSense Pro is a hard sell, even if whatever worked completely out of the box. While it does a strong job of eliminating debris– particularly dirt and other particulate matter– from the pool, I had greater expect its mobile app. The robot’s propensity to get stuck on common swimming pool functions is troublesome also.