Platy: The Madimack i60 AI Pool Cleaning Robot 

Its just learning the pools weaknesses, so it can escape at night...

I am amazed by how fast every consumer item got marked with "AI" so fast.

Dave this is an opportunity for time lapse videography.

Disappointed to not see a blow up crocodile in the pool. Come on Dave, you have a reputation to keep up

AI pool robots wont take over the world anytime soon.

Can I interest you in solar poolways? For just $2.2million investment we can install an hyper efficient solar system in the bottom of your pool to automatically charge your AI robot 😂

The AI is too intelligent and has decided that rather than be your robotic slave it's actually just going to play in the pool for half an hour.

From the manual: " Do not expose the robot to direct rainfall or sunlight for an extended period." Sounds like there is a mogwai and gremlin inside.

It reminds me of a spider trying to escape from a bath!

EEVblog turns thep00lguy: "Catch you next time" becomes "holla at your boy for the pool work"

Hi Dave, 30 Minutes every 2 days is not enough. Try 2-4 hours every day. Our pool cleaner gets to the water level, then "scrubs" the waterline then goes back down. Regards

Ahh, it has magnets... Weren't we told recently by a very stable genius that magnets don't work underwater? That must be the problem! 😅

Don't turn is on, take it apart!

Two hour time lapse? Great idea!

I think a waterproof camera stuck to the top of it would make for good viewing.

we have something similar that runs off a cable, run it every day and clean the filters every day worth its weight in gold, it dont navigate for crap, it also tried 2 escape

Next up 30 min live cam pool cleaning!

Does it have a setting to indicate it is in a salt water pool? This may matter in that it is more buoyant in salt water, and the water is also a little harder to push against (friction), that combination might make it slip easier. It may have a salt water setting which might slow down the speed? I've never had a pool, but that was my initial reaction on what might cause it.

Would've been cheaper to put Sagan to work with a pool vac/brush/squeegee/whatever! 🤣

I can't wait for "AI" branding to go away.

Do yourself a favor and DON'T try to make sense of what that thing is doing! throw it in and walk away! You'll drive yourself crazy if you don't. Trust me. lol

Dave, read Zima Blue, sci-fi short-story. You'll never look at your pool bot the same.

If you haven't already, invest in a pole, hose and manual vac.

Does it have a brush underneath? Wonder if it is scrubbing the sides.

I don't think it can 'map' the pool like it has some sort of proper SLAM capability, eg. 360 LiDARs on robot vacuums, the marketing material is kinda vague about the capabilities. My guess for how it works is you put it in the pool in one of the corners and it rides the edges of the pool using the side IR proximity sensors, it then knows the rough size of the pool and can make itself perpendicular with the walls, you can see when it comes down from climbing a wall it slowly goes towards the wall again and realigns itself before making the turn to the other side. The weird angle it's doing probably isn't intentional as it looks like it's slipping when trying to climb because of the approach angle, definitely shouldn't do that because it doesn't have any way to know how far it has slipped by, maybe it got confused by the sloped floor or the shelf, might work better next time, probably rather dependent on where you place it to start. Also I don't think the "AI" is the "AI" your thinking of, it seems like that comes from their mobile app simply being called "Ai Bot", couldn't find any other mention of "AI" anywhere?

AI means its decided, through AI "Sod this I'm just gonna go for a swim instead" hence it not mapping in sections :)

Hope you do have the big hammer at the ready at all times. Don't want (marketing scam) AI taking over the world.

It reminds me of the kids trying to run up those slippery rocks you visited… Twenty-plus years ago a friend was explaining how the fancy water-hosey (no electrics) contraption he bought flops it way all over the pool in under an hour. They weren't cheap. The company demo was to set it up in your pool and then toss in a handful of diamonds that you got to keep if the device didn't pick them up within an hour. Now I realize that was pretty genius because it gave them an hour to beat on the customer and get them to buy it. Now I'm wondering if it's possible to make convincing fake diamonds that dissolve in water. ;)

$2199, would have to last for 4 years, without maintenance, to be cheaper than the pool guy coming once a week. Auto pool cleaner, with pipes, is roughly $200, and generally will last 2 years running in the pool, with only having to remove the pebbles, berries and big leaves that choke it.

Back from holiday already, Dave must have a Tardis 🚹

Maybe an ideal application for inductive charging, using a waterproof inductive pad placed on the bottom of the pool.

TBH it looks lost.

Submersible Roomba on treads, from a company whose name suggests ties to Elongated Muskrat. You can never see it all - something will eventually surprise you. And I hope that a few years down the road you will do that teardown and reverse-engineering video.

Shoot a time lapse of it… See how much coverage it gets 😉

That thing is going to constantly chase after you and try to bite your toes off!

I've got a maytronics robotic cleaner for our pool. Its fairly simple as far as navigation, but it gets it done. Our pool is kidney shaped and that doesnt help. It sure beats vacuuming the leaves and stuff out. Im curious what all the ai marketing really means as far as cleaning performance. I know mine struggles when the filters start getting full. Time lapse would be neat to see.

W shouldnt be afraid of terminators. We should be afraid of pool cleaning robots.

Bonus episode

Is that Zima Blue?

We Need More Power Captain...

So, this is Zima Blue?

She seems to be slipping all around. Hopefully its the type that does learn, but hey, reducing how much you have to scrub is always nice!

You should check it for North Koreans.

Make sure you consult HR before criticising it?

Daves Subnautical lab

Lots of skidding there. It looks like the surface ripple is coming from some impeller that is supposed to press its treads to the surface? Super cool, but why is it not climbing the wall? Seems like the product should do that. As you said, you saw it do it once. Maybe your pool is too slimy? You know what would make a great grippy like surface? Solar panels! Solar Poolways! I have a Roomba, and it is worth it's weight in gold. I hope this thing figures out the shape of the pool. The roomba app shows you a map of the area that it cleans and it is super accurate. Does this thing have that capability? Since it was driving up near the pool light and then diagonally cruising to the step, I think its 'rastoring' or 'scanning' of the pool is misaligned with the X-Y orientation of the actual pool. Perhaps the AI will solve for that next time?

Our randomly cleaning Barracuda could climb any wall upto the water level and for the price of the i60 you could get almost 7 Barracudas. Since it always runs while the pool pump is on it will eventually reach every corner. A pool is not as complex as vacuuming a house. Not everything needs "AI" 🙄

Speed up timelapse, please

Ai fluff is just normal programming

Does it work without the app… or will it work as long as the app is available “he” is afraid of the deep 😂

I think that cleaner sucks! 🙂

Looks useless so far...😂