
At first, there were robot vacuums which were closely followed by robot lawn mowers. Despite these innovations coming out as far back as 1996 – the year I was born! – these robot cleaners and trimmers became most popular in the 2000s and 2010s, and now, they’re more advanced than ever before.
Now that robot vacuums can climb the stairs and robot lawn mowers can trim over uneven terrain, what is the next step for home robotics? I’m not talking about the creepy full-sized household robots we’ve been seeing at CES – I’m talking about robot pool cleaners.