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This pool cleaning company made a robot turtle to track water quality


Beatbot makes robotic pool cleaners. In fact, the company is showing off a new one with a docking station this week at CES 2025. What really caught our

This unique robot serves the planet for good alongside conservationists, scientists, and emergency responders.” The idea is to build a solar-powered robot that can navigate bodies of water, while monitoring their quality via onboard sensors. Beatbot claims that the decision to lean into biomimicry with the turtle design is a bid to, “minimize[e] disruption to surrounding ecosystems.”

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