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Pool robots with a filter of 150 µm or finer by the maker's figure, which holds sand, pollen and silt rather than just leaves, ranked on filtration first.
A 180-micron basket catches leaves and lets the cloud of fine sand straight through. If your pool sits under trees in spring or beside a beach, the filter decides everything. Only machines whose maker states a filter of 150 µm or finer are listed, with the figure on every row; a basket with no stated fineness is left out. Weighted on filtration above all.
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MOVA's flagship pool robot: skims the surface, cleans floor, walls, waterline, corners, steps and shallows with a 38,000 l/h pump, maps with an underwater laser, runs six hours a charge and parks at the surface.
MOVA's fine-debris pool robot: a 3 µm filter in a 3.5 l basket, camera navigation that recognises drains and steps, four hours a charge, schedules and poolside parking, rated for 180 m².
The Sora that skims: twin JetPulse jets pull floating debris in for up to seven hours, then it cleans floor, walls and waterline on a 6,800 GPH pump with a 6 l basket and parks at the surface.
Filter fineness: 150 µm
Best subscore on this list · Navigation: 95/100
Beatbot's flagship without the self-cleaning station: it skims, cleans floor, walls and waterline, maps with an AI camera, doses a clarifier, parks above the water and charges on a dock.
Beatbot's entry robot: floor, walls, waterline and shallow ledges from 35 cm on a 6,800 GPH pump, a 5 l basket, ultrasonic obstacle sensing, five hours a charge and waterline parking.
Beatbot's first robot: floor, walls and waterline on a 5,500 GPH pump with ultrasonic mapping, a 2 l basket, a 150 μm filter and a 210 m² rating, but no surface parking.