How well does the Beatbot Sora 70 robot clean your pool?

This is the BeatBot Sora70 Robot Pool Cleaner

I'm going to test it out for a week and let you know at the end of this video how it performed cleaning my pool

Will it work without human intervention? How often will I have to clean it? And will it scare my cat Isla? Let's find out

The BeatBot Sora70 is a 4-in-1 robotic pool cleaner, which means it cleans the floor, the walls, the waterline, and the water surface

This is exciting because brushing the walls and using the net to pull floating debris out of the pool can be a big pain

Now I did want to share some of my concerns. This thing is really heavy, and I'm worried that it's going to damage the bottom of my pool because these tank treads are pretty hard. I do have a Pebble Tech pool, so it could dislodge some of those pebbles and then suck them up into the machine. I'm also a little concerned about the battery dying and me having to fish it out of the middle of the pool. It does come with like a hook that you could grab it and pull it out of the pool, but I'm just worried that's going to be a problem

This video was made possible by BeatBot, but the company had no input or influence on my opinion of the product

Looking at the quick start guide, step one is to go over the structure of the BeatBot robot

Step two is to start charging. And then step three is to download the BeatBot app and create an account

Okay, so I created my account. Now I'm going to scan the QR code on the robot to pair it with the app

There it is, the Sora 70. Connect to my WiFi. And then it walks you through the steps

of getting it ready to clean the pool. And I can hit start cleaning

All right, I'm gonna start up the BeatBot and put it in the pool

I'm gonna choose standard mode. All right, here we go. I'll let it sit there

There it goes. Thrusters thrusting. So now it says it's diving. Dive, dive, dive

All right, I think it's just configuring itself, so we see what happens Give it some time After five minutes the Sora 70 was sweeping the floor of the pool We get a lot of these things in our pool so I going to throw some in there and see how well it picks them up

Let's go over the specs and the five cleaning modes of the robot. The SORA-70 has 6,800 gallons per hour of suction power

putting it on the top tier of residential pool robot cleaners. It also features a 10,000 milliamp battery

I was able to use it for over 400 minutes or close to seven hours

before needing to recharge it again. Recharging does take a few hours to fully charge

So usually I'm able to get at least two cycles at four hours each

I did the pro mode for four hours and then I let it sit in the pool overnight

I think when I left it, it was at 53%. In the morning when I woke up

is around 30% so it is running the battery on standby and then I ran it for another cleaning

cycle this morning and it went for about three hours. So you're looking at seven to eight hours

of battery life depending on what you're cleaning in your pool. The Source 70 has a six liter debris

basket capacity which is a lot larger than the bag on my Polaris pool cleaner. It also has an

ultra fine dual filter basket for trapping sand dust and pollen. It is recommended to regularly

clean the inner filter, the sensor, and the roller brush on the robot after extended hours of use

The app lays out how to clean each part under the maintenance section. The Sora 70 has five

cleaning modes, including Pro Mode, Floor Mode, Surface Mode, my favorite, Standard Mode, and

Eco Mode. Pro Mode mixes four modes, Floor Mode, Wall, and Waterline, and Surface Mode. Standard

The third mode covers the floor, wall, and water line. And finally, Eco mode will clean the pool floor

for 45 minutes every 48 hours, hanging out at the bottom until the next cleaning

It will return to the edge of the pool when the battery is low. There's also a remote control mode

if you want to drive it around on the surface manually and a park button which will make it park itself somewhere on the edge of the pool where it easy to grab Surface mode is where the SOR really

shines. BeatBot uses JetPulse water surface cleaning technology and blasts jets of water

out of the front to the left and right of the robot, while simultaneously shooting dual jets

of water into the mouth of the robot. BeatBot claims that this technology increases its cleaning

efficiency by 50% on the surface of the pool. The Sora 70 also uses Sonic Sense ultrasonic

technology, which helps it avoid collisions with steps and objects in the pool. As I mentioned

before, the surface cleaning mode is by far the biggest upgrade for me because I get a lot of

leaves in my pool, and the skimmer doesn't always get everything, so having the robot cruise around

the surface picking up leaves is really cool and saves me from having to fish leaves out with a

large net. The wall cleaning is a bonus too, because it is recommended to scrub your walls

once a week so that algae cannot build up and change the color of your pool. So how does the

Sora 70 compare to my mindless, not smart Polaris pool cleaner, which runs off the pool pump and is

connected to a giant hose? So the Polaris, it just kind of runs automatically when the pump comes on

every morning and it'll run for about eight hours a day. I really don't have to worry about it

I do have to empty the bag at least once a week in the winter, a couple times a week

And also the hose will break down and it will get little holes in it

So I have to repair that. And a new hose costs about $200, so it's not cheap

So imagine every couple of years you have to buy a new hose for your Polaris. Spending a couple hundred bucks, that's a lot of money

But it is very passive, so I don't have to deal with it a lot. Well, there's a leak in the hose right here, just from aging, and a knot

Now the Sora 70, you will have to charge it at least every other day, maybe even every day

which can be a pain if you have to deal with it a lot, pulling it out of the pool

making sure it's connected to Wi-Fi, make sure it's connected to the app

So that also something to think about Do you want to be connected to an app have another device connected to your Wi network And I was getting alerts from it I getting notifications when the battery is running low or when it gets trapped somewhere in the pool So if you a tech individual

you might like that. It might help you actually be more efficient with cleaning your pool. But

also just something to keep in mind. You will be connected to your pool cleaning device via your

phone and the Wi-Fi network. Now, taking it out of the pool is pretty difficult. It is very heavy

So if you're a smaller person or an older person, it might be difficult for you to pull it out of the pool

But there is more capacity in the basket, so you will have to empty it less often

It's the charging that you're going to have to deal with. I did like the feature of the Source 70

where it can walk up the walls and also clean the steps. The Polaris will not clean the steps

so it's usually only getting debris that's on the bottom of the pool, and then the skimmer gets everything

that's on the top of the pool. The cool thing about the Source 70 is it's getting everything on the bottom of the pool

is going up the walls and scrubbing the walls. It's getting everything along the water line

edge of the walls, and it's getting all the debris that's floating on top of the pool

So that is super helpful and I really did like the extra cleaning features

Now, if you're someone who's very tech savvy and you like to be connected and kind of get information and data

on all of your products in your house, then the Source 70 is a really great option

You literally know what it's cleaning, where it's cleaning, and how long it's been cleaning for

There were some moments where it got trapped or it got sucked into the tractor beam of the skimmer

So it is recommended to turn off all your pool equipment when you're running the Sora 70 in your pool

And then when it's done, it'll just come park itself on the edge. Overall, I'd say the Sora 70 is a really great tool for your pool cleaning arsenal

It's like a little submarine tank and it just kind of cruises around and cleans up everything

I found it very effective in cleaning my pool, the surface, the floor, the walls

So it is a true four-in-one pool cleaning device