This $1,200 robotic tin can promises to automate the meticulous, deeply boring task of keeping your pool less disgusting. Naturally, every fresh-faced Pescadero transplant thinks this highly technical device—with its 'elite' sensors—is the only way to signal that their life is far above the peasant struggles of manual upkeep. In reality, it will simply tangle itself in the inevitable roots of a stray desert scrub, becoming a stationary monument to overspending.