This highly-marketed, cordless pool cleaning robot is essentially an autonomous, overly sophisticated deep-sea Roomba meant to 'eliminate' any sign of algae, thus assuring its owner of unmatched domestic competence. Every newbie expat sees it as a necessary signifier of superior middle-class maintenance standards, believing that its very existence elevates them above the neighbors who still use a basic skimmer net and smell faintly of beach sunscreen. However, attempting to deploy this high-tech gadget in the reality of a Baja salt pool, which frequently requires manual skimming after a strong afternoon tide, will inevitably result in the expensive contraption getting hopelessly snagged on a drifting piece of kelp, thus confirming the owner's inherent, profound failure.