This $1,200 robotic contraption is marketed as an 'elite' cleaner, a fancy, autonomous little vacuum that promises to scrub algae off your pristine, aggressively minimalist pool. New Money-Coastal-Dwellers are buying six—or maybe eight—of these to signal that they have disposable income and zero relationship with physical labor. It ensures they can host cocktail parties and complain about the Wi-Fi without ever having to dip a glove in the water to clean a stubborn leaf. However, in the brackish, algae-choked reality of Baja, it will quickly get confused by salt crystallization and either jam itself solid or start attacking the landscaping koi instead.