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- How Pool Robots Find Their Way
A robotic pool cleaner starts with no map. Here's how it turns at walls, covers the floor and decides where to go next.
- Random and Planned Cleaning Patterns Compared
Why a pool robot zigzags in one pool and runs neat lines in another, and what each pattern suits.
- Gyroscopes and Sensors in Pool Robots Explained
What a gyroscope, an accelerometer and bump sensors do inside a pool robot, in plain words, and what each one can't do.
- How Pool Shape Changes Robot Coverage
Kidney, round, L-shaped or rectangular. How the shape of a pool affects the path a robotic cleaner takes.
- Why a Pool Robot Misses Spots
Why the same corners can stay dirty after a robot's cycle, and what to check before blaming the route.
- Steps, Ledges and Benches: How Robots Handle Them
Can a pool robot get up, over or around steps and benches? What makers say, and what to check for your own model.
- Finding Navigation Settings in Your Manual
Where to look in your pool robot's manual or app for cycle, mode and timer settings, and why the names differ by model.