I’ll be honest, I wasn’t all that intrigued by the idea of a pool cleaner. That is until I saw Mammotion’s Spino S1 Pro at CES 2026 – from the team behind one of my favourite robot mowers. I don’t have a pool, but watching this thing in action made me want one more than I already do – it’s one of the most impressive gadgets I’ve seen at the show.
Pool cleaners are usually complicated with tangled cables and lifting heavy robots out of the water. Or in worst case scenarios, rescuing something that gets stuck halfway through a job. But the Spino S1 Pro comes with an automatic docking system. Instead of dragging a sodden robot out of the pool, this device handles the entire process itself.
A robotic arm on the dock lifts the cleaner out of the water, aligns it, and charges it without any human involvement. Mammotion calls this AutoShoreCharge, and it is one of those ideas that feels obvious only after you see it done properly. Pool maintenance is meant to be passive (so I’m told by people that actually own a pool), and this is the first system I’ve seen that treats it that way.
The actual Spino S1 Pro cleaner is built around AI vision and a bunch of sensors that let it understand the pool environment in real time. It can identify debris-heavy zones, walls, steps, edges, and obstacles, then adapt its cleaning path and suction accordingly. Rather than blindly covering the same ground again and again, it actively decides where effort is needed.
Connectivity is another area where most cordless pool cleaners fall apart. Dropped signals, stalled motors, and half-finished cleans are common complaints. Mammotion claims a super-stable underwater communication link within a 10 metre radius of the dock. The promise is uninterrupted cleaning without the need for mid-cycle rescues, though I’ll need to test that further.
On the cleaning side, the Spino S1 Pro is unapologetically powerful. It delivers up to 6800 GPH of suction to deal with everything from fine sand to larger debris, using dual roller brushes to scrub floors, walls, steps, and the waterline. It supports multiple cleaning modes that adapt automatically to the pool’s shape and surface, and a dual-layer filtration system captures both large debris and micro-particles. Five brushless motors and wide caterpillar treads help it maintain grip on slopes and curves, while quick-release brushes make rinsing and maintenance far less of a chore than usual.
Everything is managed through the Mammotion app, which puts controls and monitoring into one place. The Spino S1 Pro is set to launch before the spring, with pricing still to be revealed.
