A company called Solar Breeze manufacturers the Ariel, a sort of floating Roomba similar to that ocean-cleaning PixieDrone 'bot. The difference here is scale, and power source: The smaller Ariel, which is designed to keep swimming pools clean, is completely solar-powered.

It looks pretty low-hassle to use:

I don't own a pool, but I suppose if I did I'd fire the pool boy and pick up one of these instead. The Ariel runs $600, but it doesn't strut around with its shirt off and remind you that you should eat better and hit the gym.

I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.

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