Aiper has used CES 2026 in Las Vegas to announce a range of three pool cleaners, a pool skimmer/water monitor, and a smart irrigation system.
The hero of the range is the Aiper Scuba V3 Ultra, which can do all the usual stuff you’d expect from a robot pool cleaner: skim the water, crawl along the bottom of the pool gobbling up debris, and scrub the walls. It can also operate in much shallower water than its competitors, able to go as shallow as eight inches.
Plus, it has a new delightfully named ‘JellyFloat’ engine, which lets it go up and down in the pool at will without having to make contact with a side wall, which is unusual and useful. I got to see it in action on the Aiper booth, and in a little tank that looked like a giant glass of water, it was absolutely adorable. In a real pool cleaning situation, it seems like it would be useful in oddly-shaped pools or to move around obstacles.
It finds its way around using a dual camera system, and it’s been certified by TUV for data protection, with the spokesperson noting that no visual data is sent off the unit. The AI (and large battery) in the unit are designed so that you can leave the Scuba V3 Ultra in the pool for a week, and have the robot clean every day or two before you need to take it out to charge.
Having picked it up, it is a pretty heavy beast, but it’s not unmanageable. I could fairly easily lift it over my head and hold it out with straight arms. The weight is distributed quite nicely.
More than just cleaning, the Scuba V3 Ultra monitors chlorine levels to let you know if you need to add more.
Pool cleaning without the effort
For those who want a more automatic level of maintenance on the water quality of the pool, there’s the EcoSurfer Senti, which is a pool skimmer (so it just cleans the surface of the water). It can actively monitor the chlorine, pH levels, temperature and other qualities of the pool.
Uniquely, it can then release more chlorine and pH adjuster as needed. So, you’ll get a notification on your phone saying the pool isn’t safe to swim in at the moment, and then a follow-up notification when it’s fixed the problem, without any intervention from you.
I also found the Senti to be quite easy to pick up (it’s certainly much lighter than the V3 Ultra), and I found it really satisfying to push down a bit in the water. Pushing it down is not a helpful thing to do, but it is surprisingly enjoyable watching it bob back up again.
Aiper gets into irrigation
The biggest announcement for Aiper at CES, though, was the launch into a new product category: irrigation, with the Irrisense 2, a 4-in-1 smart irrigation system. What makes it special is that it automatically adjusts for seasonal shifts — so if it’s raining, it’ll know and won’t water, or if it’s been very hot, it’ll water more often, etc.
Physically, it’s pretty easy to install, because you can just run a hose to it. Or, if you want to get a little fancy with it, you can put a line underground. The difficulty comes in manually mapping your garden and drawing in the key points, telling it which plants you have and where.
It doesn’t have any cameras or sensors to work out what’s going on around it; you have to tell it in the app, which to me seems labour-intensive, but the people on the booth insisted it wasn’t. Though what is more labour-intensive: spending an hour setting up an autonomous irrigation system you almost never have to think about, or watering your garden daily?
Once you’ve told it what plants you have, it’ll automatically sense the weather and adjust based on the needs of those plants, with the goal being to save water in the long run (and, in my case, save my plants by actually remembering to water them).
For the lawn enjoyers, it has a nutrient dispenser to keep the lawn healthy and green.
All these new Aiper products are expected to come to Australia later this year.
Alice Clarke attended CES 2026 as a guest of Lego and Intel.
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