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Robot mu, insan mı?

Pool cleaning

Weekly pool service vs Robotic pool cleaner (you still do chemistry)

Whirrwork model tahminleridir, kesin bilgi değildir. Yöntem · Tahmin karnesi

İnsan · Yıllık$1.500Pool service
Robot · Yıllık$1.156Buy a robotic cleaner
Geri ödeme süresi22 ay
Kesişme yılışimdidenBase-case year (earliest to latest across scenarios)

On these numbers the robot option is clearly cheaper.

Amerika Birleşik Devletleri · USD · BLS OEWS May 2025 national medians by SOC occupation

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İş yükü
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One month of pool care.

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Robot cycle hours per day it runs.

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Cleaning cycles per month.

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Months the pool is open.

Personel
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

BLS OEWS May 2025 national median hourly wage, SOC 37-2011.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Wages and salaries were 70.0% of total employer compensation cost for private industry workers in June 2026 (ECEC), so total cost = wage / 0.70.

ilostat.ilo.org

Nominal 4.4% a year, 2015-2025 (ILOSTAT hourly earnings).

Fiyatlar
Türetilmiş PoolRobots.com

Midpoint of $100-$150/month weekly professional service.

Robot
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A month of cleaning needs about 24 robot-hours (8 cycles of 3 hours).

Türetilmiş Maytronics US store

Midpoint of $849-$1,449 mid-range Dolphin models.

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Plug it in.

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Yearly parts (filters, brushes, eventually a motor) as a share of price.

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Useful life in years.

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Availability.

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Months lost to faults.

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Share of the service you still need: water chemistry, filter and equipment checks. Many owners do these themselves (then set 0).

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Your time is not costed.

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kWh per robot-hour.

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Electricity price per kWh (USD). Check your bill; energy is rarely a big line.

Finansman
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Annual financing / discount rate. Nobody publishes yours; 8% is a round mid-2026 commercial borrowing guess.

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Years in the NPV comparison.

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Share of a human service price that is labour (rises with wages). Used to escalate and to adjust US service prices to other countries.

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Share of a robot service price that is labour (pilot, technician). The rest is equipment, which learning curves make cheaper.

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Share of a lease or RaaS fee that pays for hardware (learns down). The rest is service and support (moves with wages).

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Sonuçlar

SeçenekAylıkYıllıkPer unit (month of service)Başlangıç maliyetiGeri ödeme süresiBreak-even utilisation5-year NPV vs baseline
İnsan Pool service Karşılaştırma tabanı $125$1.500$125— — — —
Robot Buy a robotic cleaner $96,37$1.156$96,37$1.149 22 ay %27
Utilisation %52
 $1.596

What moves the answer most

Each bar shows the 5-year NPV of the best robot option when one input moves to the low or high end of its range, with the rest held at your values.

5-year NPV vs baseline: Buy a robotic cleaner5-year NPV vs baseline: Buy a robotic cleanerRobot purchase pricelow value: 849 → $1.994high value: 2999 → -$863Work that stays humanlow value: 0 → $3.191high value: 0.7 → $347Active months per yearlow value: 5 → -$226high value: 12 → $1.596Pool servicelow value: 100 → $968high value: 150 → $2.224Useful life or contractlow value: 3 → $948high value: 7 → $1.816Maintenance per yearlow value: 0.04 → $1.785high value: 0.15 → $1.265Financing and discount ratelow value: 0.05 → $1.805high value: 0.12 → $1.347Wage growth per yearlow value: 0.0236 → $1.525high value: 0.0636 → $1.669Electricity price per kWhlow value: 0.08 → $1.604high value: 0.3 → $1.578$1.5960low valuehigh valueSource: Whirrwork Robot-or-Human model v1.0.0 (whirrwork.com/tools/robot-vs-human/pool-cleaning/). Modelled estimate, not a fact.

Cost per unit to 2035

Real terms (today's money). Robot hardware follows Wright's law; wages follow each country's history. Shaded band: robots-slow to robots-fast scenarios. Whirrwork model tahminleridir, kesin bilgi değildir.

ChartBirim başına insan maliyeti (Temel), Birim başına robot maliyeti (Temel), Birim başına robot maliyeti (Robotlar: hızlı ilerleme), Birim başına robot maliyeti (Robotlar: yavaş ilerleme). Source: Whirrwork Robot-or-Human model v1.0.0 (whirrwork.com/tools/robot-vs-human/pool-cleaning/). Modelled estimate, not a fact.$0,00$50,00$1002026202720282029203020312032203320342035USD / month of servicescenario rangeBirim başına insan maliyeti (Teme…Birim başına robot maliyeti (Teme…Birim başına robot maliyeti (Robo…Birim başına robot maliyeti (Robo…Source: Whirrwork Robot-or-Human model v1.0.0 (whirrwork.com/tools/robot-vs-human/pool-cleaning/). Modelled estimate, n…

Kesişme yılı: şimdiden

What the spreadsheet misses

Güvenlik
Wrong water chemistry is the real risk; a cleaning robot does not test water.
Kalite
Robots scrub walls and floors well; leaves and debris loads vary.
Esneklik
A service catches failing pumps and leaks early.
Edge cases
Oddly shaped pools and steps defeat cheaper models.
Customer experience
No strangers in the garden every week.
Jobs and redeployment
Pool technicians keep chemistry and repairs; cleaning visits shrink.
Mevzuat
None for private pools; public pools have water-testing rules.

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  2. Maytronics Dolphin residential robotic pool cleaners $849-$1,449 (mid-range models) Maytronics US store, 2026-10-25 · vendor
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  4. Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, June 2026: wages and salaries 70.0% of private-industry compensation (series CMU2020000000000P) U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2026-06
  5. Mean nominal hourly earnings of employees by sex and occupation (ISCO-08), DF_EAR_EHRA_SEX_OCU_CUR_NB ILOSTAT (International Labour Organization), from national labour force and earnings surveys, 2025
  6. Labour cost levels by NACE Rev. 2 activity (lc_lci_lev): Germany 2022-2025, total labour cost vs wages and salaries per hour Eurostat, 2025
  7. Rates and thresholds for employers 2025 to 2026 (employer Class 1 NIC 15% above £5,000) HM Revenue & Customs, 2025-04-06
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  10. Average annual wage of employed persons in urban units in 2024 (by position and by region) National Bureau of Statistics of China, 2025-05-20
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