REVIEW: MOVA Diver A10 pool robot vacuum – Making a tough job easy

MOVA is a relatively new company, certainly here in Australia but it is making its mark with robotic appliances and now extending its aggressive expansion into pool cleaners.

Not satisfied with shaking up the domestic robot vacuum and lawn mowing market, this time they have dipped their toes into the pool cleaning market with a series of robot pool cleaners and today we are looking at the MOVA Diver A10

First showcased at CES 2026 back in January alongside the Rover X10 and Diver R10, MOVA are taking on the more established brands in an effort to make a splash in the industry.

The first of their robot pool cleaners to hit our shores, the Diver A10 promises to deliver “professional-level pool maintenance without the manual effort” so we decided to put it to the test.

Let’s just revisit the key specifications first so we can see how well the device lives up to expectations.

The MOVA Diver A10 features;

• EdgePulse AI Precision Tracking – to follow pool contours
• PoolNavi Adaptive Path Planning – to optimise movement across floors, walls and waterlines
• 22,700 LPH suction – claiming to be 25% greater than comparable robot pool vacs
• Large 3.5L Filtration System with Ultra-Fine Mesh
• Dual Scrubbing on Waterlines – to hit stubborn residue and combat potential algae build up
• 7,800 mAh battery – for a runtime of up to 4 hours
• The ability to schedule and manage cycles remotely via the Mova app

Design

Upon unboxing I could see why this robot cleaner won a 2026 iF Design Award. Yes it is very difficult to get excited about an appliance that runs around your pool but it does look good. The large handle is a standout, adding to the style but also serving a practical application by being easily captured by the hook (supplied) to fish it out after the cycle has completed.

I just think this thing looks sleek. The large dual-track drive system featuring four magnetically coupled wheels glides through the water.

Also included in the box was an ultra-fine filter (rated at 3 microns) and a manual unusually thick until I realised it was really only a few pages in English. Who needs a manual anyway?

I’m a big fan of a quick-start guide which is also included and gets you to a point where the app can take over. Nothing complicated here and the handover from quick-start guide to app was easy.

The App

Of course you need to sign up for an account and there are two ways to add your pool robot. I was really surprised at the depth of the products that MOVA has, seeing as they are only a few years old. I could have tried to find the device in this huge list of products but they have a really neat alternative. Just scan the QR code and bingo, its added

Enter your wifi credentials, approve the inevitable network permissions and after a quick firmware check (and update) we were ready to charge. The unit came at 69% so at least I had a head start and I could test this guy out without too much delay (see charging rates later in the review)

Voice assistant support

Despite the app having the ability to pair with both Google and Amazon voice assistants plus compatibility with Siri shortcuts, I couldn’t get the Google Home to pair. Alexa did find a skill but that’s about it and going through the Siri Shortcut steps within the app resulted in not finding my device (even though I was within the MOVA app). I suspect strongly that the voice assistant setting is useful with MOVA’s range of floor robot cleaners where you can easily ask any of the assistants to clean a particular room in a particular way. For the life of me I am not sure what command you could give them to start the pool cleaner, except to maybe select the mode. You still have to lug it out to the pool and throw it in anyway

Performance

The MOVA Diver A10 has 8 modes to satisfy your pool cleaning needs with the three most common having a devoted selector button on the robot itself so no app selection required. Press the large button to select Complete (Walls and Floor), Floor only or Walls only.

Having used a few pool cleaners now it brings me to my biggest surprise in the world of aquatic robots. If you think they are just like a home robot vacuum where the jobs are performed and when completed the robot stops for collection you would be mistaken.

All these three modes, the most common types, are designed to clean the nominated surface(s) and keep going til the low battery forces it to stop. I just don’t see the point of continuing to clean til it can’t anymore but that is how they are designed.

After selecting the mode, via the button or through the app you are invited to confirm you have placed it in the pool and the clean will commence.

Another difference to a domestic floor robot is once submerged you have no control over the robot. You can’t monitor its progress in real time, you can’t cancel it through the app and you can’t do what I think would be cool and watch through the onboard camera. This is because the signal can’t penetrate the water. This is not unique to the MOVA. Every robotic pool cleaner I have tried is the same. You cannot break the laws of physics I guess

In the video below you can see it did a thorough job of cleaning the floor of my pool and could have ended after maybe 90 minutes, tops. Instead it drained the battery to 9% and went to the side of the pool ready to be fished out by the hook, which attaches to your standard pool pole.

Only two of the eight modes don’t drain the battery when the job is done. I will get to them soon.

Once completed I quite liked the summary screen displayed on the app. As you fetch the robot and it comes back into Bluetooth range you get a nice summary of the mode and the length of time taken (measured from when it stopped, not from when you pulled it out of the pool). Additionally it also displays a figure that shows you how many litres of water it moved through the system. Nerdy but nice. You also have the option of looking through a history of your cleans where all this info is retained

Let’s take a closer look at all 8 modes

In all tests the battery level started at 100%

Mode	Runtime (mins)	Litres	Finish battery level
Complete	124	36,138	9%
Floor Only	199	57,953	9%
Walls Only	113	32,824	9%
Walls then Floor	196	50,326	9%
Turbo Floor	101	33,618	9%
Eco Floor	223	42,390	9%
Floor Edge	27	7,582	75%
Tanning Ledge*	Not run

*Applicable to pools that possess a shallow tanning edge or beach entries where the shallow water may prevent the robot operating

Hey but didn’t you say that you didn’t like the way the modes don’t just stop when the job is done? Sort of. In the above table you will see that the Floor Edge mode that just performs a clean around the perimeter of your pool actually stopped when the job was completed. It would be ridiculous for the robot to just circle your pool hundreds of times til the battery was exhausted. So if it can be done for this mode, why not all?

Timer

Which brings me to the feature only ever mentioned in passing but I believe to be the hidden gem. The timer function. Available in Eco mode where battery life is significantly better than other modes, the app enables you to schedule multiple runs over a 7 day period so you can experience a set and forget approach. Set the timer and throw the robot in the pool. It will clean the floor for in 40 minute bursts on the days and at the time you set. Now just leave it in the pool. The only reason to fish it out is to empty the filter but with a capacity of 3.5 litres it is unlikely to fill. This gets close to addressing what I consider that huge negative with the other modes.

Recharging

I know you are unlikely to need to hurry to get another cleaning cycle done straight after the battery has drained to 9% but be warned, in my opinion the recharge rate is slow. 9% to 100% takes almost a full 5 hours so try and remember to recharge immediately after use, not an hour before guests arrive.

How well does it clean?

It’s one thing to travel around a pool but quite another to pick up dirt and debris on the way so how does the Diver A10 perform? In short my pool is spotless. The video above demonstrates just how thoroughly it moves about the pool and all that time the motor is sucking up everything that settles on the pool bottom.

Walls

It is fair to say that this robot goes where others have failed. I have a series of 3 steps in my pool and I had resigned myself to the fact that no cleaner could reach the corner but to my surprise the Diver A10 managed to get up there. It also had no trouble climbing every wall, sticking there and utilising its dual scrubbing feature to make the waterline shine. No problem either rolling over my pool light without damaging it.

Cleaning the cleaner

The filter supplied with the A10 isn’t just mesh, it is proper filter wool type material that traps very particle it finds. Coupled with the ultra-fine filter nothing is getting past these traps. It is easy to clean with just a spray from the hose. A word of warning: After a clean it takes forever for the last of the water to drain out of this robot so when you walk it inside to get to the garage to recharge, please make sure all the water has gone. Just a husband tip from someone who found out the hard way

The verdict

As MOVA branches out to maintain the household holy trinity of floors, lawns and now pools, their initial efforts with the Diver A10 has established that they know what they are doing and this first release in Australia is as good as anything else in that price range. At an RRP of $1,299 and currently discounted to $1,099 on Amazon it has plenty of pro’s and only a few cons.

Good

• Design
• Ease of setup
• Timer is a hidden gem.
• Summary screen after each clean is a nice touch
• Easily climbs walls and steps

Not so good

• 6 of the 8 modes operate til the battery is drained
• Slow to recharge
• Voice assistant feature flawed