RobotRisk / WYBOT / 2026-04-09

Robotic Pool Vacuum Fire Prompts CPSC Recall

S3 · 04/09
2026 · WYBOT

Record

Company	WYBOT
Category	consumer robotics
Type	recall
Date	04/09 2026
Time of day	not documented
Location	no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record)
Severity	S3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault)
Scale	-
Confidence	medium
Verification	Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source
Source	Jersey Shore Online

What happened

A WYBOT robotic pool vacuum caught fire and damaged a home (Jersey Shore Online, 2025-06-14); CPSC subsequently recalled Wybotics robotic pool vacuums for burn and fire hazards (2026-04-09).

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Sev	Date	Company	Event
S3	2023-08-24	Aiper	Aiper Elite Pro Cordless Robotic Pool Vacuum Cleaners Recalled for Burn/Fire Hazard
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S3	2008-04-25	Zucchetti Centro Sistemi	CPSC recall: LawnBott robotic lawn mowers (laceration hazard)

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