Leading water intelligent robot company Surge Future secures hundreds of millions in financing, ships over 20,000 units in half a year | Exclusive report from Yingke

Author | Huang Nan

Editor | Yuan Silai

Yingke learned that the pool robot manufacturer "Surge Future" recently completed a Pre-A round of financing worth hundreds of millions of yuan.

Founded in 2024, "Surge Future" is an intelligent solution provider for all water areas. Focusing on the courtyard cleaning scenario, the company researches, develops, and produces pool robots, and gradually extends its business to multiple scenarios such as household water area maintenance and public water area governance. More than 80% of its core components are independently designed and developed.

According to official sources, since the release of "Surge Future" products in the first half of 2025, the product shipment volume has exceeded 20,000 units, and the revenue from the overseas market accounts for more than 90%. The company has established stable cooperation with mainstream European and American channels such as Lowe's, Bauhaus, Best Buy, and Home Depot.

According to a report by CIC, in 2024, the total number of swimming pools globally was approximately 32.9 million, with private swimming pools accounting for more than 90%. The large user base has promoted the continuous growth of the pool cleaning robot market. Its penetration rate has steadily increased from 17.8% in 2019 to 26.2% in 2024, and is expected to reach 34.2% in 2029, indicating huge market potential.

Predominantly in European and American countries, private swimming pools generally exhibit heterogeneous characteristics. Since residential courtyards are built according to the terrain, the shapes of swimming pools often conform to the natural topography. Steps, shallow water areas, arc-shaped boundaries, and irregular shapes are common designs. Moreover, many users pursue personalized expressions and deeply integrate swimming pools with home landscape design.

Surge Future 7-in-1 All-in-One Pool Cleaning Robot (Image source/Enterprise)

In response to this diversity, "Surge Future" has launched the industry's first pool robot equipped with an underwater LDS laser radar, self-developed structured light sensors, a 360° AquaScan™ panoramic navigation system, etc., to achieve a 7-in-1 solution integrating multiple functions.

In terms of perception, this system can penetrate turbid water, accurately obtain three-dimensional environmental information in front of the machine, achieve millimeter-level recognition of irregular pool walls, inclined bottoms, and various low obstacles, and construct a three-dimensional underwater map.

Whether it is an irregular pool body or a complex structure, based on the intelligent algorithm of structured light technology, the "Surge Future" pool robot can sense complex structures in advance, plan the optimal path in real-time, increase the obstacle avoidance success rate to 99.8%, solve the problem of traditional products getting stuck due to "the machine belly being suspended and the tracks being in the air", and effectively increase the cleaning coverage rate to 99.2%.

360° AquaScan™ Panoramic Navigation System (Image source/Enterprise)

To address the problem of terrain adaptation in complex swimming pools, "Surge Future" has developed the FloatDrive™ four-rotor suspension power system. Through the intelligent differential control of four water pumping motors, the robot can achieve precise hovering and vertical lifting. Coupled with a high-flow brushless motor with a capacity of 10,000 GPH per hour, it can help the machine cross 15-centimeter step obstacles and remove various impurities with strong suction.

To solve the common pain point of corner cleaning, the R & D team has also launched the EdgeDrive™ zero-edge rolling brush system, which uses an independently driven front rolling brush and an anti-backflow channel design to achieve 2-millimeter-level close cleaning with the pool wall.

Surge Future pool robot at an overseas exhibition (Image source/Enterprise)

Currently, "Surge Future" has launched two pool robot products. Among them, the flagship model Rover X10 targets the high-end villa and commercial pool markets, with a unit price of over 10,000 yuan. This product was launched in September this year and has already received orders from more than 30 agents in Europe and Southeast Asia. The lightweight and affordable model Diver A10 is priced in the range of $1,000 or €1,000. Test prototypes have been sent to European channels, and mass sales are expected next year.

Meanwhile, "Surge Future" is actively expanding its product line across all price ranges. According to Yingke, the company plans to launch an entry-level pool robot priced below $500 in 2026, and simultaneously release handheld underwater vacuum cleaners and pool bottom cleaning products. A dedicated product line for niche scenarios such as small swimming pools and parent-child swimming pools is also in the planning stage.