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Kinematic Risk Consumer Bulletin

# Kinematic Risk Consumer Bulletin

**LRRK Watch / Open-Source Intelligence** — Monthly filing. Consumer systems that sense, move, and act in homes and yards.

**Issue type.** Monthly (LC-3). Window = calendar month. Not the weekday 24–48h poll.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection cutoff | 30 April 2026 |
| Window | 1–30 April 2026 |
| Series | KRCB-M-2026-04 |
| Status | short |
| Data label | Open-source intelligence // LRRK analytic product |
| Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. |
| Scope | Consumer kinematic electronics only (home, yard, companion, educational). |
| Spine | CPSC, Health Canada, EU Safety Gate, UK OPSS, manufacturer recall pages, named newsrooms, dockets. |
| Color | Forums annotated only. Never Fact without a reputable primary. |

## Executive read

### BLUF

April’s consumer file is one official fire. CPSC recalled about 5,000 serial-limited Wybot Osprey 700 Max and S1 pool robots after ten overheat-or-fire reports on and off charge, nine property-damage incidents, and no injuries.

### Key judgments

1. **[Assessment — High confidence]** CPSC recall 26-372 (9 April 2026) is the first numbered 2026 US consumer-robot safety action found. Off-charge fire keeps it from being filed as another adapter story.
2. **[Assessment — High confidence]** The official page states no injuries. Nine property-damage incidents are the harm count as written.
3. **[Inference — Moderate confidence]** Cordless pool robots remain a repeat-failure family (Aiper Elite Pro → Seagull Pro → Scuba S1; now Wybot → free WYBOT C2). A swap is not a Passport.

### Analytic labels
- **Fact** — verified reporting or primary record
- **Assessment** — analytic judgment
- **Inference** — reasoned but not directly observed
- **Uncertainty** — unresolved information gap

### Source grades
- **A1** — authoritative primary record / directly confirmed
- **B1–B2** — generally reliable and corroborated
- **C3** — useful but requires caution

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## 01. CPSC recalls ~5,000 Wybot Osprey 700 Max / S1 units — fire on and off charge

*Event / publication dates: 9 April 2026*

**Product class.** Pool-cleaning robots

**Verified record — [Fact — A1]** U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recall **26-372**, 9 April 2026: Wybotics recalls Osprey 700 Max (models WY3312MAX and WY100MAX) and S1 (model WY200) robotic pool vacuums. **About 5,000** units. Only listed serial blocks are in scope (Osprey: WY100M230117XXXX, WY100M230127XXXX, WY100M230130XXXX, WY100M230318XXXX; S1: WY200-230328XXXX and W200**230330XXXX; “XXXX” = any four digits). Serials sit inside the top cover after the filter box is removed. Hazard as written: “The lithium-ion battery in the recalled pool vacuums can overheat, posing burn and fire hazards to consumers.” Incidents as written: “The firm has received **ten reports** of the pool vacuums overheating or catching fire **while charging and not charging**, resulting in **nine incidents of property damage**. **No injuries have been reported.**” Remedy: stop use; free replacement **WYBOT C2**; free return label; replacement ship within 15 days of receipt; known purchasers contacted. Sold online at Amazon.com, BestBuy.com, and Wybotpool.com for $500–$700 (S1 April 2023–September 2024; Osprey 700 Max April 2023–November 2024). Manufacturer: Wybotics, Co. Ltd., Tianjin, China. Importer: Wybotics Inc., Arcadia, California. Manufactured in China. Official page: [CPSC](https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026/Wybotics-Recalls-Robotic-Pool-Vacuums-Due-to-Burn-and-Fire-Hazards). Manufacturer page named on the CPSC notice: [wybotpool.com/pages/recall-notice](https://www.wybotpool.com/pages/recall-notice).

**No matching Health Canada page was found** in this collection. Absence of a Canada twin is a search result, not a finding that the SKUs were never sold there.

**Threat landscape.** Lithium fire in a cordless pool robot, including off charge. That is cell-and-pack behavior, not only a charge-path interlock. Property damage is official; human injury is not. The remedy is another product (C2). Aiper already showed that a replacement can itself be recalled.

**Forum / community notes.**
- none independently opened.

**Intelligence assessment.** [Assessment — High confidence] Mechanism, unit count, incident counts, and the on-and-off-charge sentence are as the CPSC page writes them. [Inference — Moderate confidence] WYBOT C2 should sit on Watch through a full outdoor charge season. [Uncertainty] Whether C2 inherits the pack architecture is not established.

**Opportunity.** Property-damage photos, insurer files, or a later C2 action. A Health Canada twin, if one appears.

**LRRK relevance.** Lab and Control Fabric (pack behavior off charge). Watch: C2. Passport: serial-limited recall, not brand-wide.

**Confidence.** High on the opened CPSC page. Low on C2 architecture and on Canada scope.

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## Forward indicators

1. WYBOT C2 through a summer of charging. Any second-step recall.
2. Health Canada or OPSS twin for Osprey / S1. None found at cutoff.
3. Gomez docket: discovery open; Amazon still a defendant.
4. First numbered US CPSC thermal recall of a major-brand floor robot-vac. Still none.
5. 1X NEO first verified consumer-home delivery. Vendor pages still spoke in the future tense; not used as a signal.

> **Collection integrity.** One signal. Five-signal form is not padded. No other CPSC, Health Canada, or OPSS consumer-robot recall dated April 2026 was found. 1X’s Hayward factory update (vendor claim of production start) is marketing, not an injury, recall, or delivery first, and is not promoted. Walk-behind mower recalls are out of class.

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