Aquabot was started by the US representative of Dolphin, the original
manufacturers of the robotic pool cleaners , way back when.He lived in the US and was the representative of Dolphin,he wasn't their distributor , he worked FOR them and I belive they (Dolphin )distibuted it by themselves . He got smart (or Greedy) and went on his own, changed some of the insides and outsides of the units and opened up Aqua Products.A few years ago, his son opened up watertech/Blue Diamond , I think it was to corner more of them market and to add more competition to themselves !! The warranty card for the Bliue Diamond cleaners gets sent to the Aqua products customer service center (at least it did 3 years ago when I bought mine).Tematech is their Israeli distibutor , the aquabots and Blue Diamonds are made in the USA, says so on the inside of the machine , use the same bags and are the exact same machines , albeit they added the 1 hour cleaning .The Bravo/viva aquabots are the exact as the Blue Diamond /Blue Diamond remotes.The Dolphins are made in israel and are distributed solely by Smartpool, I don't know for how much longer as Smartpool seems to be messing around with customers machines and Maytronics reputation, for those of you who want a crash course in hebrew "May " in hebrew means water hence "maytronics" or Watertronics, very similar indeed to Aquabot !!