Wybotics Inc.

Wybotics Inc. is the U.S. arm of Wybotics Co., Ltd. (天津望圆智能科技股份有限公司), formerly Tianjin Wangyuan Environmental Protection and Technology Co., Ltd. The group was incorporated in December 2005 and is headquartered in the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area, Tianjin, PRC; the U.S. entity is registered in Arcadia, California. It remains private and is pursuing a Hong Kong IPO — it filed a listing application in September 2025 and refiled an updated prospectus in April 2026, disclosing 2025 revenue of roughly RMB 810 million and net profit of about RMB 100 million (IPO prospectus; Bamboo Works/Benzinga). Employee count could not be verified from a primary source.

The company designs, manufactures and sells robotic pool cleaners — cordless and corded models plus handheld pool vacuums — under its own WYBOT and Winny Pool Cleaner brands, and also serves as an original design manufacturer for other brands. Prospectus-cited third-party research ranks it third globally in robotic pool cleaners (9.2% share, 2024) and first in cordless units (19.7%); it pivoted toward its own brands in 2023, with roughly half of revenue now via Amazon. It is an operating company, not a patent-assertion entity.

Its litigation posture is that of an operating company in a two-way dispute, not an NPE campaign. The single tracked case lists it as plaintiff, but that filing is a defensive declaratory-judgment action rather than an assertion suit; separately, Wybotics is the defendant in Zodiac's Eastern District of Texas action. No plaintiff-side assertion pattern exists against unrelated parties.

The tracked case, Wybotics Inc. v. Zodiac Pool Systems LLC (C.D. Cal., filed Sept. 9, 2025), seeks a declaration of non-infringement of Zodiac patents covering filter assemblies (’029, ’031) and camera/“Vision Tech” cleaning (’191, ’766, ’207). It mirrors Zodiac's EDTX suit (2:25-cv-582, May 23, 2025); Wybotics also filed PTAB IPRs (IPR2026-00158/159/160) against the camera patents and stipulated to limit invalidity grounds. Context: Zodiac's ITC action (337-TA-1326) and French litigation, plus PRC contract disputes and a February 2026 Arizona product-liability subrogation claim.