I put four robot lawnmowers through a brutal backyard battle — and only one person got injured

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It's a scorching day successful August 2024, with temps hovering astatine 101 degrees. I'm level connected my back, sweating nether a 1970s Land Rover, trying to rescue a Segway Navimow. It turns retired that the archetypal regularisation of utilizing a robot lawnmower is "don't fto anyone parkland connected your lawn."

Robot lawnmowers person been astir for respective decades, and with them the heady committedness of spending the summertime with your feet up, sipping a bully gangly solid of something, portion a robot mows your lawn. But it's lone successful the past mates of years that they've go astir astute capable and inexpensive capable for maine to effort out.

New navigation tech means you astir apt won't request to excavation a trench astir your tract to laic usher wires (except, it turns out, successful my yard), and portion you tin inactive walk $6,000 connected a mower, you tin present find 1 for nether $1,000.

However, aft 3 months of moving 4 bots astir my property, my proposal is that - successful each but a fewer scenarios - robot lawnmowers inactive aren't worthy your money.

If you person the close conditions and an endless proviso of patience, a robot lawnmower mightiness enactment for you. But if you are expecting a plu …

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