Segway Navimow i105N Robot Lawn Mower Perimeter Wire Free 1/8 Acre RTK+Vision Robotic Lawnmower, AI-Assisted Mapping, Virtual Boundary, APP Control, 58dB(A) Quiet, Multi-Zone Management

Summary: After a few weeks, while not perfect (still working out a few kinks), I'm giving this 5 stars because it is very impressive and I am very optimistic that it will reach near full independence. For yard situations like mine or simpler, I would definitely recommend it. Value: I have a ~7500sqft (0.17 acre) yard. I paid over $1k for mowing in the last year, and that is definitely on the lower end of what I could have paid. Including accessories I had to procure (mountable antenna, and traction wheels, see below), I'm sure this will pay for itself in 2 years, which is before the 3 year warranty expires. I do need to use a string trimmer on a majority of the edges of my yard and a few islands, but that will only take ~12 minutes every week or two. Installation/setup: It's definitely very picky about where to place the antenna and station, but I found the antenna to be more picky. I strongly recommend the antenna mounting kit, or a DIY solution. The station wasn't happy for me under a small eave so I had to rethink where I wanted it, but it's working well on the south side of my house, touching the wall, with a pretty good view of the south. The app is pretty good and setup is pretty easy. Reliability: My yard is mostly very flat, with a few protruding roots, small slopes/crevices, and storm drains. I had to configure no-go zones for my roots but not a big issue, can trim afterward. My slopes, especially around the storm drains, definitely push the limits of the stock wheels. It mostly can recover smartly and still get the job done, but it slows it down considerable. I 3D printed some better traction wheels (can find models online) and that seems to largely fix the slope issues in my case. You could also buy the $100 traction wheels if you don't have access to a suitable 3D printer. It can get stuck in small crevices/dips in the yard, so you may need to put down a bit (like an inch) of dirt in a few areas to prevent that. I still haven't gotten it to do my entire yard without getting stuck, but I'm getting really close. It got 98% done yesterday and then got stuck on the curb twice, probably because I configured that edge to be a ride-on boundary. I think if I remap that zone to not be ride-on, it should be fine. It did trample over one of my plants slightly outside the boundary once, but it hasn't done that again. There wasn't an obvious transition from yard to bed so it probably thought it was just more yard. It can do my entire yard in one day during daylight, with an hour or two to spare, so a full quarter acre is likely pushing it for a single day unless you enable night mowing. But no reason it can't be done in two days. Performance: The yard looks quite nice when it's done, I like the small light tracks it leaves much more than big riding lawnmower tracks. It occasionally misses small portions of grass, but I have it doing the whole yard twice a week so it shouldn't be very noticeable. This lawnmower allows the grass to be cut much more frequently, which means smaller clippings, which is healthier for the grass and looks better too.

EXTRA TIP: If you want to mount your antenna on top of a flat surface, and you don't need an extension cord, and you don't want to pay $50 for the official antenna extension kit, try searching Amazon for 'Light Wall and Ceiling Mount with 5/8" Stud and 1/4" Thread'. I happened to already have this item sitting around, and it fits the threads on the antenna perfectly. The only caveat is the that the square shape of the antenna doesn't align with the square base of the mount when fully screwed on. Just cosmetic issue, and in my case you can't even see the antenna without climbing a ladder. UPDATE 2: I am pretty well delighted with this product now. As I mentioned before, Navimow support recommended diabling camera-assisted positioning after my map deleted itself. But I decided to try mapping my yard one more time without disabling that feature, and this time it worked fine! The mower is doing a fantastic job of navigating my yard and I'm so happy I don't have to spend my weekends mowing anymore. There are just a couple of spots where it has trouble due to sloping/uneven ground, but Navimow support is also sending me a couple of free accessories as an apology for the bumpy experience I had initially. Hopefully the off-road tires will improve the unit's traction, but even if I have to hit those two spots manually with the weed whacker, that's not a big deal. I can also confirm that I've been able to map more than 600 square meters of lawn area on the i105N, so it seems they really did raise its map area limit to be the same as the i110N. A very welcome upgrade. I have a theory about what caused my map to disappear the first time. I could be completely wrong, but just in case it's helpful to anyone... When I was setting up the last couple of boundaries right before the map disappeared, I took some fairly long pauses to clear away debris from the edges of the lawn. I'm thinking maybe the camera-assisted positioning video keeps recording even when you aren't moving the unit, and so I ended up with some massive video files, and their sheer size caused the glitch that deleted my map. Sooo, if you want to be on the safe side, maybe try to make sure you get any prep work put of the way before you start mapping a boundary. Overall I think this is clearly the best value among GPS robo-mowers for anyone with a relatively small yard, especially now that it seems to support up to 1200 square meters of grass. If your lawn is closer to the upper end of that range, you might want to consider the i110N, which is still an excellent value compared to most other GPS mowers on the market. But even this i105N seems like it would have no problem covering that area as long as you don't mind it doing so over the course of two or three days. --- UPDATE 1: I've exchanged several emails with Navimow support now. They did a much better job of understanding my problem after that first reply. Unfortunately, they are unable to recover my map, and they have suggested that I try disabling camera-assisted positioning and re-mapping my yard. They seem to think there might be a hardware issue with my particular unit that is causing it to lose the map when processing the camera data. However, they have offered to compensate me for this frustration in a number of possible ways, including free accessories, and/or replacing my unit with an upgraded model to better accommodate the size of my yard. They also informed me that the coverage limit on the i105N (all units, not just mine) has been upgraded to 1200 square meters, the same as the i110N, which is very much appreciated. I've agreed to spend some more time testing my unit to see if disabling camera-assisted positioning fixes the disappearing map issue, and whether the unit is able to navigate my yard without that feature. (I'm somewhat doubtful, because my yard does have some areas with tree coverage, etc.) Then I will report back to support with the results and let them know what sort of compensation would be most helpful. This is all just theoretical for now, so I'm not changing my rating yet, but I will make sure to keep updating this review as the situation progresses. --- INITIAL REVIEW: I'm still holding out hope that this will work out for me, but the experience so far has been rough. Basic installation was relatively straightforward, although I find it irritating that a wall/roof mount for the antenna is a separate purchase, because that's clearly going to be the best option for most people. The real trouble started when I was mapping out my yard. First, I was a couple hours into the process when I decided to set up a "channel" from my lawn back to the dock. This is a requirement if the dock isn't within the mowing area itself. The app briefly and casually instructed me to drive the mower from the mowing area to the front of the dock. However, I drove the mower all the way onto the dock, and it immediately went into charging mode, which apparently deletes any unsaved map changes. So I lost everything I had done up to that point. I was steaming mad, but there was nothing to be done except start over. Seems incredibly silly to just delete the unsaved map without asking, and even sillier to not warn the user about this when explicitly instructing them to drive the mower to the dock during a mapping session. So I started over and eventually mapped out my whole property over the course of a couple days, pausing freauently this time to save my changes. Now, whenever you add a new mowing area to your map and then end the mapping session, the mower asks to return to the dock and process the "VisionFence" data it gathered during the mapping. So after my final edits, I allowed this to happen, and the mower spent the next hour or so processing the data. Well, when I came back and checked the app, my map was completely gone. No sign I ever even started one. Absolutely incredible. This time I reached out to Segway support via chat, and after some brief troubleshooting steps the agent informed me my ticket was being escalated and I should hear back via email within two days. I did not get any kind of automated email confirming that a ticket had been created, but another agent confirned this the following day. Today, two days later, I did get an email response, but it was completely unhelpful, offering instructions on how to get the map to save (which isn't the problem I'm having). In the meantime, I doscovered that after reinstalling the app, my map shows up again, but it disappears as soon as I pair the app with the mower. So I am hopeful that my map still exists somewhere and can be restored by tech support. I replied to the email with a screen recording of this and another explanation of my problem. Now I am waiting again. I will update this review as the situation progresses. The other extremely irritating aspect of this product is the arbitrary, software-imposed limitation on the area that can be mapped out for mowing. I did my best to estimate the size of my actual grass areas before ordering this model, but it appears I was off by a significant amount, so even if my map does get restored I might have to return the unit and order the 1/4 acre version for $300 more. No clue if I'll be able to transfer my map or if that will mean starting from scratch yet again. I get that they want to encourage people to buy the more expensive model, but they should allow the larger battery to speak for itself instead of imposing artificial limitations. This is only going to result in lots of mowers being returned when people discover they have more grass than they thought. Aside from all my complaints, I can say that the mower did work beautifully during the brief time I was able to test it out on part of my yard. There's a small section with an overhanging carport that seems to cause trouble with GPS reception, and for whatever reason the VisionFence is unable to compensate in that spot, but overall it shows a lot of promise. I'm still clinging to hope that these issues will be resolved and I'll finally be free from spending half of every weekend cutting grass.

Update: 08/21/24- I came up with a simple fix for the mower's tendency to dig its nose in and get stuck in shallow divots. I tried buying the new, heavy wheels, and they helped some, but I was still having issues. The fix I'm showing in the pictures is an option that gives the front of the mower a bit more ground clearance and appears to have solved the issue for me. It is completely reversible, and does not harm the mower. The one potential risk is in providing more ground clearance at the front, it is now possible the mower could ride up over a foot, or pet laying in the grass, so perform with caution. 1. You will need a 3mm Allen wrench 2. Pop the gray plastic cover off the top of the mower. It's held in with tabs and should snap on and off without issue. 3. There are four black screws around the front edge of the mower, they hold the front "bumper" on. Unscrew those four screws and the whole bumper simply lifts off (screw the screws back into the holes so they don't get lost). 4. Snap the gray plastic cover back on the mower and put it to work. I'm willing to bet that just providing that little extra ground clearance will solve most folks' issues and there won't be a need to spend a hundred bucks on the "heavy" wheels. A little history: this is my second robot mower. I previously owned a Worx Landroid that required burying a boundary wire. That machine worked like an old Roomba and just bounced around the yard, the hope being it would eventually cut everything. It worked ok, but had problems that only grew as it aged so that it was mostly useless by the end of its third season (got constantly "lost" and after returning it to Worx and being told it was fine, and receiving a new base station to no avail, I finally gave up on it). It's with that in mind that I was closely watching Segway's entry into the modern bot-mower segment. Their first edition cut the grass far too short for southern lawns, but this Navimow offers an almost 4" cut height which should allow the lawn to survive the hottest part of the summer. Setup is far and away simpler than the old boundary wire mowers. My only complaint was having to restart the map a couple times because I got into a divot that the mower couldn't back itself out of (and this leads in to my single biggest complaint about the mower in general... more on that shortly). Once setup was complete, it was time to mow. Mowing is a snap. You can either start it manually or set a schedule and let it do its thing. I have the 1/8 acre model mowing the backyard only, and it recorded 404 sq meters of yard. This translates to 1/10th of an acre, so well within the capabilities of the mower. With that in mind, I was a bit surprised that it takes 9+ hours to mow the back yard. This includes three trips back to the charging station (it appears to mow for about 2.5 hours before needing a charge). It does mow in fairly straight lines and interestingly, it mixes it up each time. One day it will mow in lines parallel to the dock, another day it will mow perpendicular to the dock, then at a diagonal one way followed by diagonal the other way. I currently have it set to mow four days a week, as it has an easier time if it hasn't fallen behind. And now the complaint. Your yard needs to be almost putting green smooth. ANY divot, depression or hump can lead to the mower getting stuck. Fortunately, it's pretty determined and it will work to get itself out of a spot, but eventually it will give up and ask for help (and I'm convinced a not insignificant amount of time and juice is spent on this). This issue would be helped greatly if the front wheels were further forward at the corners, and/or the lower lip at the front end was a little higher. Instead, the wheels are tucked back just a little bit behind the nose which means it will hit nose first and dig in just enough to lift the drive wheels up and not be able to back off. My yard is virtually level, with only the shallowest depression here or there, yet it's been stuck multiple times - and if the grass is damp it loses traction even easier. Final verdict: I'm mostly satisfied so far. It still beats mowing the backyard myself, and it will pay for itself in one long mowing season compared to paying someone else. I hope it lasts longer than the old Landroid, and I do wonder if it will receive updates to make it smarter. It'd be nice if, after the last month of mowing it would learn/remember tricky areas and just how much time it actually takes so it could work smarter - but that might be asking too much.

I've had this mower about a month, and in that time I've become more and more impressed by its performance. It does everything it promises! Let me tell you about it. The Navimow app allows me to map multiple regions of my yard that add up to a maximum of 1/4 acre. My property's mowable area is about 2/3 of that, so I haven't pushed that limit. It took me a few tries to get good at mapping - which can be a little frustrating, because I wanted it to be one-and-done. But once I understood how the mower uses the map, I would occasionally delete and remap a part of my yard, or adjust the map to tweak whatever it was I wanted to change. Here are things I tweaked to get better results: -Whether the border was a "don't cross the border" edge (the default edge type, shows up on the map as a solid line), or a "crossing the boundary is OK" edge (you have to toggle to this if you want it) - shows up on the map as a dotted line. You can switch between these two as often as you like as you create or adjust every region/map you want to mow! So there are places where I have a solid border so that mower doesn't overshoot it and get its hind wheels caught on a concrete rainspout trough or a particularly problematic exposed tree root, but a dotted border where the lawn meets the driveway or the sidewalk, so the mower can overshoot and make sure to capture all the edges. -Which directions the mower will use for its rows! I've got one region of my lawn where there are grooves in the ground where I think tree roots used to be, but rotted. the wheels of the Navimow will get stuck in the ruts and the 'nose' will run aground, and it can't free itself, when the mower is going in the same direction as the grooves. But when the mower is going at any other angle, it crosses the ruts with ease! So I edited that region of the map and told the mower to never use that particular orientation for aligning its rows, and now I haven't had to rescue the mower from getting stuck in one of those for weeks. I used the same trick to keep the mower from popping its rear wheels over the edge of the curb where it was getting stuck. Now it gets stuck there a lot less! When I bought the Navimow I knew I'd be asking a lot of it. The two challenges that I knew I'd be risking overwhelming it with are with steeper slopes, and with tree cover interfering with the GPS signal. I feel I have pushed each of these to the absolute limit, but it has worked out just fine. The steeper slopes situation, I simply avoided the reliably-too-steep regions when drawing my map, aware that I'd have to occasionally mow/whack those areas myself. but we're talking 5 minutes of effort every few weeks, and that's well worth it to me. As for the tree cover situation battling with the GPS signal, I was worried this was going to be a deal-breaker for me. I have tree cover over probably 95% of my property. I figured it there was going to be a problem, this would be it. Well I was able to plant the GPS receiver on the included pole at one corner of my garage where it happens to have a decent view of a small cone of the sky, and - amazingly - that's enough for it to navigate my entire lawn! I did have plans to mount the antenna to the ridge of my roof, where it would have a lot more sky visible (it would be able to see from straight-up to about 45-degrees in all directions) - but that hasn't proven to be necessary yet. I do not have great signal at all times in the current setup and there ARE times that the mower refuses to do certain things until the signal is better. That can be a little frustrating, but I understand that if I want to fix this problem it means getting up on my roof. So far I've decided patience is the more attractive option. Things it occasionally refuses to do until it has better GPS signal include: Adjusting the map, Relocating the power station on the map, and manually initiating mowing! Since I only have great GPS signal some of the time, I've set up a mowing schedule so that it can attack my front yard one day, my back yard the next day. Then I take a day or two off, then repeat the cycle - this way it mows my entire yard twice a week. This keeps things looking tidy, leaves enough clover for the local bunny rabbits to nibble on, and makes me feel like I'm getting my money's worth by having a lawn that looks constantly tended-to without me having to do much of anything at all. When adjusting my map regions I discovered that if one region overlaps another region, the mower software will try to join them into a single region. That was frustrating a couple times and I had to exit out and try again. NOTE: IF YOU EXIT OUT WITHOUT SAVING, EVEN IF IT HAS TOLD YOU YOU CAN NOT UNDO YOUR CHANGES, YOU CAN USUALLY RETURN TO THE WAY IT WAS BEFORE YOU STARTED! Make sure you save the map every time you successfully do something you're happy with. It would suck to have a later mistake force you to wipe out work you wanted to keep. So when I broke my back yard up into two halves, I made sure that the border type was the dotted-line "You can cross this border / overshoot" type of edge on both regions, and I made the edges as close to each other as I was able to without them touching... and voila! After it has mowed both halves of the back yard, you can't see that there is a dividing line anywhere in it. Another note about adjusting the map: you can add or subtract territory to/from an existing region of the map. The software makes the best guess as to the final shape of the map, given how it started out and what new border you drew... and it offers you two options to pick between. It calls them "A" and "B", and shows you in blue on the map what the final territory will look like depending on which one you pick. You can look at both of them before you say "Yes", and if neither suits you, you can exit out (look for the "X" in the upper left corner) and try again. When you're adding or subtracting area, you once again get the option of which kind of border, solid or dotted, you're picking. This has been fantastic for me as I saw how the mower did with my original borders, and I decided to change the boundary lines for better results. There are "DO NOT ENTER" zones you can draw around things like flower beds. In some of the tutorial materials they also show you drawing such a boundary around, say, a tree. From my experience - and this is just in my own yard, and I do not have mulch beds around my trees - don't bother. Just let the mower's obstacle identification take note of the obstruction and avoid it. I have had great results with this! The mower has occasionally gotten stuck on an exposed tree root while exploring the area around the tree, but I have watched it learn where the most problematic roots are and learn to avoid them. How? I'm not sure. I guess it remembers where it's gotten stuck in the past and just tries not to roll over that spot, in that direction. I've definitely seen the mower approach a root it's gotten hung up on in the past and approach it from a direction that it has figured out doesn't present a problem. It's pretty impressive! When setting the mower free in my yard for the first time (once I had drawn the geofencing maps), I had the urge to rescue it when it got caught on something. But I was able to hold back and give it the chance to use its programming to work its own way out of the situation. Occasionally it would alert me that it was stuck, but the majority of the time it would eventually figure out how to free itself. As time has gone on it's gotten better at freeing itself. I'm considering giving it spiked wheels to help with traction, but I don't know for sure whether I'm going to do that. When the mower does get stuck and needs to be rescued, you can tell it to resume either with the app or by pushing the RED --> OK --> MOW buttons on the unit itself (or RED --> OK --> HOME if you want to send it home). The instructions on the app tell you to hit the STOP button (that's the RED button) and then the "OK + MOW" or the "OK + HOME" buttons, which (to me) sounds like I'm supposed to push them at the same time. Nope, gotta do it in sequence, pretty quickly - like you're counting "1, 2, 3". Sometimes I forget which order and instead I'll hit RED --> MOW --> OK. One or the other works. There have been times that I've needed to pick it up and plop it down on the charging pad because it was too tired to get there on its own, but usually if it has battery left it'll do it on its own just fine. The photos show my mower in action. One's indicative of the amount of tree cover I have in pretty much all directions all over my property. As the mower sits on its charging pad throughout the day and also as it's mowing my lawn I'll watch the light on the mower vary between "Meh" and "Good" signal. When there's a scheduled mowing time, it'll start at that time. But if I tell it "Go mow region 3" and the signal is "Meh", it's not going to start until the signal improves. So be aware of that. It's got opinions. There are, however, reasons for those opinions. The video shows the mower attacking my front yard for the first time. You'll see that, in the process of avoiding trees, it misses areas of the yard. Later in the mow it did go back and get those areas before it finished - you can even look on the map on the mowing app and see, with surprising precision, where it has and hasn't mowed. I have noticed that it doesn't always get 100% of the region every time it mows. But because it's mowing a few times a week, I've also noticed that I don't notice it missed anything, and the next time it mows it usually catches it. If anything interesting changes I'll update my review, but all in all I have to say that I am absolutely thrilled that the mower is doing such a fine job. Summer where I live is horribly hot and humid, so not having to worry about this task is a great thing - and the mower cost less than paying a professional service or a neighborhood kid to mow for a year (kids are charging a lot now!), so it's also a financially good investment. Also a big conversation starter - a lot of folks want to stop and chat with me about it when they see me out front. I'm always happy to gush about it to them. NOTE: If you want worthwhile anti-theft, you have to buy the 4G module separately and install it, or at least get an AirTag type thingy and stick it somewhere so you can go find your mower if it's taken. But the mower is useless without its charging base and GPS maps, so if someone steals it it's no good to them. Happy not-mowing! UPDATE::: They made it even better. There are some steeper parts of my yard I simply excluded from the mowing maps and had to tend to myself in some other way - even though I knew that if the mower approached them from the right direction it would be able to do a fine job without getting mired. But while I can give it certain orientations to skip when mowing its rows, there's no way to get clever/detailed and tell it to always use this shallow path to go up to the top of this steep part but then mow the steep area only downhill, then loop around up the shallow path... If I was manually steering the mower, I was teaching it new boundaries, but to get it to *mow* them I had to tell it to go mow, and then it would do so using its own internal smarts. Well now I can manually drive the mower around while mowing! I can turn the cutting blade on and steer the mower around. It might look a little silly standing there in my yard holding my phone up to drive the mower, but I'm much happier doing this than having to get out my old push mower, or a weed wacker, or any of the other ways of cutting lawn that's too long. This is the #1 upgrade/capability I'd been wanting since I got to know my mower and its limitations, and now it's here! Ok. That's all. Just had to make sure you knew that this is now an available capability. It's fantastic!

I got the navimow i110n two days ago. The first day I set it up, mapped my lawn into three zones and did a test run in one zone. It worked well enough. I wasn't sure the map boundaries were precise enough for it to mow the edges but I figured I could refine that with time. Day 2, I waited for the grass to be dry from the overnight dew and it started a scheduled mow of the lawn. It went well enough, showed promise, until it found a small depression in the lawn where we use to have a basketball pole which had been removed and grass grown. It appeared to get stuck in the depression, dug a trench with one wheel (probably the left) as it tried to power its way out. The error messages on the app first reported error code 3109, then 1107, then 7102 and then settled into showing 3107 left wheel motor problem. I looked up the error on the navimow site, took the actions to clear the error, restart the mower, and the error just persisted. I then sent navimow customer support a message (as they suggested on their site), indicating what I had done and the serial number of the navimow. Navimow customer service responded at 2am my time (which is fine) asking me for the serial number and to look up the error number on their site and to follow its instructions (both of which I had already given them and told them I had done!). They did also want to know the exact time of the error which I was able to get from the app. I sent them all the information. Navimow's response to me, showing me they didn't read my initial e-mail, does not build my confidence. I'll give them a day or two to respond and unless they have a straight forward solution, I'll return the navimow to Amazon for a replacement to give it another try. I won't return it to Segway because I want a working navimow, not a repair of a navimow that broke on day two under normal usage. Update: It was taking Navimo about 24 hours to reply to each email. Eventually they said they would take it back and repair it, but I had already returned it. They don't seem to get that my lawn is growing while we have this leisurely discussion. Amazon didn't give me a 'replace' option, so I decided to give the Luba2 a try even though it was twice as expensive. If the Luba2 doesn't work out, I may try navimow again and hope I get one that works.

At first, I was hesitant about the reliability of an automower but after doing some research and reading product reviews it came up to my attention that people were saying good things about them so I ended up going for the Segway iSeries mower based on its ready-to-go GPS mapping technology. After doing a mental business case to convince myself that it was a good investment I bought it and put it to work. The quality of the materials is amazing and the simplicity of the installation too. The mapping is the most important thing to do but it is simple and fun, once it is made you can forget about mowing at least for the life of the Navimow mower. My lawn is not leveled so I noticed that the mower was getting stuck from now and then in certain areas when the mower entered those areas from certain angles, to solve this problem I specified a preferred mowing direction in these zones so the mower now enters to these areas from a direction that it does not get stuck. I was so satisfied with this product that I also purchased the extra-traction wheels to minimize problems of the mower getting stuck somewhere. For security reasons, I installed an airtag inside the compartment in which the anti-theft feature that is sold separately goes, this saved me some money and will notify me if the mower leaves my property. A concern I had before purchasing this product was that since the mower does not have a bag to dispose the grass I did not like the fact that the lawn was going to end up with all the cut grass but how it works is that you first need to cut the lawn to the desired height and the automower will just maintain that cut by cutting very tiny pieces of grass each time so you cannot perceive it in the lawn. What I love: the time it saves me, the use of high-quality technology and the fact that my lawn looks perfect every single day since the mower cuts it every two days. Before this mower, I was spending 4 hours three times a month cutting the grass so my lawn looked great only the first 3 days after mowing which is equal to a maximum of 9 days of the month, the rest of the days the lawn looked like it was in need of a cut and I was hearing my wife complaining very often that it was time to cut it. Now I have all that time back for myself and my lawn looks perfect all the time. In less than a year the automower will pay itself and most important it can cut the grass on a daily basis if preferred guaranteeing a perfect look always (365 days/year). What I did not like: My house and my neighbors' (in the south) are two-story and there are about 15 feet between them so I was not able to map-out the section between houses since my neighbor house is blocking the satellites so the mower was not able to trace this zone accurately so I decided to skip it. Eventually I will have to go back and keep trying with different approaches but that was something I noticed that did not work for me (still the benefits outweigh the negatives). Another aspect I did not like was that in order to trace channels to go from one zone to another you need that the zones have at least a perimeter of 1 meter around so I was not able to add channels to mow the tiny zones in the sidewalk. Also, I still have to trim the edges from now and then but compared to the 4 hours I was spending three times a month now I spend about 25 minutes. Lastly, sometimes when the mower gets stuck and one of the wheels is not in touch with a surface an error of "lifting" happens and the troubleshooting is to press the mow+ok buttons or home+ok bottons in the mower to continue mowing but normally these commands do not do anything, I have to either lift it and take it to the power station and it automatically reboots itself or keeping pressed the mow+ok buttons and it resets it but takes a couple of minutes to start working again. Overall, I recommend this product to everyone... my lawn looks always perfect and I do not have to deal with the hot weather of south Texas nor with my wife complaining about overgrown grass. Happy wife, happy life! I will try to update this review regarding the lifetime of the battery and the effect of the sun on the hardware appearance through time.

Update Nov, 2025: Had to reduce this to three stars. Over time it has become obvious how badly this mower does navigating around objects. In wide, open yards it does a pretty good job. But trampoline legs? Swingsets? Forget it. It doesn’t get close to the edges either. It keeps leaving 1-3 feet wide gaps along the fence or around certain objects. It’s like it’s *too* careful and gives everything a ridiculously wide berth. I’m fairly disappointed at this point and not happy with the purchase any more. It needs to have much better navigation features, like perhaps bumpers or more cameras and sensors so that it can more accurately avoid objects without going 1-3 feet away from them and leaving huge patches of uncut grass. Original review: I’ll start off by saying I was hesitant to purchase this. I read a lot of reviews and wasn’t sure this was the mower for me, but I knew I couldn’t deal with another boundary wire situation. Prior to this I had a Worx Landroid for 3 years and it was such a hassle with how much it got stuck and the amount of times it would dig up its own boundary wire and cut it. I decided to give this mower a shot with the reassurance that I had 30 days to return it if I didn’t like it. When I first opened the box, I was overwhelmed with all the wires and pieces it came with. But really, once I figured out what was what, set up was incredibly easy and fast. The only “difficult” part of it was cable management to ensure no wires were down on the ground where the mower will be cutting. I easily found a spot in my yard where there was good GPS signal (side note: the antenna AND the base both have to have good signal, so you can’t have the base go against your house if there’s any overhang from the roof like mine). The robot can actually help you figure out where the best place is by driving around your garden perimeter and showing you on the app a little map with all the good signal points. I got mine set up along my fence line, plugged in the power cord, the antenna, and did the cable management and bam. We were ready to map. You can either have the robot map by itself following your perimeter, or you can drive it around RC car style with the app and map it yourself. Once that was done I had it start mowing immediately and I’m very impressed with how well it did. My yard was slightly overgrown and it got it all down nicely. It can do my entire yard in one charge no problem, too. It took probably two hours or so, so it’s not crazy fast but it’s definitely faster than my old Landroid that just bounced around randomly and left patches everywhere. It did a really good job, and as you can see from the pics it left nice straight lines which I love. So, I think for the price this is a really good value for a non-wire mower, especially if it’s your first one like me!

This lawn mower robot is a game changer - it an incredible application of the latest tech and engineering to make a chore an afterthought. Is it perfect? No, not at all. Is a giant leap forward? Absolutely. The confluence of GPS, Wifi, Bluetooth, and camera-based AI makes this robot completely different and supremely effective. Using your phone and the robot, you map out the areas of lawn on your property. The robot orients itself with GPS and doesn't miss. IT cuts grass very efficiently, and makes hardly any noise at all. You can run this in the middle of the night and no one would know! The app keeps track of where it is, and you can monitor its progress easily and intuitively. It varies its pattern on every use, and it hits the stragglers it missed on its previous mission. Set up is a less intuitive than it should be, but after some trial and error, you can figure it out easily. I mapped out two areas of lawn that are separated by our house, and it seems to work well. You will have to create "channels" between the areas of lawn that the robot follows. You will have to manually open gates of course, but it makes it from the back to the front reliably. The app reports progress clearly so you are always aware where the mower relative to the complete task. Some things that I hope will improve with OTA updates: You have set up all of your lawn zones as a single task and you cannot do the back and front independently. I have it set up to do my back first and then the front. When it is done with the front, the mower has to enter my back lawn and then make it back to the charger. My charger is set up between the lawns so it would be more efficient for the robot to go directly to the charger without going to the back lawn first. I mistakenly selected the option to map the shortest path to the charger, which made the mower try to go through a brick wall. The camera detected the wall, but then the mower got confused and just couldn't find its way to the charger - it was relatively amusing to see it try, but it was obvious that it wasn't going to succeed. It was not intuitive how to change the channel - I finally discovered that the mower needs to be in the boundary of one of the lawn zones to allow a channel to be selected for a redo. Once I figured this out, it was relatively easy to set up a channel that allows the mower to automatically navigate to the charger. I also found it is better to turn off the camera when navigating a long channel, e.g. the channel from the back lawn to the front lawn. If the camera is on and there is something close to the path (a stray branch from a plant, a planter, etc.), the robot things it needs to assess if it can get around it and then it can do some relatively creative rerouting, sometimes unsuccessfully. Turning off the camera results in it confidently navigating the path to the next zone. If you have to stop and lift the mower due to an obstruction, the app instructs you to press OK and the home button to restart the mower. That doesn't seem to work. It does clear if you put the mower within the boundary of a zone, but the conflicting directions make things somewhat unclear. Overall, I am very comfortable with the machine. For the most part, it does what it says it will do, and is very reliable. I expect it to continue to get better with additional firmware updates, and the positives far outweigh the niggling negatives that I have observed so far. Highly recommended