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Lawn mowing seems like such a useless thing. I mean domestic lawns themselves, especially in a crisis of biodiversity loss, are such a waste of possibility. I had to stop the video when I saw the mower was going for a patch of clovers, thus reducing plant diversity to a single boring, useless species
„biodiversity“ as in „just let the place rot and get covered by weeds until trees and over stuff planted by you collapse due to the massive-and-aggressiveness of pests and pesty weeds.
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Electric motors can run at quite high rpms with lower decibels. Sure not silent but the origin is low enough that at a distance say 25 feet it’s almost silent.
True, but remember what’s quiet to a human may be quite different to what’s quiet to a hedgehog. When reading about these things it’s surprising how often things that we might not consider - like how vibrations travel though the ground - can confuse wildlife in ways that we might not expect when viewed through an anthropomorphic lens.
> The current generation of robotic lawn mowers sucks. Basically all of these bots drive in a random direction until they hit the border of the lawn, rotate for a randomized duration and repeat. I recently (a few weeks ago) bought one. While researching on the available options (which seemed relevant to me), actually almost none of the robots work this way. Most of them systematically go through the lawn. I think fro…
Wouldn’t it be kidnapped easily if it doesn’t use wires or GPS?
I think the eufy has also an optional GPS module just for this purpose, to better track it. I don't think this GPS module has any other purpose (e.g. it would not be used for navigation). But I didn't really checked the details on this.
I have seen this a few times for such robots, that you can buy an optional GPS module for tracking.
> The current generation of robotic lawn mowers sucks. Basically all of these bots drive in a random direction until they hit the border of the lawn, rotate for a randomized duration and repeat. I recently (a few weeks ago) bought one. While researching on the available options (which seemed relevant to me), actually almost none of the robots work this way. Most of them systematically go through the lawn. I think fro…
How large is your lawn and is it mostly flat ? I want to try one for my lawn but I have very large lawn and one side is slopy/steep.
The eufy E15 is for up to 800 m^2. There is the eufy E18 for up to 1200 m^2.
I have seen other (more expensive, bigger) robots for much larger lawns.
My garden is relatively flat with a few bumps here and there.
You can also easily mark some areas of the lawn as always excluded so that it wont drive there.
> The current generation of robotic lawn mowers sucks. Basically all of these bots drive in a random direction until they hit the border of the lawn, rotate for a randomized duration and repeat. I recently (a few weeks ago) bought one. While researching on the available options (which seemed relevant to me), actually almost none of the robots work this way. Most of them systematically go through the lawn. I think fro…
Maybe instead of GPS or camera, it could have a local positioning system instead. 3 small, solar powered beacons can be installed around the yard to be mowed.
But that was already too much effort for me, so that's why I chose the eufy. Also, from reports that I have read, it doesn't necessarily work better with antennas. Actually, from reports that I have read, robots with camera-only had the least amount of reports where navigation was not properly working. At least that was my impression.
Can the liability for damage to property or persons also be open sourced in the United States in case one of these things throws a rock and breaks a window or runs over an errant French Bulldog in spite of it "not supposed to be there in the first place" parameters? If you think I'm kidding, I'm in Texas. If robotic mowing was in any way shape or form viable, it would be at an Enterprise Level here. IT IS NOT. Fields…
Man, between you and the hedgehog guy, y'all are hilarious. Yeah, if it throws a rock, you're liable for it. If it runs over a dog, that dog was already dead. Are you aware of how slowly these things move? I'll also chime in 'it's not supposed to be in my yard'.
>All these projects do in the short term is devalue the human who would otherwise be the one mowing the yard.
Funny how we all recognize AI in other domains frees up labor to work on more important things. I'm sure landscapers would love this.
Lawn mowing seems like such a useless thing. I mean domestic lawns themselves, especially in a crisis of biodiversity loss, are such a waste of possibility. I had to stop the video when I saw the mower was going for a patch of clovers, thus reducing plant diversity to a single boring, useless species
> The current generation of robotic lawn mowers sucks. Basically all of these bots drive in a random direction until they hit the border of the lawn, rotate for a randomized duration and repeat. I recently (a few weeks ago) bought one. While researching on the available options (which seemed relevant to me), actually almost none of the robots work this way. Most of them systematically go through the lawn. I think fro…
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I'm assuming (perhaps unreasonably?) that given the suggestion you could run it at night, that it's silent, or near silent? If that's not the case, GP must be a madman.
I have an electric (though not robotic) lawn mower, and it turns out that it's not much quieter than a gas powered one. No engine noise obviously, but the blades spinning and hitting grass still makes a lot of noise (and indeed in my case it turned out to be the vast majority of the noise). So it wouldn't be a very good idea to run your robot lawn mower at night.
The mechanical components are entirely different, instead of a helicopter-like blade it is a ~silent solid disc with some razor blades on the edges.
i've had it running since May and it's been amazing so far. i hope it can continue going strong and that the product ecosystem around it continues to improve. if it falls apart, i dunno if i can go back to mowing the lawn without a robot. i recently wrote a review of my experience here: https://mfelix.org/reviews/mammotion-luba2/
it's not hard to see how given enough time, these things will completely replace a whole sector of human labor. why pay someone hundreds of dollars a month (or do the work yourself) when the robotic options are good enough?