WORX WR206E Landroid Robotic Lawn Mower – 600m² Patented AIA Mowing Multi-Zone, Auto Charging, 20V PowerShare Battery, Rain Sensor, Cut-to-Edge Technology, App-Controlled, Accessories Included

This is my third attempt at a robotic lawnmower over the last few years. I started of with a competitors product, also coloured orange with front wheel drive, after setting up the boundary wires and days of messing to get it right, it worked ok, but always struggled with getting over paving stones as the wire had to go underneath one (as per instructions). It would often get stuck, needing a helping hand, within a few months it broke and wouldn’t charge.I then changed to a Landroid also the boundary wire product, again lots of messing about to get the wire right, this one wouldn’t detect the wire underneath the paving slabs at all, so I had to adjust the location which left a huge gap between the edge. The problem with this mower, being rear wheel drive, it constantly got stuck, dug trenches in the garden and the battery wouldn’t even last an hour, within a month this too broke, replaced by Amazon and the replacement one was damaged. Gave up at that point and went back to the human powered mower 😄Fast forward a few years, got this new Landroid model, an absolute game changer, no messing about with boundary wires, front wheel drive so is not getting stuck anywhere, it’s bordering on completely silent, the battery is lasting a good 2hrs. It’s so good I can pick it up and stick it on the front lawn and just press go, and it cracks on with the job until stopped.It’s just such a huge improvement, this has to be the way forward for robot mowers. If I had one gripe, it’s the cut to edge, at the moment the minimum gap that can be set in the app is 5cm, I believe this started of with 10cm when first launched. I’m sure as more people get these, Worx will update the firmware, eventually getting a really tight edge. That said 5cm isn’t the end of the world, quick run round with the strimmer and it's all sorted.It’s definitely not in the budget range this, but if you can afford it, I’d really recommend it.

I have upgraded to this after having used Flymo 1200R for over 4 years. My flymo died as a result of some neglect on my part (didnt take it into the shed for the winter one year) and may be the age of the hardware.I did a little bit of research to choose my next mower and the Worx Landroid Vision seemed to tick all my boxes:- No perimeter wire. After my experience with the flymo I wanted something that didnt rely on having perimeter wire as it is a pain in the backside to get right so that the mower goes as close to the edges without getting stuck - it is doable but life is really to short and it takes several attempts to get it just right. Another problem with the wire is that it breaks after a while and you end up chasing the breakage around the garden which may itself lead to additional breakages and then there is all the connectors that you have to use to patch things up.- GPS comes at a higher cost and feedback seem to suggest they are not suited to all gardens especially if you have a lot trees in the areas bordering the grass or in the lawn itself. These factors combined ruled out a GPS based system for me- So that left the vision systems i.e. the mowers that rely on a camera system like this one does to navigate. Like anything else this may not work for everyone but I have reasonably well defined edges in some areas and some that are not but so far so good.What I have found so far:- Installation is absolutely a no-event compared with my old Flymo and that is simply because no perimeter wire is required.- You have to get the base station location right, the instructions specify the options and you just have to follow one of them that works for you. This is the only thing that I wish was different, I wanted to have this in the same place as the base station for my old flymo which was nicely tucked away. This wasnt a problem for the flymo because there was a guide wire to lead it to the base station so as long as access wasnt physically obstructed it could find its charge station, this one however relies on line of sight as it navigates back to its station counter clock-wise around the edge of the lawn. It basically need to detect a barcode printed on the charge tower.- I had one little area that is quite steep and the border between the lawn and the flower bed isnt well defined, the mower got stuck there twice. I erected a simple temporary barrier to help it see the edge and it has been trouble free since- I really like the fact that the battery is just a standard Worx power share battery that you can replace or upgrade as and when needed. This comes with a small battery (2.0 Ah) and my initial thought was I may need to upgrade it to a higher capacity one (4.0 or 5.0 Ah) but it seems to be working ok. Roughly it spends about 40 mins charging and 45 mins working. Not all the working time is mowing time because it stops mowing on its way back to the charge station and depending on the size and layout of your garden this could take some time. Max 8 mins in my case.- I have put it on the auto schedule and max mowing frequency setting so it goes through the mow/charge cycle repeatedly throughout the day. I may reduce this over time depending on the results and coverage in the intial few months.- This model (the M600) is meant to be able to handle lawns of up to 600 sqM, mine is just under and it seems to be adequate