Last year, I published a story about owning a robot lawnmower—A Mammotion Luba 2, to be precise. The genesis of that idea was a piece Andrew did on a riding lawnmower with self-driving tech. An autonomous zero-turn is an objectively interesting contraption, but my argument was that a lawn robot is far more practical and just as sophisticated—all for less than 10% of the Honda’s (admittedly astronomical) asking price.
I quite like the little mowbot, and while the piece wasn’t much of a review in the traditional sense, it nonetheless got the attention of Mammotion’s U.S. product reps. One of them reached out to me in early March to let me know that my fancy little robot was already yesterday’s news. The third-gen model had arrived, and on top of that, it was now fitted with a lidar module—a feature that wasn’t offered in the U.S. on the Luba 2. Would I perhaps be interested in reviewing one?
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Author: Byron Hurd
