Robotic Lawn mowing ROBOT will take your lawn customers eventually

lawn mowing robot take over your lawn mowing customers eventually? With the price of robotic lawn mowers coming down, we as lawn mowing services providers need to take a look at how to embrace this technology into our business.

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[WTFps]

Neighbor has had one for the last ~3yrs. It works fine for Bahiagrass. She runs it during the night to avoids scaring dogs, slicing up children, and attracting attention. It barely makes any noise you just see a blinking red light floating around. The pattern is random bouncing between invisible wires.

[KipBurbank]

Never look as good as a cut, trim, blow-off.

[DoDgeSwaG]

it's like a roomba vacuum in the same sense. I have the 800series, it's cool to have it clean over night while we're asleep but we still use our shark vacuum just because it can't clean or do the job to human standard. I don't see the robotic lawn mower replacing push mowers, DIYers or lawn care services...

[happysfamilywnc]

Interesting topic but I don't believe that robot could handle all properties or the length of the grass. I kind of feel you would have to buy one for each property to keep up. Also, I don't believe it could be as profitable because it's a lot of back and forth and then to still have to weed-eat and blow.

[jeromewooster]

I think the robot can work with the lawn care provider, but it can't edge at least not yet. In the video it looks like it was cutting grass that had already been cut. I hope your lawn care business continues to thrive. Pop Smoke

[ousamaabdu]

I don't see robotic mowers taking over anytime soon. I do however seeing commerical battery powered equipment really taking off in the very near future. And for good reason, no gas needed and virtually no repairs. Once the Greenworks 48in stander and 52in zero turn gets on the market it will be a game changer for the better.

[rjlandscaping]

Hi Johnny this would not work in our area what about safety, kids, dogs etc what about leaf cleanups in the fall thanks Rocco from R J LANDSCAPING here in CT

[BillyGoatLawnService]

Johnny, I'm with you. For us owners, I think it is great. I'm sure the big mower manufactures already have patents in place. You know technology is always feed to us slowly. I can just image what the commercial version of these mowers would be like. Having 2 or 3 of these GPS programed mowers running around while we trim around the property.

[scotto]

The blades are basically razor blades. 3 blades, imagine how quickly these will dull if they hit a couple of sticks or rocks. They don't cut in a line by line pattern like stripping. It's random. So at any given time the lawn is patchy, cut here but not there. The blades will have to be sharpened more often then the ones now. Who's gonna repair it? Tall grass? Leaves and branches falling? There are some tasks where humans are just better than robots. At this time lawn service is one of those.

[Joe-sgtk]

One day perhaps but I'm retired from it and watching u guys do it. Battery weed eater, blower, etc I would have laughed at you 10 years ago.

[krishathcox]

I like mowing to much but i would like to have a robotic trimmer and edger haha

[derrickmccollum]

Everything not just lawns will be this way in 50 years or less I feel

[keevini]

No it's not the end bc their is some commercial and some residential properties that for that little mower it would take days to cut it.

[joecraft]

Not a problem in our lifetime. They cannot replace a yard crew that moves, trims, mulches, cleans up limbs and lawn debris. This technology has been around, got one of these vacuuming your house? I do but the damn thing don't work good at cleaning up pine straw or leaves!

[jasonhill]

so iv been doing some research on these robotic mowers and starting a business also. there are different kinds of robo mowers that cut in a different way and would work great for maintaining a small lawn. as far as safety they will shut off if they are picked up or run into anything hard. You don't have to worry about theft bc most all have GPS tracking on them. Yes you would still need leaf clean up, trimming, edging and picking up sticks and this only would cut down on the time cutting the actual lawn.  Europe has been using these and perfecting these things for years. maybe its time for us to change too.

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I have a different view. I know we are going greener and that's good but I wouldn't mind dreaming of a day where every owner buys their own ego trimmers, mowers, blowers and we just get contracted to use them on their properties for example. Another one would be recharging stations if we plan to use those things all day long, say it only lasts like two hours, well have recharge stations between the next jobs to stop and get fully charged batteries and leaving yours there that need recharging for the next guy. Just a thought.

[georgioocean]

it's like having your Blondie in a box. it's only a toy it's going to require a lot more magnitude for the actually be more effective. but yes it be helpful to incorporate it within your business if it's logical more cost-effective

[DavidC]

i actually thought about doing this...they are VERY EXPENSIVE! In my opinion buy the most efficient equipment possible. Also the finish quality is not to par of your company's!

[algardner]

It's a complement. For some people mowing is just a chore and a damned annoying one. Hit the price right and you're making money for little effort.

How long do one of these things take to cover an area? My concern is base stations and how long I need to leave it for. 1 to 3 days before I can cycle it to the next customer?

[fixt]

they are already down to 2000$ thats what a homeowner will pay to have their lawn mowed in 10 months.