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That is awesome. I have wanted to do this for an electric mower. And maybe eventually train it to drive itself with ML. You could even start a service to cut ya

That is awesome. I have wanted to do this for an electric mower. And maybe eventually train it to drive itself with ML. You could even start a service to cut yards and use the public records of the lots to set a boundaries for the yard.

Cthulhu_ 4y ago
Have you looked at what's available on the market? I don't know if they still need a wire around the lawn to set the boundaries these days though. That said, these things doing the rounds around a neighbourhood would be cool. But then, so would street sweepers and weeders.
tstrimple 4y ago
Have you seen OpenMower? https://github.com/ClemensElflein/OpenMower https://github.com/ClemensElflein/OpenMower
samatman 4y ago
There's an Ardumower project, I'm intending to work on building one over the winter. I dream of far more sophisticated home garden robots, but would settle for farming out the basic haircut to a robot.
bradstewart 4y ago
I would definitely buy a Roomba for my lawn (assuming it worked well). Obviously more safety concerns than a vacuum cleaner, with the spinning metal blades and all, but seems doable.
- fennecfoxen 4y ago
  Existing lawn robots still mostly rely on a buried cable to form a boundary-line. The next generation vision/lidar/gps systems are clearly in development but not commercially available in the US (the Segway NaviMow is available in Europe).
  - ftrobro 4y ago
    Husqvarna EPOS does not need physical boundary wires and seems to be available in the US too: https://www.husqvarna.com/us/discover/epos/ https://www.husqvarna.com/us/discover/epos/
    - samatman 4y ago
      This year was the tipping point for the US market, they weren't readily available until late summer. I'll have a (ground) wireless lawn robot next year one way or another, it would bring me more satisfaction to build one but that doesn't mean I'll actually do it.
    - fennecfoxen 4y ago
      That's new — but those are still $5000 models "designed for professional fleet use", a little on the steep side. I'd give it a little longer for that to percolate downmarket towards the likes of the Navimow which is around the €1500 level.
toomuchtodo 4y ago
https://www.scytherobotics.com/ https://www.scytherobotics.com/

Cthulhu_ 4y ago

Have you looked at what's available on the market? I don't know if they still need a wire around the lawn to set the boundaries these days though. That said, these things doing the rounds around a neighbourhood would be cool. But then, so would street sweepers and weeders.

tstrimple 4y ago

Have you seen OpenMower? https://github.com/ClemensElflein/OpenMower https://github.com/ClemensElflein/OpenMower

samatman 4y ago

There's an Ardumower project, I'm intending to work on building one over the winter. I dream of far more sophisticated home garden robots, but would settle for farming out the basic haircut to a robot.

bradstewart 4y ago

I would definitely buy a Roomba for my lawn (assuming it worked well). Obviously more safety concerns than a vacuum cleaner, with the spinning metal blades and all, but seems doable.

fennecfoxen 4y ago
Existing lawn robots still mostly rely on a buried cable to form a boundary-line. The next generation vision/lidar/gps systems are clearly in development but not commercially available in the US (the Segway NaviMow is available in Europe).
- ftrobro 4y ago
  Husqvarna EPOS does not need physical boundary wires and seems to be available in the US too: https://www.husqvarna.com/us/discover/epos/ https://www.husqvarna.com/us/discover/epos/
  - samatman 4y ago
    This year was the tipping point for the US market, they weren't readily available until late summer. I'll have a (ground) wireless lawn robot next year one way or another, it would bring me more satisfaction to build one but that doesn't mean I'll actually do it.
  - fennecfoxen 4y ago
    That's new — but those are still $5000 models "designed for professional fleet use", a little on the steep side. I'd give it a little longer for that to percolate downmarket towards the likes of the Navimow which is around the €1500 level.

toomuchtodo 4y ago

https://www.scytherobotics.com/ https://www.scytherobotics.com/