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Journal pudge's Journal: Robomower 16

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This is seriously tempting me. I could spend less and work more, or spend more and work less than the least, but still more than the this. And being battery powered, it is also a lot cheaper to operate, better for environment blah blah blah.

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  • Safety (Score:2)

    by turg ( 19864 ) *

    So it can work around solid objects. Do children count as solid objects? :-)

    I also wonder how it avoids throwing smaller objects like stones -- that a human could stop to toss aside.

    • I wouldn't have it running with children in the yard. And yes, I would need to remove small obstacles, but this is no different than me mowing. If I cannot easily see it beforehand, I likely won't see it when mowing, either.
      • I didn't see a price on the site or the sites of the (Canadian) dealers that I looked at. How much do they want for one of these?
        • $700. Plus accessories (extra battery pack, charger) and maintenance (although I can't see maintenance being more than a normal lawn mower; blade maintenance, occasional wear and tear ... two year warranty on most parts). A decent push mower would be half that, but would take more work every week, and use gasoline. And probably require more maintenance (spark plugs, oil changes, engine tunes). Since my time is so short, I might prefer a small riding mower, which would cost even more than the Robomower .
      • Are you not in suburbia? I thought your new house was...

        Anyway, I am. And while our kids are in their teens, we've always got tons of kids in our back yard. Smaller kids, all sorts of ages. Football, baseball, soccer, jarts, you name it, those kids are out there running around through all the yards. (our neighborhood doesn't allow fences). They drag so many toys and what-not-things out, it's amazing, and lots of stuff gets left outside in various yards.

        While we don't mind the little ones occasionally usin
  • I'd go for this [sharperimage.com] before that. Seems like less to go wrong.

    And are they serious about using it at night? Yeah, I'd love a neighbor like that.
  • The linkage you had goes to a page with:

    What would you like to do with your free time?

    Well, that's an easy one - download more porn!
  • Built-in GPS so it can remember the positions of objects and borders and calculate efficient ways to avoid them and cut the lawn faster.

    (With the GPS above or some other method)Be able to find its own way back to the charger when finished mowing so you don't have to go collect it yourself.
    • Yeah. Wake me up when it has a little hutch to charge itself, where it can't be conveniently stolen.

      And it has milimeter wave radar so that it can detect the presence of foreign objects anywhere on my property.

      And it runs on radioactive isotopes so that can operate at extremely high speeds.
      • Supposedly theft shouldn't be an issue because 1) You can set it to require a PIN before it can be activated, and 2) The thing weighs 75 pounds.

        It would just be nice it could find its way home so if you have a yard with a lot of bushes and whatnot, you don't have to go hunting for it to put it away.

  • ED209 (Score:4, Funny)

    by Elwood P Dowd ( 16933 ) <judgmentalist@gmail.com> on Thursday October 16, 2003 @06:02PM (#7234748) Journal
    Robomower: STEP OFF THE LAWN. YOU HAVE TEN SECONDS TO COMPLY.
    Robomower: TEN
    Robomower: NINE
    <Your child steps off the lawn>
    Robomower: EIGHT
    Robomower: SEVEN ...

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