We sure that's definitely his garden? Seems kinda small compared to his giant house. Edit: well he said he doesn't live here anymore so it must be the old place.
@@lukebarnes8097 he also mentioned he didnt care to fix the tree because he didnt live there anymore, so fairly sure thats his old place that he still owns but no longer lives at :)
Yeah, I think it's important that people doing honest reviews don't read the manual. It gives you a realistic view of how difficult it can be and you can also keep yourself from doing a stupid thing if you just watched someone else doing it how you would have 😂
@@AnthonysMeat They look nothing alike though. Are you claiming this is just a reskin? Actually, the one from GreenWorks doesn't use GPS and instead uses the guide wire like most other mowers. They are nothing alike, and the Green Works isn't rated for as big a slope either.
Seeing the setup process made me realize the product is absolute dogshit for a garden that is not absolute flat piece of grass. Which is nothing I would even call a garden. After seeing this, if I would win the product in a company raffle, I would not see me using it. Let alone paying anything for it
Hugely grateful this was called a showcase. I don't care as much about the whole title thing anymore, but it is super nice to know exactly what I'm clicking on
Lawnmower racing is *totally* a thing and they get *really* into it. You can often find lawnmower races at tractor pulls. King of the Hill also has a great episode about lawnmower racing!
And the mowers are stupid powerful and fast. Honda makes one with 1000cc engine, 200hp and up to 150mph. The more common ones that people build themselves are obviously not quite as fast, but they’re still doing 70-100mph on some tracks
In the area where I live, there is an actual mower-specific dirt racing track complete with stands and lights nearby. It's technically a fairground too, which is what I think the lights were originally installed for, but it's used for mower racing the rest of the year.
Holly shit! $3k for a result _this_ crappy? If you buy a $500 mower and pay a local kid $50 to mow your lawn every week, it'll take 2 years before breaking even and your lawn will look _much_ better.
I bought a $1400 Worx Landroid 2 years ago for my 1/2 acre back yard. Best investment in my time ever. It keeps the backyard exactly perfect. Of course that used a electric fence basically to roomba around. But it saves me soo much time, and the only maintaining is changing the razor blades.
as a fellow Husqvarna Automower "technician" i totally agree. seeing the ecoflow tackling a plant, and without reliable collision detection sketched me out. i've experienced what those lil blades can do.
I have one (Husqvarna), had it for 9 years now covering 32'000 sq ft, best purchase I've ever made. This thing is a bit odd though, for example the grass collector is actually a bad thing, you want the fine cut grass to stay in your lawn as fertilizer and since the robots cut the grass way more often than you would do with a manual one you don't notice any grass residues.
I remember watching Linus drop something out of a third floor window at the same time he deletes data off 6 SSDs in RAID0 to see which one was quicker. Now we get lawn mower reviews and troll shoe reviews and I'm absolutely here for it. This channel ages like fine wine.
@@ech0ech071 Yeah, all those subs because they've diversified their content to appeal to a bigger audience. I'm here because I like to watch such a big tech channel fail at so much of what they review and test. It's only a step above TylerTube, but at least that dude's playing a character.
Can you do a household robot series? Especially vacuums? Your last video on those is 5 years old and there are some amazing ones out there now. They also make window cleaning robots.
He is not gonna do vacuums, they are extremely hard to test and you need multiple specialised people and equipment. The best you can have is a channel called "vacuum wars"
That sweeper needs some kind of automatic emptying option at "home base" or at designated dump point. Also an automatic tool change so it could attach/detach the sweeper bag on its own. Sure, it would be insanely expensive and bit challenging to engineer, but would make this so much more useful.
The fact that it’s only 2.5-3ish grand is pretty goddamn crazy. A decade ago you’d spend more than that on a decent tractor. Ya gotta have something bigger to cut big ass lawns… or something automated!
kind of goes against the grain of Linus saying he is never going out again, now he has a new mower!! wish he never missed major information in the intro's, as it is totally false advertising.
agreed, I think monitoring wear and tear on something like this and reporting back is very important. after a week, a few months, and definitely after a year. it'll be interesting to see how it performs in different seasons as well. I would also love to see how it holds up in more tropical climates like Florida where the grass can easily outgrow those height limits in just a few days during the peak summer months.
@@Speedj2 benefit of the robot mower is that it can run as often as you'd like. So rather than cutting the whole growth every week, it can run every other day... I wonder if the app can use the weather to decide if it should mow, e.g. just to avoid mowing while it's raining or wet.
I returned my Blade after a few weeks. The GPS reception is virtually impossible to achieve even in ideal conditions. This device is only usable in huge open areas.
@@andrewskujins4568from what I've seen of various robot mowers if you don't have a metal roof, put the GPS antenna on the highest part of your roof, and it will work amazingly well
For real, it requires you to have it mowed to a maintenance height first so if you're doing that might as well just do it yourself. I get it could maintain the height after but owning two expensive pieces of lawn equipment seems silly.
not really, i have a gardena sileno city auto lawnmower (way cheaper than the one in this video) took me a couple hours to setup (it uses guide wire) and i havent had to do ANY yard work in months. Totally worth it, specially if you live somewhere where the grass grows very quickly (like you have to mow once or twice a week)
I know a lot of people with lawn robots. They say they cut it at the start of the season with a normal lawnmower and then let the robot do it’s thing pretty much every day so the yard stays at a consistent height.
I can't even get a robot vac to work inside, so there's no chance for me getting that thing to mow our backyard! Nope... I'll stick with my rideon mower thanks 🙂👍
Don't buy crap. I have s5 max roborock and it still amazes me. I just wish I had money for a new s8 so I wouldn't have to empty once a week but once a month
If that "GPS antenna" is an RTK base station, it is literally the reference point for positioning. So yes, don't move it. Also, RTK is pretty cool, as it allows for centimeter level precision using GPS.
@@tarkitarker0815 curious what other solutions you would use? Local positioning system, like Bluetooth positioning, lidar, AI vision. When used correctly RTK GPS positioning looks to be a reliable accurate system.
@@s.k.vigneshkarthikeyan2887 Yeah think that with RTK moving the base station would just look like more drift and send "correction" information accordingly. Could possibly include a few safeguards like an accelerometer and kalman filter implementation to also detect and possibly correct for movement of the base station. But easiest to just say don't move the base station.
Automower owner here. This is not decades old. They have RTK GPS just like what EPOS is, then LiDAR sensor which Husqvarna lacks (the new NERA line have some radar). The Automower 550 EPOS peeked out of the design studio to tests in 2020. Ceora is built for bigger lawn areas, it cannot be used in a back garden like this. I would say this mower is a bit jerky compared to Husqvarna. Moves very fast (how much does the disc spinn?) and knocks over things.
LOL!! It's like watching a 4yr old cutting their own hair!! YUGE FAIL!! 😂 I know from an engineering aspect that the severe Toe-In of those "not-really Omni-rollers", are for keeping the mower tracking as straight as possible, but LOL they're gonna get trashed in a very short time. GOOD JOB!! 😂👍
You should add a chapter to these videos called 'Wil I be able to use this in 3 years' where you give your best analysis if it will be e-waste by 3 years.
The warranty is 4, so I'd guess that's about how long it will last before a control board or battery goes out, and the replacement parts costs half the price of the unit (assuming they haven't discontinued this model by then or even bother offering spare parts outside a battery or blades). Yes, I've been burned many times due to excessive optimism about this type of (usually disposable) gizmo.
The EcoFlow BLADE knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is - whichever is greater - it obtains a difference or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviation to generate corrective commands to drive the EcoFlow BLADE from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position that it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is is now the position that it wasn't, and if follows that the position that it was is now the position that it isn't.
12:05 As someone who lives in the southern part of the states, yes. Lawn mower racing is 100% a thing. You take push mowers, remove all safety, and hope it goes in a straight line by itself. 20:32 I like how you say challenging when my yard is on a hill and this would never work. Although, maybe one day. That would be cool.
@Diverse Green-Anon Maybe, but I'm coming from personal experiences working with 7' rotary cutters (or Bush Hog), cutting 2' high weeds/fescue at golf courses. They have a pivot style blade so you can cut through branches or hidden ant mounts without destroying the blade instantly
as small as those blades are though, odds are one rock hit and you need to replace the blade anyway. Can't imagine those things have a very long life even just cutting grass before they get dull
Linus if you get a shovel you can wedge a small gap into the grass and dirt and tuck the cable into said gap and pound both sides of the gap to close up Over the wire protecting it and allowing seemless movement thru the lawn. Did it all the time as a landscaper.
I highly recommend the Husqvarna Automower series. My parents have the 308 and its been running for almost 4000h with no issues. It mows every day and all I do is edge cutting with trimmer/weedwhacker. And since it runs so often it kills moss too!
Indeed. I have one now for 4 years and running just like on the first day. Best brand out there for all battery powered yard tools. I have their whole range. Works brilliantly and easy to replace and repair everything, even many years in the future.
That gps antenna reminds me of something that we currently use on modern aircraft for instrument flying called Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) which uses ground stations at a known location to apply a correction factor to nearby aircraft. It allows scary good accuracy without having to upgrade the current satellites (but did lead to a few more being put in geosynchronous orbit).
Yeah, I'm almost sure they're just using differential GPS. If base station has it's own GPS, by being (within reason) a fixed point in space, you can then hash some math on both GPS signals to get a distance vector between the mobile GPS and the base station that's SURPRISINGLY accurate, as they said, to within 2cm of the actual distance between them, and that's with bog standard commercial GPS receivers and being set up by a regular dude without any thought put into it. I studied geodesy as part of my degree, and it's really amazing what you can do with GPS if you're willing to be smart about it. If you have geodetic pillars with extremely accurate positions (every country has a grid of them, but they're EXPENSIVE to get positional data that accurate from scratch), differential lets you transfer that highly accurate position to almost any other point you need to as long as you can see the same satellites (read: you can be dozens of miles away) incredibly easily, with relatively cheap gear, and very quickly. You can even strap your mobile receiver on a Jeep and do positional grids in 3D nearly anywhere. To show us how good differential with scientific or military grade receivers and proper setup can be, our professor told us to take a receiver/antenna combo on a pole, and stick it in the ground at some exact location. Except we couldn't, because when we went to stick the tip of the pole into the ground, we hit a coin underneath the grass.
@@wallythewall600 How accurate (in cm) could you get with random cheap off-the-shelf GPS-Receivers from for example eBay and a Rover-Base-Station Combo? I'm quite unsure on how to get accurate results because there seem to be special RTK GPS Receivers and just the standard ones mentioned. I don't understand what the difference between these expensive ones and the cheap ones is. Does one basically trade accuracy for cost? What accuracies can someone expect at different price points? I hope you could help me a little bit. Would be greatly appreciated :)
Ive had the Worx Landroid L for 2 years now and Its been wonderful. Everyday running is a must for sure. That said, even in a random pattern it does a great job. But doing it consistently prevents the sweep and bagging needs.
I really like these videos. It's both tech and everyday use, and a good way for people like my older parents, that are less technical, but can appreciate the content and use for it. Hope this continues 👍
Wish this was around a couple years ago when I bought my landroid. I live in Houston and even with the hassle of installing the boundary wires, it saves me so much time working it in 100 degree weather. Saves me 1-2 hours per week, and keeps the lawn looking better maintained since it cuts it every day. Ecoflows design looks a lot better and should hopefully reduce the chance the mower gets stuck like mine does. Bring my robot mower reviews please!
same, someone in my family got one more than a decade ago because they are too old to do it themselves, i'm surprise there's so many people just learning about them
Remenber my dad always talking about Husqvarna dirtbikes he had, said the things were brake melting monsters. Haven't really seem them myself, guess the brand left Brazil.
I have an Husqvarna automower for over 6 years now and i can tell that those frontwheels will stop turning after a few weeks in my garden. My robot has sometimes an inch thick layer of leaves and grass on the front wheels. To me the robot design looks more like something that works in super dry environments (not in his garden). I also miss the all around bump guard because this makes it way safer for kids and wildlife like hedgehogs. My robot has been working flawlessly for whole seasons without intervention or cleaning and would recommend it (i dont have experience with an other brand). It also has those razerblade style blades which prevents pinecones to stick to the baldes and adds up to an extra safety for human feet.
My thought also with those front wheels. Grass clippings build up everywhere on the mowers and I'm skeptic for the front wheels. This seems to be a wild idea how it should work, but at least it doesn't look as bad as the Mammotion Luba (I guess every F1 fan wants one...)
Can confirm! Using two Gardena Robots (they use Husavarna hardware) and wet grass piling up in these weird wheels of the Ecoflow was the first thought that came to my mind! I'm sure this thing hasn't been really tested outside.
@@googlenutzer8768 i have tiled a litte area before the dock because of this issue. My robot his dock lives in a kind of dog house so parking is a little hard. But even without a guide wire it parks quite quickly.
Thanks very helpful, as I was just looking into buying it. I think the random pattern will look weird with splotches, but fact that it got stuck on the twig is a deal breaker for me personally
I'd have a look at Husqvarna (i have the 315x). Although requires a professional to set it up for you - you don't have to do anything. Robot is a lot smaller and compact and way less noisy than this one. Plus it keeps the clippings on the lawn - which is healthy for the grass. I honestly can't figure out what the big deal is with this one. The features this automower has is not special when it comes to other automowers. I don't understand who this is meant for - it looks like the mower is designed for landscaping on vast land (10k+ sq feet) yet the manual mapping is only convenient for small backyards. It's so weird. All im seeing is an unnecessarily yoked up automower with nothing to show for it.
The lawn will greatly improve with a robot doing daily runs. Perhaps just not this robot necessary. Doing daily runs means the clippings are so small that they dont cause any trouble. However like in this video the first run on a tall lawn i would remove the clippings as to not suffocate the lawn. The setup with wire is a hassle but done only once. But as seen in this video the tech has improved so wire is not necessary any more. It is nice to have a robot, once in place there wont be any tracks or such since it does it daily so any differences can hardly if at all be seen. Buy one, just not most expensive one perhaps lol.
I'm actually really excited about this. Here in tropical Australia I have to cut my lawn every week for 3/4 of the year (because it's warm and sunny = perfect grass growing temperature). If I could just run this 2x a week (I think every day is too much) and maybe spend 5 minutes trimming every now and then, that would save me a lot of time!
Ever consider replacing your lawn (or some of it) with another ground cover? Different plants can replace your lawn plus be friendly to local pollinators and birds. Just depends on how you use your lawn. Grass is rarely the best option.
@@Crushnaut Yeah i've always been curious about clover or dwarf carpet lawns. Seems amazing but never really had any experience with it, the HOA here where i live forces us to have grass sadly tho.
@@Navi_xoo you could try petitioning the HOA, they are after all, elected by the HOA members. They might change their mind. Ecoscaping is becoming a lot more trendy.
The idea is it does a LITTLE bit every day. That's honestly the best for your lawn's health, too. Since it is onlyl cutting a few millimeters, it'd be right quick.
@@ThereWasNoFreeName It's the same as with robot cleaners. It's for maintenance. You get the place to a good, reasonable state. And you employ these expensive gimmicks and they will maintain the place so your manual mowing/cleaning will be much less frequent, so overall you win some time.
Gardena and Husqvarna is two very common brands in Scandinavia. Its become very common to run these in your garden. And they are really affordable and durable.
I like this mower, it continuously tried to attack the host lol, the opening "beware human" was spot on. Edit: $3000~ USD isn't too bad for what it can do, personally I'll just keep mowing but I was expecting worst lol.
@@hallymiao2825 Honestly I suspect the people that are actually buying these wouldn't be too fussed about the cost. It also scales rapidly to lawn size. How large is your lawn? Once you get up to 3000sqm I get the feeling that it would start to be more cost effective over time vs paying someone to do the whole lawn. Then you're just getting someone to come through every now and then to clean up edges, etc.
Many years ago we were all outside and my grandpa was doing yard work, mowing the lawn in the dead of summer. We had raked a large pile of dead leaves and pine needles to the side and so while mowing next to the pile it struck a rock, sparked and immediately caught the pile of leaves and needles on fire. It was awesome. I've also been hit with stones flung about by a mower... doesn't feel great.
this is really cool to see because this is how autosteer works we have had this on farms for almost 30 years now and it scool to see finally on some normal consumer stuff
The main goal of these is to handle basic maintenance at this point, still have to go around every two weeks or so with a string trimmer to touch stuff up. The interesting one these days is the Husqvarna since they introduced commercial ones I've seen lawn companies pop up that just setup the robot for you and maintain it for a monthly fee along with the trimming, the first that comes to mind is Turf bot.
@@hansdietrich83 Well that's how often you'd get it mowed normally and since it's missing patches you'd have to clear them up manually. I don't see why someone would spend $3k on a lawn care product when you'd either have to pay someone or strim the bits yourself.
@@Ben-fk9ey I have a gardena sileno city that cost about 700€. The only thing I need to do manually is triming the edges like ones a year. I planed my lawn specifically for the mower to reach every spot.
In temperate climate, where I live, I have to mow the lawn after every 7 days max. And I use a ride on lawn mower. The grass is just so thick and juicy. If I mow it after a 2 week period it will end up looking bad squashing it down or leaving clumps. Lawn robots are really popular here just for that reason. They go around the yard ever day to cover the whole area over the span of a few days. The robots don't cut the grass just one day a week, it's nonstop. They are very expensive though. Usual quality stuff like Husqvarna go for about 3K. That's 2 months salary for an average income person, including me. So I guess I'll be doing the mowing for the foreseeable future at least.
Would love a follow up video showing if you can get it connected with your home assistant system to automatically get statistics and send commands to the mower
YES reviews of lawn robots! been waiting for this. please please please review the Yarbo modular lawn robot!! I wanna see how good it is with snow blowing as well! Especially because Linus is in Canada it will be awesome to see over the winter months. It releases in October
This is the best argument against the robot singularity and the irony of spending more time finding a way around the problem rather than just doing the work.
Except there are dozens of other products that are arguably better than this one. Also spending 2 hours on a nice cool day setting this up is not the same amount of work as mowing your large yard once a week during mid July or August
@@Ben-fk9ey I run a weed whacker every couple of weeks around the edges. That's so much easier than mowing and weed whacking. Why does it have to be an all or nothing?
Robot mowers have been on the market for almost 30 years now, they are better and cheaper than this :D Cheap ones start around $700 and good ones (better than this based on this video) are around $1500. $3000 is the top of the line models that have stuff like solarpanels, can cut acres of land etc.
Love Linus got a sponsor spot of out it but this video just shows we're not ready yet and this is clearly 1st gen. Surprised Ecoflow approved this considering how poorly it seems to perform.
$2900? I only paid something like $5500 for my John Deere x570 which is a lawn tractor that is basically at entry level for someone doing lawn mowing as a business.
@@bajroevahahahaha Better is not true, all of them require you to lay a wire around your yard and even then they just bounce around randomly not straight paths
@@stevexracer4309 The bigger problem with something like this for the price tag is that the size and manner of yard you need for this thing to be effective at doing its job is going to be very small and very simple. You can't honestly tell me that someone with a yard of the size and complexity this thing would be adequate for can't find the time 4 times a month to cut that grass. It takes me about 2 hours to cut mine each time (not counting limb pickup and then trimming) to mow my yard with a riding mower and a 48" (that's almost 5 times bigger than the deck this thing has) deck. So if I can find the time find the time to deal with mine then someone with a yard as small as this thing would need should be able to.
I've been following robotic mowers for over a decade and this is on par in terms of price as many as the others out there that require more setup effort. Considering that in some cases these can replace your time and cost of a riding mower for larger yards up to ~3/4 of an acre the Price isn't terrible albeit a tad high compared to other models designed for smaller yards.
It seems like it would be great for a perfectly level very square yard with no trees to drop branches, but it couldn’t even handle that super tiny stick. So the amount of people that this would be really good for I feel like is pretty niche.
@@benwu7980 Also will become completely useless if the product and app get discontinued. And considering how garbage this is, it could happen pretty soon.
Automatic grass cutters are very common in Sweden, but have never seen one with a sweeper, nor without some kind of edge line and definitely not anyone with crazy wheels like this one!
In Switzerland too. This thing seems a bit useless tbh. You don't need to sweep when the mower is out every 2nd day. Huge base station + GPS antenna seem much more of a disadvantage compared to the usual guide wire
LOL!! This is as painful as watching a 4yr old cutting their own hair!! 😂 [Reply Deleted] With portable power-tools, wireless devices and flashlights being the only things where Practicality outweighs the Poor Efficiency of battery storage, I can't believe I'm discussing this joke of a mower as something viable!! 😞 I will now grasp the wrong end of a T12 ballast several times as punishment. 😳
this video is one of the most entertaining LTT videos i've seen in quite some time. the chaotic energy of the robot almost running over linus a number of times was great. It knocking over the potted plant was absolutely gold. In all reality, this product is insane and stupid. my yard has a few slopes and lots of moleholes, so this thing would have a stroke in my yard lmao.
are robotic lawnmowers not a thing in your country? if anything this model would make it better than any other robotic mower on the market. 90% of the lawns where i live uses a normal robotic one its so common now a days.
With these lawn bot mowers, they need to put in a "FOLLOW ME" or something like that and map out the areas you want cut. Something like putting a ping pong ball on a stick so they can track it as you go along the edge of the areas you want cut.
I dont quite understand why they couldnt just use the antenna to map out the rough shape first. Stick it into the corners of the area and have it save the gps cords.
I have very bad grass allergies, but I cannot afford a lawn service so this tech has been of interest to me for a few years now. It’s clear that it still isn’t were I would like it to be in both the pricing and function aspect. I appreciate you guys taking a look at it.
If you're curious about them still look into Mammotion. There is definitely some finnicky things to get it set but does a great job. Mammotion's is much better, AWD, handles much higher slopes and bumps, and looks like a F1 car. Depending on the size of the yard it isn't too bad. I got mine on sale for $1700. Definitely enjoying mine but a few years from getting it nailed down.
Is it just me or EcoFlow robot is up to something. The way it's trying to mow over Linus looks like a revenge attempt for all those fellow robot-parts that Linus has dropped over the years.
You have to do a 2 month review. Things like this really shine because your grass will do very good if you start cutting daily cutting a small amount at a time. Grass hates being cut in half or more once or twice a month like a lazy mower. That's why lawn snobs mow more than once a week.
Linus - the only guy I know to test a robot vacuum in sandals with socks, and walk around it while it spins around randomly. Bro! Go get some boots on in case that razor blade spinning thing comes your way lol😂
linus read the instructions to himself and ignored them for content but damn am i enjoying his dad energy of “damn it let me watch it mow my lawn, that’s cool as f***”
OK I have a couple of things to say here. 1: The hat, sunscreen, and hoody are what I do before mowing. 👍 2: When they come out with one that can mow 5 acres on the side of a 30% grade hill, I'll buy it.
@@subwarpspeed I had one it couldn't do it, so I returned it. It would shut down, lose signal, some how flip over, go out to the road randomly because of signal issues, stop if a raccoon went up to and said hello and other weirder problems.
Really, literally have never seen one, outside of ads that is and the ones in ads werent nearly as big, about roomba sized and without a container to catch the cut gras.
At 18:57 Linus reflexively saying sorry to a robot lawn mower after IT CHAARGES AT HIM is the most quintessentially Canadian thing I've seen him do, and I love it. 😂 Apologizing for merely inconveniencing someone ( or something) with our existence is essentially half of our national identity! 🍁
Our local mower guy is running a automated lawnmower for years and years on a part of his field. I think he does it, to prove a point or promotion or smth. Sometimes he even moves it to a different part of the field, just to show what it can do. The field is so uneven, i swear, sometimes i feel bad for the mower, it is really rough terrain. But it is going strong.
I still love how linus makes sure he Introduces his staff to the channel so they get the recognition they deserve it's why LTT will forever be my favorite channel it's not just Linus anymore it's a whole group of like-minded people
Its always so awesome seeing linus discover something new. Omniwheels are super awesome, and they are always designed so differently in every setting I've seen them in. I love it
Thank you for the Video. I actually bought one because of it! Havent set it up yet as it was raining constantly here but im looking forward to it! BTW you saying sorry to the robot was the most canadian thing i have ever seen lmao
Linus moving on from monetizing his house to monetizing his lawn and garden care
We sure that's definitely his garden? Seems kinda small compared to his giant house.
Edit: well he said he doesn't live here anymore so it must be the old place.
@@lukebarnes8097 yeah where’s the water cooling reservoir/ pool?
@@lukebarnes8097 it's his old place, but in his new place the yard is a pit where a pool is being built (but on hiatus last I heard)
@@lukebarnes8097 he also mentioned he didnt care to fix the tree because he didnt live there anymore, so fairly sure thats his old place that he still owns but no longer lives at :)
If this is his house, why are we allowed to see the back yard when it used to just be blurred through the windows?
I actually enjoyed watching him struggle to set this up. It is realistic and something that as a casual buyer would want to know before buying this
linus doesnt come cheap 🤷
@@AnthonysMeat That design is not at all the same as this one, it's a stretch to say they're close.
Yeah, I think it's important that people doing honest reviews don't read the manual. It gives you a realistic view of how difficult it can be and you can also keep yourself from doing a stupid thing if you just watched someone else doing it how you would have 😂
@@AnthonysMeat They look nothing alike though. Are you claiming this is just a reskin?
Actually, the one from GreenWorks doesn't use GPS and instead uses the guide wire like most other mowers. They are nothing alike, and the Green Works isn't rated for as big a slope either.
Seeing the setup process made me realize the product is absolute dogshit for a garden that is not absolute flat piece of grass. Which is nothing I would even call a garden. After seeing this, if I would win the product in a company raffle, I would not see me using it. Let alone paying anything for it
Linus' life story has been a warning against early adoption and I love it.
Unless you are adopting then early adoption is best. ( Sorry adoptee humour 😂)
@@grumpyratt2163 raising another man's offspring
@@echo5827 and another woman's offspring let's not forget there has to be a woman involved in the equation somewhere
@@grumpyratt2163 Don't assume the birthing person's gender.
@@mikeissweet 😂😂😂
the best anti ad i‘ve ever seen. now i know i never need a lawnmower robot
If this is an anti ad then these things were never intended for you
Linus Mowing Tips?
uncle linus is coming back
Any Linus Hiding from Mafia Tips?
Sounds like a new channel incoming
I'm down
Rather Linus Garden Tips it seems like
Hugely grateful this was called a showcase. I don't care as much about the whole title thing anymore, but it is super nice to know exactly what I'm clicking on
That's exactly why he does it. I remember it from a WAN show months ago. Really all UA-camrs should have clear editorial separation like this.
@@TheKingLeeroy my brother in christ you clicked on the video
@@TheKingLeeroybro what
@@TheKingLeeroy i didn't find it a waste of time. I was looking into the space, and now i know the tech isn't there for my yard layout
@@TheKingLeeroyBut if the title is accurate, then you chose to watch a video you knew would be a waste of time.
Lawnmower racing is *totally* a thing and they get *really* into it. You can often find lawnmower races at tractor pulls. King of the Hill also has a great episode about lawnmower racing!
And the mowers are stupid powerful and fast. Honda makes one with 1000cc engine, 200hp and up to 150mph. The more common ones that people build themselves are obviously not quite as fast, but they’re still doing 70-100mph on some tracks
to clarify for those who might wonder, those are the mowers you sit on and drive yourself. :D
I suppose they remove the blades, if not crashing with another driver would be terrible
In the area where I live, there is an actual mower-specific dirt racing track complete with stands and lights nearby. It's technically a fairground too, which is what I think the lights were originally installed for, but it's used for mower racing the rest of the year.
@@ThePaintitwhite well they wear helmets so they probably think about removing the blade first thing first while building their racing mowers
For anyone wondering the price, it's $2900 by itself, and $3200 with the sweeper thing.
Where is the Surprisingly Shocked Pikachu Emoji?!? ;)
Holly shit! $3k for a result _this_ crappy? If you buy a $500 mower and pay a local kid $50 to mow your lawn every week, it'll take 2 years before breaking even and your lawn will look _much_ better.
I bought a $1400 Worx Landroid 2 years ago for my 1/2 acre back yard. Best investment in my time ever. It keeps the backyard exactly perfect. Of course that used a electric fence basically to roomba around. But it saves me soo much time, and the only maintaining is changing the razor blades.
@@hellterminatorwell one year of paying this kid would cost you 2600$... But I get your point
@@timofeifilippov9558 Grass doesn't grow in winter.
Now I want a DIY smart-mower video from LTT, just so I can see Jake and Alex putting a motorcycle engine on one of these things :D
This is something we definitely need
Motor from a electric scooter
Aaaaaaaaand water-cool it😂😂😂
@@shooshikrog strix style.
that seems like a perfect job for our mate colin furze
You know it's not worth it when Linus doesn't want to tell you the price 😂
Yeah, 3 grand for a lawnmower is awfully darn steep...
@@graveyj2000 3k gahhhdamn 💀💀💀
He’s just smart enough not to mention it when half the audience already throws a pity party over not having $400 for a GPU.
@@graveyj2000 My 80V Ryobi was more 😬
@@graveyj2000 not really though. Our Husqvarna robot mower was 2.5 grand. And that has barely any of the features this does.
As a Husqvarna Automower "technician" I would like to see a Husqvarna mower in this running series, and also very curious about the competition.
for sure Husqvarna is as god as i gets when it comes to Automower
My husqvarna riding mower breaks down all the time, not impressed thus far
as a fellow Husqvarna Automower "technician" i totally agree. seeing the ecoflow tackling a plant, and without reliable collision detection sketched me out. i've experienced what those lil blades can do.
That sounds like a sweet gig. Are you more into the "auto" part or the "mower" lol
I guess Husqvarna has to bring over the interrim 450X/450XH EPOS, since the NERA series isn't available in north America this year I guess.
I have one (Husqvarna), had it for 9 years now covering 32'000 sq ft, best purchase I've ever made. This thing is a bit odd though, for example the grass collector is actually a bad thing, you want the fine cut grass to stay in your lawn as fertilizer and since the robots cut the grass way more often than you would do with a manual one you don't notice any grass residues.
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I remember watching Linus drop something out of a third floor window at the same time he deletes data off 6 SSDs in RAID0 to see which one was quicker. Now we get lawn mower reviews and troll shoe reviews and I'm absolutely here for it. This channel ages like fine wine.
It ages like milk in the summer in a broken fridge.
@Flyboy there is only so many "we built the best pc ever" videos you can make, it's nice to see the crew in a different setting from time to time
@@underskillednunderpaid That's not all they do but what they do do is half-arsed a lot of the time.
@@FlyboyHelosim 15 million Subs would disagree. Why are you here? Go watch something else. Clearly you enjoy the content or you wouldn'r be here
@@ech0ech071 Yeah, all those subs because they've diversified their content to appeal to a bigger audience. I'm here because I like to watch such a big tech channel fail at so much of what they review and test. It's only a step above TylerTube, but at least that dude's playing a character.
Can you do a household robot series? Especially vacuums? Your last video on those is 5 years old and there are some amazing ones out there now. They also make window cleaning robots.
This. Would be great to see which models have the best vacuuming, battery life, mapping, etc.
This!!
There Are already niche specialized channels for this
@@RobbyDock heard there are ones that can mop your floors too now
He is not gonna do vacuums, they are extremely hard to test and you need multiple specialised people and equipment. The best you can have is a channel called "vacuum wars"
That sweeper needs some kind of automatic emptying option at "home base" or at designated dump point. Also an automatic tool change so it could attach/detach the sweeper bag on its own. Sure, it would be insanely expensive and bit challenging to engineer, but would make this so much more useful.
it should wipe your butt automatically too. I'd drop 50k on that
The fact that it’s only 2.5-3ish grand is pretty goddamn crazy. A decade ago you’d spend more than that on a decent tractor. Ya gotta have something bigger to cut big ass lawns… or something automated!
kind of goes against the grain of Linus saying he is never going out again, now he has a new mower!! wish he never missed major information in the intro's, as it is totally false advertising.
The sweeper isn't needed when doing regular grass cutting, like every other robotic mower.
They should attach an incinerator to it.
i was really hoping for a few days later update. setting up a plan and coming back after a while to see how the yard looks
agreed, I think monitoring wear and tear on something like this and reporting back is very important. after a week, a few months, and definitely after a year. it'll be interesting to see how it performs in different seasons as well. I would also love to see how it holds up in more tropical climates like Florida where the grass can easily outgrow those height limits in just a few days during the peak summer months.
@@Speedj2 benefit of the robot mower is that it can run as often as you'd like. So rather than cutting the whole growth every week, it can run every other day...
I wonder if the app can use the weather to decide if it should mow, e.g. just to avoid mowing while it's raining or wet.
I returned my Blade after a few weeks. The GPS reception is virtually impossible to achieve even in ideal conditions. This device is only usable in huge open areas.
@@andrewskujins4568from what I've seen of various robot mowers if you don't have a metal roof, put the GPS antenna on the highest part of your roof, and it will work amazingly well
Setting this up and keeping the yard in a state it can mow seems harder than just mowing it yourself every week or 2.
Not to mention you can do that with a mower you paid next to nothing(or nothing if you're lucky) for instead of 3 grand...
these tend to be for people with giant yards, like 3-4 hours of doing it yourself, so you just let this run 24/7 and empty it every now and then.
For real, it requires you to have it mowed to a maintenance height first so if you're doing that might as well just do it yourself. I get it could maintain the height after but owning two expensive pieces of lawn equipment seems silly.
@@tyler1988 and it won't choke on a small branch
not really, i have a gardena sileno city auto lawnmower (way cheaper than the one in this video) took me a couple hours to setup (it uses guide wire) and i havent had to do ANY yard work in months. Totally worth it, specially if you live somewhere where the grass grows very quickly (like you have to mow once or twice a week)
I know a lot of people with lawn robots. They say they cut it at the start of the season with a normal lawnmower and then let the robot do it’s thing pretty much every day so the yard stays at a consistent height.
"I’m never going outside again" that is something we already know about you Linus
This is proper discord mod mentality
Never seen him outside so long 🙈
fax😂
Linus is only outside for content.
I can't even get a robot vac to work inside, so there's no chance for me getting that thing to mow our backyard! Nope... I'll stick with my rideon mower thanks 🙂👍
yea same and it cost 3.3k....
Just plug in the station and it will vaccum. Most advanced ones have cameras and can detect crumbs, empty itself.
I have a robot vac and it's really smart lol. Works everyday and it's always at the dock when I get home lol
Glad I don’t have to mow the lawn, HOA does that
Don't buy crap. I have s5 max roborock and it still amazes me. I just wish I had money for a new s8 so I wouldn't have to empty once a week but once a month
If that "GPS antenna" is an RTK base station, it is literally the reference point for positioning. So yes, don't move it. Also, RTK is pretty cool, as it allows for centimeter level precision using GPS.
Yes, but please use the term GNSS instead of GPS, as it not only uses the american GPS.
yeah almost got a heart attack when linus moved it while it was working
@@s.k.vigneshkarthikeyan2887 if your system only relies on position data from a satelite your positioning system is shite tbh.
@@tarkitarker0815 curious what other solutions you would use? Local positioning system, like Bluetooth positioning, lidar, AI vision. When used correctly RTK GPS positioning looks to be a reliable accurate system.
@@s.k.vigneshkarthikeyan2887 Yeah think that with RTK moving the base station would just look like more drift and send "correction" information accordingly. Could possibly include a few safeguards like an accelerometer and kalman filter implementation to also detect and possibly correct for movement of the base station. But easiest to just say don't move the base station.
Linus apologising to a robot grass cutter is the most Canadian thing I've ever seen
Hello
he just wants to make sure that he is spared when the robots eventually overthrows humanity
These things are decades behind Husqvarna Automowers. You guys should take a look at some of their EPOS-models and the CEORA
Automower owner here. This is not decades old. They have RTK GPS just like what EPOS is, then LiDAR sensor which Husqvarna lacks (the new NERA line have some radar).
The Automower 550 EPOS peeked out of the design studio to tests in 2020.
Ceora is built for bigger lawn areas, it cannot be used in a back garden like this.
I would say this mower is a bit jerky compared to Husqvarna. Moves very fast (how much does the disc spinn?) and knocks over things.
Electric Mowers are like all EV's.......Impractical, Inefficient, NOT Green and a constant Fire Hazzard. GOOD JOB!! 😂👍
LOL!! It's like watching a 4yr old cutting their own hair!! YUGE FAIL!! 😂
I know from an engineering aspect that the severe Toe-In of those "not-really Omni-rollers", are for keeping the mower tracking as straight as possible, but LOL they're gonna get trashed in a very short time. GOOD JOB!! 😂👍
I like imagining a little robot mower running away from the rain...cute.
Honestly id buy the damn thing for that alone.
You should add a chapter to these videos called 'Wil I be able to use this in 3 years' where you give your best analysis if it will be e-waste by 3 years.
The warranty is 4, so I'd guess that's about how long it will last before a control board or battery goes out, and the replacement parts costs half the price of the unit (assuming they haven't discontinued this model by then or even bother offering spare parts outside a battery or blades).
Yes, I've been burned many times due to excessive optimism about this type of (usually disposable) gizmo.
first impressions it looks very cheap and flimsy.
The EcoFlow BLADE knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is - whichever is greater - it obtains a difference or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviation to generate corrective commands to drive the EcoFlow BLADE from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position that it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is is now the position that it wasn't, and if follows that the position that it was is now the position that it isn't.
waytoodank
Are you related to Sir Humphrey Appleby?
I wanna see a Timelapse of this thing doing the full lawn (sweep and mowing both!)
youtube is your friend
12:05 As someone who lives in the southern part of the states, yes. Lawn mower racing is 100% a thing. You take push mowers, remove all safety, and hope it goes in a straight line by itself. 20:32 I like how you say challenging when my yard is on a hill and this would never work. Although, maybe one day. That would be cool.
My mind is blown by the fact that this is the first time Linus has seen an omni wheel.
I thought the same thing! How could this be? 😆
I saw a lot of them on James Bruton's channel, but it still looks weird the first time you see it here.
Same Omni wheels are by NO MEANS new anymore and are pretty standard in tech and robotics. I mean they've been around since 1919.
Linus is objectively incredibly clueless about tech for a guy who's into it
@@TheMrTape because he’s never seen a mechanical Omni wheel? I’m sure he would school you when it comes to electronics.
1:15 I would say it's more to prevent too much damage to the blade itself when you hit a rock or a big stick, not to protect others around
why not both?
@Diverse Green-Anon Maybe, but I'm coming from personal experiences working with 7' rotary cutters (or Bush Hog), cutting 2' high weeds/fescue at golf courses. They have a pivot style blade so you can cut through branches or hidden ant mounts without destroying the blade instantly
This is correct. I work for my local county roads dept, and our 5 foot rotary head mower has the swivel blades for exactly this reason.
as small as those blades are though, odds are one rock hit and you need to replace the blade anyway. Can't imagine those things have a very long life even just cutting grass before they get dull
We have like 3 from Husqvarna in operation in our family, and obsoletely love them
Linus if you get a shovel you can wedge a small gap into the grass and dirt and tuck the cable into said gap and pound both sides of the gap to close up Over the wire protecting it and allowing seemless movement thru the lawn. Did it all the time as a landscaper.
I highly recommend the Husqvarna Automower series. My parents have the 308 and its been running for almost 4000h with no issues. It mows every day and all I do is edge cutting with trimmer/weedwhacker. And since it runs so often it kills moss too!
Indeed. I have one now for 4 years and running just like on the first day. Best brand out there for all battery powered yard tools. I have their whole range. Works brilliantly and easy to replace and repair everything, even many years in the future.
That gps antenna reminds me of something that we currently use on modern aircraft for instrument flying called Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) which uses ground stations at a known location to apply a correction factor to nearby aircraft. It allows scary good accuracy without having to upgrade the current satellites (but did lead to a few more being put in geosynchronous orbit).
Now just wait 400 years for the authorities to approve it
I think it's called RTK. DJI uses it for its more professional drones as well.
Yeah, I'm almost sure they're just using differential GPS.
If base station has it's own GPS, by being (within reason) a fixed point in space, you can then hash some math on both GPS signals to get a distance vector between the mobile GPS and the base station that's SURPRISINGLY accurate, as they said, to within 2cm of the actual distance between them, and that's with bog standard commercial GPS receivers and being set up by a regular dude without any thought put into it. I studied geodesy as part of my degree, and it's really amazing what you can do with GPS if you're willing to be smart about it. If you have geodetic pillars with extremely accurate positions (every country has a grid of them, but they're EXPENSIVE to get positional data that accurate from scratch), differential lets you transfer that highly accurate position to almost any other point you need to as long as you can see the same satellites (read: you can be dozens of miles away) incredibly easily, with relatively cheap gear, and very quickly. You can even strap your mobile receiver on a Jeep and do positional grids in 3D nearly anywhere.
To show us how good differential with scientific or military grade receivers and proper setup can be, our professor told us to take a receiver/antenna combo on a pole, and stick it in the ground at some exact location. Except we couldn't, because when we went to stick the tip of the pole into the ground, we hit a coin underneath the grass.
@@wallythewall600 How accurate (in cm) could you get with random cheap off-the-shelf GPS-Receivers from for example eBay and a Rover-Base-Station Combo?
I'm quite unsure on how to get accurate results because there seem to be special RTK GPS Receivers and just the standard ones mentioned.
I don't understand what the difference between these expensive ones and the cheap ones is. Does one basically trade accuracy for cost? What accuracies can someone expect at different price points?
I hope you could help me a little bit. Would be greatly appreciated :)
@@wallythewall600 that is exactly what they are using. Husqvarna also uses it but they call it EPOS exact positioning something system.
Ive had the Worx Landroid L for 2 years now and Its been wonderful. Everyday running is a must for sure. That said, even in a random pattern it does a great job. But doing it consistently prevents the sweep and bagging needs.
I really like these videos. It's both tech and everyday use, and a good way for people like my older parents, that are less technical, but can appreciate the content and use for it. Hope this continues 👍
Wish this was around a couple years ago when I bought my landroid. I live in Houston and even with the hassle of installing the boundary wires, it saves me so much time working it in 100 degree weather. Saves me 1-2 hours per week, and keeps the lawn looking better maintained since it cuts it every day. Ecoflows design looks a lot better and should hopefully reduce the chance the mower gets stuck like mine does. Bring my robot mower reviews please!
I'd love to see some more battery backup and solar generator content.
I'm amazed they managed to make this whole video without making a "touch grass" joke
The fact that Linus didn’t tweak any important parts on it shows it’s somewhat sturdy
In Sweden we have got them for years, but different brands such as Husqvarna Automower.
same, someone in my family got one more than a decade ago because they are too old to do it themselves, i'm surprise there's so many people just learning about them
Remenber my dad always talking about Husqvarna dirtbikes he had, said the things were brake melting monsters.
Haven't really seem them myself, guess the brand left Brazil.
@@mostneuter Guess they never shipped them overseas. Got mine like 7 years ago.
Cuts my 4500m2 lawn to perfection.
@@guilhermelopes986 No clue 🤷🏼 it’s a Swedish brand so everyone here knows them.
How do you pronounce your name ? Its like per like per usual, or par like paralax
I have an Husqvarna automower for over 6 years now and i can tell that those frontwheels will stop turning after a few weeks in my garden. My robot has sometimes an inch thick layer of leaves and grass on the front wheels. To me the robot design looks more like something that works in super dry environments (not in his garden). I also miss the all around bump guard because this makes it way safer for kids and wildlife like hedgehogs. My robot has been working flawlessly for whole seasons without intervention or cleaning and would recommend it (i dont have experience with an other brand). It also has those razerblade style blades which prevents pinecones to stick to the baldes and adds up to an extra safety for human feet.
My thought also with those front wheels. Grass clippings build up everywhere on the mowers and I'm skeptic for the front wheels.
This seems to be a wild idea how it should work, but at least it doesn't look as bad as the Mammotion Luba (I guess every F1 fan wants one...)
Can confirm! Using two Gardena Robots (they use Husavarna hardware) and wet grass piling up in these weird wheels of the Ecoflow was the first thought that came to my mind! I'm sure this thing hasn't been really tested outside.
Also the grass in front of the charging station will be scraped away badly!
@@googlenutzer8768 i have tiled a litte area before the dock because of this issue. My robot his dock lives in a kind of dog house so parking is a little hard. But even without a guide wire it parks quite quickly.
This specific thing looks like it was designed by people who have literally never mowed a lawn before
Thanks very helpful, as I was just looking into buying it. I think the random pattern will look weird with splotches, but fact that it got stuck on the twig is a deal breaker for me personally
I'd have a look at Husqvarna (i have the 315x). Although requires a professional to set it up for you - you don't have to do anything. Robot is a lot smaller and compact and way less noisy than this one. Plus it keeps the clippings on the lawn - which is healthy for the grass.
I honestly can't figure out what the big deal is with this one. The features this automower has is not special when it comes to other automowers. I don't understand who this is meant for - it looks like the mower is designed for landscaping on vast land (10k+ sq feet) yet the manual mapping is only convenient for small backyards. It's so weird.
All im seeing is an unnecessarily yoked up automower with nothing to show for it.
That is the deal breaker for you? Not the fact that it is cr4p in every single possible way? 🤣
The lawn will greatly improve with a robot doing daily runs. Perhaps just not this robot necessary.
Doing daily runs means the clippings are so small that they dont cause any trouble. However like in this video the first run on a tall lawn i would remove the clippings as to not suffocate the lawn.
The setup with wire is a hassle but done only once. But as seen in this video the tech has improved so wire is not necessary any more.
It is nice to have a robot, once in place there wont be any tracks or such since it does it daily so any differences can hardly if at all be seen.
Buy one, just not most expensive one perhaps lol.
I would love to hear how this thing is holding up after a couple of weeks or so, and also would like to know what the power draw is over that time.
I'm actually really excited about this. Here in tropical Australia I have to cut my lawn every week for 3/4 of the year (because it's warm and sunny = perfect grass growing temperature). If I could just run this 2x a week (I think every day is too much) and maybe spend 5 minutes trimming every now and then, that would save me a lot of time!
Ever consider replacing your lawn (or some of it) with another ground cover? Different plants can replace your lawn plus be friendly to local pollinators and birds. Just depends on how you use your lawn. Grass is rarely the best option.
@@Crushnaut Yeah i've always been curious about clover or dwarf carpet lawns. Seems amazing but never really had any experience with it, the HOA here where i live forces us to have grass sadly tho.
@@Navi_xoo you could try petitioning the HOA, they are after all, elected by the HOA members. They might change their mind. Ecoscaping is becoming a lot more trendy.
No mate, they are designed to work every day, that's how they roll. When you want to use the space you just send it home to its dock.
The idea is it does a LITTLE bit every day. That's honestly the best for your lawn's health, too. Since it is onlyl cutting a few millimeters, it'd be right quick.
"Before using your robot mower, use a regular mower." Well now that pretty neatly summarizes these types of smart devices, doesn't it.
It is so idiots don't complain when this thing don't manage to cut 30cm high grass.
Once i've seen that i thought "why the hell do i even need this piece of shit then?"
@@ThereWasNoFreeName Do you think that people with grass don't own a lawnmower already?
@@RegulusRemains Sometimes it breaks and you have to buy a new one.
@@ThereWasNoFreeName It's the same as with robot cleaners. It's for maintenance. You get the place to a good, reasonable state. And you employ these expensive gimmicks and they will maintain the place so your manual mowing/cleaning will be much less frequent, so overall you win some time.
"I'm sure lawnmower racing is a thing somewhere." Yes, Linus, it is a thing
Gardena and Husqvarna is two very common brands in Scandinavia. Its become very common to run these in your garden. And they are really affordable and durable.
I like this mower, it continuously tried to attack the host lol, the opening "beware human" was spot on.
Edit: $3000~ USD isn't too bad for what it can do, personally I'll just keep mowing but I was expecting worst lol.
It costs more than paying my gardner to mow the lawn weekly for 3 years. It would need to be a lot more affordable to be popular.
@@hallymiao2825 Honestly I suspect the people that are actually buying these wouldn't be too fussed about the cost. It also scales rapidly to lawn size. How large is your lawn? Once you get up to 3000sqm I get the feeling that it would start to be more cost effective over time vs paying someone to do the whole lawn. Then you're just getting someone to come through every now and then to clean up edges, etc.
@@asinineintentions7773 once you have a lawn that big just throw wild flower seeds in it and let nature take over.
@@4203105 personally I dislike ticks buy to each their own.
Lots of commercial propertys are going to love this. Upper middle class and above with a nice lawn and but cant work anymore or dont want to.
I love how much ltt has diversified its tech reviewing
is it diversification if they're getting paid to do it?
It’s a sponsored video.
this is not a review, its an ad.
I love that I don't have a yard, yet my love for yardwork is now satisfied. Thanks Uncle Linus!
7:52 "...and it lived there forever" 🤣
After this video, Linus NEEDS to touch some inside floor
Linus combining making UA-cam videos and taking care of his lawn maintenance is the most Linus thing I could think of.
Many years ago we were all outside and my grandpa was doing yard work, mowing the lawn in the dead of summer. We had raked a large pile of dead leaves and pine needles to the side and so while mowing next to the pile it struck a rock, sparked and immediately caught the pile of leaves and needles on fire. It was awesome. I've also been hit with stones flung about by a mower... doesn't feel great.
That's why you THEN install a heat detecting auto-sprinkler system on your lawn as a failsafe for your auto-lawnmower 😅
this is really cool to see because this is how autosteer works
we have had this on farms for almost 30 years now and it scool to see finally on some normal consumer stuff
The main goal of these is to handle basic maintenance at this point, still have to go around every two weeks or so with a string trimmer to touch stuff up. The interesting one these days is the Husqvarna since they introduced commercial ones I've seen lawn companies pop up that just setup the robot for you and maintain it for a monthly fee along with the trimming, the first that comes to mind is Turf bot.
Every two weeks???
@@hansdietrich83 Well that's how often you'd get it mowed normally and since it's missing patches you'd have to clear them up manually. I don't see why someone would spend $3k on a lawn care product when you'd either have to pay someone or strim the bits yourself.
@@hansdietrich83 Sure, depending on your tolerance and climate
@@Ben-fk9ey I have a gardena sileno city that cost about 700€. The only thing I need to do manually is triming the edges like ones a year. I planed my lawn specifically for the mower to reach every spot.
In temperate climate, where I live, I have to mow the lawn after every 7 days max. And I use a ride on lawn mower. The grass is just so thick and juicy. If I mow it after a 2 week period it will end up looking bad squashing it down or leaving clumps.
Lawn robots are really popular here just for that reason. They go around the yard ever day to cover the whole area over the span of a few days. The robots don't cut the grass just one day a week, it's nonstop.
They are very expensive though. Usual quality stuff like Husqvarna go for about 3K. That's 2 months salary for an average income person, including me. So I guess I'll be doing the mowing for the foreseeable future at least.
Would love a follow up video showing if you can get it connected with your home assistant system to automatically get statistics and send commands to the mower
Dont see why not
All of which can be used against the owner in court when it injures someone or their pet or drives into oncoming traffic causing a lethal accident
@@darkkingastos4369 It's for the BACKYARD. Why would there be intruders, pets, or cars, on out of the way private property?
There is no chance he keeps this after the video. This is a man who hires a landscaper.
@@darkkingastos4369 derrrp
Cool product, the 3000$ price tag is a deal breaker for me unfortunately
That's $1000 per 1 inch razor blade.
If your time is worth $30 an hour then it pays for itself in 100 hours of mowing
You can easily cut it down (pun intended) to $1000 and still get a brand model one
@@p_serdiuk Not really. Robot mowers need baby sitting; they can get stuck easily, as shown in this video.
Look into Husqvarna Automower's my guy. Way cheaper and decades ahead this overpriced toy.
Tech guys trying to talk about lawn care is always fun! 😂
YES reviews of lawn robots! been waiting for this. please please please review the Yarbo modular lawn robot!! I wanna see how good it is with snow blowing as well! Especially because Linus is in Canada it will be awesome to see over the winter months. It releases in October
Hopefully the Yarbo is better than this EcoFlow cr4p! lol
Vancouver doesn't necessarily have the same "winter" as everywhere else in Canada.😂
@@MitchEllison lmaoo yes im from Vancouver and can confirm that there is snow like once a year for a few days 😂
Lawnmower racing is indeed "a thing." There are some crazy builds and races in West Virginia.
This is the best argument against the robot singularity and the irony of spending more time finding a way around the problem rather than just doing the work.
Except there are dozens of other products that are arguably better than this one. Also spending 2 hours on a nice cool day setting this up is not the same amount of work as mowing your large yard once a week during mid July or August
@@sjdodge123 this mower can’t handle anything
@@YellowBoltTC that just means that this mower sucks.
Doesn't mean that all robot mowers suck.
@@sjdodge123 You'd still have to tidy up what the machine missed anyway, at that point may as well just hire someone or do it yourself.
@@Ben-fk9ey I run a weed whacker every couple of weeks around the edges. That's so much easier than mowing and weed whacking.
Why does it have to be an all or nothing?
2:55 It says there is anti-theft. Does it chop robbers' feet? Oh, sh*t the robots are ready for battle.
Starting to feel like April Fools never ended
Its still april, you fool.
Think the video is a joke, wait till you see the price of the mower..
Just an overall horrible review. Half the video is them improperly setting it up.
No chance I'd buy that for 2900, hopefully things like this improve because it sure would be awesome to automate chores like this.
Robot mowers have been on the market for almost 30 years now, they are better and cheaper than this :D
Cheap ones start around $700 and good ones (better than this based on this video) are around $1500. $3000 is the top of the line models that have stuff like solarpanels, can cut acres of land etc.
Love Linus got a sponsor spot of out it but this video just shows we're not ready yet and this is clearly 1st gen. Surprised Ecoflow approved this considering how poorly it seems to perform.
$2900? I only paid something like $5500 for my John Deere x570 which is a lawn tractor that is basically at entry level for someone doing lawn mowing as a business.
@@bajroevahahahaha Better is not true, all of them require you to lay a wire around your yard and even then they just bounce around randomly not straight paths
@@stevexracer4309 The bigger problem with something like this for the price tag is that the size and manner of yard you need for this thing to be effective at doing its job is going to be very small and very simple. You can't honestly tell me that someone with a yard of the size and complexity this thing would be adequate for can't find the time 4 times a month to cut that grass. It takes me about 2 hours to cut mine each time (not counting limb pickup and then trimming) to mow my yard with a riding mower and a 48" (that's almost 5 times bigger than the deck this thing has) deck. So if I can find the time find the time to deal with mine then someone with a yard as small as this thing would need should be able to.
Linus needed a lawn mower robot and wanted it for free - the video
FOR free? I want things free. I have no free to give FOR it.
Strictly speaking, the cost was the time of several people plus a full video on their main channel.
Wow, what a journey it’s been from reviewing RC Firetrucks to Lawnmowers
There better be a follow up video just showing the results of sweeping over and over. I wanna know how it looks
I've been following robotic mowers for over a decade and this is on par in terms of price as many as the others out there that require more setup effort. Considering that in some cases these can replace your time and cost of a riding mower for larger yards up to ~3/4 of an acre the Price isn't terrible albeit a tad high compared to other models designed for smaller yards.
You said not cheap, but holy moly, I gasped out loud. So much for that idea.
around 3600us$ with the sweeper.. It's kind of cool tech, with some ridiculously terrible software.
especially considering the build quality. i see that thing breaking in a short time.
It seems like it would be great for a perfectly level very square yard with no trees to drop branches, but it couldn’t even handle that super tiny stick. So the amount of people that this would be really good for I feel like is pretty niche.
@@benwu7980 Also will become completely useless if the product and app get discontinued. And considering how garbage this is, it could happen pretty soon.
yea, even the cheap basic ones are $1000+
Honestly stuff like this, more than anything, makes me pretty excited for future products
Automatic grass cutters are very common in Sweden, but have never seen one with a sweeper, nor without some kind of edge line and definitely not anyone with crazy wheels like this one!
In Switzerland too. This thing seems a bit useless tbh. You don't need to sweep when the mower is out every 2nd day. Huge base station + GPS antenna seem much more of a disadvantage compared to the usual guide wire
@Steve Sherman more robots than ordinary walk behind lawn mowers.
@Steve Sherman I reckon some 30-50% have one, if their lawn is the appropriate size.
@@scsherman207 Nope, you see them everywhere these days
@@scsherman207 Sorry, my bad. Didnt realize you were a troll.
This is probably the first product review I’ve ever watched without skipping through bits
Not gonna lie, I really enjoyed this landscaping type video😄I hope there are a lot more videos like this lol
From LTT to LLT.
"over the next year I'll be making mowing videos"
1 year later.
Never heard Linus mention mowing ever again 😄
ikr
least he did a pool one
if omni directional wheels blew linus' mind someone needs to show him a mecanum drive
or even a swerve drive
Show him a cycloidal propeller that is mind blowing.
Or half the things James Burton builds like Omni directional tank treads
LOL!! This is as painful as watching a 4yr old cutting their own hair!! 😂
[Reply Deleted] With portable power-tools, wireless devices and flashlights being the only things where Practicality outweighs the Poor Efficiency of battery storage, I can't believe I'm discussing this joke of a mower as something viable!! 😞
I will now grasp the wrong end of a T12 ballast several times as punishment. 😳
I wonder how impressed he'd be with the mechanum wheels and other propulsion methods in BattleBots and the like.
this video is one of the most entertaining LTT videos i've seen in quite some time. the chaotic energy of the robot almost running over linus a number of times was great. It knocking over the potted plant was absolutely gold. In all reality, this product is insane and stupid. my yard has a few slopes and lots of moleholes, so this thing would have a stroke in my yard lmao.
are robotic lawnmowers not a thing in your country? if anything this model would make it better than any other robotic mower on the market. 90% of the lawns where i live uses a normal robotic one its so common now a days.
this is for people with fake grass that doesnt grow. it just sweeps
With these lawn bot mowers, they need to put in a "FOLLOW ME" or something like that and map out the areas you want cut. Something like putting a ping pong ball on a stick so they can track it as you go along the edge of the areas you want cut.
Isn't that exactly what it does? You need to manually steer it across the cutting boundry
lol not like the phone you're already using doesn't have gps
I dont quite understand why they couldnt just use the antenna to map out the rough shape first.
Stick it into the corners of the area and have it save the gps cords.
I have very bad grass allergies, but I cannot afford a lawn service so this tech has been of interest to me for a few years now. It’s clear that it still isn’t were I would like it to be in both the pricing and function aspect. I appreciate you guys taking a look at it.
I have allergies too, have been using a robot mover for some years now and they work great! Will never cut grass manually again 😊 worth every penny
If you're curious about them still look into Mammotion. There is definitely some finnicky things to get it set but does a great job. Mammotion's is much better, AWD, handles much higher slopes and bumps, and looks like a F1 car. Depending on the size of the yard it isn't too bad. I got mine on sale for $1700. Definitely enjoying mine but a few years from getting it nailed down.
Is it just me or EcoFlow robot is up to something. The way it's trying to mow over Linus looks like a revenge attempt for all those fellow robot-parts that Linus has dropped over the years.
XD
Robo-revolution started with a snow-plow.
I'm excited about LTT doing more lawn/outdoor videos.
That's how Uncle Linus rolls now
You have to do a 2 month review. Things like this really shine because your grass will do very good if you start cutting daily cutting a small amount at a time. Grass hates being cut in half or more once or twice a month like a lazy mower. That's why lawn snobs mow more than once a week.
Linus - the only guy I know to test a robot vacuum in sandals with socks, and walk around it while it spins around randomly.
Bro! Go get some boots on in case that razor blade spinning thing comes your way lol😂
Linus- "This is called an omni dirrectional wheel. My mind is completely blown right now."
Mechnum wheel - *exists*
linus read the instructions to himself and ignored them for content but damn am i enjoying his dad energy of “damn it let me watch it mow my lawn, that’s cool as f***”
thats grandpa mood when he discovers slavery
I love that Linus is one of the most tech savvy youtubers out there but hes never heard of an omniwheel before. His astonishment is great
This will be great for older folks. One time purchase to keep your lawn looking great everyday if they want.
OK I have a couple of things to say here.
1: The hat, sunscreen, and hoody are what I do before mowing. 👍
2: When they come out with one that can mow 5 acres on the side of a 30% grade hill, I'll buy it.
A bot stole your comment lol
Get yourself a few Husqvarna Automower 435X/535 and you have your moving taken care of. Though the wallet will suffer
@@subwarpspeed I had one it couldn't do it, so I returned it. It would shut down, lose signal, some how flip over, go out to the road randomly because of signal issues, stop if a raccoon went up to and said hello and other weirder problems.
@@pair_of_fins Neat
The Eco Flow makes some really good and reliable stuff.
Their portable charging station really saved us during winter power outages in Ukraine
We need regular videos of the progress of the yard please. Would so watch!
This is the old house though.
Robot Series!!!! Robot Series!!! This is what I never knew I always wanted!
Here in Germany, robot lawn mowers are super popular. So popular that people build little dog houses for the robot mower charge stations.
Really, literally have never seen one, outside of ads that is and the ones in ads werent nearly as big, about roomba sized and without a container to catch the cut gras.
At 18:57 Linus reflexively saying sorry to a robot lawn mower after IT CHAARGES AT HIM is the most quintessentially Canadian thing I've seen him do, and I love it. 😂 Apologizing for merely inconveniencing someone ( or something) with our existence is essentially half of our national identity! 🍁
Diffrent content for ones that nice to see.
Our local mower guy is running a automated lawnmower for years and years on a part of his field.
I think he does it, to prove a point or promotion or smth.
Sometimes he even moves it to a different part of the field, just to show what it can do.
The field is so uneven, i swear, sometimes i feel bad for the mower, it is really rough terrain.
But it is going strong.
I still love how linus makes sure he Introduces his staff to the channel so they get the recognition they deserve it's why LTT will forever be my favorite channel it's not just Linus anymore it's a whole group of like-minded people
Its always so awesome seeing linus discover something new. Omniwheels are super awesome, and they are always designed so differently in every setting I've seen them in. I love it
Yard maintenance robot series!?!? Yes, please!
Thank you for the Video. I actually bought one because of it! Havent set it up yet as it was raining constantly here but im looking forward to it! BTW you saying sorry to the robot was the most canadian thing i have ever seen lmao