Worx Landroid Robotic Lawn Mower

Would be an award winning mower if it's sole job was to get stuck in random places and dig holes for itself. Unfortunately, it's meant to be a mower and it sucks at being that. Needs to be babysat more than a new born baby. If you leave it on its own, it's utter chaos! It bumps into an object, moves back half a cm then tries to ram the object that… Read more

it had got stuck on and ends up tearing up grass and digging holes. If only it had a forward looking sensor. Oh wait, it does! Unfortunately this system (called "ACS") is more useless than the mower. It fails to see anything in front of it and will drive straight up onto your foot if you let it. It's marketed as being able to see and dodge children and animals! Stevie Wonder sees better than this nearly $300 add on. Overall a very disappointing experience with this thing

It's better than mowing the lawn but – Make sure there's no dog poo on the lawn, what a disaster! It has errors saying the wire is missing sometimes - the wire isn't missing. Digs holes sometimes it doesn't detect objects. Overall, it can't be left alone. I've attached an example picture of a hole it dug. Show details

Very Frustrating – The purchased the Landroid to ease my work and to manage my small lawn. It worked perfectly for two days and now it says the Wire is missing. I checked with them and they sent me a video and have been spending a lot of time figuring out the problem. It is so frustrating and taking a lot of time to work on the error. Show details

When it works, it's great – I have the WR149E and when it works, it's great! It's the setup and maintenance that is frustrating as hell. The robot requires you to place a boundary wire around the property, regardless of any fencing that would prevent it going places anyway. This boundary wire is pinned flat onto the grass by provided pegs. The ends of the wire also need to… Read more

be stripped and inserted into the docking station. The circuit has to be complete and the stripped ends sitting properly in the connection for the robot to even start. The paperwork that comes with the robot doesn't exactly explain this very well and I had to look up a youtube video. Since this isn't exactly my area of expertise, I didn't have the tools necessary to do it properly and it took me literal hours to get the robot to even start, after already having spent an hour laying the boundary wire.

When the robot does run, it runs OVER the boundary wire. I understand why it was done that way, but it puts the wire at risk of being cut by the robot. I painstakingly made sure the wire was as flat and taut everywhere as possible. It was fine for a while, but in time the wheels of the robot pulled at the wire and the grass/dirt around it. This made it loose enough that it ended up cutting the wire due to some uneven ground. I fixed this problem fairly easily with the parts that came with the robot. Mostly because by that point I had bought a wire stripper, and I had made and pinned loops of spare wire like recommended by the video (but NOT the documentation), so I could cut and reconnect the ends easily. But now I'm paranoid about when it will inevitably do it again, and I will need more parts than they've provided.

Really I wouldn't recommend this at all if you don't have solid grass that has a good root system, or if you have a lot of uneven ground. The wheels of the robot are not kind to the grass when it needs to make a turn, which I think contributes to the boundary wire being pulled up. It has still saved me a lot of time and energy, but I wish it would just bounce about the place against my fencing with some minimal electronic boundaries installed, and maybe a map where I could install digital blocks like the modern roombas.

It needs a lot of improvement – Would I recommend this absolutely no I did my research before I bought it I wanted to find out where it came from I spoke to the guys on phone several times from Brisbane Queensland before I purchased it their words do not match up with what they said I can do 1 rain sensor keep on working in the rain keep on getting bogged and leaving hard black… Read more

marks from the wheels in the mud it has been save me money out of has been working hard for maybe 3 years read it really doesn't get improvement but now we have so many more options they can work in the rain and you can hose on down this one you can't especially here in Cairns where I'm from so it's quite useless for me would I buy one again now don't recommend it

Buy something else – So, I decided to give it a fair go of a month before I wrote a review. Don't buy this. It just doesn't work properly. Cuts its own perimeter wire, constantly gets stuck. I mean constantly. If it mowed twice a day I'm out there at least 5 to 7 times to fix it. I got this as a present and although the gesture was amazing and so was the idea this… Read more

device just doesn't do what it's meant to do. There is one good thing I will admit. It does seem very robust. We have very heavy rain and it doesn't miss a beat in that regard.

Life saver for me – The robot mower is a life saver for me with my 1000sqm Sir Walter lawn. I love to not having to mow manually in the hot and steamy Brisbane climate. I couldn't live without the robot mower anymore. However, I have to say it needs quite a bit of looking after. Basically the default wheels lose traction after about a year and you need to buy… Read more

upgraded wheels or spike rings that can be screwed on. Even then the mower will sometimes drive over the wire and needs to be manually restarted.

I bought my mower from Robot Lawn Mowers Australia in Brisbane, Underwood. They provided me with a 3 year warranty and excellent service. Recommended!

Ok when it works – The robot just randomly goes across the lawn which is very inefficient, not sure why it doesn't use a technology similar to house cleaning robots. The perimeter wire will get cut constantly, it is a pain to keep it completely buried so the mower itself doesn't lift it and cut when trying to get to the edge. Edge cutting doesn't work properly as… Read more

your lawn would need to be 100% flush with the pavers on the side, otherwise the mower won't have traction to go up any small almost imperceptible height difference. I'm swapping the mowing with constant maintenance of the robot, I hope one day it works.. if you haven't spent the mony yet, wait until better tech is available, those problems are likely similar in other models/brands.

Recommend worx – I bought this for my partner for Christmas, he loves it. Does what it says. Only new , no problems as yet. Simple to set up. Now we are after the gps unit for it, as our yard isn’t fully fenced, worry it may get stolen. Also purchased the garage for it, which was simple to set up. I think he looks cute with his collision eyes :-) We would recommend this product.  Show details

Ok but much improvement in making it "smart" – So if you have a flat lawn with no trees near the boundary or shaded areas it'll likely work well. But it gets stuck way to often in my back yard. From digging holes when up against a tree because it takes a while to realise (even with the acs option), plus it keeps getting stuck trying to turn at the boundary with a tree next to it and it keeps… Read more

digging for a while to either rip up grass or get stuck.. This thing really should be smarter at this price tag and in 2020. Not a match on decent robot.vaccums for its intelligence .

Hopefully they'll at least make it determine when it is stuck sooner, let us choose the sensitivity of getting stuck or improve its algorithms to make it just that little bit more "smart".

Oh and if you want it to pass down a narrow corridor, be careful as their term corridor doesn't mean the distance between each/wall as that needs to be far greater than their 60cm I was lead to believe.

It cuts well when it isn't getting stuck. Although not overly efficient as I knew before I bought it however.