Smart Lawn Mowers: Buying Advice, Tips, and News

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I let top-rated mowers from Segway and Eufy loose on my lawn, and discovered that performance is only part of the story. Here's what to consider before handing over lawn maintenance to a robot.

The top robot lawn mowers we've tested will free you from pushing a noisy, gas-powered machine around the yard every weekend.

The Navimow X390 robot lawn mower has everything you need to keep large yards well-maintained without lifting a finger, including long battery life, reliable navigation, and cellular connectivity for remote areas.

No boundaries, no wires, and no more back pain. This robotic mower handles slopes, edges, and obstacles without supervision, giving you perfect cuts and your weekends back.

The Ecovacs Goat A3000 robot mower is a hefty investment, but it offers respectable cutting performance and works quickly, making it worthy of consideration for medium-sized lawns.

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The Eufy E18 Robot Lawn Mower is expensive, but it can save you big time on yard maintenance with solid navigation capabilities and grass-cutting prowess on par with a push mower.

The Mowrator S1 is a pricey battery-powered robotic lawn mower that you steer with a handheld controller. It doesn’t offer any smart features but it does an excellent job of cutting grass and navigating rough terrain.

The easily programmable and rugged EcoFlow Blade robotic lawn mower is a worthwhile investment that operates without perimeter wires—as long as a spot on your property has a clear view of the sky.

It’s not loaded with features, but the Gardena Sileno City robotic lawn mower provides good cutting performance and Bluetooth connectivity at a relatively affordable price.

The Greenworks Pro Optimow 50H is a moderately priced robotic lawn mower that offers cellular connectivity, GPS tracking, and a user-friendly mobile app.

The Ayi DRM3-600I doesn't have every last bell and whistle, but it's the most affordable robotic lawn mower we've tested and it delivers strong cutting performance in a super-rugged package.

Designed for rough terrain and steep hills, the Husqvarna Automower 435X AWD is loaded with features including all-wheel drive, Bluetooth, cellular, and GPS technologies, a pivoting rear end, and an ultra-quiet battery-powered motor.

The Worx Landroid M 20V is a relatively affordable smart robotic lawn mower with GPS and Wi-Fi so can you locate and control it with your phone no matter where you are.

Husqvarna Automower's new 435X AWD robotic mower can manage extreme slopes with an incline of up to 70 percent. We saw it in action at MWC.

Terra 'mows like people do...cutting efficiently in straight, back-and-forth lines.' It also uses iRobot's Imprint Smart Mapping technology to learn its environment.

The Robomow RC306 is a sleek robotic lawn mower that connects to your phone and offers good cutting performance, but it's noisy and its old 2G/EDGE cellular radio couldn't connect in testing.

The Worx Landroid M is a robotic mower designed for smaller lawns that does a great job of cutting quietly, though it lacks any sort of wireless connectivity.

The Husqvarna Automower 315X is a state-of-the-art robot lawn mower that is packed with features, including GPS, Bluetooth, and cellular technology.