No more mowing the lawn!

Sounds wonderful but my lawn doesn't have straight edges its curvy and has bricks surrounding part of it so I suppose the wire would be in straight lines and bits would be missed or it wouldn't mow over the brick edges.

Mine isn't either. You peg down the wire at intervals to follow the edge (well a few inches in actually, as the sensor for the guide is in the middle of the mower). You would place it for the mower to miss the bricks. It doesn't mow in strainght lines, it sort of bounces off the boundary wire and sets off in a different direction.

Correction - it would go over the edge of the bricks if they were low enough and the wire were at the right distance.

Oh yes I see, I found a video on utube how clever is that.. I'd love it if the price came way down enjoy!!!

That sounds fabulous, a little friend for your indoor robot.

I've seen these working in gardens we have visited, looks great for a large lawn.

video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muxnr9v6vUA
Mine was £599 on Amazon a couple of weeks ago.

Baubles hate to think what they'd get up to if I introduced them - synchronised dancing I daresay.

I thought perhaps you had put down astroturf!

I have bought a robot vacuum which goes off on tangents but saves me doing the hoovering. It doesn't do a thorough job but better than leaving it, obviously.

Bet it wouldn't work in my garden. Too many bumps and holes, not to mention the angle of the land.

Sounds like a Romba with blades instead of brushes

My robot lawnmower wants.to know if it empties.and cleans itself.

Luckygirl Astroturf would be a great idea. My DD has a patch just inside her window, with a garden chair and table on it. she calls it "the conservatory corner" and sits there to read. The mower doesn't collect grass - cuts it into small bits and drops it as mulch. It doesn't clean itself - I haven't yet had to do this chore but will report back when I have tried it. Apparently I am supposed to inspect its undercarriage to clean it once a week. Yeah right.

Bags My lawn is hardly a bowling green, but it copes fine, yours may well be too uneven - I don't know. Someone on the reviews had it cutting an orchard and was very pleased with it. It is said to be OK on a slope of up to 25cm in a metre.

Anya Yes, I think that is where they got their inspiration.

Elegran, I have just watched the Robot mower YouTube video, it's now a toss up between that and artificial grass. One of our boys used to have a toy called Big Trak, that you could programme and it would bumble around the room and 'talk' to you
in beeps, while negotiating the furniture obstacles.

This negotiates obstacles like trees and footballs, but doesn't quite talk to you - it just beeps very loudly when you open the hatch to programme it, scared the life out of me, I thought I had killed it.