Its pretty much garbage for a larger lawn that is not absolutely pristine. There are so many flaws and it constantly needs attention so that it will actually cut the lawn instead of just trample the lawn down cutting the occasional blade of grass.
The vision is awful… If you have a weed that grows like a weed does and you haven’t turned off vision It will avoid it as an obstacle leaving a generous margin around it.
There is a design flaw… Something can be high enough for it to not be considered a obstacle but still low enough to damage/destroy its gps antenna(s).
Software mapping is horrendous. It leaves a massive border around no-go zones.. that there isn’t anything you can do to decrease the margin..
It doesn’t mow that close to structures it maintains a very healthy margin away that you need to end up mowing with your old mower or use your whippersnipper to clean up the healthy margin it leaves.
There isn’t a way to connect pathways.. You need to make a pathway for every work area.
When it is moving from area to area it will chose its own path that is consistent and will leave tracks in your lawn even though there is a pathway defined mere inches feet away from its haphazardly decided path.. (Pathway is on concrete sidewalk but it chooses to drive beside it less than a few feet away.)
When starting a new work area It drives across the area without the blades turned on trampling the grass down making it harder for it to cut when gets back.
It would make logical sense to start the perimeter laps where they intersect the pathway connecting that area. Especially when perimeter first is chosen. But no it tramples grass to where ever it decides to start.
The outboard ski’s/blade guards are on a piece of formed metal with the edges turned toward the disc’s leaving a void area that grass collects and builds up in that starts to create friction on the upper side of the disc.
Grass builds up and wraps around the screws for the blades and the blades end up getting stuck rotated inwards and it stops effectively cutting the grass until you clear the stuck grass allowing the blades to once again rotate..
The castor wheels Pack down the grass BEFORE the cutting blades so there will always be grass that doesn’t get cut.
The mower just completely feels like a afterthought and should be in active development yet indead of being sold as a working product…
Without a upgrade path for people with the current mower I am at the point where I am just going to write off the mower as a mistake of a purchase.
After the support experience I have have with Yarbo that I can only describe as one of the most awful experiences I have ever had in my life and I am a extremely dissatisfied customer.
and before anyone tells me to remove the blade guards… I have a large uneven lawn and if they are willing to pay for all of the discs that will break when I take them off then I will give that a try but it doesn’t solve all of the other problems…
Have you used the first Roomba? There was no pattern at all. It just randomly bonked around the house for a while, then stopped. What “context” would you use if Yarbo did that?