Have you tried the new Adaptive Route Pattern yet? We’d love to see how it compares with the other mowing patterns you normally use! Post screenshots of Adaptive vs. other patterns Share your feedback — did mowing take less or more time? Did the route look smarter or more efficient?
Your screenshots and experiences will help the whole community understand how Adaptive performs in real yards.
For anyone who hasn’t tested Adaptive yet, here’s what it does:
Starts mowing from the nearest starting point.
Smarter with no-go zones — instead of circling them separately, it mows the perimeter of a no-go zone when it naturally reaches it along the set route.
Reduces unnecessary crisscross travel lines across the yard, keeping the mowing route cleaner.
Minimizes lawn wear by applying adaptive routes that reduce frequent turns in narrow spaces
We’re excited to see your screenshots and hear your thoughts — how has Adaptive changed your mowing experience?
I’ll try to take some screenshots later but for now I did one run on an area that takes usually 5 hours and it took 4.3. There was only 1 crisscross across the whole field to go mow the perimeter (it could have started right beside where it ended the middle area and yet it crossed the entire lawn to start from the oposide side the perimeter mow. It started the perimeter mow at the exact same point it always does with the other mode. So I suppose that perimeter mow was not included in this update?
Also you can manually rotate the angles, but I realized that it will start always at the same angle (so same pattern). But if you rotate manually, it creates a new adaptative pattern. Can you add back the automatic rotate to that mode too like it is currently with diagonal? Else we’ll have to rotate manually each time.
Overall, for now it seems to be an improvement. About 15% faster for this first mow but I just started my “Full plan” that mows all the areas one after the other on adaptative, so I’ll be able to compare times as I have a larger sample (I know how long it usually takes for this big plan).
By the way… Way too many zero turns, still… But you know that already…
Thanks for this update! My first feel is that it is a good step in the right direction.
It is insane that “Adaptive” is a different mode, like Diamond, Checkerboard, and Parallel, instead of being an option that applies to all.
Start from the nearest point? - Yes please!
Circle no-go zones as they get hit - Yep, love it!
Reduce unnecessary crisscross lines? Absolutely, I can’t believe this isn’t the default! Minimize lawn wear by varying routes? Of course! Who is going to say no to this
So to answer the question - Adaptive hasn’t changed my mowing experience at all because I prefer to use Diamond. (and furthermore, I’m left shaking my head wondering who comes up with these decisions.)
there. it did cut some time off the job. also the mowing pattern is very interesting. I noticed that in some areas the route changed according to the width of the area. but in the more narrow areas it didn’t change direction to a more straight run instead of the zig zag pattern.is there some sort of adjustment method that can be used to emphasize were the mapping needs to be changed? your on the right track. great job! I’m excited to see what’s next.
There’s is no refinement tweaks available yet, unfortunately. Would love to see something like that and also being able to rotate the pattern like checkerboard does.
I am using adaptive now. I always change my patterns by 90 degrees each time I mow but portions of my work area don’t do well with the 90 degree mowing pattern. They are too narrow to to work well even though the remainder of the area does just fine. Before adaptive I had to settle for a small portion of my area taking forever and the constant turns tearing up my grass. The adaptive mode seems to realize that some areas simply are too narrow for my creative patterns and compensates. I love it.
This was earlier this summer. I could take a few more recent ones if needed. About 100 trees. No GPS issues. I of course wish it would go even tighter around the trees or the usual complains I have about zero turns that should be banned, but overall I do not mow a single time this orchard this summer… Just a little bit of edging.
I have to cut spiral on most areas because it is the best pattern on hilly slopes. So I haven’t even tried adaptive. I too would like adaptive traits to be added to spiral for sure!
Overall, Adaptive as been pretty good but along a fence line that’s not very wide it’s doing what others have noticed, it’s zig zagging which doesn’t make sense in the area. Notice how yarbo made a strange pattern at the start and passed a chunk then zig zagged all the way into the main part of the yard…then drove all the back to the start to hit an area it didn’t touch.
Just for yucks, see if the route angle (advanced) is set to something. I’m curious if you try some different angles, if it’ll change it when you click Preview.
Thanks for the idea. No change no matter the settings other than spiral. Any other setting or conf it wants to zig zag that area. I think I’m going to remap that whole area and separate this area to its own. I think I’ll have better control over it that way. TBD
Pre-planned and missed area. This is a somewhat regular behavior. It planned to do so before it though it met Casper the friendly ghost in the area. Cameras where cleaned yesterday.
Hi, we’re sorry to hear that Yarbo missed a pre-planned area — that must have been frustrating.
From your description, it sounds like Yarbo may have encountered something unexpected in that zone, even with the cameras cleaned. Could you confirm if you mean the obstacle detected at the spot where the machine is shown in your image? If so, it might be related to an issue we’ve seen with the Adaptive Pattern, where Yarbo can act unexpectedly near No-Go Zones or boundary edges. We’re working on improvements for this.
To help us get to the bottom of it, we also encourage you to submit a support ticket so our team can review the logs and analyze the behavior in detail.
Thanks again for sharing your observations — they’re really valuable for improving Yarbo’s performance!
Post screenshots of Adaptive vs. other patterns
Starts mowing from the nearest starting point.
