Whoops, this stayed in my Drafts and never posted… Starting a new thread, this is starting to become a bigger issue. Had 5 more issues with zero turns this morning(Dec 3rd):melting_face:, this really needs a fix, the logic for smart turns in combination with how it starts a new row from the previous row and turns into it, and backing up to a known good area to try again before continuing would probably solve all of these issues. It got stuck 2 times where I was able to simply drive it out manually, and it slid out of the boundary once(definitely not 5’ out of the boundary though). Click for album: [Google Photos]

Wanna talk about chute aiming next?

don’t even get me started on that… There is no facility to make Do not blow zones… So every time It goes out I cross my fingers that a rock will not hit the windshield cars or through the window on the house ect…

They probably have a small development team and limited resources. During the summer they were very focused on the trimer and mower Pro launch. They were able to implement quite a few software updates that prove they’re developing the software. Smart turn was a big improvement, still a lot to go, smart vision during a work plan, 2 way audio, etc, etc. Should they be further along? Maybe…but they were also seemingly overzealous on their R&D but they also cancelled some of their planned projects to redirect resources towards the current product line. These are pretty big changes that take months to have dumb meetings about repeatedly where the engineers explain it one way, and marketing/project management misinterprets it to mean something else. My feelings aren’t all that relevant as I’ve only had this device for a few months but I feel they’re heading in the right direction. I’ve had countless tickets put in but they are all being resolved, slowly but surely. Do you have tickets in? Are you updating your status’ here for everyone to help(not saying your aren’t I just haven’t looked specifically yet)? This is, IMO just barely past a beta product. If you drive it manually yourself, just like they do in all of their demos/live streams, it can do most of the things they say…but it is very opportunistic in that the conditions have to be right…unfortunately we live in a less than ideal world so they still have a lot to do to get to something good/acceptable. I haven’t seen any indication that their software development or support teams are ramping down, they are ramping up if anything and we should expect to see rapid improvements in 2-3 years.

They certainly do have a small team and definitely seem to be ramping up. They definitely aren’t sitting idle. I get the sense they are running as fast as they can to try and meet all their goals and keep their customer base happy. Looking at other robot mowers in the industry I am blown away with what Yarbo is able to accomplish and the capabilities as well as build quality. The other thing to consider is that every other robot mower on the market has one function to worry about. Yarbo has almost have a dozen and has to cover all seasons.

They probably need to take some of the marketing team and move them to RND. Let them try a yarbo out see how well it does all the lies they market.

Check out how well the zero turn works in the first minute here…:face_with_peeking_eye: New video · Saturday, Dec 20 🎬 [image]

It really just needs to keep moving forward in a continuous motion with smooth arcing turns or back out the way it came and clear a turning radius… Or ideally both, as needed.

My assumption is that the folks in China don’t have the same widely varied winter conditions we do in the US. Not a good excuse, but I suspect that’s part of the problem. I’m sure you’ve seen the videos of them testing Yarbo in the big refrigerated room filled with manufactured snow. Those tests are better than nothing, but I doubt they can accurately simulate a lot of real world conditions that way.

[image] B-Mod: Zero turns suck on a gravel based driveway. There is a base yo have to leave to not throw rocks, and that base along with zero turns gets the Yarbo stuck. I think more parameter laps would help with this. I’ve got a long curving gravel driveway as well, and zero turns are no end of trouble. Any auto-routed plan is full of short segments and turns, which inevitably leads to getting stuck. If only the planner would create sweeping tracks that follow the driveway path - Yarbo can follow those so much more efficiently, and rarely gets stuck. My best workaround has been to create sidewalk paths that start at the base station and run the length of the driveway. I have 4 loops starting from up and down the center of the driveway, then incrementally closer to the edges until it’s down the whole driveway. Unfortunately, if I put a sequence of sidewalks in a plan together, it insists on backtracking each sidewalk path (all the way out and back again) before starting the next one, so it doubles the time and can’t finish on a single charge, unless I manually send it out on each sidewalk in turn. An option to not backtrack would be a really simple fix. The hardware (mostly) works, and this could be sooo much better with a bit more software development. The ideas in this thread are all solid - they just need someone interested in executing on them. An open API to let this community help make the system better would be amazing. Some of us have built a lot of robots over the years, and I expect would be willing to spend some evenings solving these problems for the benefit of everyone (including Yarbo’s management team). [image]

[image] mike.p: [image] Wow. This look like it took a while to set up. So each sidewalk is like a loop? Goes out, curves, and comes back as an adjacent pass? Or is it each sidewalk starts at one side and ends at the other side?

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Check out how well the zero turn works in the first minute here…

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