Segway Navimow i206 AWD Robot Lawn Mower Wire Free with Garage S, All-Wheel Drive for 45% Slopes, EFLS NRTK + Vision Auto Mapping, Covers 0.15 Acre (Garage Shipped Separately)

So far this is working well and I've had numerous neighbors stop and ask about it. I'm mowing the front lawn right now as I type this in my office. It mows, docks on its own, resumes mowing when its able, and does a good job. There are some lessons learned though that I thought I should share. 1. Buy bigger than you need -- I have about a 1/5 or 1/6 of an acre. The 1/4-acre model cannot mow the whole yard on one charge. I assume "up to a quarter acre" means a flat, square property 2. Plan out your initial mapping -- even then you might find you need to make changes once you see it in practice. Areas beyond a fence or otherwise not accessible to the home charging station need to be thought through. My station is in the backyard (the largest contiguous area) so I have the front mapped as isolated areas - I carry the mower there and then start the mowing (Mow-Start on the mower itself) 3. Cleaning underneath is important. Especially if you are mowing longer grass, it can be wrapped around the underside of the blades inhibiting their free movement and impacting their cutting efficiency. I've found that if you rotate individual blades clockwise, the grass wrapped up underneath will "unwind" itself, making cleaning easier 4. Sometimes GPS is weak and can lead the mower to be off by a few inches. Keep close watch when its mowing along a steep curve or map a few inches away from any areas where if its off a little bit it would be bad -- you can clean those areas up with your weed-eater later 5. The default mow direction is to change each time...but if you have a long, narrow spot, that can be very inefficient when its mowing side to side, constantly turning around. Rather, you can set a mow direction to go lengthwise every time -- do that and save a ton of time and battery 6. The app eats a lot of phone battery as it tracks the mower constantly. Close the app and look for the notifications that its done...or just check in periodically. 7. Use YouTube for help. Segway's videos arent that helpful, so try to find a third party video for better depth and better help.

Bought this for my elderly parents backyard. Fairly easy to setup. Has been running about 2 weeks now without issue. Their backyard is on a slope and around .25 acres of grass.

I received my Navimow i105N on May 8, 2024. I have now used it continuously since then up until today, June 20, 2024. I estimate this has saved me at least 7 walk-behind mowings with my Ryobi self-propelled mower, which BTW I have loved. I am going to use the descriptor word "mow" through-out my review but you would better understand the work of the Navimow as a trimmer rather than a mower. Once you have your lawn mowed to the height you desire, you can easily dial in the height you want your Navimow to keep your lawn trimmed to. It can be adjusted in increments of .04", from 1.6" to 3.6", which suits me fine. BTW I use my Navimow everyday except on rain days. In this regard my lawn looks freshly mowed every day! I allow it to mow from noon to 7:15 PM, which I have observed is more than enough time to do my entire lawn and also avoid the morning dew and the 20 minute watering I do on my lawn every other day which ends by 7:20 AM on those watering days. I am a 78 year old male living at 40 degrees latitude, which has very hot July and August temperatures, and even now in June. I just don't want to find a cool time of the day to mow, which I typically can't find, to keep the lawn nicely mowed. So, my motivation to use an autonomous mower, whatever the brand, was to stay out of the sun and the heat. So far, I have been able to do that. And, I didn't want one that required putting a wire around my yard. I read some of the 1 & 2 star reviews and could understand the points being made, but in my experience all of their frustrations are resolvable by just taking the time to set up the map for your yard properly. For example, when you come to a curb or a separation of the lawn to a hard service, such as my concrete patio, you should put the "edging" setting to "ride-on." This allows the Navimow to crest the separation, i.e. curb, and continue moving over that portion of the lawn, giving a better trim to that boundary separation. (May I humbly suggest that you watch the videos showing you how to set up a map. Most of those videos are available on YouTube, so you don't have to purchase this first to get access to those instrucions.) Also, the instruction forewarn that you will still need to trim and edge the boundary of your lawn. I use a worx 20v edger/mower to do a fine tuning of the grass height at the perimeter edges of my lawn. So once or twice a week depending on how fast my grass is growing I do a quick trim (approximately 20 minutes around the boundary perimeter of my lawn. I must admit I didn't know that the Navimow is hard programmed not to allow a mapping of more than 500m. My lawn map is 3773ft squared as per the Navimow mapping feature, which appears to fall within the programmed limits for my Navimow. With the battery in my Navimow, it will mow for about 90-95 minutes or until the charge on the battery falls below 15%, then return to the charging station for about 65-70 minutes to get up to 95% of a charge. (BTW it's return to the charging is a sight to behold. I almost feel like there is a "little man" inside the mower guiding it to slide right into the charging port on the charger. I was very impressed with how well it finds the charging station no matter where it is on my lawn when it needs to be recharged.) For the area of my mapped lawn, it takes 2 1/2 cycles to completely mow my lawn. (Also, you have to watch the map on your smart phone as it shows you what it has mowed to really be impressed with how well it keeps track of where it is doing its thing on your lawn.) Forgive me for pasting in this portion of the manufacturer's write-up on the accuracy of the Navimow's use of GPS to know it's position on your lawn, but I attest that it is a statement I could stand by: "RTK+Vision, Fit into Every Garden: Lawn covered by trees? Narrow corridor? However complicated your garden layout is, enhanced EFLS 2.0 got you covered. Customized RTK technology with Vision enhancement provides stable centimetre-level positioning to handle an incredibly diverse range of lawn layouts. Even when it’s under the trees or in a narrow corridor, Navimow still works perfectly with accurate navigation." Now, the lack of a Navimow Access module which allows for theft protection is clearly stated as not included with this model. I believe it is included with the next higher model. If my understanding of the Navimow Access' functionality is correct, it will allow an even more accurate and stable mapping using a cellular signal network, with the first year free of cellular fees but not necessarily after that first year of use. While I have two very tall trees around my yard, the GNSS antenna has successfully found the GPS satellite signals and kept my Navimow within the mapped boundaries. Regarding the Navimow getting stuck, of all the negative comments this is the one I find is completely the opposite of my experience. I have been impressed watching the Navimow get out of a rut in my yard or climbing from a hard surface up and onto the 3" height of my lawn. At first, I got impatient and either picked up the Navimow or gave it a shove from behind to move it along. That is the wrong thing to do IMHO. Give it time. I have had neighbors watch my Navimow work itself out of a stuck position and found it very impressive that whoever wrote the program, first, gave it the mechanical sense to know it was stuck, and, second, programmed in several back and forth and sideways maneuvers to unstick it. It really has to find a "hole" to become totally stuck. That is where good mapping and setting off-limit islands makes a big difference in having a frustration free "mowing." One further suggestion on helping your Navimow from becoming stuck is by setting the mowing direction options for your Mapped Zones for your lawn. I find the diagonal directions don't work well for me. I like the orthogonal directions, such as straight back and forth, or 90 degrees to that direction. One further aside, I had backed the Heisenberg all-in-one robot mower on Kickstarter. As a backer if the development and manufacturing campaign for that mower had been successful, I would have received one of those mowers as a REWARD. I never did, but I didn't lose my need for this type of mower. When I saw this mower on Amazon at the $999 price point, I knew it was worth a look-see, given Amazon's very reliable customer satisfaction return policy. So, I put my Navimow through the paces as soon as it arrived to make sure I used my 30 day return window fully. I LOVE IT AND AM COMPLETELY SATISFIED WITH IT. I grant you that other competitor models might work as well and be 'worth' it to the user. UPDATE: June 24, 2024 - For some reason the issue of how often to cut/trim my 3" high lawn came to mind. I used the help feature on the App on my smart phone to "talk" with the help center. (FYI, they only deal in metric units, so be prepared to give the size of your lawn and the height of your grass in metric units) I was quite disappointed with the response I received. The "chat" person said I could only cut my lawn to 6 cm high. But the dial on my i105N clearly shows adjustments from 2" to 3.6". I gave my grass height to 7.62 cm which is 3". I was told that my Navimow could only cut to 6 cm. WHAT!!!! BTW the manual also states that the cutting height in the United States and Canada is 2" to 3.6" or 50 to 90 mm. I did find a posting on Reddit that the recommended weekly mowing time for a lawn be limited to 40 hours. I could not find that information in the manual however. That is why I contacted chat support, unfortunately with no clarification on my question.

we just got this Navimow. We have mowed with it once and on our second time around. It really is a big help. The mower does a real good job saves us a lot of work. two things I will say If you have any hills this model will only go so far so buy the ones that will mow at 80%. also if your in a hurry don’t be it takes a little longer than it says this model has to recharge sooner than it claims, but that’s fine with me since I don’t have to do it. I will recommend getting a robot mower and so far I like this one. I need to put in an edit on this series I still think this brand is good but I am starting to have my doubts about this mower there is not enough help in the troubleshooting part it has taken me a lot of time and energy to solve problems that come up. It’s possible i’m not looking in the right place but looking is draining me. I had to pick it up to get it to go from on side of gate to other then I had to get it off the lift notification in order to tell it to go home. I would say the mowing part of it is great. it is the programming that is a head ache and a little hard on my back standing over it bending down.

This Mower is Amazing, how it mows and how easy it is to set up but there is 1 major problem. I got the I210 which is rated for .25 acres. It lets you go up to around .3 acres. but if you go OVER this by even .02 acres the app freaks out. Even after removing/deleting zones completely, it is just stuck. Won't let you save because it gets stuck at being over the acres it can handle. Navimow needs to be a little more flexible. My yard is just about .33 acres in total. I was "planning" on doing the back half Wednesdays and Saturdays and the Front Half Thursdays and Sundays. It would only be mowing about .165 acres per day per run.....But I cannot do that because the app will not allow me too. I wasted an entire day because every time I went over the limit it made me completely start over on mapping. I hope that they release an update soon that is more reasonable. Let me make 2 maps and set them to a schedule separating my front yard from back yard PLEASE. Update, they got back to me and fixed the mapping issue I was having and sent me 2 sets of blades. Amazing customer service changing to 5 stars.