Mammotion Luba 2 AWD

This is the future of autonomous lawn maintenance

LUBA AT FIRST SIGHT

₹2,40,600 mammotion.​com

Arguably the most futuristic robotic lawn mower money can buy, the Luba 2 uses pinpoint accurate RTK GPS, a bank of sensors and a front-mounted HD camera to guide it around a sward without ever venturing off into the rhododendrons or falling into the fish pond.

The Luba 2 AWD 1,000 is good for lawns up to 1,000 square metres; two other models – 3,000m sq and 5,000m sq - will cover larger swathes.

Military-spec RTK GPS robot mowers like this require a modicum of setup but it’s an easy (and enjoyable) process. They also require unimpeded line of sight to about 20 satellites to navigate lawns to within a few centimetres of accuracy.

Once everything’s in position and you get a green light on the antennae, the next part of the installation involves steering the Luba 2 around the perimeter of the lawn via the app to create a map of the lawn and stick rigidly to its virtual barrier whenever it approaches a border or performs a perimeter cut.