I’m never going outside again - EcoFlow BLADE Showcase
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You've heard about robot vacuums, but what about a robot lawnmower? Gone are the days of spending a Sunday doing lawn work, now you can let the EcoFlow Blade take care of it for you.
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
0:24 Unboxing the BLADE
2:08 Overview of the BLADE
4:00 Installing the charging station
5:41 "Installing" the GPS antenna
6:40 Using the app
10:34 Do as I say, not as I do
11:00 Mapping out the lawn
12:40 Off she goes!
16:55 The GPS antenna switch-a-roo failed
17:15 Re-mapping the lawn
18:09 Extreme mowing timelapse
18:20 The results!
19:00 Checking out the sweeper attachment
22:16 Outro - Věda a technologie
Linus moving on from monetizing his house to monetizing his lawn and garden care
We sure that's definitely his garden? Seems kinda small compared to his giant house.
Edit: well he said he doesn't live here anymore so it must be the old place.
@@lukebarnes8097 yeah where’s the water cooling reservoir/ pool?
@@lukebarnes8097 it's his old place, but in his new place the yard is a pit where a pool is being built (but on hiatus last I heard)
@@lukebarnes8097 he also mentioned he didnt care to fix the tree because he didnt live there anymore, so fairly sure thats his old place that he still owns but no longer lives at :)
If this is his house, why are we allowed to see the back yard when it used to just be blurred through the windows?
Linus Mowing Tips?
uncle linus is coming back
Any Linus Hiding from Mafia Tips?
Sounds like a new channel incoming
I'm down
Rather Linus Garden Tips it seems like
For anyone wondering the price, it's $2900 by itself, and $3200 with the sweeper thing.
Where is the Surprisingly Shocked Pikachu Emoji?!? ;)
Holly shit! $3k for a result _this_ crappy? If you buy a $500 mower and pay a local kid $50 to mow your lawn every week, it'll take 2 years before breaking even and your lawn will look _much_ better.
I bought a $1400 Worx Landroid 2 years ago for my 1/2 acre back yard. Best investment in my time ever. It keeps the backyard exactly perfect. Of course that used a electric fence basically to roomba around. But it saves me soo much time, and the only maintaining is changing the razor blades.
@@hellterminatorwell one year of paying this kid would cost you 2600$... But I get your point
@@timofeifilippov9558 Grass doesn't grow in winter.
I have one (Husqvarna), had it for 9 years now covering 32'000 sq ft, best purchase I've ever made. This thing is a bit odd though, for example the grass collector is actually a bad thing, you want the fine cut grass to stay in your lawn as fertilizer and since the robots cut the grass way more often than you would do with a manual one you don't notice any grass residues.
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@@skeetskeet9601😮😮😮😮😮❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I actually enjoyed watching him struggle to set this up. It is realistic and something that as a casual buyer would want to know before buying this
linus doesnt come cheap 🤷
@@AnthonysMeat That design is not at all the same as this one, it's a stretch to say they're close.
Yeah, I think it's important that people doing honest reviews don't read the manual. It gives you a realistic view of how difficult it can be and you can also keep yourself from doing a stupid thing if you just watched someone else doing it how you would have 😂
@@AnthonysMeat They look nothing alike though. Are you claiming this is just a reskin?
Actually, the one from GreenWorks doesn't use GPS and instead uses the guide wire like most other mowers. They are nothing alike, and the Green Works isn't rated for as big a slope either.
Seeing the setup process made me realize the product is absolute dogshit for a garden that is not absolute flat piece of grass. Which is nothing I would even call a garden. After seeing this, if I would win the product in a company raffle, I would not see me using it. Let alone paying anything for it
You know it's not worth it when Linus doesn't want to tell you the price 😂
Yeah, 3 grand for a lawnmower is awfully darn steep...
@@graveyj2000 3k gahhhdamn 💀💀💀
He’s just smart enough not to mention it when half the audience already throws a pity party over not having $400 for a GPU.
@@graveyj2000 My 80V Ryobi was more 😬
@@graveyj2000 not really though. Our Husqvarna robot mower was 2.5 grand. And that has barely any of the features this does.
the best anti ad i‘ve ever seen. now i know i never need a lawnmower robot
If this is an anti ad then these things were never intended for you
i was really hoping for a few days later update. setting up a plan and coming back after a while to see how the yard looks
agreed, I think monitoring wear and tear on something like this and reporting back is very important. after a week, a few months, and definitely after a year. it'll be interesting to see how it performs in different seasons as well. I would also love to see how it holds up in more tropical climates like Florida where the grass can easily outgrow those height limits in just a few days during the peak summer months.
@@Speedj2 benefit of the robot mower is that it can run as often as you'd like. So rather than cutting the whole growth every week, it can run every other day...
I wonder if the app can use the weather to decide if it should mow, e.g. just to avoid mowing while it's raining or wet.
I returned my Blade after a few weeks. The GPS reception is virtually impossible to achieve even in ideal conditions. This device is only usable in huge open areas.
@@andrewskujins4568from what I've seen of various robot mowers if you don't have a metal roof, put the GPS antenna on the highest part of your roof, and it will work amazingly well
Linus' life story has been a warning against early adoption and I love it.
Unless you are adopting then early adoption is best. ( Sorry adoptee humour 😂)
@@grumpyratt2163 raising another man's offspring
@@echo5827 and another woman's offspring let's not forget there has to be a woman involved in the equation somewhere
@@grumpyratt2163 Don't assume the birthing person's gender.
@@mikeissweet 😂😂😂
Now I want a DIY smart-mower video from LTT, just so I can see Jake and Alex putting a motorcycle engine on one of these things :D
This is something we definitely need
Motor from a electric scooter
Aaaaaaaaand water-cool it😂😂😂
@@shooshikrog strix style.
that seems like a perfect job for our mate colin furze
I can't even get a robot vac to work inside, so there's no chance for me getting that thing to mow our backyard! Nope... I'll stick with my rideon mower thanks 🙂👍
yea same and it cost 3.3k....
Just plug in the station and it will vaccum. Most advanced ones have cameras and can detect crumbs, empty itself.
I have a robot vac and it's really smart lol. Works everyday and it's always at the dock when I get home lol
Glad I don’t have to mow the lawn, HOA does that
Don't buy crap. I have s5 max roborock and it still amazes me. I just wish I had money for a new s8 so I wouldn't have to empty once a week but once a month
I really like these videos. It's both tech and everyday use, and a good way for people like my older parents, that are less technical, but can appreciate the content and use for it. Hope this continues 👍
Lawnmower racing is *totally* a thing and they get *really* into it. You can often find lawnmower races at tractor pulls. King of the Hill also has a great episode about lawnmower racing!
And the mowers are stupid powerful and fast. Honda makes one with 1000cc engine, 200hp and up to 150mph. The more common ones that people build themselves are obviously not quite as fast, but they’re still doing 70-100mph on some tracks
to clarify for those who might wonder, those are the mowers you sit on and drive yourself. :D
I suppose they remove the blades, if not crashing with another driver would be terrible
In the area where I live, there is an actual mower-specific dirt racing track complete with stands and lights nearby. It's technically a fairground too, which is what I think the lights were originally installed for, but it's used for mower racing the rest of the year.
@@How_Many_Monkeys one guy put a chevy 350 v8 into a lawnmower
Can you do a household robot series? Especially vacuums? Your last video on those is 5 years old and there are some amazing ones out there now. They also make window cleaning robots.
This. Would be great to see which models have the best vacuuming, battery life, mapping, etc.
This!!
There Are already niche specialized channels for this
@@RobbyDock heard there are ones that can mop your floors too now
He is not gonna do vacuums, they are extremely hard to test and you need multiple specialised people and equipment. The best you can have is a channel called "vacuum wars"
12:05 As someone who lives in the southern part of the states, yes. Lawn mower racing is 100% a thing. You take push mowers, remove all safety, and hope it goes in a straight line by itself. 20:32 I like how you say challenging when my yard is on a hill and this would never work. Although, maybe one day. That would be cool.
I would love to hear how this thing is holding up after a couple of weeks or so, and also would like to know what the power draw is over that time.
Hugely grateful this was called a showcase. I don't care as much about the whole title thing anymore, but it is super nice to know exactly what I'm clicking on
That's exactly why he does it. I remember it from a WAN show months ago. Really all CZcamsrs should have clear editorial separation like this.
@@TheKingLeeroy my brother in christ you clicked on the video
@@TheKingLeeroybro what
@@TheKingLeeroy i didn't find it a waste of time. I was looking into the space, and now i know the tech isn't there for my yard layout
@@TheKingLeeroyBut if the title is accurate, then you chose to watch a video you knew would be a waste of time.
As a Husqvarna Automower "technician" I would like to see a Husqvarna mower in this running series, and also very curious about the competition.
for sure Husqvarna is as god as i gets when it comes to Automower
My husqvarna riding mower breaks down all the time, not impressed thus far
as a fellow Husqvarna Automower "technician" i totally agree. seeing the ecoflow tackling a plant, and without reliable collision detection sketched me out. i've experienced what those lil blades can do.
That sounds like a sweet gig. Are you more into the "auto" part or the "mower" lol
I guess Husqvarna has to bring over the interrim 450X/450XH EPOS, since the NERA series isn't available in north America this year I guess.
Linus if you get a shovel you can wedge a small gap into the grass and dirt and tuck the cable into said gap and pound both sides of the gap to close up Over the wire protecting it and allowing seemless movement thru the lawn. Did it all the time as a landscaper.
Wish I would've had this video a few years ago but now that I have my own smart mower I'm glad to be getting deeper dives on things!
That sweeper needs some kind of automatic emptying option at "home base" or at designated dump point. Also an automatic tool change so it could attach/detach the sweeper bag on its own. Sure, it would be insanely expensive and bit challenging to engineer, but would make this so much more useful.
it should wipe your butt automatically too. I'd drop 50k on that
The fact that it’s only 2.5-3ish grand is pretty goddamn crazy. A decade ago you’d spend more than that on a decent tractor. Ya gotta have something bigger to cut big ass lawns… or something automated!
kind of goes against the grain of Linus saying he is never going out again, now he has a new mower!! wish he never missed major information in the intro's, as it is totally false advertising.
The sweeper isn't needed when doing regular grass cutting, like every other robotic mower.
They should attach an incinerator to it.
You should add a chapter to these videos called 'Wil I be able to use this in 3 years' where you give your best analysis if it will be e-waste by 3 years.
The warranty is 4, so I'd guess that's about how long it will last before a control board or battery goes out, and the replacement parts costs half the price of the unit (assuming they haven't discontinued this model by then or even bother offering spare parts outside a battery or blades).
Yes, I've been burned many times due to excessive optimism about this type of (usually disposable) gizmo.
first impressions it looks very cheap and flimsy.
Wow, what a journey it’s been from reviewing RC Firetrucks to Lawnmowers
Gardena and Husqvarna is two very common brands in Scandinavia. Its become very common to run these in your garden. And they are really affordable and durable.
These things are decades behind Husqvarna Automowers. You guys should take a look at some of their EPOS-models and the CEORA
Automower owner here. This is not decades old. They have RTK GPS just like what EPOS is, then LiDAR sensor which Husqvarna lacks (the new NERA line have some radar).
The Automower 550 EPOS peeked out of the design studio to tests in 2020.
Ceora is built for bigger lawn areas, it cannot be used in a back garden like this.
I would say this mower is a bit jerky compared to Husqvarna. Moves very fast (how much does the disc spinn?) and knocks over things.
Electric Mowers are like all EV's.......Impractical, Inefficient, NOT Green and a constant Fire Hazzard. GOOD JOB!! 😂👍
LOL!! It's like watching a 4yr old cutting their own hair!! YUGE FAIL!! 😂
I know from an engineering aspect that the severe Toe-In of those "not-really Omni-rollers", are for keeping the mower tracking as straight as possible, but LOL they're gonna get trashed in a very short time. GOOD JOB!! 😂👍
If that "GPS antenna" is an RTK base station, it is literally the reference point for positioning. So yes, don't move it. Also, RTK is pretty cool, as it allows for centimeter level precision using GPS.
Yes, but please use the term GNSS instead of GPS, as it not only uses the american GPS.
yeah almost got a heart attack when linus moved it while it was working
@@s.k.vigneshkarthikeyan2887 if your system only relies on position data from a satelite your positioning system is shite tbh.
@@tarkitarker0815 curious what other solutions you would use? Local positioning system, like Bluetooth positioning, lidar, AI vision. When used correctly RTK GPS positioning looks to be a reliable accurate system.
@@s.k.vigneshkarthikeyan2887 Yeah think that with RTK moving the base station would just look like more drift and send "correction" information accordingly. Could possibly include a few safeguards like an accelerometer and kalman filter implementation to also detect and possibly correct for movement of the base station. But easiest to just say don't move the base station.
this is really cool to see because this is how autosteer works
we have had this on farms for almost 30 years now and it scool to see finally on some normal consumer stuff
@21:39 the robot asks, "Am I a joke to you?"
I know a lot of people with lawn robots. They say they cut it at the start of the season with a normal lawnmower and then let the robot do it’s thing pretty much every day so the yard stays at a consistent height.
I remember watching Linus drop something out of a third floor window at the same time he deletes data off 6 SSDs in RAID0 to see which one was quicker. Now we get lawn mower reviews and troll shoe reviews and I'm absolutely here for it. This channel ages like fine wine.
It ages like milk in the summer in a broken fridge.
@Flyboy there is only so many "we built the best pc ever" videos you can make, it's nice to see the crew in a different setting from time to time
@@underskillednunderpaid That's not all they do but what they do do is half-arsed a lot of the time.
@@FlyboyHelosim 15 million Subs would disagree. Why are you here? Go watch something else. Clearly you enjoy the content or you wouldn'r be here
@@ech0ech071 Yeah, all those subs because they've diversified their content to appeal to a bigger audience. I'm here because I like to watch such a big tech channel fail at so much of what they review and test. It's only a step above TylerTube, but at least that dude's playing a character.
I’ve used a Landroid for 2 years. Lifesaver! It’s obviously less expensive and requires more manual setup, but it’s a cuter package. We put ggogly eyes on ours.
Honestly stuff like this, more than anything, makes me pretty excited for future products
"I’m never going outside again" that is something we already know about you Linus
This is proper discord mod mentality
Never seen him outside so long 🙈
fax😂
Linus is only outside for content.
Linus apologising to a robot grass cutter is the most Canadian thing I've ever seen
Hello
he just wants to make sure that he is spared when the robots eventually overthrows humanity
I have very bad grass allergies, but I cannot afford a lawn service so this tech has been of interest to me for a few years now. It’s clear that it still isn’t were I would like it to be in both the pricing and function aspect. I appreciate you guys taking a look at it.
I have allergies too, have been using a robot mover for some years now and they work great! Will never cut grass manually again 😊 worth every penny
If you're curious about them still look into Mammotion. There is definitely some finnicky things to get it set but does a great job. Mammotion's is much better, AWD, handles much higher slopes and bumps, and looks like a F1 car. Depending on the size of the yard it isn't too bad. I got mine on sale for $1700. Definitely enjoying mine but a few years from getting it nailed down.
This has confirmed my feelings about robot mowers.
I'm waiting another 3 years or so until I get one. When it's near the standards of robot vacuums.
I wanna see a Timelapse of this thing doing the full lawn (sweep and mowing both!)
youtube is your friend
In Sweden we have got them for years, but different brands such as Husqvarna Automower.
same, someone in my family got one more than a decade ago because they are too old to do it themselves, i'm surprise there's so many people just learning about them
Remenber my dad always talking about Husqvarna dirtbikes he had, said the things were brake melting monsters.
Haven't really seem them myself, guess the brand left Brazil.
@@mostneuter Guess they never shipped them overseas. Got mine like 7 years ago.
Cuts my 4500m2 lawn to perfection.
@@guilhermelopes986 No clue 🤷🏼 it’s a Swedish brand so everyone here knows them.
How do you pronounce your name ? Its like per like per usual, or par like paralax
Great idea 💡😮👍 running whole house power
2 Eco flow delta pro and 4 Eco flow extra smart battery 20,8 KWH
This will be great for older folks. One time purchase to keep your lawn looking great everyday if they want.
Setting this up and keeping the yard in a state it can mow seems harder than just mowing it yourself every week or 2.
Not to mention you can do that with a mower you paid next to nothing(or nothing if you're lucky) for instead of 3 grand...
these tend to be for people with giant yards, like 3-4 hours of doing it yourself, so you just let this run 24/7 and empty it every now and then.
For real, it requires you to have it mowed to a maintenance height first so if you're doing that might as well just do it yourself. I get it could maintain the height after but owning two expensive pieces of lawn equipment seems silly.
@@tyler1988 and it won't choke on a small branch
not really, i have a gardena sileno city auto lawnmower (way cheaper than the one in this video) took me a couple hours to setup (it uses guide wire) and i havent had to do ANY yard work in months. Totally worth it, specially if you live somewhere where the grass grows very quickly (like you have to mow once or twice a week)
The EcoFlow BLADE knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is - whichever is greater - it obtains a difference or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviation to generate corrective commands to drive the EcoFlow BLADE from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position that it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is is now the position that it wasn't, and if follows that the position that it was is now the position that it isn't.
waytoodank
Are you related to Sir Humphrey Appleby?
lawn mower racing is huge in the midwest. I totally recommend looking into it. people trick out lawnmowers to go crazy fast
Keep in mind, that for the 3 grand that this thing is, its NOT ment for a small backyard. Its ment for BIG yards or just land which you cant feasibly mow constantly or sweep
My mind is blown by the fact that this is the first time Linus has seen an omni wheel.
I thought the same thing! How could this be? 😆
I saw a lot of them on James Bruton's channel, but it still looks weird the first time you see it here.
Same Omni wheels are by NO MEANS new anymore and are pretty standard in tech and robotics. I mean they've been around since 1919.
Linus is objectively incredibly clueless about tech for a guy who's into it
@@TheMrTape because he’s never seen a mechanical Omni wheel? I’m sure he would school you when it comes to electronics.
We have like 3 from Husqvarna in operation in our family, and obsoletely love them
Reminds me of our Roomba, we had 2 dogs and it was constantly a challenge to keep the floors clear of dog toys, people shoes, clothes, books etc else the Roomba didn't work well at all, we gave up on it and returned it in the first 30 days and just concluded that our home was not a good candidate for a robotic vacuum and just went back to doing it manually with our Dyson.
Cool video to watch. I would remap getting the robot slightly over the edge of the concrete and all the way around the yard keep it as close to the block wall as possible. Just like you would if you were mowing. Also try not putting a no go zone around the trampoline and see if it will mow under it and auto avoid the structure poles. Hopefully it will work like modern robot vacuums.
That gps antenna reminds me of something that we currently use on modern aircraft for instrument flying called Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) which uses ground stations at a known location to apply a correction factor to nearby aircraft. It allows scary good accuracy without having to upgrade the current satellites (but did lead to a few more being put in geosynchronous orbit).
Now just wait 400 years for the authorities to approve it
I think it's called RTK. DJI uses it for its more professional drones as well.
Yeah, I'm almost sure they're just using differential GPS.
If base station has it's own GPS, by being (within reason) a fixed point in space, you can then hash some math on both GPS signals to get a distance vector between the mobile GPS and the base station that's SURPRISINGLY accurate, as they said, to within 2cm of the actual distance between them, and that's with bog standard commercial GPS receivers and being set up by a regular dude without any thought put into it. I studied geodesy as part of my degree, and it's really amazing what you can do with GPS if you're willing to be smart about it. If you have geodetic pillars with extremely accurate positions (every country has a grid of them, but they're EXPENSIVE to get positional data that accurate from scratch), differential lets you transfer that highly accurate position to almost any other point you need to as long as you can see the same satellites (read: you can be dozens of miles away) incredibly easily, with relatively cheap gear, and very quickly. You can even strap your mobile receiver on a Jeep and do positional grids in 3D nearly anywhere.
To show us how good differential with scientific or military grade receivers and proper setup can be, our professor told us to take a receiver/antenna combo on a pole, and stick it in the ground at some exact location. Except we couldn't, because when we went to stick the tip of the pole into the ground, we hit a coin underneath the grass.
@@wallythewall600 How accurate (in cm) could you get with random cheap off-the-shelf GPS-Receivers from for example eBay and a Rover-Base-Station Combo?
I'm quite unsure on how to get accurate results because there seem to be special RTK GPS Receivers and just the standard ones mentioned.
I don't understand what the difference between these expensive ones and the cheap ones is. Does one basically trade accuracy for cost? What accuracies can someone expect at different price points?
I hope you could help me a little bit. Would be greatly appreciated :)
@@wallythewall600 that is exactly what they are using. Husqvarna also uses it but they call it EPOS exact positioning something system.
1:15 I would say it's more to prevent too much damage to the blade itself when you hit a rock or a big stick, not to protect others around
why not both?
@Diverse Green-Anon Maybe, but I'm coming from personal experiences working with 7' rotary cutters (or Bush Hog), cutting 2' high weeds/fescue at golf courses. They have a pivot style blade so you can cut through branches or hidden ant mounts without destroying the blade instantly
This is correct. I work for my local county roads dept, and our 5 foot rotary head mower has the swivel blades for exactly this reason.
as small as those blades are though, odds are one rock hit and you need to replace the blade anyway. Can't imagine those things have a very long life even just cutting grass before they get dull
Seeing the little razor blazed on the bottom made me much more comfortable. I very weirdly have a big fear of lawn mowers, because when I was about 11 or 12 I got shot in the head right by my temple by a rock shooting from a lawn mower. It was horrifying and I remember feeling the hole in my head and every little detail of that experience.
So seeing these little razors instantly made me wonder why this wouldn't be more common?
Great video as always.
The little razors aren't more common because they're not suitable for your average lawn mower and Linus didn't follow the instructions. Normally when a human mows the lawn, they have to cut more growth since there are several days of growth between mowings. That heavier duty work requires thicker blades. These robotic lawn mowers aren't meant for cutting lawns down to a desired height. They're meant to maintain a lawn to a desired height by operating every day. Since it runs every day, the blades are only trimming very small amounts from the grass. Such small trims are suitable for small razor blades.
"THOSE ARE RAZOR BLADES????" My exact reaction when unboxing my Landroid Vision M800 the first time I looked underneath it hahah
I'm amazed they managed to make this whole video without making a "touch grass" joke
I'd love to see some more battery backup and solar generator content.
2:55 It says there is anti-theft. Does it chop robbers' feet? Oh, sh*t the robots are ready for battle.
I do understand that walking the perimeter manually might seem like a chore, but if you've ever installed a wire for a large property you KNOW how much better this is. So many hours on my knees with a shovel...
I have an Husqvarna automower for over 6 years now and i can tell that those frontwheels will stop turning after a few weeks in my garden. My robot has sometimes an inch thick layer of leaves and grass on the front wheels. To me the robot design looks more like something that works in super dry environments (not in his garden). I also miss the all around bump guard because this makes it way safer for kids and wildlife like hedgehogs. My robot has been working flawlessly for whole seasons without intervention or cleaning and would recommend it (i dont have experience with an other brand). It also has those razerblade style blades which prevents pinecones to stick to the baldes and adds up to an extra safety for human feet.
My thought also with those front wheels. Grass clippings build up everywhere on the mowers and I'm skeptic for the front wheels.
This seems to be a wild idea how it should work, but at least it doesn't look as bad as the Mammotion Luba (I guess every F1 fan wants one...)
Can confirm! Using two Gardena Robots (they use Husavarna hardware) and wet grass piling up in these weird wheels of the Ecoflow was the first thought that came to my mind! I'm sure this thing hasn't been really tested outside.
Also the grass in front of the charging station will be scraped away badly!
@@googlenutzer8768 i have tiled a litte area before the dock because of this issue. My robot his dock lives in a kind of dog house so parking is a little hard. But even without a guide wire it parks quite quickly.
This specific thing looks like it was designed by people who have literally never mowed a lawn before
Cool product, the 3000$ price tag is a deal breaker for me unfortunately
That's $1000 per 1 inch razor blade.
If your time is worth $30 an hour then it pays for itself in 100 hours of mowing
For that you could pay the 10-year-old neighbour kid to cut your grass for the US federal minimum wage for an hour a week every week until he leaves for college.
You can easily cut it down (pun intended) to $1000 and still get a brand model one
@@p_serdiuk Not really. Robot mowers need baby sitting; they can get stuck easily, as shown in this video.
Thank you for the Video. I actually bought one because of it! Havent set it up yet as it was raining constantly here but im looking forward to it! BTW you saying sorry to the robot was the most canadian thing i have ever seen lmao
Dude this is awesome. It won't do much for my yard since I'm on a mountain in a forest but it has potential to kinda change the world for smaller yards that are much more flat. This is great for elderly people I must add! My mother would love something like this.
You could pay a local kid $20 to cut your grass, 160 times until you reached the price of this mower.
@@BrainScramblies yeah child abuse is sooo good
@@fomingera65 mowing lawns is abuse? LOL
@@BrainScramblies that's called child labour huh
@@fomingera65 That's not how that works
I highly recommend the Husqvarna Automower series. My parents have the 308 and its been running for almost 4000h with no issues. It mows every day and all I do is edge cutting with trimmer/weedwhacker. And since it runs so often it kills moss too!
Indeed. I have one now for 4 years and running just like on the first day. Best brand out there for all battery powered yard tools. I have their whole range. Works brilliantly and easy to replace and repair everything, even many years in the future.
YES reviews of lawn robots! been waiting for this. please please please review the Yarbo modular lawn robot!! I wanna see how good it is with snow blowing as well! Especially because Linus is in Canada it will be awesome to see over the winter months. It releases in October
Hopefully the Yarbo is better than this EcoFlow cr4p! lol
Vancouver doesn't necessarily have the same "winter" as everywhere else in Canada.😂
@@MitchEllison lmaoo yes im from Vancouver and can confirm that there is snow like once a year for a few days 😂
From GIS and GPS mapping I have learned a few things you should know about the satellite signals. First, you need at least a minimum number 3 satellites for figuring out your location on the planet, 4 if you want altitude. Second, water blocks the signal, so the foliage on your trees acts as a wall blocking satellites low to the horizon (so in a forest is bad during the warm season, good during the cold season (assuming your in a forest where trees lose their leaves)). Third, buildings and other structures can create signal reflections causing the GPS receiver to have trouble getting a clear signal.
You are far enough north that almost all GPS and most GLONSS (if your mower uses them) are going to be south, east, and west. So make sure its on the south side of the house and elevated as high as possible. If you have a handheld GPS unit, some will show you exactly how many and which GPS satellites you can see at any time.
Really nice to see more non pc /gaming tech on the channel.
One of the things that would concern me with this particular product would be its power consumption. If you've got to basically run it daily then that seems like it would add up and be pretty costly rather quickly if you haven't got your own renewable energy
After this video, Linus NEEDS to touch some inside floor
"Before using your robot mower, use a regular mower." Well now that pretty neatly summarizes these types of smart devices, doesn't it.
It is so idiots don't complain when this thing don't manage to cut 30cm high grass.
Once i've seen that i thought "why the hell do i even need this piece of shit then?"
@@ThereWasNoFreeName Do you think that people with grass don't own a lawnmower already?
@@RegulusRemains Sometimes it breaks and you have to buy a new one.
@@ThereWasNoFreeName It's the same as with robot cleaners. It's for maintenance. You get the place to a good, reasonable state. And you employ these expensive gimmicks and they will maintain the place so your manual mowing/cleaning will be much less frequent, so overall you win some time.
Husqvara use the same razor blades for their mowers for years, probably close to a decade at this point. Works reasonably well if the grass is short enough
Looks like the ideal size to go under the trampoline! Obviously it would be good to be able to tell it that someone is using the trampoline. And if it could empty itself it might be worth 2-3 grand.
Wish this was around a couple years ago when I bought my landroid. I live in Houston and even with the hassle of installing the boundary wires, it saves me so much time working it in 100 degree weather. Saves me 1-2 hours per week, and keeps the lawn looking better maintained since it cuts it every day. Ecoflows design looks a lot better and should hopefully reduce the chance the mower gets stuck like mine does. Bring my robot mower reviews please!
Many years ago we were all outside and my grandpa was doing yard work, mowing the lawn in the dead of summer. We had raked a large pile of dead leaves and pine needles to the side and so while mowing next to the pile it struck a rock, sparked and immediately caught the pile of leaves and needles on fire. It was awesome. I've also been hit with stones flung about by a mower... doesn't feel great.
That's why you THEN install a heat detecting auto-sprinkler system on your lawn as a failsafe for your auto-lawnmower 😅
Ah, watching this I constantly thought of the mountfield princess I use... The motor started smoking recently so I finished cutting the lawn with a weed whacker. Still need to take the mower to get fixed.
gotta love the sock's and sandles combo 🤣.
Nice product demo / testing Linus !!!!
Thanks very helpful, as I was just looking into buying it. I think the random pattern will look weird with splotches, but fact that it got stuck on the twig is a deal breaker for me personally
I'd have a look at Husqvarna (i have the 315x). Although requires a professional to set it up for you - you don't have to do anything. Robot is a lot smaller and compact and way less noisy than this one. Plus it keeps the clippings on the lawn - which is healthy for the grass.
I honestly can't figure out what the big deal is with this one. The features this automower has is not special when it comes to other automowers. I don't understand who this is meant for - it looks like the mower is designed for landscaping on vast land (10k+ sq feet) yet the manual mapping is only convenient for small backyards. It's so weird.
All im seeing is an unnecessarily yoked up automower with nothing to show for it.
That is the deal breaker for you? Not the fact that it is cr4p in every single possible way? 🤣
The lawn will greatly improve with a robot doing daily runs. Perhaps just not this robot necessary.
Doing daily runs means the clippings are so small that they dont cause any trouble. However like in this video the first run on a tall lawn i would remove the clippings as to not suffocate the lawn.
The setup with wire is a hassle but done only once. But as seen in this video the tech has improved so wire is not necessary any more.
It is nice to have a robot, once in place there wont be any tracks or such since it does it daily so any differences can hardly if at all be seen.
Buy one, just not most expensive one perhaps lol.
"I'm sure lawnmower racing is a thing somewhere." Yes, Linus, it is a thing
Decided to watch, not to learn something new about this mower, but to see what all breaks and/or what Linus destroys . Well done! It survived! Lol
Mammoth Luba is far better! Just got mine and I love it. 4 wheel drive, 2 cutters, no gps issues, no flipping over etc
Lawnmower racing is indeed "a thing." There are some crazy builds and races in West Virginia.
The main goal of these is to handle basic maintenance at this point, still have to go around every two weeks or so with a string trimmer to touch stuff up. The interesting one these days is the Husqvarna since they introduced commercial ones I've seen lawn companies pop up that just setup the robot for you and maintain it for a monthly fee along with the trimming, the first that comes to mind is Turf bot.
Every two weeks???
@@hansdietrich83 Well that's how often you'd get it mowed normally and since it's missing patches you'd have to clear them up manually. I don't see why someone would spend $3k on a lawn care product when you'd either have to pay someone or strim the bits yourself.
@@hansdietrich83 Sure, depending on your tolerance and climate
@@Ben-fk9ey I have a gardena sileno city that cost about 700€. The only thing I need to do manually is triming the edges like ones a year. I planed my lawn specifically for the mower to reach every spot.
In temperate climate, where I live, I have to mow the lawn after every 7 days max. And I use a ride on lawn mower. The grass is just so thick and juicy. If I mow it after a 2 week period it will end up looking bad squashing it down or leaving clumps.
Lawn robots are really popular here just for that reason. They go around the yard ever day to cover the whole area over the span of a few days. The robots don't cut the grass just one day a week, it's nonstop.
They are very expensive though. Usual quality stuff like Husqvarna go for about 3K. That's 2 months salary for an average income person, including me. So I guess I'll be doing the mowing for the foreseeable future at least.
I’m a landscaper and I’ve seen quite a few of these and they have never worked how they say for longer then a few months in my experience and even when they do work they usually just mulch everything and will leave your lawn yellow in a few weeks but hopefully the tech will get better soon
Auto Mowers have been out awhile. They’re pretty simple. Inner & outer
Perimeter wires just a low-voltage line and a guide to help it find its way home to dock
Would love a follow up video showing if you can get it connected with your home assistant system to automatically get statistics and send commands to the mower
Dont see why not
All of which can be used against the owner in court when it injures someone or their pet or drives into oncoming traffic causing a lethal accident
@@darkkingastos4369 It's for the BACKYARD. Why would there be intruders, pets, or cars, on out of the way private property?
There is no chance he keeps this after the video. This is a man who hires a landscaper.
@@darkkingastos4369 derrrp
No chance I'd buy that for 2900, hopefully things like this improve because it sure would be awesome to automate chores like this.
Robot mowers have been on the market for almost 30 years now, they are better and cheaper than this :D
Cheap ones start around $700 and good ones (better than this based on this video) are around $1500. $3000 is the top of the line models that have stuff like solarpanels, can cut acres of land etc.
Love Linus got a sponsor spot of out it but this video just shows we're not ready yet and this is clearly 1st gen. Surprised Ecoflow approved this considering how poorly it seems to perform.
$2900? I only paid something like $5500 for my John Deere x570 which is a lawn tractor that is basically at entry level for someone doing lawn mowing as a business.
@@bajroevahahahaha Better is not true, all of them require you to lay a wire around your yard and even then they just bounce around randomly not straight paths
@@stevexracer4309 The bigger problem with something like this for the price tag is that the size and manner of yard you need for this thing to be effective at doing its job is going to be very small and very simple. You can't honestly tell me that someone with a yard of the size and complexity this thing would be adequate for can't find the time 4 times a month to cut that grass. It takes me about 2 hours to cut mine each time (not counting limb pickup and then trimming) to mow my yard with a riding mower and a 48" (that's almost 5 times bigger than the deck this thing has) deck. So if I can find the time find the time to deal with mine then someone with a yard as small as this thing would need should be able to.
nice series here! i'm excited to see more home autonomy!
That sweeper only looks big enough if your yard is a postage stamp. We have a Husqvarna Automower, and my favorite thing about it; is ignoring its existence and always having short grass.
My eyes glaze over at the idea of needing a literal satellite signal in order to mow a lawn.
Yeah good luck if your garden is under trees. GPS is garbage in a lot of places. I walk through woods a lot, exactly where I'd want a GPS to work if I get lost. And it doesn't. 🤦♂️
@Steve Sherman Just saying. GPS is always marketed as this wonder capability yet it fundamentally fails where a lot of the time you'd actually want it. But yes, many radio waves can penetrate solid matter. Besides, I wouldn't call a few leaves solid matter. A lot of the time GPS won't work with even the slightest tree canopy even with gaping holes in it.
@@FlyboyHelosim I think one thing to remember about GPS is the receiver is exactly that. It isn't transmitting, it's picking up time signals from satellites in orbit. The more we have, the better it works, and now we have at least 3 systems that can all be used together!
This mower uses RTK GPS with that base station antenna. #1, it's a ton more accurate, with 1cm-level precision. #2, the signal SHOULD be better because it has that tall antenna that's on wall power.
@@FlyboyHelosim That extra antenna can pick up better signal. In 99% gps penetrates thru many things.
Ive had the Worx Landroid L for 2 years now and Its been wonderful. Everyday running is a must for sure. That said, even in a random pattern it does a great job. But doing it consistently prevents the sweep and bagging needs.
For anyone wondering the price. It's about $2,800 USD. And 3700 CAD. So with taxes in British Columbia probably more then $4000
Linus - the only guy I know to test a robot vacuum in sandals with socks, and walk around it while it spins around randomly.
Bro! Go get some boots on in case that razor blade spinning thing comes your way lol😂
I like this mower, it continuously tried to attack the host lol, the opening "beware human" was spot on.
Edit: $3000~ USD isn't too bad for what it can do, personally I'll just keep mowing but I was expecting worst lol.
It costs more than paying my gardner to mow the lawn weekly for 3 years. It would need to be a lot more affordable to be popular.
@@hallymiao2825 Honestly I suspect the people that are actually buying these wouldn't be too fussed about the cost. It also scales rapidly to lawn size. How large is your lawn? Once you get up to 3000sqm I get the feeling that it would start to be more cost effective over time vs paying someone to do the whole lawn. Then you're just getting someone to come through every now and then to clean up edges, etc.
@@asinineintentions7773 once you have a lawn that big just throw wild flower seeds in it and let nature take over.
@@4203105 personally I dislike ticks buy to each their own.
Lots of commercial propertys are going to love this. Upper middle class and above with a nice lawn and but cant work anymore or dont want to.
There better be a follow up video just showing the results of sweeping over and over. I wanna know how it looks
7:52 "...and it lived there forever" 🤣
seems like the kind of mower that's best for an open area, not with so many obstacles, unless you leave the sweeper off.
Automatic grass cutters are very common in Sweden, but have never seen one with a sweeper, nor without some kind of edge line and definitely not anyone with crazy wheels like this one!
In Switzerland too. This thing seems a bit useless tbh. You don't need to sweep when the mower is out every 2nd day. Huge base station + GPS antenna seem much more of a disadvantage compared to the usual guide wire
@Steve Sherman more robots than ordinary walk behind lawn mowers.
@Steve Sherman I reckon some 30-50% have one, if their lawn is the appropriate size.
@@scsherman207 Nope, you see them everywhere these days
@@scsherman207 Sorry, my bad. Didnt realize you were a troll.
I love that I don't have a yard, yet my love for yardwork is now satisfied. Thanks Uncle Linus!
I've yet to ever see a real world video about a robot lawn mower which makes it look worth wild this video is no different.
Starting to feel like April Fools never ended
Its still april, you fool.
Think the video is a joke, wait till you see the price of the mower..
Just an overall horrible review. Half the video is them improperly setting it up.
I'm excited about LTT doing more lawn/outdoor videos.
That's how Uncle Linus rolls now
That sounds so British--they have such big lawns on a lot of their houses I imagine they should pay you to go over and set up their auto mower!!! park it in the shed and it would have its own cover and protection....really cool vid thanks
They should really add a self-emptying feature for the sweeper, especially given that the mower itself supposed to work better for larger lawns, but the sweeper tank can fill up quickly. They should also really add a mow+sweep feature that would sweep the clippings as you mow
Yeah, where was the little onramp to his mulch pile? Maybe he can construct it under tree canopy and not mow that. Not that he shouldn't change to a clover lawn or something.
I love how much ltt has diversified its tech reviewing
is it diversification if they're getting paid to do it?
It’s a sponsored video.
this is not a review, its an ad.