Ecoflow BLADE Robotic Lawn Mower - First Look
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- čas přidán 25. 04. 2023
- After years of waiting Ecoflow has done it! The world's first WIRELESS GPS/RTK robotic Lawn Mower & Sweeper.
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That price isn't bad. It's more than an electric self-propelled, but much less than an electric zero-turn. If like many, you aren't considering gas in the first place, this slots in perfectly. And you don't have to mow yourself.
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Only ships in the US :(
I'll let you folks work out the kinks and wait until it's available to Canada :)
It can lift up and down ELECTRICALLY.
Not electronically.
I'm very impressed by this mower, but not impressed enough to spend $2899 for it.
I still don’t think the tech has matured all the much yet, but boy is this leaps and bounds ahead of where we were a couple of years ago. Id be super excited to see where this is in another 5 years
3 razorblades sounds like a pain for any sizable yard. You'll need to change them far too often, heaven forbid you have sticks or dog waist.
2 to 3 times a week is a joke, damn things going to whine about needing help every other day.
This is very prototype-y. I've used those omni-wheels on a number of different projects and they're awwwwffullll. The tiniest bit of crud and they clog and stop spinning. It's the worst possible choice for a lawnmower. They will get jammed immediately.
Thanks for the extremely detailed explanation, lol, go back to sleep.
Wait to buy 7 years from now.
Just looks like another reason for teenagers to sit on their computers and get fat and unhealthy to me - not to mention all those ambitious ten year olds that will lose their jobs.
As a former auto mechanic, those front wheels drive me nuts 😅😅😅
And there's no way they're gonna last very long!
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Where does one go to even get something like this fixed when something breaks?
As a non-mechanic, the front wheels are stupid!.. And look like a massive power-drain..
Very cool where we are at with tech, and amazing to think where we are going. For $3K I'll let other people enjoy this novelty. I'll keep push-mowing my yard as an additional means of cardio/exercise. I saw the end of Wall-E. I know where this is headed. :-)
Same here, thought it was cool but when he never gave price I knew it was ridiculously high so looked it up and like you I’ll pass not to mention those cheap blades are going to a never ending expense as I doubt they will last long.
Was hyped until I saw the price tag. Ridiculous.
It's $3k, but a decent cordless mower will set you back somewhere between $500 and $1k, so it's a bit less of an increase than it might seem. Also, these are presumably intended for use by people who are either too busy to mow their own lawns or are unable to for other reasons. In which case, that $3k is likely a bargain compared with hiring somebody to come out and cut the grass every week.
I do think that it's a lot, but given where the technology is and the likely expenses of the satellite, it's not unreasonable.
Compared to several other options available, this one is way overpriced and looks flimsy in comparison to others. I've decided on a Luba mower which looks to have a better build quality, a much better drive system and is actually a couple hundred bucks less. But the best value and the most highly rated is the WORX Landroid M 20V and sells for just over $1,000. And for the WORX to offer wireless boundary at that price is amazing.
I actually took interest because my 86 year old mother is living alone with a big lawn. She hires a guy who shows up with a truck pulling a ride on mower in a trailer. I've seen zero turn mowers for $8,000 and garden tractors for $4,000. The cheapest ride on mower on Amazon is around $4,500 by my search. This isn't a push mower. It is the guy with a truck pulling a ride on mower in a trailer.
I can see the signs of your Tenacity working. I put mine on my lawn Sunday a few hours before it rained. We'll see if it is still going to work. I used to battery powered backpack sprayer that I won on your channel. Thanks again for the sweet backpack sprayer and for your time and videos.
So you’re the one who won it! I was really hoping to win that one. Lucky you!
@@Jbiglin I was one of three.
Next: A flying drone weed Wacker.🛸
I did that already years ago: czcams.com/video/JHofyZQ6e6Y/video.html 🤣
God that's terrifying
Im cool with it if it delivers my Amazon package too
Let it to eco flow
Can we attach a chainsaw to the mower?
Definitely the best one I’ve seen so far! Some major issues tho, at least for me:
1. Cloud connected. Like every other Cloud powered device, once the service stops, you have an expensive paper weight
2. Needs a buffer at the edge. I think a better design would of been to tuck the wheels in more so that the mowing deck could get right up to the edge of the lawn
3. I’d still need a standard mower or get really good at “mowing” with a string trimmer to cut that buffer mentioned in #2
4. Price. Assuming $80/mo for a lawn company on a 3/4ac lawn, it’d take ~3yrs to break even while you still doing your own edging and “buffer cleanup”
Yeah, that buffer is really bothering me. Wide track on the wheels means less scalping on uneven ground, but it needs the ability to swap the blades for a string trimmer on one side or the other for a second pass.
@@rtravisboyd5013 Agreed. Assuming once a week, $20 a mow for 3/4ac is unbelievably cheap. In the Philly burbs (medium-high COL), it's much more like $80-$100 per acre per mow, and that's for an easy yard. That's the basic mow & blow, no complex edging or anything additional. At around 25 mows in a season, the price of this thing ($2500) is basically one year of a service.
I have 1.5 acres, with maybe 1 acre of grass (lots of weed whacking edges), own a lawn tractor in good shape, and have young kids, so I don't mind putting on the bluetooth muffs and cruising around the yard, but this is absolutely the future. The fact that a robotic mower can basically mow your yard multiple times per week, always keep the grass at an optimal height and not trim too much at a time is a gamechanger. Even better that it can do it nearly silently (even at night) and with no emissions.
@@bnasty267 So I looked for current ads. Here's a quote, "The 10 Best Lawn Care Services in Houston, TX from $30
Typically our lawn mowing costs start at $25 per lawnmowing cut and can go up from there."
Also, you can't manage 25 mows a year here due to rainy weather. More like 20. And frankly, since i retired, I mow biweekly (when it's not wet) from Mid April to October. I only need to mow once per month in November to March. And less if I put on weed spray.
With tax and discounts this is $3100 (plus you'll want an extended warranty so $3300). With the current sales, that probably is back down to $2800. That's a 4-5 year payoff. Assuming the batteries and the machine last that long and that the cloud stays up. The warranty is 4 years.
This would be much more tempting at $1,800 total price. It probably makes more sense if mowing in your area is more expensive.
YMMV for lawn service pricing as there’s lots of variables. That said, a majority of folks have ~7,500sqft LOT (minus house). I’d recommend doing your own break-even calculations for your specific yard/needs.
$80/month!! Maybe 5 years ago!! We pay $175 a month and we don't even have 1/2 acre!!! And this is the CHEAPEST price we could get for this year!!
Just bought it! Thank you for this great review and the link. I've been waiting to get a full low-down on this unit and you answered all my questions.
How much did it cost? Please and thank you.
I'd really like to see obstacle avoidance tests. My kids love leaving stuff all over the backyard. Can you do a followup with items of every height? Frisbees, nerf darts, baseballs, footballs, basketballs, etc? I'd love to see how it works before I'd take the plunge.
Yes, I did test some things like that and it did well but I will definitely be doing a follow up later this summer.
Not trying to be funny but what about dog poop 🐕 💩? That would be messy!
Linus made a video on this and it shows this really well, It saw boards he didn't put in no mow zone and mowing around them pretty close without touching them
@@bzbzbz25 I have a Worx Landroid L and the best thing I can tell you is that you should get out there all the time and pick up your dog poop. The few times I didn't and it ran it over, it was honestly no different than when you do so with a push lawn mower. It's not that huge of a deal at all.
@bzbzbz25 Nice. Your thousand dollar mower has poop all over it. You may not hear it mowing, but you'll smell it coming.
I hate when you make us go looking for the price. Just say it man
Thanks for saving me time -I didn’t watch!
It's so cool seeing robotic tech advancements like this! I reckon within 5-10 years, larger models with more advanced self learning ai will be an option for folks like myself with larger more demanding mowing requirements. This as it is is ideal for small perfectly landscaped lawns like in this vid, but not if you have a 3+ acre lawn to mow with some rough areas and lots of trees. Thanks for this demo vid. 👍
That brush makes a nice little de-thatcher. To do a really good job, they can add another battery to the unit and add metal rake tines. Impressive.
That final overhead view did this mower proper justice.
It’s not something I’d want at the moment but could definitely see using this later. I’m close to retirement and don’t mind mowing my lawn. As I get older this would be a good alternative to a lawn service. My concern is that I have two distinct lawns. One in front of my home and my back yard. Would this be able to navigate to and cut the front lawn if the base was located in my back yard? This would require the robot to be completely out of view of the base. It would require me to leave a gate open but with today’s world of electronic reminders that shouldn’t be a problem.
I’ve had a robot mower for 7 years. … It’s not often you buy something that exceeds your expectations for that period of time, but I can honestly say it was the very best thing I ever did with regard to lawnmowing the lawn always looks perfect like a Bowling Green. It gets healthier and healthier by the year, there are no fumes from gas or petrol. And the most important thing is what value do you put on your time I believe our time on this planet is the most valuable thing. I don’t wish to be spending it sitting on a walking behind the lawnmower. Whatever one, you just get one you won’t regret it :-)
I agree with the above sentiment 7 Billion Percent!
Segway have a few gps guided robot mowers that were available last summer in Europe, so this is definitely not the first. From what i understand ppl were pretty pleased with that one. Husqvarna has also got a model that works on gps, but it is much more expensive and not really a regular consumer product. I also believe that the new ambrogio mower without boundary wire is available for purchase, but it works in a different way and is still somewhat dependant on wire to guide the mower back to its base.
Toro keep promoting theirs, its available on pre-order, but they don't tell you what the price is...
The antenna is there to have a fixed point to deal with GPS wandering. They will both get the same differential between a fixed position and the GPS position, so the antenna can send the differential to the mower, so it's consistently at the exact position. Excavating and surveying people use this to get exact location, but based on a known exact position. It was amazing seeing a bulldozer make a perfectly level basement using this technology.
We’ve had wireless robot brands here in Denmark. Husqvarna and Stiga for some and they use local weather forecasts for optimal cutting time.
Can it be set to vary the mow pattern to avoid digging grooves into the lawn? Does mowing separate front and back lawns require two antennas?
Yeah, I'd honestly like that. I have a Worx Landroid L. It's a pain in the ass (for other reasons), but I actually love the random zig zagging it does, because in the end, the lawn just looks like a neat lawn and looks like a lawn mower has never passed over it. I'm one of the few people who prefer it to just look neat with no lines at all. When the mower goes random, it eventually criss-crosses all over the place and you land up not seeing any lines.
@@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403 Thats why I didnt buy Landroid. It has a drive wheels on rear and they need to push the front of the mower over bums and that tends to make grooves. Instead of that I got Gardena and no I have no grooves
Pretty wild the technology they must be packed into this. Surprised to its powerful enough to drag around the bag and clippings. Also that your lawn looks like that already after the four feet of snow that didn’t seem that long ago
I am also amazed. How does a company with no robot experience do this when no one else could? I guess they figure it out. My back yard is looking so much better, but my side is still beat up from the piling of all that snow. I will have more lawn videos shortly too as the season is finally taking off.
For me, the bag is essential because I use my yard scraps to mulch in my garden bed so I would need to collect all clippings. So, I will be judging it based on use with that bag 100% of the times.
I have a Bosch Indego. It does need a wire, but it uses GPS in conjunction with that, so it can cut in straight lines. The straight lines were a major reason I chose this mower!
No doubt this looks to be the best I've ever seen.
That being said nothing will stripe like my Big League Lawns striper.
I'll never give thet up. Seeing my stripes from the satellite image? Priceless!
Even though I can't afford this, I think it's pretty cool. Imagine how cheap and good they will be in the near future.
People that are complaining about the area it can cover aren't thinking about the proper use case for this machine. It's like a rumba works in smaller areas more often. It's more like automated maintenance.
Yes you understand it completely. The problem in the past is digging the wire and random mowing has been a turn off for many. Husqvarnas similar mower costs $4,000, requires a $1500 wire installation and randomly mows with no sweeper. These guys are on the right track and I wouldn't be surprised if they make a small model in the future.
And there will be something better out by then. This needs to be wider and should have a solar panel for battery charging.
I’ve had 2 robo mowers and neither needed the wire to be buried. Just use a weedwhacker on the edges to cut the grass down and then use the supplied stakes to hold the wire. In a few weeks the wire will be gone due to the grass growing over it. I had the 1/4 and 1/2 acre Worx models. The cost of those two were still half the price of this. I’m sure this one is great (which it should be) but it’s cutting grass at the end of the day and they all use the same type of blades. I had mine mow every day for 6hrs. It sure beat having to mow.
This is still early days on this technology, Once one company figures it out, others will and as they build more units the price will likely come down a lot. It's not that much different from robotic vacuum cleaners, where both the functionality and price have improved a lot since the first ones were released. Ones that don't just bounce around randomly are affordable and some models will unload themselves when they get full.
Also, even at $3k, this is still a lot less expensive than hiring somebody to come out and mow the lawn for you. Which is probably not you or you'd be calculating the price based on that.
@autisticdoingandthinking did you even read my comment lol. You basically just summarized everything I said in a long winded manner. You don't need to assume it's not for me due to the price because I literally said that along with the rumba comparison.
Finally, the DJI of law care has arrived. Everything about it looks amazing and I love that it cuts like a mower would in lines as opposed to the most economic route others take with zig zags. The build looks killer too. If I didnt enjoy my mowing time so much Id consider it. Would be great if they made more attachments in the future like a light duty dethatcher or core areator!
Or we have these things called legs for one a year jobs. 😂
I thought the same thing it looks like the drone
No way you could create a core aerator for this. Core aerators are heavy machines. They need to be to sink those tines into the ground.
The sweeper attachment looks super interesting, however. I have an auto mower (Worx Landroid L), but I have actually been cutting the lawn by hand, because I've been capturing the grass clippings to mix into my compost. I work from home. If this could send a message every hour stating, "Hey, the bag is full", I'd have no problems getting up once an hour and dumping the grass into my compost pile.
Now, will all of this work as well as we saw in the video? I don't want to spend $3K+ for something that's not ready for prime time.
@@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403 exactly, the smaller aerators weigh about 250 lbs for a reason.
@@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403 why not just buy a mower and mow the grass one a week. You could collect the clippings to use in your garden and buy a greenhouse with the money saved. The Toro electric is a nice mower for about $500.
Great review! Super cool to see a quality product like this with 1 on 1 support too
I'd envision they will serve as a widespread sleeper cell for when the robot wars come.
This is outstanding! I wish I could send this out on my client's property so it can do the work for me! I also really like your product review videos especially like this one. Ive mentioned your channel and other videos that you made to a lot of my friends who are interested in lawn care and DIY things. How were you able to test out this mower?
That would be cool. In fact, that’s actually a really genius idea that could be executed with just a few software tweaks by Ecoflow. I should go patent this idea instead of just giving it out for free here 😜. What you do is you buy several bases. Your customers would sign up to pay you a monthly fee and you program their lawn for an initial setup fee. They would agree to keep the base at their house and be OK with the small amount of electricity it consumes to run and charge the robot. You then get a small fleet of the robots. You higher some collage students to run around and move the robots from house to house. The robot would only need to spend 24 hours at each location and be fully charged by the time it gets picked up. Or you can buy extra batteries and maybe get 2 locations mowed per day. Each robot can then service 7 to 14 jobs/week for you. I gotta imagine even with the blade and battery replacements, these things would pay themselves off pretty quick and then it’s just Scrooge McDuck kind of money.
I'd like to see a test of your whole lawn. The advantage of a smart mower should be remembering where it has mowed and be able to pick up where it leaves off. Like I'd like to program it to cut 2-3 acres. With it being able to cut 4 hours and charging 2 hours that's 4 cuts a day. It should be able to do a lot in a week.
But your battery would be dead after one year…
@@ipodman1910it’s a small battery shouldn’t be that much more than 500-600 even though it probably is. Small price to pay for a years worth of continuous mowing
@@monhi64 back in my day we had better mowers they were called kids
This seems so perfect. I especially like the height. I have a gigantic Maple tree in my backyard and the roots are a danger to any mower if you don't set the height high enough. Also the security feature is a must for my crime ridden area. I would love this thing.
I never knew such a thing existed and how amazing! I have MS and this would change my world!
Having a pool with a fully fenced backyard has always been a challenge for all of these mowers because they have no way to get between zones. It would be awesome if they had a gate system like a doggy door.
Yeah it would have to be able to unlock the gate and relatch it automatically.... otherwise it would be a legal issue.
Someone in my neighborhood has white fence all around his property which has a doggy door, and i've seen a robot lawnmower doing its thing in their front yard
Would love to see obstacle avoidance tests. This thing looks awesome i would own it if my lawn guy wasn't so cheap.
Dang, I just bought a Worx mower last year. Would have loved to had something where I didn't have to install that perimeter wire. Oh well, its something to consider in a few years when I wear the Worx out but for now, it does a great job keeping the yard mowed. Thanks for the great video as always!
I reviewed the Worx Landroid last year and it was excellent. Its a great price and does need the wire but its a very durable machine.
skeptical when I first saw this on Linus tech tips. however, you have a good point on this product working multiple times a week, maintaining cutting an already nice lawn. We have a Chinese cheap low power cordless vacuum, the motor whine is not screaming unlike premium vacs and it works good enough for daily use light dust debris.
Damn, that's a pretty incredible robot mower, it's the first one to actually impress me! But that price is a bit ridiculous, I guess I'll have to wait another 5 years...
basic $1599 will be good
What’s you opinion on this vs the LUBA? I know the LUBA doesn’t bag but it also uses no boundary wires and seems like the closest competitor with it doing 3/4 acre and 1 1/4 with the upgraded model. I guess it’s still preorder and eco flow is a well known company but the mowers seem super comparable
I have a Luba from Kickstarter. Excellent so far! It can tackle steeper slopes than the Blade and has suspension on each wheel instead of the mowing deck. Options include choosing the angle of mowing pattern, height (1.1-2.7 in), single or double grid and more. The Blade does look pretty sleek and raking attachment is a bonus.
I hope it is as good as my roborock vacuum has been. From what I have seen so far, I plan on getting one.
I'm always excited to see you post new videos. I drop everything and watch. 😁👍
Well... if it were under $1K it would be mine today. Maybe one day such a thing will fit into my budget. Those two front wheels though... would drive me nuts. I keep seeing sticks/twigs getting caught in them. As far as someone stealing one, I can see that happening... the only anti-theft that would work is if it were somehow able to determine it had been stolen, it would shutdown, be useless until the original owner 'unlocked' it. Still, parts might bring some money... Where you live, it wouldn't be an issue... where I live, yeah, it's gonna get stolen (if I could afford it!)
$999.00 online at walmart site at time of this comment.
@@patricksquires6348Well too late for me - I bought a nicely used Husquvarna 46" rider with the money. I'm covered for a good number of years for now. Thanks though for pointing out the price drop. Strange though to see an ad for the mower that says "Now $999. You save $1,900.00" Most consumers would see that as a huge red flag.
Seems like it would be easier to have a removable handle to push it around for the learning mode to map out the yard.
Yeah, that would be cool and most likely the simplest way to ensure it cuts what you want it to cut.
Think this is the first one I've seen with a bagging attachment...be nice to see other big name bots get that option too.
I want one that cuts 5 inches. I like my lawn high!! But I do like the fact that you can mow it 3 times a week… makes your lawn look fresh every day. Maybe in 5 more years these will be more affordable and durable.
Toro is currently working on one very similar to this. This Ecoflow, however, looks like it's going to hard to beat. A direct current opinion would be nice though. That way it could be connected directly to a solar panel instead of an ac outlet. The mower would not need an inverter then and could be a little less expensive.
Husqvarna has a solar panel hook up.....but it's not cheap
If I had a big lawn like Silver, I would definitely consider spending $2900 on this.
Glad to hear about the progress. Was it doing a crisscross pattern at the end? That would be awesome.
I saw a similar mower a few days ago in Germany. This is the future for the typical suburban yard, but the price will have to come down from $3k to $1k, but i think it will. I bet Ryobi will make one.
The vision enable worx landroid starts at $2k currently so getting there.
Awesome. One step closer to getting rid of my expensive mow and blow company. Thank you. Excellent review. Subscribed.
Wow! I can’t afford it but it is cool. I am needing a lite weight mower that my mom and I can handle. Any suggestions
This is my favorite lightweight mower, all battery. No engine, easy to handle: amzn.to/3NgOHCS
That's very impressive! I wonder if there's some kind of accessory that you could put some kind of lawn treatment chemicals in and have it scan and treat lawn areas that need it. Beautiful lawn BTW!
unfortunately that is not possible, also since this model is being discontinued and they are not making a new one, I doubt anything like that will be ever released.
I would love to have this I’m just concerned it wouldn’t work very well for my lawn. I have a few small retaining walls before the street sidewalk. Along the sidewalk I have long strip of grass, if I were to do the boundary I would do it for the retaining wall but then would the sidewalk area not get cut? I also have my yard separated by a driveway and stairs going up to the second strip of land. The only way the mower could get up there would be to use the strip of grass along the sidewalk and enter the yard on the far other side of the yard. Is that kind of customization doable in the app?
Very curious how easy it would be to sharpen those blades. I know they give you another set in the kit, but the effort of sharpening those small blades would be negligible compared to a regular mower blade, and you could easily double the useable life of the blade just sharpening it once and then replacing. Maybe sharpen once a year? I feel like the batteries in that unit will need to be replaced before the blades lol
Pro-tip for those cool enough to keep reading this comment: That ugly power box? If you decide to replace any external boxes, get the ones with the clear or translucent/fogged plastic covers, not opaque siding-colored ones. Every single siding-matched outlet box on my house is filled to the brim with wasp nests every year, and it's a pain to keep cleaning them out and killing wasps. We have a bunch of clear cover boxes installed in remote outlets in our forest and replacements on our house, and I've never even seen anything living in them, not even spiders. Keeps them really clean and you aren't hesitant to just grab it and yank it open for fear of a wasp attack.
They are very inexpensive and you could sharpen them but they are like surgical blades probably best bet to just replace them unless you are very careful. But fortunately they are a standard size so there are aftermarket ones.
I'd imagine a standard blade's weight would definitely cut down (hee hee) the battery life.
@@monkeybarmonkeyman I dont think the weight would be much of a problem - you only need to spin it up once. However, im sure that the aerodynamic drag of a typical bar type blade is quite significant compared to the disc in this.
@@SilverCymbal Those are a flail mower type blade, the cool this is if blade hits something, the blade in not rigidly attached and can "bound" off the object
This one is the most impressive I've seen to date its just the cost that would turn me away !
Is the antenna only line of sight? I want to find a wire free mower I can cut my front lawn and back...my lawn is small around 10,000 sq ft but front yard is in front of house...would antenna transmit through house or could you use 2 antennas?
I actually don’t think this is too bad of a price. It is comparable to a zero turn rider. Plus If it lasts a decent amount of time, the value of time savings is huge.
Same here. It's not cheap enough for people with smaller yards and the ability to mow it themselves. But, if you can't, or don't have time to, mow it yourself, it wouldn't take that long for tis to pay for itself. Obviously, it depends on how durable it is and how well it works, $3k for one that doesn't really work isn't a good deal. But, even if you do have to go around the edge with a string trimmer, it's still a massive savings of time and money over time.
Also, these will likely get cheaper and more capable if this one works as well as it appears to.
$999.00 online at walmart site at time of this comment.
Now $899.00 at walmart.
I absolutely love my Worx Landroid. But ultimately it’s a Roomba with razor blades. If I were to move, I would totally buy this. The pain of setting up the wire, troubleshooting it for a summer.. is not fun. But this 3rd year it’s been flawless.
Works has a vision enabled version that released in the last month... no wires.
@@Wingnut353 Looking at it, not bad. I’m guessing it still doesn’t cut in straight lines based on their write up. The $$$ isn’t too far from the ecoflow.. Would have to take a hard look at each if I were to move.
This is awesome technology and its nice to see how it has advanced so far. I still don't think its there yet, but one day it will be.
I had a Husqvarna AutoMower 450x I installed a few years back, I used it about 1 season and then sold it for big loss of money and my time... My biggest complaint was that the grass would get matted down from the wheel tracks foot traffic, and with no suction the grass blades were never able to stand up, and if they did stand up, the mower would knock them over and they'd go uncut. The only way to minimize the issue would be to set the blade height to about half the max (1.25" vs max of 2.4) . These new mowers claiming 3" or so, I just can't see how they will perform, unless cutting very dry lawns with thicker blades that are less prone to being matted down by everyday lawn use. That bag attachment might be the key to just use it as a rake to prevent the matting issue at higher cut lengths. Just one of the other issues, is with the lawn cut everyday, your edges always look untidy as they are so much taller, and who is trimming everyday 2 days to keep up. They need to design one to edge trim.... I did a bunch of brick work around some flower beds, and that worked great, but its not realistic for big yards.
Good product. My only problem with this robot is the angled from wheels - it makes it look cross eyed 🙂. But good functionality and design. I went for the Mommotion Luba instead of the Ecoflow. Very similar capabilities, except the bagger (which would be too small for my lawn)
If this could save multiple lawn profiles, a small lawn service company could profile each customer's lawn then just drop the bot off to let it mow. Designated human could go around with a string trimmer and touch up. This would be awesome!
I built my own 5yrs ago. Control from my iPad. Made it for my hills
There are actually many others that are coming out this year that mow in straight lines including Husqvarna. The Mammotion Luba is another one out already and mows much larger areas. The bagging feature does make this Ecoflow Blade unique though.
Yes we have the Worx Vision, Segway Navimow, Toro (xxx) and the Husqvarna has been coming for 2 years. Coming is key...but ready for sale seems to be the problem. I will likely be reviewing all of those. The Luba kickstarter version recently shipped, which great but my understanding is new orders are still not shipping. So I am not sure thats really available. All I am saying here is that Ecoflow skipped kickstarters, crowdfunding, they just made a product, its for sale and you can buy it now direct and on Amazon. That's as real as it gets. As of this moment I can't order any other and get it with any real time frame. It's the most ridiculously vaporware product in history. I give Ecoflow credit. no crying, no belly aching. They made it and you can buy it.
@@SilverCymbal The Husqvarna 550 EPOS GPS-RTK model has been available since at least last year. Straight line cutting came in an OTA software update a few months ago.
@@covertpuppytwo3857 Yes a year late, and they still have not shipped all backers orders as of today. So I guess they are part way there. Is that available? Bunches of second rate websites are taking orders stating shipping in August? Before Ecoflow, Worx and Segway all announced wire free those companies had it made. Now the floor is quickly falling out. I am just glad to see some mainstream choices, you will see all of those Yarbos and others go away as they will not want to deal with service issues once that initial money runs out.
@@SilverCymbalA Brilliant Video Review! Thanks a lot for it's in depth details and with hints and tips too! The comments it has attracted are useful and interesting too. You are obviously an info magnet for Mowing! How about a Monthly Review?
The Heisenberg is a no wire and has an edging attachment. Hope you test it next!
I would not buy that mower under any circumstances right now. You don't have to buy the Ecoflow, but get something else. I would never do the Heisenberg kickstarter, I doubt any backer will receive anything. If they have a REAL machine to test I will look at it.
@@SilverCymbal what is it you don’t like about the Heisenberg
@@MrBubbadon They posted a fake review on their Facebook and it was so bad that readers figured it out. They quickly deleted it. They are an unknown company, all made to look like they have experience with German sounding name and abilities that they will not be able to deliver. My advice is wait it out, do not back that campaign, if I am wrong, you might pay a little more and if I am right which I know I am for them, you will save your money. 99% of the kickstarter robot campaign are total fraud. They delay and delay, playbook of excuses. I truly don't care if you buy this Ecoflow but the kickstarter robots have become a scam. Read up on Yarbo Novabot and Toadi. All said they had working products or ready to go , now a year plus later. NOTHING.
@@SilverCymbal I finally got my Toadi in the US last October. Yes, it was a kickstarter robot and there were delays; however, I am very impressed and happy to own it. Just glad to have a robot made in Belgium rather than Shenzhen China.
@@larryhendren9111 That is a surprise. They wanted me to run an "ad" for them and I refused unless they could provide a demo unit. That was a good decision since it was years ago and they angered folks when deliveries didn't happen and then they had the "armed" version, of course not delivered. Is your Toadi working? Strange that no one seems to post any info on it and even their company stopped responding to me when I called them out for marketing NEW versions under the Eeve name without delivering backer orders. I guess I am glad some folks have received them, but was it what they promised?
Wow you and Linus Tech Tips got one each.
Yes, I love Linus but some of what he covered made no sense. I am an IT person but have spent a ton of time with robomowers. I don't think he understood how you use them, they aren't designed to cut 7" grass. They maintain heigh forever by cutting often. But i do love his channel and content.
@@SilverCymbal good thing I watch both channels :) keep up the good work!
@@NokeManzo I appreciate it. Its funny if you watch his at the start and end and skip the middle the yard looks 1000x better so I guess we came to same conclusion in the end. Thanks for the nice words too.
I have a backyard with a playground, and landscaped front yard, a parkway, a strip of lawn along the driveway, and a larger strip of lawn on the other side of the house. No lawn connects them. Can I still use this product? Does the antenna need to be line-of-site with the robot?
I bet you can't beat that dog mowing the grass😂.
I'm always leary about ecoflow product reviews. I know they pay their reviewers quite well to promote their products.
Well I guess you have to judge your instincts. If you have ever followed my DIY videos or product recommendations, were they real and truthful? Did the product work as shown? I am offered money every week from companies selling vaporware and junk I turn down all of it, except for what I see as the best and most unique. For me to show something I really have to like it and believe in it. That's why I stopped showing Bluetti, Yarbo, Heiseenberg Novabot and many others. All CZcamsrs aren't the same.
@@SilverCymbal I'm sorry, it wasn't anything at your personally. I enjoy all your videos and reviews and I appreciate you very much.
@@michiganman845 That's totally ok and I get sad when I see some channel take every offer they get. They eventually lose everyone, I try to balance my DIY and cool products.
@@SilverCymbal Me too... Again, I apologize for coming across as jerk. Have a good rest of the week buddy.
I look forward to your videos and this one was over the top. Great review of a top notch product. A little pricey, but worth it and the price will come down. You’ll be updating that plug and your place is looking great.
Thank you, that electric plug has had a rough life. I will be doing a lot of the exterior here in the next year. Needs some love!
"a little pricey".... just imagine how we feel here in Canada!! it will be at least 6k CAD
@@SilverCymbal a little love makes for great video ( that sounded dirty lol). I always look forward to your content
Ok, this is AMAZING! I have a Worx Landroid and boy oh boy is it a pain in the butt. First off, getting it to the point where it doesn't cut the boundary wire, go outside of its boundary wire, etc., literally takes months. Long story short, boundary wires suck! I've NEVER understood why my robot vacuum doesn't need boundary wires, yet can find its way home, but not my robot mower.
Then it CONSTANTLY hits bumps, then complains that the mower was lifted. It wasn't lifted, it just hit a tiny bump in the ground.
This looks promising. For the mere fact that he didn't mention the price, however...ugh! I haven't even checked the price yet, but I want this!
Edit: I just checked the price. $2,599? Honestly, I expected it to be $6k, the way he was talking about it. This is not bad AT ALL! Ugggghhhhh....I'm going to buy it!
How do you get replacement blades? I don't see them sold on their site. Do all of these different brand robo mowers use the same type of blade, universal fit?
Based on what I just saw, the price is a BARGAIN! This is absolutely incredible. Only question, of course, is how long will this thing last? And no one knows the answer to that yet. But this unit is mind blowing.
Is this sponsored because linus also did the same mower video today
Of course it is!
Does the bagger attachment let you know when it is full? During early fall, I’d imagine it would require frequent emptying.
Already had this on my wishlist before finding this vid..very cool
Does it have to sleep outdoors? Texas sun will destroy anything that is plastic in a few years.
Build a tiny carport for it.
Stop SC NOTHING beats a walker mower..👍🏻😎
Maybe a remote control Walker! I wish they would make a 4WD one
@@SilverCymbal But driving it and seeing the beautiful lawn stripes is most of the fun 😃
Ohh I definitely want one this is going on my Christmas list for sure LOL
Was it able to cut your front/side lawn? Would it need an extra antenna or is it able to cut the other side of your house with just the existing antenna?
I'd love to see these lawn bots totally disrupt the home and commercial lawn maintenance segment. I really can see the affluent households and the 70+ year olds that don't want to mow anymore, that pay the $75 per week, and perhaps are noticing that it's $75 for a pretty mediocre rapid tear cut (I call it a lawn beat-down) in about 15-20 minutes, saying enough is enough and just buying one of these.
Yay! Less jobs for people!
They can get a job in the factory making these bots along with repairing these when they break. You're right though, the tax payer will be supplementing less tax deductions for less LLC people claiming very small incomes that are actually making larger hidden incomes.
@@mattb9664id reckon the robots will be building the robots.
@@oldman_eleven this forces people to innovate instead of relying to labour
From another perspective, skynet is slowly replacing us which actually isn't a crazy idea anymore
@@tomikun8057 im not against changing times I just dont like the celebration of the demise of the working class. Its not gonna end well.
I don’t know what that cost, but I bet it’ll be stolen within a month.
That would most likely require someone with advanced hacking skills to override the anti-theft GPS locator and the fact that it can only be operated by the owner. Most thieves aren't that sophisticated. It would help if they put a big sticker on it to that effect or better yet, have it speak to the would-be thief telling them it is calling the cops to let them know where it is!
I put bases in the beds with some stone dust. I sometimes add plantings to hide the base also.
It looks like the limitation is the antenna signal has to have a pretty good line of site to the mower. This means, mowing front and back yards is a no go.
It is truly amazing how far these have come along. I can see it's use for large properties or people that are very busy and don't want to take their weekends away from family time. As an older person with a small lawn and more time on my hands the old school way keeps me active , especially when I'm stuck inside all Winter. These will be a hit when the prices are more affordable for the average homeowner. 👍💚🦸
They really have, this is the smartest one I have seen yet. I have a friend that is merchant marine type that would love this running at this house when he is gone, he loves all the tech too. Just depends on the person and lawn size and like you many of love doing the lawn, so definitely not for everyone.
I bought my (used) 42" riding lawn mower and bagger for $350, so a $3,000 10" mower is not a realistic option for my 1.3 acre lawn.
This is definitely not the first without a perimeter wire. There are at least three other manufacturers. Ambrogio twenty zr for example. Also less expensive.
How well does it work if you have a yard that has a large number of trees that could block signals, etc.?
THANK YOU. I was planning on getting the Husqvarna.
When I saw the blades I knew it was a toy.
Why? Isn’t the end result the only thing that matters? The dude’s lawn looked rocking 🤙
@@fpartidafpartidathose blades hit anything bigger than a small stick they are done
very cool! i would want it but my yard is not yet flat, some bumps here and there and a lighter mower like this won't do the job. also, how is the cleanup? can you just spray water on the wheels and the underside?
That thing is going to be great, because I'm already almost 40 and have a lot of physical problems this will be great when we move outside of the city.
Break out your privilege, and your wallet
I see your point, my mind went immediately to elderly and disabled, however the price point is probably ludacris🤣
$3600 for the full bundle with bagger
..pretty steep
Not bad if you want the best build material, time-saver, back pain-saver, and lawn results without all the pitfalls of all the other lawn-bots I’ve looked at. Could come down a bit once mass produced and other brands catch-up.
@cadenseward2054 a zero turn runs you 3500 on the low end
I have added extra weight of 3,5 kg on a back of a robot. It sits on a handle and is scewed in that thread for a bag. Results are outstanding. Slopes even in backwards has been double lifted, no more drive weels tearing grass when making turns.
Great, even the lawn mower is listening to you.
Does the unit have to stay in sight of the gps antenna to work properly?
Bleeding edge technology! Love it! Can’t wait until there’s more out to lower cost.
Me too! These will go down and down, the market could be huge. If these were $500-1000, it would be extremely cost effective for a lot more people.
The Lowest Height of Cut (HOC) is 0.8" and I like to keep my bermuda lawn below 1/2". The only current solution is to buy a Husqvarna Automower along with their fairway kit. I highly suggest that Ecoflow consider offering a solution that satisfies the many that like a shorter lawn.
[UPDATE TO BELOW: Ecoflow CSR responded to my question with: "Thank you for reaching out to EcoFlow Customer Support.
Normally speaking, when the remaining battery level of the robotic lawn mower is 20%, the robot will pause the mowing task and automatically return to the charging station. When the robotic lawn mower is charged to 90%, it will return to the point automatically where it stopped mowing to continue the operation.
So please try to wait it to return automatically instead of pressing "Start" to control it. The original program might be interfered when you pressed "Start". " ] This is probably correct. I saw the battery was 98% and I pushed "Start". I should have waited a few more minutes to see what would happen.
Now that I took delivery and tested, I love it. I watched every review video on YT, but your large lot sold it. Now, here's what I discovered in real time use: The mower has no memory. I have 4 acres to mow. I mapped out a 1.5, relatively flat rectangle acre to test. I was blown away how nice everything was looking. But at 30% battery, and only half the job done, the mower went back to the base to charge - as expected. What I didn't expect was, after fully recharging, the mower did not reengage automatically. Instead, I had to press "Start" on my app. Then the mover returned to the original starting place of my map and repeated the exact same path as last time! I was expecting it to return to its previous end-point and finish the test job (like a Roomba or Neato vacuum). There has to be a way to make this work on a larger lot. But I cannot find any information from Ecoflow or others with best practices on how to daisy-chain a full mow of a large lot. How did you do this on your lot? I'm thinking I will have to grid my lawn into 6, three-quarter acre rectangles and somehow create individual automated schedules that do not overlapped time-in-use and charging. Is there a resource at Ecoflow that you found useful?
At $60 a month, my good friend Carlos returns to where he left off mowing every single time and he only takes few minutes to fill up his mower. He also does edging and blows leaves. I never have to worry about him being stolen neither. Because he’s a rental basically.
I have a quick question for this machine. Does it have the capability to change which way the lines go? Fore example diagonal?
How would this work with waterfront property and crossing driveway to get other half of house in front.
That yard is amazing!! This reminds me of honey I shrunk the kids. The remote control lawnmower.
This is possibly the best news I have had in years. 👍😊
I couldn't help but notice the additional dog poop collection feature on the rear wheels. That's handy
How does it work on the very steep hill areas we need one for our house but all the area is steep … does it work well for steep hills or it will just topple over ??