Segway's Navimow brand unveiled a new line of robotic lawn mowers at CES 2026 Some of the models are armed with LiDAR and can handle yards up to 1.5 acres. Segway, the maker of Steve Wozniak's of self-balancing transport, has released a new series of robotic lawn mowers under its Navimow brand, designed for all manner of Roomba-esque mowing action. The lineup includes four residential series and was unveiled at CES 2026. Navimow's lineup includes the flagship X4 Series for large yards up to 1.5 acres in size. Its AWD system can handle slopes up to 40 degrees and it sports dual 180-watt cutting motors.

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Thanks to a video posted by Edd China on YouTube we get a glimpse at one of the strangest custom cars ever built. This unique build was commissioned by a robotic lawn mower company called Friendly Robotics to create a drivable 3 to 1 replica of one of their robotic lawnmowers. The resulting build was a striking custom vehicle that was sure to draw interest from onlookers and help advertise the use of robotic lawnmowers. Friendly Robotics wanted to drum up some interest in their robotic lawn mower offerings. They took a page right from the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile book and decided to reach out to the team at Cummfy Banana to build a drivable robotic lawn mowermobile.

Husqvarna Group announces the winner of the first Sustainovate Open competition. Ekkono Solutions, a Swedish software startup, won the opportunity to develop Husqvarna's Automower robotic lawn mowers using its Edge Machine Learning software. Swedish startups with ideas contributing to the circular economy took on Husqvarna Group's first Sustainovate Open challenge earlier this year. After looking into a range of innovations with a strong field of finalists, the prize was awarded to Ekkono Solutions with a pilot budget of 300,000 SEK to develop their Proof of Concept. Together with Husqvarna Group they will scale the smart solution and explore opportunities to embed it into the company's range of robotic lawn mowers.

The bodies of hedgehogs who died of natural causes are going to be placed in front of robotic lawnmowers to find out if they are responsible for a spate of injuries. A study by the University of Oxford and others follows an increase in complaints by members of the public claiming automatic mowers are injuring the mammals. Sensors on the devices are supposed to detect any creatures that are in their path as they mow the lawn and move around them to avoid causing harm or even death. People have taken to social media and contacted animal shelters to report mutilated hedgehogs and are blaming the robots for their injuries - but little evidence exists. Hedgehog expert Dr Sophie Lund Rasmussen said she will use creatures that died of natural causes, place them in the garden and see if electric lawnmowers spot them.

If you were hoping to set iRobot's robotic lawn mower, Terra, free on your lawn this summer, we have bad news. The company, which also makes Roomba vacuums, announced yesterday that it is suspending plans for Terra indefinitely due to COVID-19. It looked something like a heavy-duty Roomba, and unlike other robotic lawn mowers, which require boundary wires, it allowed users to mark the perimeter with wireless beacons. The app offered more control, with settings for grass height and specific off-limits areas. The bot could handle inclement weather and hilly terrain, and it would return to its docking station when it was low on power. The company originally committed to launches in Germany and the US, but it hadn't set a date or a price.

BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS - Robot vacuums have now been around long enough that you might watch one bump around a living room and think, why isn't there a robot that could mow my lawn? Turns out, it's not for lack of trying. For more than a decade, iRobot, the company behind the Roomba vacuumbot, has been working -- and working -- on robotic lawn mowers. Now it finally has something to show for the effort, though it's come at a cost. "Honestly, this robot drove me insane," said iRobot CEO Colin Angle after showing off Terra, the company's long-awaited first lawn mower.

Robot vacuums have now been around long enough that you might watch one bump around a living room and think, why isn't there a robot that could mow my lawn? Turns out, it's not for lack of trying. For more than a decade, iRobot, the company behind the Roomba vacuumbot, has been working - and working - on robotic lawn mowers. Now it finally has something to show for the effort, though it's come at a cost. This Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019 photo shows an iRobot Terra lawn mower in Bedford, Mass.

IRobot eventually won permission from the Federal Communication Commission to use ultra-wide bandwidth for wireless robotic lawn mowers -- though not before Harvey Liszt, spectrum manager for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, argued to the FCC that "there is already a competitive market for robotic lawn mowers using wire loops, which has somehow failed to stanch the stream of ghastly accidents and spilt gasoline that iRobot associates with the mundane practice of lawn-mowing."

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. A new RoboBee from Harvard can swim underwater, and then launch itself into the air with a microrocket and fly away. At the millimeter scale, the water's surface might as well be a brick wall.