My dad and brother had bought one and I was hesitant because I hadn't seen it in action.

The set up was straightforward, but took about an hour. Had to lay a wire around the outside of the home.

We were also worried about safety, but the blades are tiny. Not like a traditional mower and it's intelligent like a robot vacuum. We have a huge lawn and it's saving us a ton of time now.

It's also very lightweight, which was surprising.

Basically take all the old notions you had about mowing the lawn, throw them out the window. Way better way to cut grass.

This is a pretty amazing mower if you have all the right conditions. It won't really work in super plush St Augustine. You have to shave it with a regular lawn mower first (I used a electric Ryobi mower). It will then make it the whole way without getting stuck. Get twice as many stakes as you think you'll need for your border wire, every couple of feet. 3 & 4 point turns take a lot of extra stakes. I ran about 400' of border wire, backyard only. It's doing a great job running twice a week. It all takes a little fine tuning to make it work perfect, but well worth it when you get it right. Good luck if you need to contact tech support. Their solution to everything is for you to shoot a video and do a zoom call...whatever. You're pretty much on your own but they do try.

All my neighbors are so jealous that I have an automatic lawnmower! I pride myself on having the best grass on the block. When I first discovered Mowro, I placed an order right away and was impressed on how quickly it shipped and arrived. My dad is retired and it seemed like he has a full time job mowing his lawn so I wanted to try this out so that we could get him a mowro to free up his time so he could enjoy retirement. After reviewing it I decided why should he be the only one that frees up time? So I bought one too so that I could have more time to work towards my own retirement.

The setup didn't take as long as I thought. The directions were straight forward and I was pleasantly surprised that I could easily adjust the Mowro to cut my lawn to the exact length I like. It is so nice to be able to control my lawnmower through the app on my phone. I don't know what will be more fun, watching my automatic lawnmower zigzag across the grass or watching my neighbors eyes change from curious too envious!

I'm not going to be surprised when I see each of my neighbors setting up their own Mowros a couple weeks from now.

I would highly recommend this product to anyone who wants a simpler life and more time spent with family and friends, instead of mowing and taking care of your lawn.

This Mowro has saved us so much time. Packing was intact with easy to understand instructions. Once it's set up and boundaries are created we can mow our lawn from anywhere with the phone app. If we have last minute plans to host at our house I can mow the lawn while I grocery shop! It will be very convenient on those weeks where we are gone and don't want to come back home to extra long thick lawn, plus the neighbors are happy to see a fresh cut yard. Well worth the price. Solid sturdy product.

We bought this via a local big box hardware store's web site. Mentioning that because I am guessing Amazon would actually do better as far as not "accidentally" sending us a used one at new price, like the big box store did. Although we had the option to return it in person, it actually would have been just as easy for returns if we had used Amazon, so you're likely just as okay to fulfill the order here if that's a worry you have. Also, the RM24 does NOT have smart features. There is a model that does but it's about $100 more expensive. Took me awhile to realize we got the dumb one. What does that say about me, lol. But truly - I'm not a tech wizard nor particularly handy AND I have a TBI (which was why we got it, but also because of angry stinging insects and an allergy to life itself), so if I can do this, you can too.

Now, about the robot...

We have a hillier yard than the RM24 is graded for, which means it spends a lot of time literally spinning its wheels, stuck on wet grass or soil where traction is tougher. We plan to eventually transition hilly areas to wildflowers, so will move the boundary cable. But for now, we just spend a little bit of time every day just helping our little Mowbuddy out. This isn't for you if you want an absolutely perfect lawn all the time. It will tear up the grass and leave little wheel marks on many uneven or hilly spots especially when the ground is wet. But it does good about keeping our lawn within local ordinance laws.

And it's cute. We gave it googly eyes and a mustache. The neighborhood drivers slow down and actually use the often-forgotten stop sign to stare at it. So even if it isn't the best mower, it makes our neighborhood safer. It also attracts dog people to our yard because so far at least two dogs have insisted upon holding a face-to-face conversation with it. The internet named it Mowbot McMowface via popular vote (some other possible votes were RoboChop, Mowzart, Mowpheus, etc). We tell stories about it to our friends, such as that it likes to try to drive up a tree and gets stuck, so we used a Bouncer to protect the tree. But then it just climbed the frog to get even higher up the tree (the solution was Duckbert McWaddleson, the Bouncer's backup). So this thing is basically a 3 star mower (unless your yard is perfectly dry and flat) but a 5 star entertainment piece.

The boundary wire was obnoxious and took about a month to get it right, plus two calls to Mowro. Their customer service via phone is excellent. I tried via email too and they wanted order number and other specific info I couldn't find and I didn't care enough, so I gave up and just called. Apparently one of the most frequent issues people have is putting the "in" line in the "out" plug. The "in" wire runs down the middle of the base station (base is pictured in background of Duckbert's photo). The wire runs only one direction, so the robot will follow it in a predictable way to calibrate where it is if it gets lost, meaning you'll have at least the first mow, possibly another mow later, where the robot only runs along the wire, touches nose to nose to the charging hook things, then dismounts the base unless it needs to charge. If it spins or fails to ever leave the boundary wire, switch the wire plugs. It's in the wrong hole (twss). You may also want to buy spare wire, splittors, and stakes. We ended up actually getting metal stakes like are used for dog invisible fences and those work alright. Because our home is hilly, it still will get its tires caught on the wire after a rainy day or where we didn't stake it well enough. There's a learning curve. No issues with broken wires yet (after one season) but the splitters have worked well where we have had to intentionally break the wire to make more space. Also, IMPORTANT LESSON for boundary wire - leave extra loops around your yard that are also staked down. This is important because you will probably need to make adjustments and it prevents you having to pull up all the stakes across the entire yard just to get a little slack.. We definitely made some mis-stakes, lol. Also, don't immediately press your splitter down just because it looks like a weird button. Look up what a splitter is. DO NOT PUSH THE BLUE BUTTON until you know what it does and how it works. I wrecked a few before I learned my lesson. Whoops.

You do have to set up the base station in your yard, not your garage. The plug and adapter have to stay dry. We haven't solved that conundrum yet. We unplug the base during major storms and bring the bot itself inside, put to sleep via killswitch. It is our baby and we are overprotective. Though we have left it outside overnight in rain before because we aren't exactly the Best Robot Parents ever either. But it didn't mind. It comes from a strong family line that sometimes appreciates a good shower, even when the rain makes its eyes fall off. We learned our lesson about putting the base station outside (not in the garage) after someone hit it with the car while it was trying to escape the confines via banging its head into the garage door when the boundary wire extended indoors. Don't be dumb like us. It hadn't even fledgling mowed yet before it sustained its initial head injury. But it is a trooper! It wanted to be more like me, I guess. OH - and don't put it next to a tree like we did. After it leaves the boundary wire, it plugs out a little bit and always turns 90 degrees to mow the area furthest from its base "in" line so it can start "out" and work its way toward "in" as battery decreases. It mows kind of randomly but we have noticed that pattern specifically as it leaves the dock. We noticed because every. single. time. it leaves the dock, it drives directly into the tree. We plan to move the dock but we needed it hidden from street view while also being open enough to not trigger obstacle sensors (you cannot put it directly against a wall - it should have space on each side).

Oh - battery life... We have an electric push mower and the battery life for this is better than the battery life for that, especially since this only requires electric battery life versus the push mower, which requires my quick-dying human battery life. I honestly don't care if it mows the lawn in 1 day or 3. Some days, if it's dry, it can mow 1/4 acre in one day without issue. If it gets stuck a lot and I don't pay attention, it might take a few days since it has to recharge a lot.

Someone mentioned having to take it back to base at every error. That's not true. It depends what the error is. Low battery life requires redocking, yes. I usually check battery indicator and don't bother to read the codes. If battery is low, take to dock. If not, lift/push/redirect/reangle it a little since it probably got stuck or left the boundary wire by accident.

We also set up a flamingo army within about 8 inches of the boundary cable where someone mows too vigorously. That has kept the line from getting run over. The village Buy Nothing group banded together to help us create an army of free 5 foot tall plastic flamingo brethren. There are ordinances about fence construction and weeds/overgrowth so close to the property line but no ordinances about bird armies so close to the property line.

We still have to mow or weed whack areas too hilly or otherwise problematic for it to go. And still have to pick up sticks. But I get injured a lot less than when I used to mow manually and now it's more like walking around the yard with a friend. It helps me get out of bed and go outside because I want to check on it and make sure it is having fun today and didn't mow its way into trouble overnight if it had a long day. Our followers want us to give it a GoPro, which we are considering. My mom disapproves that our family album is almost exclusively pictures of our lawnmower. The internet understands.

I wish I could give it 5 stars but it's still a baby and it has some growth to do. Hopefully MowRo will release some sort of wheel adaptation to make it more able to handle hills and dewey/wet grass. If they did, we'd probably buy another so it wouldn't be lonely (but probably with separate boundaries). With better wheels, I'd give it as many stars as a proud parent would give its beloved robot child. You can do this Redback. We believe in you!