It's a pricey unit, no question. For the Texas 100+ heat it's worth it. Things to note. If you have questionable internet due to multiple items being on it in your house it will make getting everything setup that much harder. To me, the hardest part was selecting the correct location for the satellite receiver and the charging station. Both must be in open sky, for real. My charging station is just under the edge of a tree that has a tiny bit of shading. You do have to allow for 4' in front of the unit for it to do its own recharging and such. I used both an andriod app and an apple app and they seem to be pretty much the same now. It's a bit hard to tell as setting it up does have its issues. The biggest issue is the satellite reception. I am in the TX/DFW metroplex, plenty of satellite reception, however, it fails to make connection sometimes. PATIENCE is an absolute requirement. If you are Type A you are going to struggle with the amount of patience required. Is it worth it, YES! Once it's setup it's a beautiful situation. If/when it drops the satellite connection during setup or while its mowing, just accept it and leave it alone until it comes back online. This is where the patience comes in. If the app doesn't respond as it should, be patient, wait until it does.

I have a reasonably complex yard for a medium sized yard, front, back and side. I have 6 zones setup to allow for 'parking' sections on two sides of the front yard. It hasn't fallen off the curb, but I can hardly stand to watch it because it's so close and makes me incredibly nervous as it would fall right into a main street. It does a really good job.

I bought this one so I could eventually move it to a very hilly yard at a different house, but the current yard is flat, so I can't speak to how well it does on slopes. I am a bit suspicious as it slips on St. Augustine on a very tiny incline around a bush I have in the front. I wish I could confirm or deny the ability to manage a real slope. It is not perfect, but it's pretty great, once you get it set up. It is incredibly quiet. We have a bee box and bird feeders. Neither even notice it's running. I don't notice it if it's behind me.

My suggestions, don't set it up on the 104 heat days, make sure your internet isn't overloaded and have patience. Pick a zone to work on. Odds are you are going to have to learn a few things the hard way so start with something not too big, not too complicated to do first so you won't get upset if you have to map it 6 times to get it right. After you get that one done and have done a trial mow, move on from there. Find the setting for 'tall grass' for first run. It's slow but incredibly rewarding to see it plow through the grass you ignored while you waited to get your mower delivered. Once it's setup, sit back and enjoy your new found free time. I did buy the reviewers suggested 'plastic window well' to serve as a garage to try and help give it some shade. That seems to be working great.

If you have a robotic vacuum, don't expect the object avoidance or 'no go zones' on this mower to work as well as those do. It's not nearly that good, but It's a much heavier, bigger unit with 4 AWD tires, nothing like the vacuum that can turn at will to change direction. It doesn't detect my hose at all, runs right over it. I decided to make the zone end right next to my hose that runs across the side of my yard to my garden. That works out the same.

My lawn has plenty of dips, ruts, holes... all over uneven ground. The mower handles it all in stride. You can see the 4 AWD working as one tire dips while another doesn't. After a couple of weeks of watching it like a toddler when it ran, I've settled into choosing zones and sending it off to mow only to check now and again. I've not used the scheduler yet. Even without the scheduler I'd be happy with it.

Researched several auto mowers for months and decided on Luba, mostly because of the wireless perimeter and advertised features. So far I'm well pleased with how it's doing but will admit I was concerned for a while. It took several remapping of zones and testing various cutting patterns, speeds and connection paths before having a setup I felt would work best for me.

One feature I wish it possessed was ability to track the Luba with satellite in case it is stolen. There is no mention of this capability in documentation. I would like to sleep with ease knowing if someone took it from my front yard at night I'd be able to track it down.

I have a Roborock for our home. Would be great if the Luba engineers would purchase a Roborock and see some of the mapping capabilities and implement some of the spot zone mowing functionality. There are times I want to mow part of a zone that didn't get completed last mowing.

There are times I try to initiate a mowing session remotely only to have the Luba move 5 ft from charging station and just sit for hours with me helpless to do anything. Only when I return home and manually move mower back to charging station can I use it again. There's also times the mower may stop and require you to push a button to make it continue mowing or return home. Can't that be put as a function in app? Frustrating to have to return home just to push a button when I could just as easily pushed it on the app.

Have to slow mower down so it cuts grass evenly. Otherwise there will be sprigs sticking up everywhere. Don't plan on running mower at higher speeds or yard will look blotchy. Obviously slower speed means it will take much longer to finish (and look nice) so plan on night mowing sometimes if you have large yard.

Haven't had to use customer service yet so nothing helpful to you there. Except that I've had it 2 months mowing 2-3 times a week and not had to need customer service.

Overall I'd buy it again but I do hope they continue to improve capabilities that can be implemented thru OTA app downloads and firmware upgrades.

I live in my recently built retirement home and have made it my personal goal to automate as much work as I can around my home. I have 4 of the self emptying roombas inside and they do a great job of giving me a total 18 hours a week of combined vacuuming time. The inside of my house is well automated....my yard not so much. I've been waiting for a GPS guided lawn robot so I've been mowing my small yard with a battery operated mower until I bought the Luba GPS guided mower last month.

General Notes: My yard is small and well layed out, but I live in a forest on 5 acres of land with a two story house on a narrow foot print yard. Every mower I checked that is self guided will not work in my yard according to the manufacturers recommendations. Only the Luba implied ( not explicitly stated) that it would work in my forested yard. (see my attached pictures) So I bought it from Amazon knowing I could return it.

I designed my yard when I built the house for a robot mower so all the walls and plant beds have a 8" gravel boarder. This allows the mower to mow to edge of wall and get everything. No weed eating needed.

The Good and Bad: The app is a little funky, but no more that a lot of manufacturers apps to control their appliances etc.. So that's OK. Scheduling, height of grass , zones, ability to set up guided paths, map and history of cut grass, manual steering by your phone are all there.

The Self guiding GPS feature will not work well in my yard on heavily cloudy days ( not work at all) , partial work in mornings and works well in the late afternoons on a normally cloudy day. And yes I have spent a lot of time experimenting with the mower because I really want it to work, at least 30 times mowing my yard. Turns out GPS do better in afternoons than the rest of the day. I used the John Deer GPS satellite location app and strength measure to confirm this. I can't give all the technical specs as to why, but everyone says that GPS strength is better in afternoons and it was for me.

At certain spots where the mower is beside the two story house and my bamboo garden the "ability" to see the sky is down to a 6' opening 30' up. Often the mower will stop and wait, but does resume once it has a signal. It does work under tall trees for me.

Grinding leaves: I was really hoping that since the Luba has 2 spinning cutting disk instead of one that it would grind the leaves up. It will grind up small dry soft leafs the size of quarters some, but the regular leaves it will not grind. And hard leaves like my bamboo leaves it will no even touch.

Getting Stuck: The Luba is like a 4 wheeler except every wheel is powered independently. When it turns the outside wheels will turn more revolutions than the inside wheels. When it does a three point turn some wheels will go in reverse while others go forward and all turn at different revolutions. This mower will never get stuck unless it bottom out in soft earth. The drive power and low center of gravity make it unstickable. I do worry that it will wear its wheel rubber off when it turns on my concrete walks because it does grip the ground so hard. I reprogrammed the boundaries to keep it off the concrete as much as possible to save the tires.

The separate satellite repeating station is not situated according the manufactures recommendation because no where in my yard has a completely clear view of sky. That being said it works fine. I remounted it on a white heavy pole ( you can see in pictures in flower bed) because my flower bed being the only suitable spot has 2' of potting soil in it and the soil was to loose to support the pole that came with mower.

The green light on station is too bright. Why every device you buy today for inside your home or out has a super bright LED light on the buttons is beyond me. It's like the manufacturers are in competition to see who can make the most irritating bright light or beeps that they can put on a device. You could easily use it as a yard light at night. I'm probably going to have to cover it up.

Conclusion??: I decided my standard for how to judge the Luba mower was to be the Rhoomba standard. If it was operating in the same range of performance as a rhoomba does on my floors then that would be good enough. Yes, the mower does as good or better than a rhoomba in terms of what a robot should do. Not perfect but pretty good. It does stop too long waiting for a satellite signal sometimes under a bush, but rarely. I'm OK with that level of performance. Actual cutting of grass is very good, better than my push electric mower whose blades I keep very sharp. The Luba small razor cutting blades do a finer cut and the grass looks better. It's very safe and shuts down if my dogs go up to it, then restarts when the path is clear. I have successful reprogrammed and adjusted boundaries within inches in places so Luba doesn't rub up against walls when turning around outside corners on planter walls. It is very very accurate where the boundaries are. You can barely hear it run even when right beside it. It will drive on any surface your yard have and never get stuck.

I would buy it again knowing everything I know and yes it is very satisfying watching it mow my grass autonomous and then go back to it's charging station when done. I would recommend it to anyone thinking about buying as robot lawn mower.

I'll have to keep my battery operated push mower with bag for the fall leaves.

I'm going to attempt an objective review, and also to explain why there seem to be very diverse opinions on the Luba mower, from the perspective of someone who's had one running for about 10 weeks.

1) If you can't get a good GPS signal, at both the mower, and the RTK receiver (which is stationary), you are going to be disappointed. That's a lot of the negative reviews.

The RTK receiver should be an easy fix--if you're serious about using this, you'll mount it on your roof (or somewhere high) with a clear view of the sky and centrally located in your mowing area. I'm mowing less than a half acre of grass, but it's spread out over an area that is more than 750 feet across from corner to corner, and I have no problem with the RTK communicating w/the Luba over that distance. I have it mounted on my roof, and line-of site from the furthest point (450 feet away). On the other side of the house, the furthest distance is 350 feet away, and the signal must pass through my house's roofline. I've never had an issue with Luba connecting to the RTK.

The Luba itself is more challenging (obviously, since it moves around). I have quite a bit of tree cover around my yard, and particularly along my driveway. Once I properly positioned the RTK, I had no issues mapping the yard, and during the first run, there were only one or two areas along the edge where Luba got "lost" and could not recover. I was able to move my boundaries in a half a foot, and get good coverage in these areas. Also remember that GPS coverage is better at specific times of day, and depending upon interference (cloud cover, smoke from recent forest fires, etc.). Of course you don't want to plan your mowing around this, but I have started mowing the areas with the most tree cover when the skies are clearest. Finally, all the complaints about Luba not recovering itself well are SPOT ON. This is a big frustration, as it knows where it was, 3 feet before it lost GPS coverage...why not backtrack until it can find coverage again, vs. hoping to get coverage in it's new spot. I am hopeful that new software releases will focus on recovery in the field and docking -- the two areas that are most immature, imo.

2) The mowing is great. I have it mow almost constantly and in a precision "grid" pattern. I get great coverage, basically no missed spots, and it follows boundaries extremely well. Even if there are some docking issues (see below), I'm ok manually handling that for now, if there's hope of improvement. There are a few tricks, like turning off the obstacle avoidance when mowing high grass for the first time (and then running frequently enough to not have high grass). Also, if your lawn has any significant dips/holes or rocks, you need to level them out or create no-go zones...it handles slopes well (I have a significant one from front to back yard), but does not handle abrupt terrain shifts like a hole made by an animal. These don't typically stop the mower, but cause it to "go around"...which is the only time I see "missed spots". Of course, the solution is to do what you should be doing anyway -- fix your yard...fill holes, and level out the ground. I would love for it to FLAG these areas on the map after mowing (a suggesting I've made to Mammotion), so that I know what to address, vs. having to scan my lawn for issues.

3) Docking in the charging base is the most frustrating part for me, because that is required for the mower to truly operate autonomously on a lawn my size...it requires at least 2 charging stops to complete the lawn. Here are the biggest issues:

a) The Luba must have high precision GPS coverage at the base, and this is often tricky near a wall/house. However, the base must also be powered, and nobody wants a base sitting in the middle of their lawn, let alone a power cord stretched out to it. If you can get 5 feet away from the house, it seems to do better (at least in my case), but for most people, that's now "in" your lawn. Also, the logical place to dock the Luba is often under a deck, or near a wall, behind your house...again, areas of poor GPS coverage. Now, we all understand why Luba must be able to find it's base, but here's the frustration: Luba actually uses infrared (or some other signal...I haven't actually scanned for what it is...but it's not reliant on GPS) to dock itself once it's close enough to the base...which seems to be about 10 feet away. So why can't I permanently locate my base somewhere within 10 feet of a strong GPS signal, and then have Luba go to that spot, and use the IR signal to dock?

b) Similarly, Luba has a strange pattern of driving up to the base and then "circling" in order to back in...and the spot it chooses to "circle" in is not always ideal, particularly if there is any slope where it circles (the base must be flat...but in my yard, there is a modest slope where it chooses to turn around, before backing onto the flat base). This can cause it to spin for several minutes and then give up...when, if I could tell it to turn around further away, and then back up a foot or two further, it would have no problem docking (I know this because when I manually drive it into proper position, it docks itself easily in the same location). I am hopeful this is also a candidate for a software update -- but right now, I'm stuck manually docking it, which makes full automation impossible, as my yard requires at least one charge to complete.

4) Finally, the people who complain about feedback/support are right -- it is lacking. Most people who've bought in at this point would be fine waiting for some of these features/fixes, if they knew if, and when they were coming. There are regular patches coming out, but they don't seem to be feature releases, and there is no communication that addresses future releases or features. The irony is that their app actually has a lot of features to capture feedback and search for support...but it appears to go into a black hole.

5) Just be aware that the maximum cut height is 2.8". This works for me -- but my guess is that new versions will raise the deck. In my opinion the cutting range (about 2") is fine, but I'm not cutting putting greens...so a better bottom/top would be 2" - 4". I doubt there's an way to modify my Luba to do that...so worth considering if you cut at 3.5" and aren't willing to adjust.

I give this 4 stars because it works amazingly well once setup, and I can see the potential for almost all of my concerns to be addressed via software. I'm willing to wait for that, but would love to see a more engaged company in terms of providing that feedback. Since Mammotion does appear to be doing a lot of business on Amazon and responding to questions here, I'm hoping a positive review that points out some of these challenges will get them to recognize what I think are common concerns of early adopters who really love their product. I am very happy with my purchase and recommend Luba to everyone I know with the caveats above -- but as an early adopter, I'd love for Mammotion to be more responsive with discussion of things like new feature releases -- particularly to their existing user base -- and think the best way for that to happen is for them to understand that lack of effective communication has a material impact on their sales.

The reason I bought the Luba is due to the online reviews, over the past six months. I Aalso needed another lawn mower to augment my Landroid which is a good lawn mower, just takes two weeks to cut a half acre. I have 1.25 acres. What did was limited the Landroid to just the front yard and the Luba will be cutting the sides and back yard.

First Luba, received August 7,23
The first one I received, I believe it was a return and not new.
Why I say that:
1) How it was packed. I did not look like what a new product packaging looks like.
2) Missing parts & accessories (confirmed when received the replacement)
3) Extremely hard to control. It was extremely sluggish when trying to make turns.
4) The cutting disc did not spin freely when powered down.
5) Luba kept losing connection between with the charging station and the rtk.
6) Luba iis supposed to be all will drive. When turning, only the back right wheel motor was used to turn.
7) When starting to cut a small area about 50' x 50' Kept getting an over heating error within one to two minutes of starting the mowing process.
8) Day three testing, as soon as it started to mowing, it stopped with an error "cutting motors failed to start.

I contacted Amazon for assistance since the Luba was not a week old. I read the Mammotion warranty, the owner is responsible for all shipping cost. This thing weighing 55lbs and the size of the box, the shipping one way will be between $200 $ $250 one way. I was not going to add another $400 to $500 onto the coast of this expensive lawn more. Amazon rep notice that I had just received it and just put in for it to be replaced. So, Thank you Amazon!!!

Replacement Luba. August 17,23
1) This one was professionally packed.
2) Parts/accessories that was not in the first one, was in thiis one (RTK Power block and cable, extra set of blades, ground screws).
3) The cutting disc rotation freely when powered off.
4) This one, as soon as it was powered up, it connected to the charging base and the RTK. The replacement is setup in the exact location as the first one. ðŸ‘
5) Control, this one, very responsive and all four wheels are used in turning.ðŸ‘ðŸ‘
6) Have already cut the side yard. Took only 90 minutes where as my Landroid would take a good three day at 10 hoursxa day to cut this area.
With the replacement working like all the reviews said it would, I will give it four(4) stars.

There are a few Cons that Mammotion should have addressed in the past year.
I knew about these going in. The Pros overed powered these cons.
1) Lack of any real security. Other robotic lawn mowers either have built-in GPS tracking or they offer the ability to add it. The Laba had neither. Even my Landroid has the option for the owner to add a GPS track module to it, which I have done. That is why the Landroid is cutting the front yard and not the Luba.
2) Luba does have a built-in rain sensor. The problem is, Luba does not have a rain delay/continue option. My Landroid, at 1/4 the cost will continue cutting X many hours after the rain stops. Luba, you must manually restart the cutting process. This makes the Landroid 100% autonomously. Wher3 as the Luba stills needs human intervention to work.
3) The biggest thing is, Mammotion uses Volatile memory in the Luba. Meaning if the battery goes completely dead, or you must power it off, all break points and all scheduling is lost. I do not understand why Mammotion did not use non-volatile memory (such as a flash drive or SD card) to save break points and scheduling.

I will update as I use the Luba