Recommended Robotic Lawn Mowers

Without question, the ECOVACS GOAT A3000 LIDAR is very significantly better than the rest of these mowers. It’s easier and more flexible to set up, faster, has a bigger battery, better object avoidance, better edge mowing, can mow during the day and at night, and has no issues with GPS signal drop out, and all of this feels very familiar to when the first LIDAR robotic vacuums hit the market and basically revolutionized the industry.

With a price of $2699 the Ecovacs is quite a bit more expensive than the next best option, which is the Mammotion Luba 2 Mini at $1599, but I would venture to say that the ECOVACS is at least twice as good as the Luba 2 Mini in terms of performance and ease of use, especially for someone like me who needed to climb onto my second story roof to install an RTK antenna and still suffered from GPS dropouts. Also, the Yuka Mini performed decently other than its very small battery and it’s $500 less than the Luba. But I think the Luba’s four-wheel drive system is easily worth the $500 increase in price, especially since the Luba also has significantly better battery life and a built in LTE module.