You don’t even need to buy a Roomba lawn mower, all you need to do to rid yourself from the chore of mowing lawns is to make the lawn mower mow itself. How? Be like this guy who strapped his self-propelled lawn mower with rope to a stake in the middle of the yard. The lawn mower ingeniously mows the lawn in smaller spirals as the rope wraps around the wooden stake.
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Ever heard of RoboLabs before? Well, they have come up with the safest lawn mower in the world, calling it the SmartMow, where the purpose of its existence is aimed in preventing lawn mower injuries in children. Not only that, RoboLabs will also do their part and donate some revenue from SmartMow sales to children’s charities so that kids are able to recover from lawn mower injuries. The new SmartMow robot lawn mower would be equipped with a docking station, coming in a shade of green.
The SmartMow robot lawn mower would be a safe, environmentally friendly, affordable solution that helps you maintain your lawn while making sure that the little ones around your home would remain safe and sound from lawn mower injuries. Lawn mowing is definitely not an activity meant for kids, since it is not safe, and each year, traditional lawn mowers have resulted in injuries to the little ones. It is sadly, a growing trend, and stories of such incidences increase each year. Other than making sure that kids should remain 100 yards away from all lawn mowers at all times, which is nigh impossible, the other alternative would be to develop safer technology.
The SmartMow robot lawn mower has not been realized just yet, as it is right now under incubation as a KickStarter campaign that is aimed to ensure that traditional unsafe lawn mowers will eventually become obsolete, replacing them with the safest robotic lawn mower in the world. The new SmartMow will feature a robust mechanical design, cutting edge technology, and makes use of high quality parts which result in a weather-tight, heavy-duty robot. Thanks to state of the art proximity detection technology, this system prevents cutting blades from spinning in a fraction of a second. This Kickstarter campaign has a fixed funding goal of $14,000, and fret not, if the funding goals are not reached, all of your contributions will be returned in full.
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[ RoboLabs develops SmartMow lawn mower copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
If you’re looking to plan ahead for next summer’s grueling yard chores, Honda has something that will help you sweat a bit less. The company has unveiled Miimo, a robotic lawn mower that trims 2-3mm of grass in several shifts during the course of a week. The green-thumbed robot navigates with a combination of controls, timers and sensors while working inside the constraints of a buried boundary wire. As you might expect, you’ll be able to ditch the gas can as well thanks to a lithium-ion battery and docking station (similar to a Roomba). If you’re worried about adjustments, cutting height can be set between 20mm (0.79 inches) and 60mm (2.36 inches) with three operation modes will suite the size of each job. When the unit arrives in Europe in early 2013, 300 and 500 models will be available sporting monikers that indicate their respective maximum cut perimeter in meters (about 328 yard for the former and 547 yards for the latter). For a few more details, head on past the break for the full PR.
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