We sure that's definitely his garden? Seems kinda small compared to his giant house. Edit: well he said he doesn't live here anymore so it must be the old place.
@@lukebarnes8097 he also mentioned he didnt care to fix the tree because he didnt live there anymore, so fairly sure thats his old place that he still owns but no longer lives at :)
Yeah, I think it's important that people doing honest reviews don't read the manual. It gives you a realistic view of how difficult it can be and you can also keep yourself from doing a stupid thing if you just watched someone else doing it how you would have 😂
@@AnthonysMeat They look nothing alike though. Are you claiming this is just a reskin? Actually, the one from GreenWorks doesn't use GPS and instead uses the guide wire like most other mowers. They are nothing alike, and the Green Works isn't rated for as big a slope either.
Seeing the setup process made me realize the product is absolute dogshit for a garden that is not absolute flat piece of grass. Which is nothing I would even call a garden. After seeing this, if I would win the product in a company raffle, I would not see me using it. Let alone paying anything for it
Holly shit! $3k for a result _this_ crappy? If you buy a $500 mower and pay a local kid $50 to mow your lawn every week, it'll take 2 years before breaking even and your lawn will look _much_ better.
I bought a $1400 Worx Landroid 2 years ago for my 1/2 acre back yard. Best investment in my time ever. It keeps the backyard exactly perfect. Of course that used a electric fence basically to roomba around. But it saves me soo much time, and the only maintaining is changing the razor blades.
Hugely grateful this was called a showcase. I don't care as much about the whole title thing anymore, but it is super nice to know exactly what I'm clicking on
Lawnmower racing is *totally* a thing and they get *really* into it. You can often find lawnmower races at tractor pulls. King of the Hill also has a great episode about lawnmower racing!
And the mowers are stupid powerful and fast. Honda makes one with 1000cc engine, 200hp and up to 150mph. The more common ones that people build themselves are obviously not quite as fast, but they’re still doing 70-100mph on some tracks
In the area where I live, there is an actual mower-specific dirt racing track complete with stands and lights nearby. It's technically a fairground too, which is what I think the lights were originally installed for, but it's used for mower racing the rest of the year.
as a fellow Husqvarna Automower "technician" i totally agree. seeing the ecoflow tackling a plant, and without reliable collision detection sketched me out. i've experienced what those lil blades can do.
I have one (Husqvarna), had it for 9 years now covering 32'000 sq ft, best purchase I've ever made. This thing is a bit odd though, for example the grass collector is actually a bad thing, you want the fine cut grass to stay in your lawn as fertilizer and since the robots cut the grass way more often than you would do with a manual one you don't notice any grass residues.
Can you do a household robot series? Especially vacuums? Your last video on those is 5 years old and there are some amazing ones out there now. They also make window cleaning robots.
He is not gonna do vacuums, they are extremely hard to test and you need multiple specialised people and equipment. The best you can have is a channel called "vacuum wars"
I remember watching Linus drop something out of a third floor window at the same time he deletes data off 6 SSDs in RAID0 to see which one was quicker. Now we get lawn mower reviews and troll shoe reviews and I'm absolutely here for it. This channel ages like fine wine.
@@ech0ech071 Yeah, all those subs because they've diversified their content to appeal to a bigger audience. I'm here because I like to watch such a big tech channel fail at so much of what they review and test. It's only a step above TylerTube, but at least that dude's playing a character.
That sweeper needs some kind of automatic emptying option at "home base" or at designated dump point. Also an automatic tool change so it could attach/detach the sweeper bag on its own. Sure, it would be insanely expensive and bit challenging to engineer, but would make this so much more useful.
The fact that it’s only 2.5-3ish grand is pretty goddamn crazy. A decade ago you’d spend more than that on a decent tractor. Ya gotta have something bigger to cut big ass lawns… or something automated!
kind of goes against the grain of Linus saying he is never going out again, now he has a new mower!! wish he never missed major information in the intro's, as it is totally false advertising.
I can't even get a robot vac to work inside, so there's no chance for me getting that thing to mow our backyard! Nope... I'll stick with my rideon mower thanks 🙂👍
Don't buy crap. I have s5 max roborock and it still amazes me. I just wish I had money for a new s8 so I wouldn't have to empty once a week but once a month
I know a lot of people with lawn robots. They say they cut it at the start of the season with a normal lawnmower and then let the robot do it’s thing pretty much every day so the yard stays at a consistent height.
You should add a chapter to these videos called 'Wil I be able to use this in 3 years' where you give your best analysis if it will be e-waste by 3 years.
The warranty is 4, so I'd guess that's about how long it will last before a control board or battery goes out, and the replacement parts costs half the price of the unit (assuming they haven't discontinued this model by then or even bother offering spare parts outside a battery or blades). Yes, I've been burned many times due to excessive optimism about this type of (usually disposable) gizmo.
agreed, I think monitoring wear and tear on something like this and reporting back is very important. after a week, a few months, and definitely after a year. it'll be interesting to see how it performs in different seasons as well. I would also love to see how it holds up in more tropical climates like Florida where the grass can easily outgrow those height limits in just a few days during the peak summer months.
@@Speedj2 benefit of the robot mower is that it can run as often as you'd like. So rather than cutting the whole growth every week, it can run every other day... I wonder if the app can use the weather to decide if it should mow, e.g. just to avoid mowing while it's raining or wet.
I returned my Blade after a few weeks. The GPS reception is virtually impossible to achieve even in ideal conditions. This device is only usable in huge open areas.
@@andrewskujins4568from what I've seen of various robot mowers if you don't have a metal roof, put the GPS antenna on the highest part of your roof, and it will work amazingly well
If that "GPS antenna" is an RTK base station, it is literally the reference point for positioning. So yes, don't move it. Also, RTK is pretty cool, as it allows for centimeter level precision using GPS.
@@tarkitarker0815 curious what other solutions you would use? Local positioning system, like Bluetooth positioning, lidar, AI vision. When used correctly RTK GPS positioning looks to be a reliable accurate system.
@@s.k.vigneshkarthikeyan2887 Yeah think that with RTK moving the base station would just look like more drift and send "correction" information accordingly. Could possibly include a few safeguards like an accelerometer and kalman filter implementation to also detect and possibly correct for movement of the base station. But easiest to just say don't move the base station.
For real, it requires you to have it mowed to a maintenance height first so if you're doing that might as well just do it yourself. I get it could maintain the height after but owning two expensive pieces of lawn equipment seems silly.
not really, i have a gardena sileno city auto lawnmower (way cheaper than the one in this video) took me a couple hours to setup (it uses guide wire) and i havent had to do ANY yard work in months. Totally worth it, specially if you live somewhere where the grass grows very quickly (like you have to mow once or twice a week)
Automower owner here. This is not decades old. They have RTK GPS just like what EPOS is, then LiDAR sensor which Husqvarna lacks (the new NERA line have some radar). The Automower 550 EPOS peeked out of the design studio to tests in 2020. Ceora is built for bigger lawn areas, it cannot be used in a back garden like this. I would say this mower is a bit jerky compared to Husqvarna. Moves very fast (how much does the disc spinn?) and knocks over things.
LOL!! It's like watching a 4yr old cutting their own hair!! YUGE FAIL!! 😂 I know from an engineering aspect that the severe Toe-In of those "not-really Omni-rollers", are for keeping the mower tracking as straight as possible, but LOL they're gonna get trashed in a very short time. GOOD JOB!! 😂👍
The EcoFlow BLADE knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is - whichever is greater - it obtains a difference or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviation to generate corrective commands to drive the EcoFlow BLADE from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position that it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is is now the position that it wasn't, and if follows that the position that it was is now the position that it isn't.
I really like these videos. It's both tech and everyday use, and a good way for people like my older parents, that are less technical, but can appreciate the content and use for it. Hope this continues 👍
same, someone in my family got one more than a decade ago because they are too old to do it themselves, i'm surprise there's so many people just learning about them
Remenber my dad always talking about Husqvarna dirtbikes he had, said the things were brake melting monsters. Haven't really seem them myself, guess the brand left Brazil.
@@ThereWasNoFreeName It's the same as with robot cleaners. It's for maintenance. You get the place to a good, reasonable state. And you employ these expensive gimmicks and they will maintain the place so your manual mowing/cleaning will be much less frequent, so overall you win some time.
I highly recommend the Husqvarna Automower series. My parents have the 308 and its been running for almost 4000h with no issues. It mows every day and all I do is edge cutting with trimmer/weedwhacker. And since it runs so often it kills moss too!
Indeed. I have one now for 4 years and running just like on the first day. Best brand out there for all battery powered yard tools. I have their whole range. Works brilliantly and easy to replace and repair everything, even many years in the future.
For that you could pay the 10-year-old neighbour kid to cut your grass for the US federal minimum wage for an hour a week every week until he leaves for college.
@Diverse Green-Anon Maybe, but I'm coming from personal experiences working with 7' rotary cutters (or Bush Hog), cutting 2' high weeds/fescue at golf courses. They have a pivot style blade so you can cut through branches or hidden ant mounts without destroying the blade instantly
as small as those blades are though, odds are one rock hit and you need to replace the blade anyway. Can't imagine those things have a very long life even just cutting grass before they get dull
12:05 As someone who lives in the southern part of the states, yes. Lawn mower racing is 100% a thing. You take push mowers, remove all safety, and hope it goes in a straight line by itself. 20:32 I like how you say challenging when my yard is on a hill and this would never work. Although, maybe one day. That would be cool.
That gps antenna reminds me of something that we currently use on modern aircraft for instrument flying called Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) which uses ground stations at a known location to apply a correction factor to nearby aircraft. It allows scary good accuracy without having to upgrade the current satellites (but did lead to a few more being put in geosynchronous orbit).
Yeah, I'm almost sure they're just using differential GPS. If base station has it's own GPS, by being (within reason) a fixed point in space, you can then hash some math on both GPS signals to get a distance vector between the mobile GPS and the base station that's SURPRISINGLY accurate, as they said, to within 2cm of the actual distance between them, and that's with bog standard commercial GPS receivers and being set up by a regular dude without any thought put into it. I studied geodesy as part of my degree, and it's really amazing what you can do with GPS if you're willing to be smart about it. If you have geodetic pillars with extremely accurate positions (every country has a grid of them, but they're EXPENSIVE to get positional data that accurate from scratch), differential lets you transfer that highly accurate position to almost any other point you need to as long as you can see the same satellites (read: you can be dozens of miles away) incredibly easily, with relatively cheap gear, and very quickly. You can even strap your mobile receiver on a Jeep and do positional grids in 3D nearly anywhere. To show us how good differential with scientific or military grade receivers and proper setup can be, our professor told us to take a receiver/antenna combo on a pole, and stick it in the ground at some exact location. Except we couldn't, because when we went to stick the tip of the pole into the ground, we hit a coin underneath the grass.
@@wallythewall600 How accurate (in cm) could you get with random cheap off-the-shelf GPS-Receivers from for example eBay and a Rover-Base-Station Combo? I'm quite unsure on how to get accurate results because there seem to be special RTK GPS Receivers and just the standard ones mentioned. I don't understand what the difference between these expensive ones and the cheap ones is. Does one basically trade accuracy for cost? What accuracies can someone expect at different price points? I hope you could help me a little bit. Would be greatly appreciated :)
I have an Husqvarna automower for over 6 years now and i can tell that those frontwheels will stop turning after a few weeks in my garden. My robot has sometimes an inch thick layer of leaves and grass on the front wheels. To me the robot design looks more like something that works in super dry environments (not in his garden). I also miss the all around bump guard because this makes it way safer for kids and wildlife like hedgehogs. My robot has been working flawlessly for whole seasons without intervention or cleaning and would recommend it (i dont have experience with an other brand). It also has those razerblade style blades which prevents pinecones to stick to the baldes and adds up to an extra safety for human feet.
My thought also with those front wheels. Grass clippings build up everywhere on the mowers and I'm skeptic for the front wheels. This seems to be a wild idea how it should work, but at least it doesn't look as bad as the Mammotion Luba (I guess every F1 fan wants one...)
Can confirm! Using two Gardena Robots (they use Husavarna hardware) and wet grass piling up in these weird wheels of the Ecoflow was the first thought that came to my mind! I'm sure this thing hasn't been really tested outside.
@@googlenutzer8768 i have tiled a litte area before the dock because of this issue. My robot his dock lives in a kind of dog house so parking is a little hard. But even without a guide wire it parks quite quickly.
Linus - the only guy I know to test a robot vacuum in sandals with socks, and walk around it while it spins around randomly. Bro! Go get some boots on in case that razor blade spinning thing comes your way lol😂
Wish this was around a couple years ago when I bought my landroid. I live in Houston and even with the hassle of installing the boundary wires, it saves me so much time working it in 100 degree weather. Saves me 1-2 hours per week, and keeps the lawn looking better maintained since it cuts it every day. Ecoflows design looks a lot better and should hopefully reduce the chance the mower gets stuck like mine does. Bring my robot mower reviews please!
Ive had the Worx Landroid L for 2 years now and Its been wonderful. Everyday running is a must for sure. That said, even in a random pattern it does a great job. But doing it consistently prevents the sweep and bagging needs.
Many years ago we were all outside and my grandpa was doing yard work, mowing the lawn in the dead of summer. We had raked a large pile of dead leaves and pine needles to the side and so while mowing next to the pile it struck a rock, sparked and immediately caught the pile of leaves and needles on fire. It was awesome. I've also been hit with stones flung about by a mower... doesn't feel great.
I'm actually really excited about this. Here in tropical Australia I have to cut my lawn every week for 3/4 of the year (because it's warm and sunny = perfect grass growing temperature). If I could just run this 2x a week (I think every day is too much) and maybe spend 5 minutes trimming every now and then, that would save me a lot of time!
Ever consider replacing your lawn (or some of it) with another ground cover? Different plants can replace your lawn plus be friendly to local pollinators and birds. Just depends on how you use your lawn. Grass is rarely the best option.
@@Crushnaut Yeah i've always been curious about clover or dwarf carpet lawns. Seems amazing but never really had any experience with it, the HOA here where i live forces us to have grass sadly tho.
@@Navi_xoo you could try petitioning the HOA, they are after all, elected by the HOA members. They might change their mind. Ecoscaping is becoming a lot more trendy.
The idea is it does a LITTLE bit every day. That's honestly the best for your lawn's health, too. Since it is onlyl cutting a few millimeters, it'd be right quick.
Thanks very helpful, as I was just looking into buying it. I think the random pattern will look weird with splotches, but fact that it got stuck on the twig is a deal breaker for me personally
I'd have a look at Husqvarna (i have the 315x). Although requires a professional to set it up for you - you don't have to do anything. Robot is a lot smaller and compact and way less noisy than this one. Plus it keeps the clippings on the lawn - which is healthy for the grass. I honestly can't figure out what the big deal is with this one. The features this automower has is not special when it comes to other automowers. I don't understand who this is meant for - it looks like the mower is designed for landscaping on vast land (10k+ sq feet) yet the manual mapping is only convenient for small backyards. It's so weird. All im seeing is an unnecessarily yoked up automower with nothing to show for it.
The lawn will greatly improve with a robot doing daily runs. Perhaps just not this robot necessary. Doing daily runs means the clippings are so small that they dont cause any trouble. However like in this video the first run on a tall lawn i would remove the clippings as to not suffocate the lawn. The setup with wire is a hassle but done only once. But as seen in this video the tech has improved so wire is not necessary any more. It is nice to have a robot, once in place there wont be any tracks or such since it does it daily so any differences can hardly if at all be seen. Buy one, just not most expensive one perhaps lol.
Yeah good luck if your garden is under trees. GPS is garbage in a lot of places. I walk through woods a lot, exactly where I'd want a GPS to work if I get lost. And it doesn't. 🤦♂️
@Steve Sherman Just saying. GPS is always marketed as this wonder capability yet it fundamentally fails where a lot of the time you'd actually want it. But yes, many radio waves can penetrate solid matter. Besides, I wouldn't call a few leaves solid matter. A lot of the time GPS won't work with even the slightest tree canopy even with gaping holes in it.
@@FlyboyHelosim I think one thing to remember about GPS is the receiver is exactly that. It isn't transmitting, it's picking up time signals from satellites in orbit. The more we have, the better it works, and now we have at least 3 systems that can all be used together!
This mower uses RTK GPS with that base station antenna. #1, it's a ton more accurate, with 1cm-level precision. #2, the signal SHOULD be better because it has that tall antenna that's on wall power.
I like this mower, it continuously tried to attack the host lol, the opening "beware human" was spot on. Edit: $3000~ USD isn't too bad for what it can do, personally I'll just keep mowing but I was expecting worst lol.
@@hallymiao2825 Honestly I suspect the people that are actually buying these wouldn't be too fussed about the cost. It also scales rapidly to lawn size. How large is your lawn? Once you get up to 3000sqm I get the feeling that it would start to be more cost effective over time vs paying someone to do the whole lawn. Then you're just getting someone to come through every now and then to clean up edges, etc.
I do understand that walking the perimeter manually might seem like a chore, but if you've ever installed a wire for a large property you KNOW how much better this is. So many hours on my knees with a shovel...
YES reviews of lawn robots! been waiting for this. please please please review the Yarbo modular lawn robot!! I wanna see how good it is with snow blowing as well! Especially because Linus is in Canada it will be awesome to see over the winter months. It releases in October
This is the best argument against the robot singularity and the irony of spending more time finding a way around the problem rather than just doing the work.
Except there are dozens of other products that are arguably better than this one. Also spending 2 hours on a nice cool day setting this up is not the same amount of work as mowing your large yard once a week during mid July or August
@@Ben-fk9ey I run a weed whacker every couple of weeks around the edges. That's so much easier than mowing and weed whacking. Why does it have to be an all or nothing?
Gardena and Husqvarna is two very common brands in Scandinavia. Its become very common to run these in your garden. And they are really affordable and durable.
It seems like it would be great for a perfectly level very square yard with no trees to drop branches, but it couldn’t even handle that super tiny stick. So the amount of people that this would be really good for I feel like is pretty niche.
@@benwu7980 Also will become completely useless if the product and app get discontinued. And considering how garbage this is, it could happen pretty soon.
Is it just me or EcoFlow robot is up to something. The way it's trying to mow over Linus looks like a revenge attempt for all those fellow robot-parts that Linus has dropped over the years.
Linus if you get a shovel you can wedge a small gap into the grass and dirt and tuck the cable into said gap and pound both sides of the gap to close up Over the wire protecting it and allowing seemless movement thru the lawn. Did it all the time as a landscaper.
linus read the instructions to himself and ignored them for content but damn am i enjoying his dad energy of “damn it let me watch it mow my lawn, that’s cool as f***”
Robot mowers have been on the market for almost 30 years now, they are better and cheaper than this :D Cheap ones start around $700 and good ones (better than this based on this video) are around $1500. $3000 is the top of the line models that have stuff like solarpanels, can cut acres of land etc.
Love Linus got a sponsor spot of out it but this video just shows we're not ready yet and this is clearly 1st gen. Surprised Ecoflow approved this considering how poorly it seems to perform.
$2900? I only paid something like $5500 for my John Deere x570 which is a lawn tractor that is basically at entry level for someone doing lawn mowing as a business.
@@bajroevahahahaha Better is not true, all of them require you to lay a wire around your yard and even then they just bounce around randomly not straight paths
@@stevexracer4309 The bigger problem with something like this for the price tag is that the size and manner of yard you need for this thing to be effective at doing its job is going to be very small and very simple. You can't honestly tell me that someone with a yard of the size and complexity this thing would be adequate for can't find the time 4 times a month to cut that grass. It takes me about 2 hours to cut mine each time (not counting limb pickup and then trimming) to mow my yard with a riding mower and a 48" (that's almost 5 times bigger than the deck this thing has) deck. So if I can find the time find the time to deal with mine then someone with a yard as small as this thing would need should be able to.
The main goal of these is to handle basic maintenance at this point, still have to go around every two weeks or so with a string trimmer to touch stuff up. The interesting one these days is the Husqvarna since they introduced commercial ones I've seen lawn companies pop up that just setup the robot for you and maintain it for a monthly fee along with the trimming, the first that comes to mind is Turf bot.
@@hansdietrich83 Well that's how often you'd get it mowed normally and since it's missing patches you'd have to clear them up manually. I don't see why someone would spend $3k on a lawn care product when you'd either have to pay someone or strim the bits yourself.
@@Ben-fk9ey I have a gardena sileno city that cost about 700€. The only thing I need to do manually is triming the edges like ones a year. I planed my lawn specifically for the mower to reach every spot.
In temperate climate, where I live, I have to mow the lawn after every 7 days max. And I use a ride on lawn mower. The grass is just so thick and juicy. If I mow it after a 2 week period it will end up looking bad squashing it down or leaving clumps. Lawn robots are really popular here just for that reason. They go around the yard ever day to cover the whole area over the span of a few days. The robots don't cut the grass just one day a week, it's nonstop. They are very expensive though. Usual quality stuff like Husqvarna go for about 3K. That's 2 months salary for an average income person, including me. So I guess I'll be doing the mowing for the foreseeable future at least.
Would love a follow up video showing if you can get it connected with your home assistant system to automatically get statistics and send commands to the mower
this video is one of the most entertaining LTT videos i've seen in quite some time. the chaotic energy of the robot almost running over linus a number of times was great. It knocking over the potted plant was absolutely gold. In all reality, this product is insane and stupid. my yard has a few slopes and lots of moleholes, so this thing would have a stroke in my yard lmao.
are robotic lawnmowers not a thing in your country? if anything this model would make it better than any other robotic mower on the market. 90% of the lawns where i live uses a normal robotic one its so common now a days.
Thank you for the Video. I actually bought one because of it! Havent set it up yet as it was raining constantly here but im looking forward to it! BTW you saying sorry to the robot was the most canadian thing i have ever seen lmao
Automatic grass cutters are very common in Sweden, but have never seen one with a sweeper, nor without some kind of edge line and definitely not anyone with crazy wheels like this one!
In Switzerland too. This thing seems a bit useless tbh. You don't need to sweep when the mower is out every 2nd day. Huge base station + GPS antenna seem much more of a disadvantage compared to the usual guide wire
Really, literally have never seen one, outside of ads that is and the ones in ads werent nearly as big, about roomba sized and without a container to catch the cut gras.
Just for anyone that comes across this video a year later. Ecoflow has disbanded this project and is no longer providing any firmware updates to the ecoflow blade. They still offer the warranty, and will replace parts as promised. This device does have some issues that could have been addressed in newer firmware updates, but as stated by ecoflow themselves they will no longer provide this. The anti theft system promised with the 4g lte for location services seems to no longer work also.
LOL!! This is as painful as watching a 4yr old cutting their own hair!! 😂 [Reply Deleted] With portable power-tools, wireless devices and flashlights being the only things where Practicality outweighs the Poor Efficiency of battery storage, I can't believe I'm discussing this joke of a mower as something viable!! 😞 I will now grasp the wrong end of a T12 ballast several times as punishment. 😳
With these lawn bot mowers, they need to put in a "FOLLOW ME" or something like that and map out the areas you want cut. Something like putting a ping pong ball on a stick so they can track it as you go along the edge of the areas you want cut.
I dont quite understand why they couldnt just use the antenna to map out the rough shape first. Stick it into the corners of the area and have it save the gps cords.
this is really cool to see because this is how autosteer works we have had this on farms for almost 30 years now and it scool to see finally on some normal consumer stuff
You have to do a 2 month review. Things like this really shine because your grass will do very good if you start cutting daily cutting a small amount at a time. Grass hates being cut in half or more once or twice a month like a lazy mower. That's why lawn snobs mow more than once a week.
I've been following robotic mowers for over a decade and this is on par in terms of price as many as the others out there that require more setup effort. Considering that in some cases these can replace your time and cost of a riding mower for larger yards up to ~3/4 of an acre the Price isn't terrible albeit a tad high compared to other models designed for smaller yards.
That sweeper only looks big enough if your yard is a postage stamp. We have a Husqvarna Automower, and my favorite thing about it; is ignoring its existence and always having short grass.
OK I have a couple of things to say here. 1: The hat, sunscreen, and hoody are what I do before mowing. 👍 2: When they come out with one that can mow 5 acres on the side of a 30% grade hill, I'll buy it.
@@subwarpspeed I had one it couldn't do it, so I returned it. It would shut down, lose signal, some how flip over, go out to the road randomly because of signal issues, stop if a raccoon went up to and said hello and other weirder problems.
I still love how linus makes sure he Introduces his staff to the channel so they get the recognition they deserve it's why LTT will forever be my favorite channel it's not just Linus anymore it's a whole group of like-minded people
