James Thompson

A large lawn changes the robot mower decision completely. For a small garden, a compact robot mower can make sense if the lawn is simple and you just want to reduce regular mowing. For a large garden, the mower has to do much more. It needs enough battery capacity, reliable navigation, sensible mapping, good traction,

Robot lawn mowers can cope with some unevenness, but they are not magic. A slightly bumpy lawn is usually one thing. A lawn full of ruts, dips, soft edges, raised borders, exposed roots and wet hollows is another. This is where a lot of people get caught out. They look at a robot mower’s slope

Robot lawn mowers used to come with one big catch: boundary wire. You had to lay a cable around the edge of the lawn, peg it down or bury it, run it around obstacles, connect it to the charging station, and hope it did not get cut later by edging tools, animals, aeration, scarifying or

A robot lawn mower can sound like overkill for a small garden. If your lawn only takes ten minutes to cut, do you really need a machine to do it for you? Sometimes, no. But for the right small garden, a robot mower can still make sense. Not because it saves hours every week, but

Robot lawn mowers sound like the dream: no more dragging the mower out every weekend, no more rushing to cut the grass between rain showers, and a lawn that stays neatly trimmed without much effort. For some UK gardens, they genuinely can be worth it. A good robot mower can keep the lawn at a

Robot lawn mowers used to be fairly simple to understand. Most worked in a similar way: you installed a boundary wire around the lawn, set a schedule, and the mower quietly trimmed the grass little and often. Now the market has changed. Many of the best-selling robot lawn mowers in the UK are pushing features