WORX 1/4 Acre Wire Free 2WD VSLAM & NRTK Enabled (17 deg.) Slope Robot Lawn Mower With Trimmer & AI Obstacle Avoidance

I'd like to introduce you to Mowrice (...some people call him Maurice....), our new lawn maintenance professional on staff at our home. I've been trying this fella out for a few weeks now and I can solidly say that it's one of my favorite home gadgets. Initial Setup: Indoors: Initial setup was pretty straight forward. I would recommend doing this in a garage or basement or something as it requires running through several firmware updates. All of these went very smoothly, but like any other piece of hardware it takes a little while. Enjoy a snack or a beverage while it does its thing. Outdoors: At first setup the mower wants to automat the yard. Being in New England we have a bumpy yard with rocks along one side and flowerbeds along others. Because of this I opted to take manual control (a great feature to include) and map my yard myself. Overall mapping (manually) took me about 10 minutes due to including multiple zones and paths (where I want the mower to cross) between zones. First run: The first run went almost seamlessly. Mowrice had to take a couple of breaks to recharge, but otherwise the only issue I encountered was at the very end of the run, when he managed to get stuck on one of the flowerbeds where I had just recently done some edging. The upside to this is that the app notified me that he was trapped so I could go take care of him. Upon a quick rescue he returned to his charging pad to get some R&R. Follow-up runs: Since the initial run, Mowrice has performed quite seamlessly. We've probably run a dozen times at this point and we've only had one other issue with getting stuck. Features and Thoughts: Rain Delay - I appreciate that this can be overridden, but it's a solid feature to have. Ability to change angle/pattern of cutting - this is brilliant and easy to adjust. Just pick the pattern and/or angle and you're set. Alarm - if you lift the mower it will notify you on the app and it makes some noise. I really like that this is included as I do worry a bit about someone trying to take Mowrice to manage their lawn. Obstacle Avoidance - I cannot believe how well this works. We have a swing with ropes holding the base together and the mower avoids the ropes, but goes under the swing to get the grass. It's GREAT. Normally I'm moving this thing around to manage to mow under it. I'll keep putting him through his paces but this has been a godsend this summer given the heatwaves we've had, and my ability to "mow" while doing other things around the house. Now if I could only get him to handle the kids!

I purchased the two wheel drive robotic mower and can't complain about the experience, from initial purchase to delivery to setup. Based on some of the previous reviews, I thought setup would be harder than it was. To start, an update was required but after that we just had to follow the setup guide. The only thing was that we had to make sure we had our WiFi password ready in case the connection didn’t work the first time. The mower works great, and I love how I can set a schedule for it. It can change different cut patterns. In order to properly do edging, the mower has to be set on edge routine or smart trim. Since using it, the neighbors have stopped and complimented our front lawn.

I spent 2-3 hours about 10 days ago setting up and diagnosing my new WR310 from Canadian Tire. I moved it to different locations as it struggled to acquire location before mapping. After researching, it seems like nRTK coverage does not need Line of Sight, but rather after about 5 tries to map in a row it would finally give an NTRIP issue error on this step and suggested contacting support (only available within business hours Eastern time). After talking to support and mentioning the NTRIP issue, they promptly were able to look up my address and confirm it was outside a coverage zone, mentioning it was one of the first they had encountered. This would have been great to know before purchase as all they needed was my street address. I live within about 1 mile of an Agriculture nRTK hub that is part of the CANNET network, so I assumed I would be within nRTK coverage. I followed up via email and got the same answer as I was optimistic to somehow make this work. I think they might be only supporting <2CM accuracy portions of the NTRIP maps, based on getting them to look up a second address, but this lacks a significant portion of rural Canadian coverage. They did not address my question via email other than saying they aren't aware of anything preventing it from working within NTRIP <10cm accuracy coverage, which I appear to have, but after giving my address again, they mentioned i was not covered a few days after that. I just got a lidar model of a competitive brand and it worked out of the box as it is not limited by service area. Worx, it would be great to be able to look up address, maybe add that to registration or your early steps of setup, I did significant debugging of my setup, wifi etc for a 5 minute phone call(after that 40 minute wait) to quickly confirm it just will not work. Thankfully the retailer was willing to accept my return at the advice of Worx support. I think this could be a great product, but the rollout really should take location/geography into location as even after significant research there was no mention of limited coverage.

I would not recommend and likely returning. It will not work 2 hours before sunset because it states insufficient light no matter where you move it. Also one tree and it loses signal and returns to station. It seems to mow well but have not mowed the entire yard yet due to these issues