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I’m in a park. The grass is being mown by a robot. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We thought the rider fell off or something and it was going to crash. Then it turned and kept mowing. Park Roomba!

Another picture:

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

First thing I thought of was "Maximum Overdrive ". Loved that movie when I was a kid.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Going to need you to lay down in front of the mower to see if it stops.

The public demands to know.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

TIL of the existence and proper use of the word mown

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's more likely remote controlled. There's probably a guy with a controller near by. They've been around for a couple of decades now, but are generally only used where an angle is too steep or too close to a highway or cliff face.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

From another reply:

https://www.wrightmfg.com/products/mowers/commercial/stand-on/robotic-zk/

Seems it's fully Self-driving (at least, following a map/defined boundaries)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Seriously? Even the lawn mower guys get to work from home now?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

I was going to make a morbid joke about the driver having already fallen off and into the blades before you took the photo, but the fact that there's no seat on that mower defeated that plan.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The lack of seat is why they fell off!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wow I didn’t know they were commercially available. That is so cool!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

that's not a fucking combusion engine is it? a robot mower that runs on gasoline would be the stupidest thing i've seen in a while.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Pure electric mowers have gotten really good. Even for a more industrial-sized mower like that which covers a lot of land, there's not much reason that any new mower should be gas.

When it comes to robot mowers, all the more so. Even if it can't handle the entire area all at once, that's OK, it's a robot. Program it to do one area, go back to charge, then do another.