spoiler: robot lawnmowers have been around for 20 years. they're somewhat popular in Europe. Ireland has robotmow, and Colorado based bigmow has a lawnmower

spoiler: robot lawnmowers have been around for 20 years. they're somewhat popular in Europe. Ireland has robotmow, and Colorado based bigmow has a lawnmower thats almost as wide as a human is tall. >One of the key features of the iRobot Terra is that it will not use a perimeter wire to mark the boundary of the lawn. So the Terra is short for Terra-fying I take it. We havent even built an autonomous automobile that doesnt occasionally mow down an errant jay-walker, yet somehow a bladed autonomous vehicle is going to be safer? At least with Robotmow and competitors you have boundaries. You can run or crawl to safety if there were to be an accident. Nothing in the review seems to indicate theres even the potential for this device to detect a human presence. and a smartphone app? One good hack, and you now have a lawnmower that drives into a pool full of children, or a lawnmower that persistence hunts pets to exhaustion and turns them into gulash while youre at work.