| An intelligent robotic lawn mower is, just as the name | | | | 6. Unlike most lawn mowers, the robotic lawn mower |
| suggests, a non answering back robot that you can | | | | runs very quietly. |
| just program to your satisfaction, by pressing a few | | | | 7. The robotic mowers create no emissions and the |
| buttons, before sitting down and watching your | | | | green people will love you. |
| programmed slave, carry out your given instructions | | | | 8. Providing you get in early, you'll be the talk of the |
| to the letter. | | | | street. |
| You do not even have to sit and act as an overseer | | | | How they find their way around. |
| to it. Providing there is no interference and any | | | | A special perimeter wire is placed around the area to |
| outside intervention, our pre-programmed friend will | | | | be mowed. It can be buried, usually up to a depth of |
| also obey your every command in your absence. | | | | about two inches. The wire acts as a boundary to |
| Unlike your dog digging its holes in the garden the | | | | the robotic mower. When the mower detects the |
| minute your back is turned. You don't even have to | | | | wire it will simply do an about turn and trundle off in |
| pick it up and carry it to its charger for an electrical | | | | another direction. If the mower overshoots the |
| top up. As long as it has a perimeter wire to give it a | | | | boundary, or, for any reason, suddenly finds itself in |
| little guidance, it will do all this, and more, entirely off | | | | an area where it's not supposed to be, such as, in |
| its own bat and without so much as a snap of your | | | | the neighbours flowerbed, or even worse, in yours, |
| fingers. | | | | then, it should immediately shutdown. |
| Some advantages they have over petrol type | | | | Just like the lady in red, your mower is as fresh as a |
| mowers | | | | daisy when the town is in bed. Yes, you can set your |
| 1. They run entirely on batteries, so you don't have | | | | mower to do its work when you are out on the |
| to supply them with petrol or oil: maybe, a little | | | | town or fast asleep in bed: Simply amazing. |
| grease on a couple of moving parts. | | | | Here are a couple of little extras to look for. |
| 2. Apart from the occasional replacement of the | | | | 1. A rain sensor as some robots tend to be quite |
| blades, they are pretty much maintenance free. | | | | heavy and as a consequence, can get stuck if your |
| 3. They are waterproof and therefore they don't | | | | lawn has some soft spots. |
| rust. | | | | 2. Make sure your mower has the feature of finding |
| 4. Less expensive than some of your heavy-duty | | | | its way back to the charger on its own; A little more |
| regular lawnmowers. | | | | expense, but worth it. |
| 5. Robotic lawn mowers are still something of a | | | | 3. Check out the latest solar powered robotic |
| novelty and will keep your neighbours (and their dog) | | | | mowers. |
| entertained for hours. | | | | |