Roborock Graduates From Vacuuming Your House To Mowing Your Lawn

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Roborock, a institution champion known for its robovacs, is entering a caller merchandise category: robot lawnmowers. During nan IFA 2025 tech conference, Roborock took nan wraps disconnected a trio of robot mowers, pinch its premium RockMow Z1 featuring an all-wheel thrust strategy to grip steep slopes of up to 80 percent, aliases astir 38.66 degrees.

In summation to sporting independent hub motors connected each wheel, nan RockMow Z1’s beforehand wheels besides person an independent steering motor, which Roborock says enables smoother turns and helps it debar slipping connected slopes. The Z1 besides has a suspension strategy designed to support it unchangeable while mowing, allowing for much moreover cuts, arsenic good arsenic a leaf that cuts to wrong 3cm of walls.

Similar to Segway’s Navimow X3, nan RockMow Z1 combines nan satellite-based Real-Time Kinematics (RTK) navigation strategy pinch ocular simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) to thief it traverse your yard. Roborock says it cuts 5,000 quadrate meters per 24 hours, and notes that you tin moreover person nan robot mower create definite patterns aliases matter successful your writer utilizing nan accompanying app.

Roborock is besides launching nan RockMow S1. This mower comes pinch less bells and whistles but offers AI-powered smart mapping and tin grip slopes up to 45 percent (24.2 degrees), while slipping betwixt passages arsenic constrictive arsenic 0.7m. It’s besides slower, covering up to 1000 quadrate meters successful 24 hours.

Meanwhile, nan RockNeo Q1 is designed for “everyday section maintenance” pinch AI smart mapping and 3cm edge-cutting capabilities. Roborock besides mentions a “wildlife-friendly” characteristic for nan RockNeo Q1 that prevents it from mowing astatine nighttime to debar disturbing nocturnal animals, but it’s not clear whether nan different mowers travel pinch this arsenic well.

Roborock hasn’t yet released pricing specifications aliases readiness for its robot mowers.

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