Autonomous Mower for areas and rows - is this a good idea?

Audi_o_phile · July 23, 2024, 4:28pm

Someone posted a similar question about a month ago in a different thread:

Autonomous 36 or 48 inch mower for rows and areas - would something like this be of interest for people?

On my family farm, we have 200 acres, and about $400K on mowers/mowing machines. In short, I’m SICK of sitting on a mower. In paralell, I spent about 4 years working for Case New Holland, then left in 2017 to start a robotics company (burro.ai).

Today, we have over 350 of our Burro robots running in paid commerical use, often as harvest assist aids carrying berries and grapes alongside people, as towing vehicles replacing small tractors and operators towing trailers in nurseries, and as autonomous patrol vehicles, docking to charge, then driving around sending alerts when people/thieves are seen.

Customers of mine keep putting weird mowers behind our Burros to try to autonomously mow, then my team keeps thinking there is a use and trying things out.

Would anyone in their right mind want a mower that autonomously docked to charge, then repalced a BX or 1025R sized machine and mowed areas / rows autonomously on a continous cycle?