Very happy with my LawnMaster OcuMow, not so much with the packaging though, basically a brown Amazon box which held the perfectly sturdy box that the mower was sold in – no real need for the Amazon packaging at all!

No wires, no apps, no messing around, just plonk the thing on the lawn, shove the battery in (charge it first) and then the safety cut off key. That’s all the prep thats needed.

The mower is dead simple to operate – press and hold the on/start button until it beeps then wait for all the lights to stop flashing. Once that’s done press the auto-mow button for 2 secs until it beeps, then just a quick press of the start button again and off she goes!

We only have a smallish lawn of about 50sq metres and so it takes around 2hrs to complete. Our lawn has hard edges all the way around it (sleepers on two sides then patio/brick) so it easily finds the edge and stops in time. If you have soft verges or something growing over the edges of your lawn (bushes/plants etc) then I think you’ll need to spend a bit more and get a GPS mower. The first time we used it, the mower kept missing a patch of lawn, so all I had to do was pick it up and place it on the patch it had missed, then hit the spot mow button. The mower then just mows the lawn in ever increasing circles until the bit it missed has been mowed. Worked perfectly.

The mower can detect any obsticle in its way (pets, kids etc) and will stop and attempt to go around. It will also stop if its picked up (its not very heavy, and has a well postiioned handle on its top, so its easy to pick up.)

My only gripes so far is that it detects the edges of the lawn and stops when its still quite far out – about 6-8 inches from the actual edge, so there’s a little bit more grass left around the edges that need strimming than if you were to mow the lawn yourself. The dial that adjusts the cut height is very stiff, and I’m not entirely sure that its accurate either (I set mine to 40mm cut height but it looks shorter than that.)

Overall I’m very pleased with my purchase. I got it in the sale for £300.00 so for that price its a real bargin. If it could just get a bit closer to the edges before turning around I’d give it 5 stars, but honestly for the price I think it’s a real bargin.

This is a cracking piece of kit, nothing to set up, simple instructions, charge the battery and your away, shreds the cuttings to nothing, just done the first cut on my 300m2 lawn, with only two charges of the battery, the built in sensors work a treat, I can highly recommend.

Bought this to do one of the sections our very large gardens, we have 4 sections. We have a big Landroid who has been doing 3 sections for two years, we were about to remove kerbs, cut lines through the driveway & run the wire around the 4th section but got lazy & decided to give this a shot for the 4th section… it would also be a backup if the Landroid failed.

We have exclusively used the Lawnmaster for months now on all sections of garden, one at a time… the Landroid is great if the ground is dry but we prefer the Lawnmaster over the Landroid during the winter/autumn/spring months (we live in Northern Ireland so the ground is often soft & wet) as he is lighter… so doesn’t dig holes & doesn’t get stuck, he gives a just as good cut too.

None of our gardens met the recommended criteria, they have high curb drop-offs, sections with no curbs or undefined edges including along the hedges, there are a lot of obstacles & obstructions but he has had virtually no problems, he got stuck on a curb once but it was the first cut & the grass was long so he couldn’t see the boundary, hasn’t happened again. We do close all gates to the road when he’s working but that’s just as a precaution as we don’t follow the recommended criteria, not really worried but it’s easy to do so not a problem.

To get the equivalent Landroid with the features of the Lawnmaster to cut our large gardens you could buy 5 or 6 of these… one is enough for any size of gardens… within reason. Battery lasts as long as the Landroid, he’s great looking, a very well built machine, cuts perfectly & because you can easily carry him inside (also bearing in mind the difference in cost) when finished, there is a lot less anxiety about him getting stolen at night.

I say “him” or “he” because you will not be able to resist giving this guy a name… ours is called Joe (“Joe” the mow, our cat is called Moe so that one was taken), he or she is too cute not to!

We are amazed at the quality & features Joe has as standard, especially at this price range. We’ve spent more on our Landroid buying upgrades just to get it to Joe’s specifications & to get it to work as well as Joe… than Joe cost.

He also seems to learn… uh oh… Skynet, the machines are taking over, I see how this is going so am folding early…

ALL HAIL, BOW DOWN & FEAR JOE! ;))

PS (update)… Joe had a catastrophic problem recently, he went blind or had a mental breakdown… he just refused to go back to work at all, he kept thinking there were obstructions in front of him, it happened during a bank holiday but this company answered very quickly & are sending a bare unit replacement asap… they offered my money back but Joe is great so I’d prefer the replacement… to be honest, Worx would do this too & they’d send a new battery with another fast charger but this is very refreshing,
especially given the price point… very, very impressed!!!

Have had this for a few months now. The design is excellent. It’s a case of plug-in play. The cutting ability is brilliant very easy to set up. Battery charges and it runs for about six hours. I even like the colour. My lawn has been looking fantastic recently.