The Airseekers Tron is an impressive mulching robot mower with a couple of frustrating flaws
The Airseekers Tron is a resilient mower that cuts and mulches, but it's a little rough around the edges.
The Airseekers Tron is an impressive mulching robot mower, but it comes with a few frustrating flaws. This four-wheel unit suspends a mower blade in the center, with a battery housed in the rear door and cameras facing all directions. The blade, a spinning disk with multiple razor-like blades, creates a vortex to mulch the grass instead of simply chopping it.
The Tron is available in three variants, managing up to one acre in a single pass. It features rear-wheel drive, multi-directional front wheels, IPX6 waterproofing, and a swappable battery. The cutting blade assembly can cut a swath up to 11.8-inches wide, adjustable from 1.18-inches up to 3.54-inches high. Charging is automatic, with a waterproof base station that the bot drives up to on its own.
The setup process is not hard, just time-consuming, and the bot weighs over 40lbs, so two people may be needed to move it.
The Tron is made to cut grass, handling some light weeds or other simple plants. It requires manual mapping of the yard, outlining edges one section at a time using the app's two virtual joysticks. When mapping, the bot relies on its obstacle-avoidance sensors, and you can drive it to multiple yards or use "no-go" and "transit" zones within the map to carve out spaces.
The bot can handle inclines up to 65% and push through taller grass with little hassle, but its two front wheels are cumbersome and toed in, causing uneven cutting and wavy lines. Navigation is precise with RTK technology, but smaller objects can be problematic, with the bot getting stuck or tangled on various obstacles.
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