Bi-directional AWD robomower gets to grips with gnarly monster lawns

TerraMow's new X AWD rethinks how a robot mower moves, swapping the usual end-of-row pivot for a back-and-forth "Shuttle Drive" designed to handle big, steep, and messy lawns without chewing up the turf.

Over the years, robot lawn mowers have gone from novelty to near-commodity, with wire-free models now trimming the average suburban lawn while their owners sip coffee indoors. We've put plenty of them through their paces, from the budget-friendly Anthbot M9 to the LiDAR-guided Mova LiDAX and the slope-conquering Mammotion Luba 3 AWD. The catch is that most of these machines are happiest on flat, tidy, sub-acre plots, and they start to flounder the moment a yard gets large, steep, or cluttered with roots and rocks.

That's the gap in the market that TerraMow is aiming at with the X AWD, a next-generation mower now live on Kickstarter and built specifically for the yards that tend to...

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