This new robot lawn mower comes with its own infrared hedgehog-spotter — and a handy approach to edge-trimming
- The Anthbot R7 Series includes an 'EdgeEase' string trimmer
- Its mounted on an arm and comes with its own camera for safety
- There's also infrared animal detection
Effective edge trimming has long been the bane of a lawnbot-maker's life. After all, what good is a robot mower if you then have to go in with a side-trimmer to clean up all the lawn edges afterwards? Anthbot's newest robo-mower — the R7 Series, on show at IFA 2026 — has an innovative solution.
The brand has tacked a string trimmer onto the side of the lawnbot. Or, more accurately, onto a "robot arm", mounted to the side of the lawnbot. This arm is designed to adjust to follow winding lawn boundaries, ensuring "zero-gap edge cutting without manual touch-ups". Anthbot dubs the system 'EdgeEase'.
I saw it being demoed — albeit on an AstroTurf lawn, without any actual cutting. The arm...
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