Thank you this is the most amazing lawn mower I have ever had
This has exceeded my expectations. needs good wifi , but is managing my 1.5 acres really well. love it.
Just got this mower a week ago. It took eight hours to learn how to operate and control this beast. But now she has turned into our electric cow. She goes out and raises for hours comes back to her barn to rest a little and then goes out and raises some more and I truly appreciate this. I haven’t had any troubles with this unit yet, it took a minute to figure out how to set up a no mow zone. But now my whole yard is mapped in my life just got much easier.
This mower works great. I don't really have to do anything to it. 20 minutes to set up out of the box, another 10 to set my first mowing task up. I wish it had a little stronger gps module or a wifi6 chip, but it works well as is.
The mower itself is an impressive beast, and it's doing a fantastic job.
However, when breaking up a large (1/3 acre corner log) yard into 3 more manageable task areas, it's quite tricky, because the areas cannot overlap. It is therefore inevitable that you'll have a strip of grass that is in neither area. If you accidentally overlap even a tiny bit, it throws away the entire new task area and you have to start over.
It would make much more sense to either
a. Allow the overlap. Big deal if a strip of grass gets mowed twice.
b. Automatically subtract any overlap from the new task area.
Secondly, you can't mark a shed as a no-go area, then put the charging dock adjacent to the shed. It complains that it's in a no-go area, and doesn't even give you the option to define a channel for the mower to back into its charger. What if I wanted to park it on the driveway next to the garage, which is not mowable yard area? That's a perfectly sensible place to have it park and charge, but it's not allowed. Absolutely silly.
I still gave it 5 stars because everything is still under active development. I've upgraded firmware three times, and I've only had the system a couple weeks. So it's somewhat likely that these and other issues will be improved (and made frankly sensible) in the coming weeks.
Another complaint: this review form has a spot for a YouTube URL.
I pasted https://www.youtube.com/shorts/B_S5yzSnxuo and the form responded "Not a YouTube video URL". Uh, the hell it isn't. It absolutely is, ya dumb dorks.
My Review on the Mammotion Reddit Forum:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MammotionTechnology/s/kiJiZc8rvo
Great Place for Reviews, Information, Troubleshooting
Well done Mammotion. My new Yuka 1500 is seriously impressive! It's going to save me hours this summer.
This mower does a wonderful job and better than was anticipated.
So far everything is working great, some small strips missed on the first mow, but easily fixed with manually mowing those areas with the robot. A lot of user error starting off with setup but modifications of map were easy, app is easy to use. I strongly recommend this product, the cut quality is very nice and clean. Very straight lines and alot of customization in the app for each mow.
THANK YOU IT'S SO COOL
I bought the Luba 2 for 1.5 acres. My lot is about 1.3 acres and I probably have about .75 I mow. I like Luba but there are some problems. You can't mow at night because it can't see out of the camera. It is all it can do to keep my yard mowed running nearly all the time.
The blades get dull fast. I have to flip/change them every third mowing or so. And after just mowing a tiny bit, they no longer free spin like they are designed to do. They get bound up with grass. That doesn't really hurt the mowing.
I don't find the finished yard looks as good as my ZTR. I expected it to actually look better but it doesn't seem level. You can really see height differences in the grass height on the rows.
It has to recharge 3 to mow my front yard. Having a 1.5 acre version, expected it to mow it in one charge.
It often doesn't restart after a recharge. It will leave the charge stand and then stop. I have to go tell it to continue. This might be because I build a garage for it and it cannot get satellite signal in the garage. But I would expect it to get the signal once it is out and continue.
So far, still better than mowing myself. I have bad allergies.
My Luba 2 AWD 10000 has been in operation for two weeks and I am enjoying the extra time resulting from being free from sitting on my zero turn. Previously I spent about four hours every four days mowing two acres around my home and an adjacent rental property. Luba 2 is now handling all of the mowing. Initial setup and area mapping was not too difficult after having watched a few YouTube videos posted by Mammotion and existing users. Optimal placement of the RTK beacon ensured actual operation of Luba2 was as expected. On the whole I am quite satisfied with my purchase.
The Yuka works as advertised, I have just begun working with it. Only issue so far is grass stringers get wrapped around the rake and I get overheated warning. Pause, clean and continue, all is well.
I was stressed some about mapping but turned out after a lot studying up on how and asking questions I think I got it right. Does what I wanted it to do. I also bought the L-Wall mount because I have a lot of trees in my yard and around the house. Wasn’t sure it was gonna work but glad I bought it.
We love our robotic mower. It does the best job and is very easy to program. Highly recommend
I’m glad I bought the Luba2 1000! My lawn always looks great. Puts the neighbors to shame! I just hope there will be more mowing patterns to choose from soon.
Mote than I expected.
OK, I have a Luba one which I was already using and I was pretty happy with it. The problem that I had was, I could not get a connector pathway between the front and backyard. It would tell me that there was a problem connecting to the RTK.
Talking with support, they suggested that the loo would do a better job with a camera system on it. So I went ahead and ordered the Luba2. This system is completely different than the original Luba one system. Instructions are not very good as far as how to add this system in. For instance, they failed to tell you that you have to add the new RTK case system in. You do not want to fail to add that in. The RTK requires a separate software upgrade to get it up to the same software version and without the upgrade it cannot find satellites.
So after all of that, the system still will not correctly map the pathway between my front yard and backyard. Tells me a pathway was entered the robot winds up, crashing into things and and hanging up.. apparently a fairly wide pathway in my pathway is only 3 feet which is apparently not sufficient.
This requires me to manually walk the unit between the two mowing areas and then it will do its job. It completes it back to the main cutting area.
Oh one other thing I found out if you’re trying to put in a pathway do not have it go by the charging station. If you do, it will think you’re trying to do a pathway to the charging station and just as soon as you get to it, it will say pathway completed, and it will be done. Again, more things that failed to tell you about.
From a strictly financial perspective, beware of ordering direct from the company. You may think that the order is coming to you from a supplier, but it is not. The order is actually coming out of Taiwan and your credit card will be billed for foreign transaction fee.. I really think they should warn you about this.
I’ve decided to stay with Luba1 as it does the job and does it well. Since I would have to walk it back between the two areas no matter which one I used I’m just staying with the Luba one. Not worth the hassles involved for an international shipment to return the unit at my expense plus I’m beyond the 30 days due to the time it took to get this up and running. So I gave it away to a neighbor. They are, of course, thrilled.
This is still a nice device and the Luba2 does a very good job. It just does not do what I was told it would do. If you happen to have a large building that you wanted to go through I’m sure it would make it with plenty of room to spare. It is just not good for a narrow pathway.
The app was difficult for me to negotiate. I still think it could be more user friendly. My luba 5000 is doing a good job cutting the grass but, the front bumper keeps getting knocked off. The luba will even run over sometimes. I have read other peoples comments on this issue and have reinstalled the bumper according to their suggestions. It still gets knocked off.
Three weeks with the Luba 2 and so far we love it. Saves us a ton of time that we normally would have to spend mowing the lawn. We love the straight lines it makes and how quiet it is.
My only real gripe at this point is some of the messaging you receive as the more accomplishes tasks do not make sense. For example, the mower leaves the charge station to begin a mow and it adjust the height of the blade. It tells you that it’s adjusting the height of the blade, but then gives the height value of what it was not what it’s adjusting to. This causes me to go in and double check the height setting I had selected.
Another example is when the mower returning to its charging station. When it successfully docks it gives the message “recharge successful” . Nooo, successful docking would be better. After it has recharged, that would be correct.
I just got a Luba2 AWD and cannot believe how it does on my hill. For 29 years I have struggled, first to mow it myself, then to hire people to mow it. No one lasts very long. There are parts of it that I measured to have a 37-degree (82%) slope, but our yard has never looked so good. It walks up the steepest parts with no hesitation (when the grass is dry). The attached pictures fail to capture the difficulties that the robot overcomes. You should make a video of it for advertising.
Doug Allen
For two years, I have been using a nondirectional robot mower. While I have been pleased with its performance, it was harder to set up because of the boundary wires. This year it seems to have created more problems by trying to dig in difficult spots. I knew I was going to replace it with a more intelligent robot and had selected the Luba 2. It is in the early stages of its operation. It takes a while to set it up, but with perseverance it proved to be relatively easy. I have my yard divided into five zones and I’m very pleased with the results so far. I’m looking forward to see how it behaves, when the grass begins to grow again. We are in a dry period right now . The robot is only cutting the grass twice a week and I may cut it down even less. I am pleased with the efficiency that it has in cutting the grass. There is no waste of time or random cutting here there and yonder.
I have slopes on three sides of my property. It has become difficult for me to mow these with my push mower. I hoped that the Luba 2 would solve this. I have only had it for a week but is has mowed all 3 areas, I was struggling with. Setup was straightforward and I actually mowed in front of the house same afternoon.
