Edge Trimming is a race for the industry
One of the most interesting battles in robotic lawn care is happening right at the edge of the lawn.
For years, robotic mowers have been very good at maintaining the main mowing area, but edges along driveways, sidewalks, landscape beds and walls have remained one of the places where a string trimmer may still be needed.
Now manufacturers are attacking that problem—and fast.
At IFA 2026, Mammotion introduced the new LUBA 4 AWD with an edge-cutting accessory, while Eufy unveiled the S2 Max with a retractable trimming arm designed to reach beyond the mower's normal cutting deck.
Different manufacturers are taking different approaches, but they're chasing the same goal: automate more of the lawn.
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Edge trimming is only the latest example.
In just a few years, robotic mowers have progressed from boundary wires and relatively simple navigation to machines using combinations of RTK positioning, cameras, LiDAR, AI obstacle detection and all-wheel drive. Manufacturers including Mammotion, Segway Navimow, Husqvarna, Dreame, Eufy and others are competing aggressively to make their machines more capable.
That's good news for consumers.
And while it's exciting to see what's coming next, we don't think rapid innovation is a reason to wait to buy a robotic mower.
Quite the opposite.
Today's better robotic mowers are already capable of maintaining lawns autonomously, navigating complex properties and eliminating a large portion of the time homeowners spend mowing. A future mower may get a little closer to a wall or automate another part of lawn maintenance, but that doesn't take away the hours a robotic mower can start giving you back today.
Think about smartphones or cars: there's always another generation coming. At some point, the question isn't "What will next year's model do?"
It's "What can this technology do for me right now?"
The Bigger Picture
We believe the edge-trimming race is another sign that robotic mowing is moving quickly from an interesting new technology toward a mainstream way of maintaining lawns.
Manufacturers aren't simply trying to build a mower that can drive itself anymore.
They're competing to see how much of lawn care they can automate.
And that's where things are getting really interesting.
RoboLawn will continue following these developments as robotic lawn care technology evolves.