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iRobot Unveils Terra, a Roomba Lawn Mower (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the up-next dept.

Krystalo writes: iRobot is best known for making vacuum cleaner robots: the infamous Roomba lineup. But the company also makes mopping robots (Braava lineup), pool cleaning robots (Mirra lineup), a bot to help clean gutters, and even programmable robots (Create lineup). So, what's next for your home? A lawn mower robot. Queue the "get off my lawn" jokes.

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  1. Is this new? by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 5, Informative

    Is this new, I mean, it might be new for iRobot, but haven't lawn mower robots been a thing for a while now? iRobot entering the market place might be a big player coming, probably one that can be marketed towards "common man", but I swear we've had companies with robot lawnmowers for a decade or more now.

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  2. Dogs by mccalli · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Would love one but alas - three dogs. Which means manually cleaning up the lawn on a regular basis, for obvious reasons. What I would pay for a robot that would handle that clean up for me...

    1. Re:Dogs by Thud457 · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's not automatically picking up the dog poop that is the problem.

      The problem is limited battery life prevents automatically delivering the dog poop to Washington.

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      the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff