Heads up: this post contains affiliate links, and I may earn a commission if you buy through them, at no extra cost to you.
This is the Airseekers Tron Plus robot mower. It’s advertised as rated for yards up to 1 acre in a 24 hour period and for a 33 degree slope. I tested it over four days on my 0.6 acre lot, and I’ve filed a return because it is nowhere near expectation.
I spent a lot of time researching this mower and had really high expectations. Here’s what happened in my yard.
I bought this mower myself. Nobody sent it to me.
Quick take
- Advertised for 1 acre in 24 hours and a 33 degree slope
- Easy to handle: not too heavy, with grip handles and a tip-up underside
- The catch: it got stuck a lot, couldn’t handle my 28 degree slope, and left patchy cuts
- My result: maybe 20 to 25% of a 0.6 acre lot cut over four days, so I’m returning it
What I liked
Size, weight and handles
Size wise it’s not too bad, and it’s not too heavy. It has nice grip handles on the back and the front, so you can pick it up, and it tips up so you can get to the underside to wash it off after cutting.
Mapping and mulching
The mapping portion of it wasn’t too bad. The mulching is kind of hard to tell, but I think it did work okay.
Things to know before you buy
- You will have to rescue it a lot. It would get stuck by my deck pole, backing up and hitting it again and again until it stopped on the app, so I had to manually drive it around the poles.
- “Too hot” to resume. After a recharge it said it was too hot to resume, for four and a half hours, until I cancelled the session.
- No resume after a cancel. It won’t pick up where it left off, so you restart that entire section. Charging also takes a long time.
- It couldn’t handle my slope. My backyard measures 28 degrees at the steepest part, which should be no problem for a mower rated to 33 degrees. It couldn’t make the turn, went outside the cut zone, and got stuck by a tree three times. I never actually got my backyard cut with it.
- Patchy cuts. Support told me to set the cutting spacing to the smallest possible strips, about 130 millimeters. It still missed plenty of strips, and at that spacing an acre would take forever.
- RTK connection. Getting the RTK signal and the mower to stay connected was really quite a nightmare. On my last test it couldn’t find RTK, the backup visual systems weren’t working, and it sat there for three to four hours. When I sent a return to home signal, it did make it back to the charging station, which surprised me.
- Odd patterns by the fence. The AI map adjustment made squiggly patterns along my fence, even though I mapped that boundary, and left a super patchy area.
- Two-wheel drive. It’s a two-wheel drive mower, versus four-wheel drive like a lot of other ones.
Install notes
I set up the base and RTK pole at the side of my house, with plenty of space for the mower to come and go. Keeping the RTK signal connected was the hard part.
Specs from the Amazon listing
These come from the Amazon listing title. I didn’t test them myself:
- Rated for 1 acre
- NRTK plus 5 vision, wire-free (no perimeter wire)
- AI obstacle avoidance
- App control and automatic mapping
- 65% slope, all-terrain mowing
- IPX6 waterproof
Who it’s for
Maybe a fit if you: have a small, flat yard with no obstacles. Mine isn’t that, so I can’t say.
Skip it if you: have a slope, deck posts or other obstacles, or want set and forget.
Bottom line
The selling points for me were that it could handle the slope and that it had omnidirectional front wheels to help it turn easier. In practice, over four 24-hour periods it cut maybe 20 to 25% of my 0.6 acre lot, and that was the flat, easy areas. I don’t think it would come near an acre in 24 hours even in perfect conditions. As a paying customer who purchased it myself, I would not recommend this mower, and I’m sending it back.
I returned the Tron and replaced it with the Segway Navimow X450.
Price and availability change on Amazon, so check the listing for current details.
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.