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Indoor robotics, moved outdoors
ECOVACS built its business on indoor robots and arrived at lawns with that inheritance: mapping, app control and scheduling, applied to a surface with no walls to bounce off.
The machine here navigates without a boundary wire, using satellite positioning backed by a fixed reference station. That approach is accurate in an open garden and confused under a mature tree, where the sky the station and the machine both need is partly gone. It is a different failure mode from a camera robot, and a very different one from a buried cable — which never cares about the weather or the canopy.
Its own garage is on a separate shelf here, and the listing names the machines it is made for rather than claiming to be universal, which on that shelf is worth something.
As with every robot on this site, the page prints the cutting width, the slope figure and the guaranteed sound power level as stated, and treats the square-metre figure as the manufacturer’s duty-cycle assumption.
RTK + vision, 600 m², 30–80 mm in 10 mm steps, 45 % slope
Satellite positioning with a visual fallback, 1 cm height steps from 3 to 8 cm, 45 per cent slopes and 0.7 m passages.
Best for: An open garden of moderate size with slopes and narrow links between areas
A manufacturer’s own shelter naming eight of its robots — and publishing no dimensions at all.
Best for: One of the eight named machines, where the fit should not be a question
