After being announced years ago, it’s finally coming to the US.
If you’ve always been too lazy to mow your lawn, there’s finally a Honda-branded robot that will do it for you.
The Miimo is Honda’s robotic lawnmower. It can do the job entirely on its own, within a defined area. That mow-friendly patch is defined by installing a boundary wire either underground or just above the grass. The Miimo detects the wire’s electrical field, which can also be used to cordon off trees, ponds or gardens.
This little guy has a variety of cutting modes. Random takes a more scatterbrained approach to mowing the lawn, operating solely off boundary wire detection. Directional mode turns the robot at a narrower angle, providing a more traditional set of « stripes » on the lawn. Mixed mode is, well, a mix of the two modes. Spiral mode is meant for lawns that grow at different rates in different areas, and Edge mode will carve a border along the boundary wire before moving to a different mode.
