GoKawiilAirseekers Tron While the autonomy, RTK precision, and mulching capabilities of the Airseekers Tron are fantastic, the obstacle avoidance and wheels leave a lot to be desired. It does a great job clearing open swaths of land, even handling drastic inclines, but it's rough around the edges and struggling with avoiding contact with certain objects.
The only thing better than having a great yard to hang out is not having to spend half your free time maintaining it. Today we go beyond setting up an automatic sprinkler or hiring the neighbor’s kid to do some work; today we can deploy robotics to do the job.
The Airseekers Tron ($1999.99 at Amazon) is a capable robot lawn mower that cuts and mulches, for a totally hands-off experience, but there are a few drawbacks to this beast of a mower that keep it from challenging the best in the business.
I tested two separate Airseekers Tron robot mowers over several months, with both bots provided by Airseekers. Here’s what I found out.
Anatomy of a Tron
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The Airseekers Tron is a four-wheel unit that suspends a mower blade in the center. The battery lives in a door at the rear, and there are cameras facing all directions. The blade is a spinning disk with multiple razor-like blades mounted around it.
The true value of the Airseekers Tron as a robot mower lies in its mulching function. Instead of simply chopping grass, it creates a vortex that sucks the cut grass up into a second set of blades that reduce the debris to shreds. With regular mowing, the shreds of grass simply disappear into your lawn. No mess to clean, just short grass.
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The Tron is available in three variants: the SE version manages up to 0.37 acres, the standard version manages 0.59 acres, and the Plus version handles one acre.
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