ZDNET's key takeaways The Mammotion Luba 2 3000H is available for $2,599.
Built to handle uneven terrain, the Luba 2 is an all-wheel-drive (AWD) reliable robot mower with a GPS-powered perimeter that is surprisingly easy to set up.
The Mammotion app is not very user-friendly and can get buggy after a firmware update. View now at Us.mammotion
Mowing the lawn is one of my favorite chores. It lets me focus on an uninterrupted task that satisfies my OCD, with the bonus of completing my exercise ring on my Apple Watch. But even though it's a chore I enjoy, it still steals a couple of hours away from my all-too-short weekend.
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That's where the Mammotion Luba 2 comes in. Imagine the scene: you take the dog out for a walk and come home to a perfectly mowed lawn despite it being an overgrown mess just an hour before. While you were gone, the robot mower took care of the unruly grass and left a beautiful checkered pattern in its wake.
I'm happy to say that this dream became a reality with the Luba 2, and although it has its quirks, it handles the chore of lawn mowing with efficiency and ease.
When I received the Mammotion Luba 2 for review, the only wire-free GPS robot mower I'd previously used was the EcoFlow Blade. As you can read in that review, setting up the Blade was dreadful. It occupied hours of my Sunday afternoon, resulting in bickering between my husband and me and repeated explanations to the kids that no, we won't be riding the robot around the yard.
This time, setting up the mower fell to my husband on a day when I wasn't home. I planned on helping him with the setup upon my return, but I was pleasantly surprised to find it all done when I returned. In fact, he had nothing but praise for the Mammotion's easy setup, as it was completed in under two hours -- from unboxing to up and running in the yard.
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