Weed whackers are the #1 way robot mower owners break their charging stations. Here are two easy setups, a turf pad or a mulch bed, so you never have to trim around your charger again.

Free live robot mower training on the first Thursday of every month: the schedule through April, the topics we're planning, and how live lawn reviews work.

How we installed a Navimow X430 on a 0.33-acre Phoenixville lawn with 12+ no-go zones, a driveway in the way, and a homeowner who cares about curb appeal.

Your Mower Deserves a Name Ask any robot mower owner and you'll find out the mower already has a name. Mowzart. Lawnzilla. Sir Mows-a-Lot. After a few weeks of watching it work the yard on its own, it stops feeling like a tool and starts feeling like part of the family. Now you can make it official. Zippy Lawnz offers a Custom Navimow Nameplate: a decorative camera housing with your mower's name printed right on it, for the Segway Navimow X4 and Terranox. What Is the Custom N

The best robot lawn mower for 1 acre is one that maps your yard easily, handles your slopes, and includes the parts and support you'll need after the sale. You don't need to spend $3,000 or more to get there. One acre is the point where mowing stops being a chore and becomes a half-day job, so it's also where a robot mower pays off most. This guide covers what to look for, what to skip, and which mower we recommend for flat to gently sloped lawns. What 1 Acre Really Means for

Thinking about a robot mower? Map your lawn free at ZippyLawnz.us. It takes about two minutes, and we'll recommend the right robotic mower for your yard. Fall is the best time of year to overseed a lawn in the Mid-Atlantic. If you own a robot mower, it can do a lot of the prep work for you. You just need to change a few settings and give the new grass room to grow. Here's the exact process I'm using on my own lawn this fall, with the robot mower settings for each stage. Why o

It was 6:40 in the morning. The yard was empty, the street was quiet, and there was a $2,000 Segway Navimow X4 sitting on the grass with nobody watching it. I walked up, grabbed it with both hands, and headed for my truck. I made it about four steps. I've installed a lot of these mowers across Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware, and the one question that comes up before anything else is always the same: what stops somebody from just taking it? I'd been answering it with a l

One of the most common things we hear from new robotic mower owners goes something like this: "It's great, but it only mows the backyard." The fence that keeps the dog in also keeps the mower out of half the lawn. So you end up carrying the mower from one yard to the other, or propping the gate open and hoping the dog doesn't notice. The Segway Navimow MowGate was built to fix exactly that problem. We've been installing them for customers across Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryla

Most people install the charging station on day one wherever the nearest outdoor outlet is, and then live with it. Then a season goes by, you learn how your yard actually mows, and you realize the station is in the wrong place. Good news: moving it doesn't mean starting over. Segway built relocation into the app, and your existing map and zones survive the process. Here's how to do it and how to pick the right new spot. First, Scout the New Location Do this before you unplug

Ask anyone who owns a robot mower what bugs them most, and you'll usually get the same answer: the edges. Robot mowers keep the middle of a lawn looking great. But the blade deck sits inside the body of the mower, so it can't reach the last few inches of grass along fences, flower beds, walls and walkways. Every week or two, owners are back out with the string trimmer cleaning up the borders by hand. The Segway Navimow X5 Pro fixes that. It has a built-in string trimming arm,

Navimow X450 Install on a 1.82-Acre Maryland Farm Most robotic mower installs are straightforward. You map the boundary, set the cutting height, and let it run. This one wasn't. The property sits outside Baltimore on the Maryland side, 1.82 acres of mapped lawn on a working farm. It had a steep hill, a drainage ditch cutting through the middle, and an awkward L-shaped area that would have driven the mower crazy if we'd left it alone. Three decisions made this install work. No

Brian Phillips has owned a robotic mower for years. It cut his one-acre lawn in Warrington, Pennsylvania without complaint, and he liked it. But it ran on a boundary wire, a loop of cable buried a few inches under the grass around the entire perimeter of his property. That wire changed how he took care of his lawn. Not in ways he expected, and not for the better. One break stops everything A boundary wire system works by sending a low-voltage signal through a continuous loop.

If you've been told your property is "too steep" or "too complicated" for a robotic mower, this install is for you. We recently completed what we're calling a Complexity Level 10 installation in Bucks County, Pennsylvania — the steepest, most obstacle-dense property we've ever put a robot mower on. The customer built a massive berm, a man-made hillside that runs along the front of his property to shield his home from the road. It's a beautiful piece of landscaping. It's also

If your Segway Navimow mows the front yard perfectly but gets confused, stops, or reports positioning errors in the back corner of your property, you're not dealing with a defective mower. You're dealing with physics. The RTK antenna that came with your Navimow has a real-world limit, and once your mower crosses it, precise navigation falls apart. The fix is the Navimow Signal Enhancement Antenna — a second RTK unit that extends coverage to the parts of your lawn the primary

Your Segway Navimow has extra blade slots you probably don't know about. Flip the mower over and look at each cutting disc. There's a protective cover on it. Pop that cover off and you'll find three more screw holes sitting empty. Drop a blade into each one and you go from 6 blades per disc to 9 — 18 blades total across both discs. That's 50% more cutting edge on a mower you already own. Why more blades means a better cut A robot mower doesn't cut like a push mower. It's a li

If you own a Segway Navimow, you've probably seen the listings: gold-colored "titanium-coated stainless steel" replacement blades, usually a few bucks cheaper than the OEM set, promising longer life and a sharper cut. I bought a set to find out if they're worth it. Short version: they're not. The original Navimow blades beat them on every measurement I took. What I tested I ran both sets through three checks: Edge sharpness — measured with a laser edge reader, not a fingernai

Looking for robotic lawn mowing in Villanova, PA? Zippy Lawnz is an authorized Segway Navimow dealer and service center serving Villanova and the entire Main Line — including Radnor, Bryn Mawr, Wayne, Haverford, Gladwyne, Rosemont, and Newtown Square. See this beautiful lawn in Villanova, PA using a Segway Navimow Why Villanova Lawns Are a Perfect Fit for Robotic Mowing Villanova and the surrounding Main Line are known for large, established properties with mature trees, roll

Not every property is friendly to a robotic mower. Some yards have thick tree canopy that blocks satellite signal. Some are in cellular dead zones. And once in a while, we get a property that has both. That was the case on a recent Segway Navimow install. We couldn't get a dependable RTK fix and we couldn't get reliable cellular, which meant the mower was constantly dropping its connection. Rather than tell the customer their yard wasn't a fit, we solved it with something mos

Two questions come up on almost every robotic mower quote we write: "How far can the RTK antenna actually be from the mower?" and "What if I don't have anywhere good to mount the charging station?" On this installation in Paoli, Pennsylvania, we got to answer both — with a real range test on a real property, and a charging station anchored straight into a brick patio. First, What the RTK Antenna Actually Does Before the range test makes sense, it's worth being clear on the jo

Every lawn has a part nobody wants to mow. On this property in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, it was a septic mound — and not a gentle one. This mound rises on all four sides, which means there's no easy approach, no flat run-up, and no way to cheat it. Just a steep climb from whichever direction you come at it. If you've ever pushed a mower up a septic hill in July, you know the drill. You're fighting the machine to keep it from sliding, walking sideways across the face, and burnin