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Laser scanning on a lawn
MOVA is one of three manufacturers on this site whose robot works without a boundary wire, and it uses the third of the three available methods: laser scanning.
The three are worth holding apart, because a reader comparing wire-free machines is comparing sensors rather than mowers.
Satellite positioning is accurate in the open and loses its reference under a canopy. Vision recognises grass against not-grass and depends on light and on a tidy edge. Laser scanning maps structures extremely well — a wall, a bench, a tree trunk — and has less to say about where a lawn stops and a border begins, because that boundary is not a structure.
Most machines combine two of them, and this one’s listing states what it uses.
Its garage is on the accessory shelf here and names its own machines.
The stated area is a duty-cycle assumption like every other on that shelf, and the figures this site prints beside it are the cutting width, the slope and the marked sound power level.
3D LiDAR + vision, edge within 5 cm, 45 % slope, 30–100 mm
Laser scanning plus vision, a sliding blade disc that cuts within 5 cm of a wall, 45 per cent slopes and 60 cm passages.
Best for: A large, complicated garden with slopes, narrow links and a lot of hard edge
The maker’s own shelter with the full parts list published — roof, two frames, eight pegs, ten clips and an Allen key.
Best for: One of the seven named machines, where the parts in the box should be known before it arrives
