3 days ago
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- Irish Daily Mirror
Eufy E15 robot mower review: is clever wireless machine the future of gardening?
Eufy's revolutionary robot lawn mower debut, E15, has no boundary wire or antenna, which means that set-up is super easy and quick.
Many other robot lawn mowers use a perimeter wire (also called a boundary wire) or an RTK antenna and GNSS to navigate and stay within the designated lawn area.
But Eufy E15 uses visual recognition, AI algorithms and 3D sensors to distinguish the boundaries of your lawn and avoid obstacles in real time.
It does this by mapping your gardens in a similar way to the many robot vacuums that Eufy manufactures map the rooms of your home. (The Anker subsidiary became Ireland's number one robovac firm in late 2024 in terms of sales, incidentally.)
Setting up and installing the grey-coloured Eufy E15 unit and the accompanying covered base station including connecting to WiFi and Bluetooth takes about 15 minutes. Everything you need for setting up is in the box, incidentally including the mains cable and plug for charging it.
You are then ready to unleash the robot for its initial auto-mapping run. Eufy E15's Visual Fusion Sensing and Decision (V-FSD) tech drives the mower around your garden to see which areas are grassy and which might be no-go zones such as flower beds, hedges and pathways. This process took me only 10 minutes. The same Eufy app you use for your vacuum then saves a map of your garden and you're good to go.
The E15's obstacle avoidance tech is smart too - it will avoid any changes on your landscape such as toys strewn on the grass or pets.
The intuitive-to-use app allows you to customise most of the Eufy E15's mowing abilities. You can set path directions, grass height, edge spacing, path spacing, travel and blade speed, rain detection and schedule up to eight events.
You can also control the device manually in the app using the live camera feature. It's like playing with a remote controlled car that just happens to be mowing your grass. For the most part, however, you are going to let it run autonomously. The firm said the battery has enough capacity to mow a lawn up to 800 square metres in size.
The three-wheel machine does a great job of snipping the lawn, even one with rough terrain like mine. It is equipped with a spinning 20cm diameter disc of small but tough cutting razor blades that create clean lines and cut with professional-looking consistency. It will automatically adjust the cutting height from 25mm to 75mm in 5mm increments. And it can handle slopes of up to 18 degrees. E15 is relatively quiet in operation too. The Noise app on my Apple Watch measured the volume at just 55dB of sound.
It's a light and easy mower to move around. It measures 60.3cm x 39.4cm x 31.8cm. It has a convenient handle on the rear and it is easy to clean the blades underneath. You can use a garden hose to blast away any dirt or mud or just brush it off. The company recommends changing the blades every couple of months, depending on usage. And it said the camera sensors should be kept clean to ensure accurate navigation and prevent the rain sensor from getting blocked.
The camera system employed means E15 can't mow your lawn in the dark. But I doubt that will bother too many people. It's worth noting that you may still need to tidy up some edges with a strimmer.
Eufy's base station is waterproof and designed to be located outdoors so the device is ready for use at any time. If you are worried about theft, the mower has a handy hidden compartment for an Apple AirTag or similar tracker which should help you locate it.
Eufy E15 is a robot that could well be the future of lawn mowers. Between its precision cutting skills and its simple-to-use app and controls, it is will prove to be a game-changer for anyone with small to medium size and relatively flat gardens.
Eufy E15 is on sale now at Amazon and elsewhere, with an RRP of €1,499 (and £1499 in Northern Ireland).
