Roborock's Big LiDAR Robotic Lawnmower Needs No Satellites

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Gizmodo may earn an affiliate commission. Roborock has released a beefy new robot lawnmower called the RockMow X120H that the company says can handle a half-acre lawn in a day. Like many of the latest crop of such devices, it needs no guide wires, no satellite connection, and can map your lawn all by itself. If true, it sounds like a great robot lawnmower, but it won’t come cheap—Roborock is charging $3,200 for it. The RockMow X120H looks and sounds a lot like the Segway Navimow X430 I reviewed earlier this summer. It has four-wheel drive (or all-wheel drive—the company lists both on its Amazon listing for the robot) and features a vision camera that it uses for AI-based obstacle avoidance. It can handle up to 38.7-degree slopes, can cut to within 3 centimeters of the edge of a wall, and can climb obstacles up to 3.1 inches high, the company says. Also like the Navimow X430, the RockMow X120H doesn’t require guide wires to keep it mowing where you want it to go, and Roborock claims it can map all by itself. There’s reason to hope that’s true, given that