I’m honestly really happy with the purchase. The setup was not too difficult, and after watching many many different comparison videos to other robot mowers, I’m happy the Luba mini 2 lives up to the hype. It performs really well on my 1/3 acre lot.
This is my fastest setup for a mower. It works exceptionally well. The battery life is short. I use Mini around the edges and slopes while Yuka takes the flat areas. That makes it fun to watch.
Works great 99% of the time. The cut is excellent, features and control of details is great. Easy to clean and replace/sharpen blades. Handles slopes with ease. Works day and night. Throughout the season it lost connection twice, had to return it to station to reconnect, and one time all app data just disappeared and no mower or RTK showed in the system. Most likely a fluke, hence the 99% of the time. Things came back to normal in about an hour. First season it mows the whole lawn, about quarter of an acre. Battery life is excellent. I wish in future versions edging is considered, and bigger mulching blades are possible to attach. This will be the first winter hibernation. Hope it wakes up next season ready to roll. (I use it every two to three days, the scale in the review does not have that option).
I hoped it would work well. Turns out it works AMAZINGLY well!!!
Setup and mapping was easy.
I have now gone thru four full lawn cuttings. Cutting in the cross cut pattern and it has performed flawlessly.
And ... my wife rolled her eyes when I ordered it, but she may be a bigger fan than I am. She loves that it is quiet. She also loves the near perfect cut with the cross pattern.
Oh ... And I caught four of my neighbors standing out on the street admiring it cut my yard.
You have to make sure you know what you getting yourself into, so do a lot of research before purchasing. I did that, and based on my expectations I have been completely satisfied. This thing has a lot of quirks, but I knew all of that going in. But now I can clean my garage and remodel my kitchen while the robot mows the lawn, and I love that.
I love how you program your yard and it does everything on it’s own!
Love the robot lawnmower, just wish the app had a few more features for edging and progress. Get a job that I don't want to do done efficiently.
Overall, a really cool product. Our old push mower stopped working, and the grass got taller than we would like while we were figuring out the next step. It handled the tall grass much better than expected given the cutting mechanism. It is important to note that it does not mulch the clippings, but that shouldn't be an issue with shorter, more frequent cuts.
The mapping and accuracy leaves a little bit to be desired as it had some trouble with a straight boundary line on one side of our house. I would suggest using the manual mowing mode to cut the outside most boundary then setting your perimeter one width inside that, especially if your yard is right next to somebody else's. I would also suggest adjusting the settings to mow perimeter first. Set the path width to the minimum as well so there are no missed spots if there is a slight GPS inaccuracy. It is also important to note that this product does NOT replace trimming with a weedeater. The accuracy is not quite there to mow around every single fence post for example.
One of the most important factors for me was how the lawn looked after being cut, and this mower produced nice stripes. The customizable patterns are convenient to ensure your yard doesn't get worn out laying in the same direction.
The object detection was really nice for the most part. We have a couple trees in our yard that I purposely did not set as no mow zones just to see the capabilities of the object detection. It did really well around the trees, but one minor complaint would be the sensitivity change after detecting an object. As noted previously, our grass was taller than usual for the first mow, and when the trees were sensed as an object, the mower would become overly sensitive to objects and missed a couple patches of particularly tall grass as it also sensed those as objects. It had no problem in taller areas where other larger objects (like trees) were present, so I am not sure why it changed.
Overall, I am pretty happy with this product. I had high hopes, and it largely exceeded those, just a few minor tweaks to make it a perfect product. This will ultimately save a lot of time and produce a healthier yard, and if it lasts, will be well worth the investment.
I've only had the opportunity to use the mower a few weeks now. It works well, is quiet and I'm thrilled to have it.
Love it !
Cannot keep the communication and or signal to the robot!
Height adjustment failed after 1 week. I cannot use this mower and it's brand new. Reached out to support and no response
I'm very impressed with my Luba 2 AWD 10000. It will handle the bulk of my mowing, but others should be aware that unless your yard is fairly flat and mainly 90° rectangles, you'll have to still mow some border areas. For instance, I have a sloped area near a drop-off: My Luba was cutting too close to this drop-off, and the way the front wheels allow the Luba to roll sideways, my Luba just rolled off that drop-off. So I'm just going to re-route the Luba to stay a couple of feet away from that drop-off and push-mow that section.
We have 13 acres of which about 4.5 is grass, and I used the [M] online tool to work out I could use 2 luba's to cover 95% of the grass (neat tool BTW). After the latest yard guy needs to find more work I think ... lets try automation. Even though its the end of growing season I'll buy one model now. I don;t need to, but I used the paypal pay in 6 months, just got the bill and it says the entire amount is due in 2 weeks so is that a bait and switch? I could have just paid on my credit card and got points. Not happy with that. Also, not told at ordering a signature would be required. Waiting for fed ex is stressful enough without being forced to stay home, however for once they were just 3 minutes outside their estimated delivery window. The luba 2 is nicely boxed and good instructions. Bit of a learning curve but generally okay. However the front bumper is an issue and I read online I'm not alone. This morning after mapping one area I set it loose, grass isn't that tall, and I have video of it doing this, either it's clever and is looking for long grass, or it's confused as it stayed in one corner, the furthest distance from the charging station, and did tight turns which was tearing up the grass. I checked the settings were for multi point turns. I stopped it and couldn;t get it to go back to the charging station on its own (home+start or using the app), I switched to manual mode and after a bump the front bumper fell off and ripped the plastic casing from around the contacts so now I'm stuck trying to get the contacts back in and see if I can ever get this bumper to stay in place. This is what you get when asking for a review before it's first use. I'm thinking will work one day, I just don;t need to swap time I could be mowing to time fixing bumpers. Yeah I'm at a 1 to 2 star level right now. Yeah even less when I go to paste this in, I get another pop up in my face. and who is judge.me that hosts these comments? No link to privacy terms...oh, whatever.
Initial setup was a bit time consuming, but the app is fairly intuitive and time from unboxing to mowing was surprisingly fast. Mower was delivered in the afternoon and we were mowing about an hour later, and on until 11 that night. Having a bit more trouble mapping the connections between areas, but will tackle that today. Cut quality is great and the lines in the lawn are excellent.
This is my second robotic lawn mower. I had another brand that i bought about 7 years ago and had wired boundary. It was great for its time but the innovation in the Luba 2 is awesome. First thing i love the most is NO MORE WIRES. Using the app to setup your boundaries, schedules etc was easy to learn and use. The old robotic lawn mowers, cut the grass in a random pattern. With the luba 2 you can have the nice lines that many people desire. So much more efficient. The awd handles slopes with ease which is another feature I love.
Machine is well built cuts the grass as expected. Set up and troubleshooting is challenging since no instructions are supplied. I got most help from YouTube videos but still not complete like a good instruction manual.
L'intallation et la configuration de ma MAMMOTION LUBA 2 AWD c'est faite en main de 30 minutes, 6 zones! Zones de passage, hauteur de coupe, type de tontes sont très intuituives. Jusqu'à présent, aucun reget!
I was skeptical, BUT was soon amazed at the accuracy of the navigation. However, I am having trouble “navigating “ the app.
Have not unboxed it yet as summer is over for now
Had a Husqy 315X Automower for 8 years. From the Philly area. I would say I really liked it. The wires just became too much. Couldn't aerate or verticut without significant problems and wire repairs. It also didn't do a thing for leaves but make a mess.
This Yuka1000 is amazing. Very impressed with quality of cut. App is a little tough to get used to, but now I'm rolling and couldn't be happier. RTK set up was easy. 10ft from my house and not really near any trees, but there is a couple within 10 feet of it. No problems yet.
Haven't gotten the bagger yet, coming in tomorrow. I'm confident it will do well. Thanks Mammotion! Got my time with my family back.
I bought the Luba a few years ago and enjoyed the automatic lawn care from this robot. Last summer it quit charging. I called the help line and they walked me through some diagnostics. It was still under warranty so I sent it back. They could not get the parts to fix the original mower. After a few weeks we recieved the Luba2 awd 10000. With the upgraded features it avoids obstacles and will stay on task under the tree canopies. Five hearts to the Luba2 awd 10000. The upgrade was worth the wait.
Waiting for spring and summer. With the drought, had no mowing. Already for the snow. I know I will enjoy as I hate mowing
My luna mini is a great addition to my garage. I have a yuka mini and my luba mini covers all the places I need 4 wheel drive! Excellent quality! Thank you mammotion for another quality mower. I just wish the 800 came with the 6.1ah battery like my yuka. I will be upgrading that just for the longer run time.
I was very excited about getting this mower, after using an older Landroid mower for a few years that required a guide wire and wildly zig zagged in every direction. It normally took about 3 days to fully mow the yard. The Luba doesn't need a wire and mows in a nice straight lines. I created a nice area for it with a paver base, setup the mower\antenna and created the first area map using auto-mapping. It worked pretty well, but had a few issues due to all the twist, turns and angles in our back yard. I then manually mapped the back yard and was ready for the first run. I started mowing about 3 feet from the mapped edge and started going back in forth at the end for some reason. At first, I thought great...it lost its mind. However, I just let it go and watched it for a while. Though it did go in nice straight lines, it seemed to miss pieces along the edge. Finally, looking at the path it is taking on the map, I noticed it was mowing the inner section and then it went back and finished the pieces around the edge. This is where a nice bolded statement would have come in handy, describing this process. All in all, it did a great job and completed in our big back yard in about 4 hours.
So far so good ! Great mower -