Shear Brilliance: The Husqvarna Automower Solar Hybrid

Husqvarna Automower Solar Hybrid Lawn mowing robot

if Batman had a lawn mowing robot (he probably does)

Okay, so you’ve vacuumed your floors and then mopped them. I say you, but really all you had to do was push a couple of buttons and play some computer games whilst making sure the dog’s tongue doesn’t get caught up in your Roomba’s whirring bits again. What menial tasks are left to delegate to some unfortunate yet loving robot before they enslave humanity? Well, the garden looks pretty unkempt. Robo-mow time.

Let me introduce you to the Automower Solar Hybrid from Husqvarna. I wasn’t sure it was possible to think a lawnmower looked stylish, but this one does. In fact, it looks like Bruce Wayne designed it to keep the lawns impeccable at Wayne Manor, giving him the perfect alibi if anyone accused him of being a vigilante – “I was mowing the lawns again, look how nice they are”. The mower itself can handle rough terrain, be set to a timer so you never have to think about mowing again and will head back to a charging station to top up on power if, predictably, the sun isn’t out in England and it can’t make use of the big solar panel hat it wears. It also has a PIN lock and an anti-theft alarm so the kid you used to pay to cut your lawn has a hard time trying to steal it – incidentally, the mower also won’t make your lawn look like a meth addict was let loose on it with crimping shears.

Unfortunately, it looks like you would actually have to be Bruce Wayne to be able to buy one at the present price, which is around £2000. Yipes. Look’s like the kid will still get his crack money for the time being. There are cheaper mowers out there, but this is the one I like. All the others either look like giant bicycle helmets, a pointless and melted children’s toy or one of those robots you used to have back in school in which you stuck a pencil and used the LOGO programming language to try and draw penises. Remember?

One last thing to mention: is it really wise to give an autonomous robot sharp blades to zoom around with? How many toes does a human actually need anyway?

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