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I stumbled on a site that shows a lawnmower design that is not yet in production
Robotic Electric Lawnmower Design called Muwi | Walyou

For immediate gratification, here's a snapshot of their design:



Amazing design, huh? While you rest it mows, keeps the pieces in its body, then compacts them before ejecting the grass.

Interesting, looks like a white rolling garbage can that cuts your lawn and compacts the grass clippings into a ball or a disk shape! Looks like "WALL-E "s cousin as the lawn compacting lawn mower! I am sure kids who have seen that Pixar movie would see the resembulance or at least thats what reminds me of. Amazing what we have for technologies these days... I still think I would opt for Husquvarnas Automower if I was "forced" to buy one as it still resembles a mower in my opnion.

I say "forced" as I am still young and enjoy cutting grass, but there will be a day when I will have to get something robotic.

What will they think of next? I like the way the cut grass is collected and compacted. Even if you didn't use the disks and balls for sitting and playing, they would still be easier to collect and dispose of.

JasonB said:

Interesting, looks like a white rolling garbage can that cuts your lawn and compacts the grass clippings into a ball or a disk shape! Looks like "WALL-E "s cousin as the lawn compacting lawn mower! I am sure kids who have seen that Pixar movie would see the resembulance or at least thats what reminds me of. Amazing what we have for technologies these days... I still think I would opt for Husquvarnas Automower if I was "forced" to buy one as it still resembles a mower in my opnion.

I say "forced" as I am still young and enjoy cutting grass, but there will be a day when I will have to get something robotic.

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It looks more like EVA (Wall-E's girlfriend). Great movie -- and not just for kids.

The way it cuts reminds me of the barber shop. The way it compacts the grass reminds me for some reason of Toy Story.

Frankly I can't see from the diagrams how it operates, can you?

Anyone up for a "Grassball" fight? For those who don't get snow to have a snowball fight with.

I like it! This goes along with the future of lawnmowers discussion where the conversation was about things becoming robotic. I have no trouble seeing this as the future.

adan said:

Frankly I can't see from the diagrams how it operates, can you?

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I do not think it has ever worked... it is just a drawing...

If you compacted green grass enough to hold it's shape in either a ball or a stepping stone shape, as shown in the renderings, they would weigh around 20 pounds each, to be the size illustrated.
They would be too heavy to 'toss' to each other, and quite gooey to set on...

even tightly compacted green hay or alfalfa is NOT ideal to set on or toss around, so I am not sure what you could do with these ... IF it were even possible to cut and compact as shown... ??

Green, non dried vegetation molds if bailed and put up, it will also surprise you with spontaneous combustion if placed in a confined space... I don't think this is a well thought out mower design...
mulch mowing and allowing the reduced clippings back into the turf is by far the easiest and best thing to do with grass ... unless you are growing it for animal feed... :smile:KennyV

indypower said:

Anyone up for a "Grassball" fight? For those who don't get snow to have a snowball fight with.

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Way to go Indypower! We don't have snow here so we might as well throw grassballs

KennyV, nice analysis. You think the pictures are made up?

adan said:

Way to go Indypower! We don't have snow here so we might as well throw grassballs

KennyV, nice analysis. You think the pictures are made up?

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yes... I don't think the 55 gallon plastic barrel with the slot in it, is or will cut grass... :wink:KennyV

What I cannot visualize is how it moves and*how fast it moves. I'm most curious about how the blades operate. They have to show some videos before they ask readers if we think such design would ever go to production stage.

I want to believe this is not yet even the tip of the iceberg but yet again, I can already see advancements coming up in future. Anyway, has it been proven to work well?