Green Lawn
Automation

Can your lawn run itself?

Robot mowers and smart sprinkler controllers can take over a lot of yard work. They also have limits: slopes, narrow gates, tree cover, weak Wi-Fi. Answer six quick questions and see what fits your yard and what to look out for.

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A small robot mower seen from above, mowing stripes across a lawn around a tree and a flower bed

Yard checker

Pick the answer closest to your yard. The plan redraws and the verdict updates as you go. Your answers stay in this browser tab; nothing is saved or sent anywhere.

A plan of your yard drawn from your answers: house along the top, lawn below, with trees, beds, sprinklers and Wi-Fi added as you answer

0 of 6 answered

1How big is the lawn you mow?
2How steep does it get?
3How many separate lawn areas?
4Trees, beds and other obstacles
5How do you water now?
6Wi-Fi out in the yard

Robot mowers

Boundary wire, RTK satellite positioning, cameras and LiDAR. What each needs from your yard, plus a spec table from 13 current models.

Read the mower guide

Smart irrigation

Weather-based controllers, soil moisture and rain sensors, and what the EPA WaterSense label means on a controller.

Read the irrigation guide

Guides

Getting a lawn ready for a mower, winter storage, how much water grass really needs, and the local rules to check first.

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How this guide works

  • Every spec in our tables comes from the maker’s own current product page, linked, with the date we read it.
  • No prices, no rankings and no affiliate links. The tables show what each maker says its machine can do.
  • We haven’t tested these machines. When a maker’s page doesn’t state something, the table shows a dash.