Budget Robot Mower SHOCKED Me — ANTHBOT Torture Test!

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]Guys, you won't believe the quality of work that this robot mower does from Anthbot. I mean, you can kind of see right here on this lawn.

[00:00:24]>> [music] [music] >> This is their newest M-series model, and it finally mows like a human would. It's very impressive. We're going to torture test it, as well as test some other function on it, and see if it's something that you guys think is finally ready for your lawn. You guys know me, I'm a lawn snob, and the striping has to be just right, and I'd say Anthbot is doing a fantastic job with that.

[00:00:56]Let's get this mower unboxed. Here is everything. We've got a giant quick start guide and some documentation, the charging dock, the lawn mower itself, the RTK antenna with its little pole and earth stake, charging brick, charging extension lead. These appear to be extension leads for the RTK antenna.

[00:01:14]We've got some little cable stakes, screwdriver, hex key, some zip ties, and some earth screws. This is a 48 W charging brick. Here on the front of the lawn mower, we've got the charging contacts. You can see we have an array of sensors and cameras on the front here, control panel up here on the top, the emergency kill switch, removable safety key right here, nice big aggressive drive wheels. And this is the underside of the mower, nice big cutting wheel with five blades pre-installed.

[00:01:45]Setup of this mower couldn't be easier.

[00:01:47]Deploy your charging dock, screw it down with these earth screws, connect your power cord to a power source, connect the power and data cord to the RTK antenna. Make sure after the antenna is booted up that it has a solid green light on it. Adding them over to the app is super easy. We're going to hit add device. It does need to be within Wi-Fi range. You can see it's found the mower right here. You can rename the device if you want, and we're all connected up.

[00:02:09]So, let's go ahead and hit enter device.

[00:02:11]We're ready to start creating a map. So, the mower here is backed off its charging dock and is ready to map. It's very easy. We're simply going to drive around the perimeter of the lawn and it will automatically map the entire space.

[00:02:34]You can see we finished the map now. So, I need to do a no-go zone. So, I'm going to go ahead and hit this no-go zone button right there. I'm going to do a remote control to map it. And so, just like mapping the main area here, I'm going to drive this over to my no-go zone, which is around that tree down there.

[00:02:52]And you can see our nice little go no-go zone there. So, now we're going to get ready to mow. First, I want to just adjust a few settings. I'm going to have it just mow one time, but you can have it mow two times. Here, you can adjust your cutting height. I'm going to go ahead and do a 60 mm height of cut. I'm going to go ahead and enable edge trimming, and I'm going to go ahead and enable mowing direction. This is in relation to the charging dock, and uh I want to go ahead and do the 180° pattern like that. But, you can obviously slide this and adjust it, and it will show you in real time on this little diagram what it's going to do. So, go ahead and hit save. Now, I just finished mapping everything, so we're not quite at 100% state of charge, but that's okay. We'll go ahead and start mowing. So, go ahead and hit start. Take note, we're starting at 1:10 p.m. Come off the charging dock here and it's going to start mowing.

[00:03:38]Typically, AnthBots uh will start with the uh pattern in the lawn first, and then they'll complete the mowing by going around the edge. We'll see if that's the case with this guy. Yes, it is. There we he Now, I have let my lawn get very overgrown. So, it might be difficult for you to see from the camera's perspective, but the lawn is very long for a robot mower to be mowing. So, this is going to stress it out a little bit, but I just want to see what kind of quality and results we can get from this mower. It's powering through this long grass, no problem. I'm very impressed.

[00:04:11]It's got tons of power. The grass that it's cutting is so long, it's leaving behind these little swaths. So, obviously, it's not a high-powered, you know, mulching lawn mower, but it is managing to tackle this very long grass.

[00:04:24]Obviously, the idea with a robot mower like this is that it's going to mow frequently enough that it's not chopping off as much as I'm chopping off now. I just kind of want to put it through this torture test, like I said. It's also very, very quiet. The loudest part of the mower is actually the drive wheels.

[00:04:42]So, I'm going to let you hear how it sounds.

[00:04:48]So, not very loud at all, as you heard.

[00:04:50]It's definitely not going to keep any neighbors up at night or something if if you're mowing during the night time. So, here it comes out. Watch, it's going to stop, turn around, and avoid this no-go zone that that we mapped earlier. There we go. Works very well. So, what it's going to do is it's going to work its way over this way, all the way over till it passes this no-go zone, and and then it will come and clean up behind on this other side. So, I want you guys to pay attention to over here on this part of the lawn. This is not nearly as overgrown as I had the torture test happening over in this area. It was still plenty long, but even still, for a single pass, it really does a nice job.

[00:05:29]Look at it power through this crazy long grass. It's insane. Doing some work here. All right, so it just died and is returning to charge. Now, something that I just heard from Anthbot that is coming in a future update, which makes me very happy. See how this is cutting across all these beautiful stripes to get back to where it needs to charge. That needs to be fixed and Anth Bot says that they are working on that. So, I am excited for that update to hit. So, it's pulling into the charging dock here. You can see that it stopped at 8% battery remaining.

[00:06:05]It mowed for 81 minutes. You can see it's 2:33 right now. So, let's take a walk and just see what it's accomplished. So, it ended right about there and it mowed all of this around the no go zone and then this entire area over here and all the way back into this side yard.

[00:06:23]Starting from about here over was kind of a torture test area. So, this is really overgrown. It powered through it and you know, left these swaths of lawn, but there was also some mohawking. Can you see how there's still some long grass right there? And you might be able to see that there's continuous mohawking across this area. Then in this side yard, there's some pretty severe mohawking here as well, as you can see right through here. I do not fault the robot for the mohawking over here in this torture test area. This is way way too long for a robot mower to handle, but I want to emphasize that it did have enough power to cut through it all and it would certainly clean it up if we do the checkerboard pattern and go back over it the opposite direction. And then of course, I need to set it up so that it mows on a more frequent schedule so that I'm not cutting off as much grass as I was here in this demonstration. And again, contrast from over there where the torture test was to over here where we had a more reasonable length lawn.

[00:07:22]You can see that it did not mohawk anything and left us very very nice lines. All right, it's started again.

[00:07:28]You can see where we've got 85% state of charge, 4:13. So, it's finished the main lawn and now it's going around the edge doing the edge mow. There's really no way no regular mower, robot or otherwise, can mow up against this wall.

[00:07:44]So, I'm still going to need to come by with line trimmer. And Spot, if you really want to up the competition, figure out some way to do line trimming connected with your mower. That would be epic. You can see though, it's getting up, you know, as close as reasonably possible to this wall for the edge mow.

[00:08:01]So, it definitely is an improvement from, you know, up here in front of it.

[00:08:06]So, definitely take advantage of the edge mow feature. All righty, just finished uh the rest of the lawn as well as doing the edge mowing. It's finishing with 46% state of charge remaining, 4:47 p.m. So, let's just walk through and take a look at the end result here with just one pass on insanely overgrown lawn. This is coming up here for a test.

[00:08:28]That's why I've got stuff out there. You can see a few of the swaths here, but uh the striping looks very nice. I get comments all the time about, you know, what do I do to make my lawn look this green and this nice. I will leave a link to a playlist down in the description you guys can take advantage of and I take you step-by-step on what I do for my lawn care. But, uh all things considered, I think it looks really good for being very overgrown and thick for a robot mower. All right, we're going to test obstacle avoidance next with this mower. Take note here that uh I have the vision inspection set to low for starters. I've got this big PVC pipe here. Let's see if it stops for that.

[00:09:09]Nope.

[00:09:11]>> [laughter] >> So, vision inspection low is too low for that. All right, now I'm adjusting it to medium vision inspection. Here it comes.

[00:09:20]Let's see if it notices the pipe this time.

[00:09:25]That time it did. Very good. Here it comes up again. Let's just make sure it stops one more time. Yep, easy cake. So, vision inspection still on medium here.

[00:09:34]Let's see about this ball and see if it stops for that.

[00:09:39]Yep, with vision inspection medium, it noticed it. Turning around. All right, now I have visual inspection set to low.

[00:09:47]Let's see if on low vision inspection if it notices the ball or not.

[00:09:54]Nope.

[00:09:56]>> [laughter] >> Well, it's got some power. Got a few holes in this ball now.

[00:10:02]I should say at this point, if you change it to low vision inspection, it comes up with a disclaimer in the app telling you that it's not going to see very many obstacles if you change it to low. So, obviously, as we saw, it does work on medium and avoids things like this. We're going to do clear safety glasses. These are really hard for robot mowers to see cuz of their color. So, medium vision inspection, let's see, does it notice it?

[00:10:29]Nope.

[00:10:31]>> [laughter] >> Nice. Did some work. The other side was already broken off, but this time it took this off and gashed up the safety glasses pretty darn good. Here comes one more time, medium.

[00:10:44]Oh, that [clears throat] time it noticed something. Impressive. Okay, still on medium vision inspection, let's see if it Okay, that time That time it didn't see it. These poor safety glasses been hit a few too many times by robot mowers. Okay, so now I'm going to up the vision inspection to high. We'll just kind of put a pile of safety glasses parts and pieces there.

[00:11:05]Okay, here comes the mower. Let's see.

[00:11:07]Aha, it noticed it. Okay, one more time.

[00:11:10]Let's see if it notices it. This is still on high. Nice.

[00:11:14]So, you guys will just have to play around for your specific yards and see which, you know, vision inspection setting to set yours on for best performance and then go from there. So, what if I want to map my front yard and teach it how to go from my backyard here where it's safe and secure for it to charge and just to go out to the front and mow out there. Let me show you. So, first in the app here, we're going to come to this edit map mode, and then we're going to click this edit button right down here. We're going to say expand the map, and it's going to change to this controller here. The mower came off its charger, and now I'm just going to simply drive it to the new location.

[00:11:53]>> [music] >> So, as you saw, I was able to map a little area, and then it automatically figured out the pathing to that location. It also automatically detected that this backyard was a separate zone from this little piece of the front yard I mapped. So, it automatically created a zone for us. If we go to auto zones, you can see we have zone one and zone two.

[00:12:16]So, I'm going to tap on zone two, I'm going to say mow, and we'll follow it, and you can see how the pathing works.

[00:12:21]So, it just came off its charger. Now, watch as we follow it, it's going to follow the exact pathway I showed it to the front yard.

[00:12:32]And there it is. It made it to the front. Couple highlights from the app here. You got the flexibility of doing full maps, setting different zones. So, if you only wanted to mow, say, this side yard, or split your backyard and your front yard apart for different zones, and mow them separately, you can do that. You can also trigger edge mows and spot mows. These settings right here we already saw to program your mowing parameters. We also already saw the no-go zone. This right here allows you to edit the map. So, you can come down here to zone editing. We can add a zone.

[00:13:03]You can customize, you know, how many times it gets cut, the cutting height, and a few other settings. And you can just, you know, resize, drag and drop, and uh create zones that way. Edge edit is important. You can see I've had it select all of my edges, but you can select different edges for it to do the edge mow feature on. Coming to this edit button right here, you can expand the map. You can add a pathway from one end to another, which you saw me do. You can edit your boundary. You can back the map up, or you can delete it. There are a lot of different settings. I'm not going to go through all of them. I do want to hit a few highlights. You can turn your rain detection off and on. Abnormal lens working mode allows the mower to still function even if its lens gets obstructed slightly. However, that could affect the obstacle avoidance. And speaking of obstacle avoidance, here you can change your vision inspection. This mower does have an anti-theft protection. And those are the main things I wanted to show you in the app.

[00:13:57]I've said this before, and I'm going to say it again. Anbort has done a really nice job with their app, making it so that it is simple enough, it's not, you know, super confusing and just like, "Holy cow, I'll never learn how to use this." While at the same time having enough customization that you can really dial things in. So, I think they've really struck a nice balance. Please leave a comment and tell me what you guys think of this mower. Why would you buy it? Why wouldn't you buy it?

[00:14:20]Comments like that can really help not only the brand get real-world feedback from you, but it also helps other people who are searching to, you know, purchase one of these. Something I for sure want to mention is the price. I think Anbort has done a really good job at making their products very competitive price-wise. I think you'll find for the feature set and what these are able to accomplish that their pricing is very, very competitive, even towards the low side, compared to other offerings on the market. So, I will have links to it as well as any discount codes I have can get down in the description for you. So, take advantage of those. Like, comment, share, subscribe, and hype. Five free things that really help small YouTube channels like mine grow. We've always got more epic content in the pipeline, so stay tuned for that. Stay safe, and we'll catch you all next time.