The Most Surprising Robot Mower I’ve Tested — Sunseeker Elite X7 Plus Gen 2

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[00:00:00]Robot mowers are honestly so much better than most people realize. I think a lot of people assume that they're like robot vacuums for your lawn, but it's not even close. Robot mowers keep your lawn looking perfect every day. They're nearly silent. They're healthier for your grass. They free up garage space that you used to have that old lawn mower in. And they save you hours and hours every single week. And these are getting better at a crazy pace every single year. They're making huge strides forward. So this is the Sunseeker Elite X7 Plus Gen 2. It's a long name, I know, but this has been my robot mower since the snow melted about a month and a half ago. It has yet to get lost or stuck anywhere. It runs autonomously every day, and I honestly forget I even have it. And because your lawn is pretty much a perfect height every day, I swear you honestly start to wonder if the grass is even growing. But it is. This is just cutting it every single day. So, this video is sponsored by Sunseeker. So, to avoid conflict of interest, I want to show you what this mower can do with real results from my lawn. We'll do some testing. I'll show you the app, the design, the specs, and everything you need to know about the mower so you can make the decision for yourself if this is the right one for you. So, before getting started, some key specs for this mower. Cutting height can be adjusted anywhere from 0.8 up to 4 in. The plus model is rated for 1.5 acres, but they have a halfacre and 3/4 acre model as well. And this can mow daytime or nighttime. The slope is rated for up to 70% or 35°. And remember, I said the the deck was adjustable. There's electronic height adjustment for that. So, you just change it in the app and it'll cut whatever height you ask it to. As far as setup goes, setup was easy. After you plug in the RTK tower and the charging base, you can download the Sun Seeker app. Mapping was better than most other mowers I've tried for two reasons. I'll show you those in a second. But, you can either auto map or manually map. And I appreciate that I can auto map and then seamlessly toggle over to manual mapping when I get to trickier spots or patches of dead grass, for example. Manual mapping uses your phone like a game controller. You basically have two joysticks. So, it's very intuitive to drive and steer it. Now, I mentioned there were two things I really liked.

[00:02:04]One was the ability to mark cross boundary zones. This means the robot will mow on the line. Think about sidewalks or your driveway or whatever.

[00:02:12]Anywhere that you don't want to be weed whacking that, like it's okay if it drives over a little bit further. Well, you can mark that on the map. And the second great feature is the straight line feature. when driving along a building or a fence or anything that's a straight line, of course, it's just so much easier to mark the beginning and the end. And this removes any variation or driving error or signal error or anything like that. You really genuinely have a much better performance then. And after mapping the perimeter, you can map what they call nogo zones. You do this manually, and these are islands within the zone that you don't want the mower.

[00:02:45]Think about flower beds, ponds, fruit trees, things like that. You can also create multiple zones and connect them with different pathways. They don't all have to be seamless. So, honestly, you and your neighbor could go in havesies on this and split it. As far as the design goes, looking at this, you might think it's two wheel drive mower, but it has a little trick up its sleeve. The blades are small, sort of like razor blades on the bottom of a disc on the bottom. You see we have two discs down there. And the idea is that if it hits like a rock or a stick or something, it's not going to break the blade off.

[00:03:15]it. The blade just spins backwards and retracts and the mower keeps on going.

[00:03:19]It really won't be hitting much and I'll talk about obstacle avoidance later, but it's a feature that's built into a lot of robot mowers. The mower is also surprisingly light. There's a handle on the end, so uh when you're unboxing it or moving it anywhere else, you can pick it up and carry it fairly easily. You have a display on the top with buttons and an emergency stop. Uh, so all of that you can do a lot of stuff in the app, but having the buttons on there just in case somebody else walks along and needs to stop it, you have that safety feature there. And you have these two large wheels, which by the way, there's a cool little brush that's optional if you're driving anywhere that might be wet or muddy or the wheels might get kind of clogged up. Uh, there's an optional brush you can mount in there to clean the wheels off continuously. But you also have a third wheel in the back. So unlike most mowers that just have like a little caster that just drags in the back, this is motorized. So it helps it with steering or driving on hills or any kind of tougher terrain. So let's talk about the first cut with this mower. Before you get started, you want to make sure you don't have a huge hay field. If it's like 6 in grass, go out and mow it first so you have it approximately the height that you'd want to. If it's 4 in, that's fine. And over the next week, you can gradually bring it down to, you know, 2 and 1/2 in if you want that. But this thing is really ideal for maintaining shorter grass, not for cutting a huge hay field. The first cut, in my opinion, it did an excellent job. I had nice straight lines. You could see exactly where the robot mower went, and you can adjust what the lines are looking like in the app. And there's four real reasons I found that this is so much better than mowing by hand. One, it's way healthier for your grass. As I mentioned earlier, instead of cutting off like a third of the plant every single time you mow, this is cutting off a tiny fraction, which gives you healthier and more resilient grass.

[00:04:54]Number two, your grass looks good every single day. Like I said in the beginning of the video, you don't even know that this is doing anything. It's essentially silent. Number three, a lighter mower like this does far less damage than like a heavy zeroturn, especially if you have wet spots. And number four, this thing is almost silent. Like unless you're right next to it, you really won't hear it. Your neighbors are going to love that you don't have an engine running, you know, every couple days. And also autonomy. Next chapter is autonomy. So how good is this at being actually autonomous? First, you have obstacle avoidance. Obviously, you want to keep your lawn as clear as you can, but you know, sometimes branches fall or your kids leave toys out there, and this is able to avoid obstacles. We'll get into a test in a second, but it does it with the cameras on there in two selectable ways. You can choose from the app.

[00:05:38]Either slow touch or no touch. We'll talk more about that in a minute. Also, as far as like navigating, most other mowers I've tried that use RTK stations like this, most other ones consistently get lost next to my house. there's a narrow spot that just, you know, there's tall fences and it just always loses signal, but this mower has yet to get lost there. It has never lost its spot, and I think that's really uh very impressive in my opinion. All right, so here we are in the app. This is very intuitive in my opinion. So, you've got the entire region. You can see the red spots are the keep out or the no-go zones. Um, you're able to see like the work log. You've got the schedule here as well. So, when I have this allowed to mow, it's mowing every single day for me. It gives us uh a couple, you know, settings down here like mower speed, um the blade speed, and or so mowing speed's like how fast it's moving. Blade speed is going to be how fast that's spinning, obviously, and then the height. But you can change all of that.

[00:06:29]So, that's just quick settings while it's mowing. But if you want to change everything on the top right with that settings icon, you can change for work or for the device. So, you've got like a pin code on there, some anti- theft stuff. But for work, again, you can edit the map here. You can change everything I just showed you in regards to like how fast it's driving. And also, while you're driving it around, you can change the exact pace it's able to drive, so it's easier to do your manual mapping.

[00:06:51]You've got the cutting spacing. So, do you want it really narrow? Do you want it wider? So, it's going to cut everything a little bit less. You've got the direction. So, default is going to be nice straight lines. You can make it traceless. You can make it multi-angle.

[00:07:02]And if you do multi-angle, I'm in the studio now, so I'm not near the mower, but if you do multi-angle, you can choose exactly what the angles are going to be for it. So, you can make really nice patterns on there. Um, and of course the cutting height down here as well. You can choose then, this is a really cool efficiency thing that I don't see on many other mowers. How often is it going to cut the perimeter, so you don't have to do that every single time because that really does take a lot of energy or a lot of time for the mower to go around and do that.

[00:07:28]You could have it do it every time if you wanted to, but honestly, the grass on the perimeter doesn't grow all that quickly for me. So, I have it go every second time. It's a little bit faster and more efficient. You can also choose when it's mowing. Is it going to do the perimeter first or is it going to mow first in the middle and then do the perimeter? And you can choose what the edge distance is. So, it's going to naturally have a boundary around there just in case you have some slight deviation in like the signal or whatever. It's very accurate. But, um, I usually, you know, you can make this as close as you want to the border. But, if you have something like some flowers in there, you're like, well, just in case the flowers like tilt over, um, I like to have a little more buffer there. For obstacle avoidance, you can see we have slow touch or no touch. So depending on how you want that set up, you can choose the docking path, which is like, hey, just go straight back to your home base, or go along the edge so you don't mess up the nice straight lines, you get rain delay, as I mentioned, and you can work at night as well. So that's the app.

[00:08:17]There's a ton in here. I'll show you the driving mode when we get into some other tests. I'm going to manually drive it up some hills and see how it performs. Uh, but overall, very intuitive and one of the better apps I've seen for robot mowers. So now, let's get into some testing so you can see what this mower is actually capable of. Starting off with a hill climb test. All right, so here's a hill test. This grass has not been cut yet, but I'm just driving it over here to see how well this does. I'm going to drive up and see if it can make it. This is very steep. Maybe I'll measure for you guys so you can see. But this is like this would be annoying to mow even with a push mower.

[00:08:55]Wow, that uh Let me turn the camera.

[00:09:01]Yeah, that has Yeah, that has no problem at all driving up this. This is incredibly steep. It's not even slipping.

[00:09:11]I can drive up and back.

[00:09:14]No problem at all. Even though the grass is thick and tall, like it's not even it's not even optimal conditions right now. Let's try a steeper spot. All right. Now, this is absolute worst case scenario. Really tall grass, wet sand, like wet soil. Let's see if it can make it. This would even like you would not even want to mow this with a push mower.

[00:09:29]See what it does.

[00:09:32]Wow. That that is actually so impressive. Let me readjust the camera.

[00:09:36]I don't It's really hard to see just how steep this actually is, but that that is like a cliff right there. It's driving up. You can drive backwards, no problem.

[00:09:46]Start from the hill again. No problem.

[00:09:49]Yeah, this thing crushes it on hills.

[00:09:52]I've seen a lot of robot mowers. I've seen very few that could do as well as this.

[00:09:58]Let's turn it over here.

[00:10:03]Yeah, look at that. Not even a no problem at all. All right, now this is like absolute final boss. This thing is definitely like this hill here. It's hard to tell on camera, but let's see how it makes it up here. I think you'll see once I'm driving it up. This is final boss. This is like 90°.

[00:10:20]No way. No way. That is definitely like look at that. That is definitely steeper than what it's supposed to be able to do. Now, let's put out some obstacles and see how well this manages to avoid them. All right, so obstacle avoidance test number one. I've got a cooler there. I'm going to throw Let's throw something else in there, too. I'm going to start and see. Right now, it's in the no touch mode, so it should drive up to it and drive around it. Let's see how it does. Oh, it looks like it saw it.

[00:10:49]It's driving around it.

[00:10:54]Let me just readjust the camera here.

[00:10:59]And it looks like it's going to continue its line.

[00:11:05]Okay. What's it doing?

[00:11:14]Oh, okay. Yeah, that was pretty successful. It did avoid it. Now it sees the second object. It's driving around the lid now. Okay. Okay. And that's much lower to the ground. So that's a lot harder to detect than a cooler. But yeah. Okay. It detected that as well.

[00:11:29]Next test is a flower pot.

[00:11:32]Looks like it identified that and it's driving around it.

[00:11:37]So I would say even if you don't map no go zones, if it's something like a fence, it's going to figure it out and it seems like it should avoid most things. And one really interesting thing to me is the nighttime mowing capabilities. This can mow while you sleep. So, you wake up and your lawn is totally clear. It's mowed. And honestly, I think that's pretty beneficial. But, let's see how it performs if I start a job at night. All right. So, this is night mowing. I'm going to try not to move. It's going to be some really grainy footage because it's obviously very dark, but it looks like it has some headlights.

[00:12:10]And yeah, it just knows where it is. All right, let's also see how this does with obstacle avoiding. So, it's supposed to be able to avoid obstacles even in the dark thanks to the headlight. I've got my wheelbarrow right there.

[00:12:26]And it looks like it detected it. Going right along the edge.

[00:12:30]Checking out that spot. And it's going to maybe Okay, knows it can't go out of bounds there.

[00:12:37]Backs up. It's going to turn around.

[00:12:42]Yeah, absolutely nailed it. Even in the dark, it's hard to tell. I mean, the video is going to be really grainy, but it is quite dark out right now. The sun set probably at least 40 minutes ago.

[00:12:54]Now, personally, I still prefer to have it mow in the daytime. The grass is dry.

[00:12:58]I can see what's going on and everything. But, it's nice to see that is an option. And speaking of nighttime mowing, now is a good time to discuss scheduling. So, scheduling with this mower, you can set this up and the mower is fully autonomous. It'll cut during your specified hours, and if necessary, it'll go back and charge whenever the battery might die. It has a headlight on the front as you saw. So, if you enable night mowing, it can do that as well.

[00:13:19]The mower also knows when it rains and automatically engages a rain delay if you allow it in the app. So, it'll wait and then mow it once the grass is dry again. And as far as safety goes, there are a couple things on here. You've got a tilt sensor in case it gets picked up or something. It won't be spinning blades and hurting people. You have obstacle avoidance. You have those razor blades that kind of retract like I said before. You have an emergency stop button. And you have two years of anti- theft included for free when you buy the mower. So, that is the Sunseeker Elite X7 Plus Gen 2 robot mower. Honestly, at first I thought it was just a regular two- wheelel drive mower, but it actually does a much better job at not getting stuck, not getting lost, and genuinely working autonomously than I even expected. So, if you're interested in getting one for yourself, I have a link in the description down below. I say this a lot, but robot mowers are seriously my favorite tech. They're a huge life improvement for me, for my neighbors, um for anyone who just appreciates a quieter neighborhood with nicel looking grass. Um but let me know what you think in the comments down below. What should I compare this to? I will be making a best robot mowers video soon.