Roborock is lastly bringing its bots to yards within the US, a number of months after expanding into robot lawn mowers final yr. The Roborock RockMow X1 LiDAR, introduced at this time at CES, will probably be launching later this yr, that includes autonomous navigation, all-wheel drive, and 360-degree 3D scanning utilizing a mixture of LiDAR and Visible Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM).
Like the sooner RockMow Z1, the RockMow X1 LiDAR can deal with slopes of as much as 80 p.c and traverse obstacles as much as 3.1 inches excessive. In line with Roborock, it might probably mow as much as half an acre (about 2,000 sq. meters) per day, notably lower than the 5,000 sq. meters the Z1 is able to.
The RockMow X1 LiDAR will face some competitors within the US, together with from other lawn-mowing bots that additionally use LiDAR.
