| You’re standing in your front yard
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| | boards. Even the resistance against the
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| minding your own business when a robot
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| | blades and the ability of the software to
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| with three razor sharp blades spinning at
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| | stop them is measured in thousandths of
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| 5,800 rpm starts racing toward you. What
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| | seconds.
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| do you do?
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| | Since these robotic lawn mowers are
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| Is this some kind of nightmare? No,
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| | designed to mulch there is no easy outlet
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| you’re awake and this is really
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| | for flying debris. Pebbles and pine
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| happening, so once again, what do you do?
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| | cones do not get tossed very far and at
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| The answer is nothing. It will just
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| | low velocity.
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| bounce off you and go another direction.
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| | Some robotic lawn mowers have sonar
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| Rather anti-climatic ending wasn’t it?
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| | detection systems that if any moving
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| That is just the way the robotic lawn
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| | objects get close they’ll slow down and
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| mower companies want it to be.
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| | at another point stop the blade before
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| The greatest concern most people have
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| | even being touched. All have some sort
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| about robotic lawn mowers is safety.
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| | of touch sensors that when they lightly
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| ‘Bots with Blades’ just can’t be
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| | bump into a stationary object that they
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| safe. According to Ames Tiedeman,
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| | change direction. So actually getting
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| National Sales Manager for Systems
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| | run over is unlikely.
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| Trading Corp., the US distributor for the
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| | Another big concern is pets getting
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| Friendly Robotics Robomower, over 72,000
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| | chopped to bits, again, no reported
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| emergency room visits involved lawn
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| | accidents involving robotic lawn mowers.
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| mowers in 2005. ZERO involved robotic
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| | Dogs have a tendency to chase and bark,
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| lawn mowers.
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| | but not attack. A dog actually chewing
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| These mowers have so many safety
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| | up a robotic lawn mower is more feasible
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| features and shut-off triggers that it is
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| | than a robotic lawn mower chewing up a
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| amazing that they are actually
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| | dog.
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| functional.
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| | Robotic lawn mowers move relatively
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| The Friendly Robotics Robomower turns
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| | slow, people and animals can easily move
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| the blades off at 16 degrees, not even
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| | out of the way. Although it takes a lot
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| high enough to get a hand under. Even if
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| | longer to mow, if everyone used them
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| a small hand could get under, the blades
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| | there would be 72,000 fewer hospital
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| are far back and recessed into a chamber
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| | visits this year.
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| in the body. It would take creativity,
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| | This article was written to educate
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| not stupidity, to get to the blades while
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| | people that robotic mowers under intended
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| they are still turning.
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| | circumstances are safe. There has been a
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| Unlike push and riding lawn mower safety
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| | great deal of thought and engineering
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| devices, robotic lawn mower features are
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| | involved to make robotic lawn mowers safe
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| not easily disabled. The tilt detection
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| | for public use.
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| devices are soldered on to the main
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