The robot sector has undergone an important acceleration in recent years. For humanoids, robots with human features, it will be necessary to wait a little longer, but the small domestic helpers are already widespread in Italy, with robot vacuum cleaner and lava-splaces now able to do everything alone … even collect socks. The Segway event, however, aims to let us know a new brand, Navimow.
Who is segway
The company was born in 1999 in the USA and immediately set itself for autobilancianti hoverboard, those individual means of transport with a small electric motor for transport at a short distance. Today the brand is owned by Chinese, has reached a widespread presence all over the world and expands further by also bringing the latest navimow novelty to Europe, Segway brand born in 2021 and ready for the Italian market. Navimow X3 represents the new series of segway cutting robots, with prices that promise to put the sticks in the wheels (or between the blades) to the competitors.
Navimow X3 Series, for those who are thought
In short, the goal is clear: conquer the gardens of medium and large sizewith a product that independently cuts the grass, uses an advanced positioning system to accurately follow the edges of the lawn and surfaces are suitable that from 1,500 to 10,000 square meters. There are four models: X315 (1,500 square meters), x330 (3,000 square meters), x350 (5,000 m2) and x390 (10,000 square meters): the number indicates the area, from 1,500 to 10,000 square meters.
To shave the grass there are You are blades and a discwith an efficiency that, according to the manufacturer, allows you to complete an area of 5,000 square meters in 24 hours. This task, of course, is performed alternating cutting cycles with automatic charging cycles: Navimow X3 is in fact able to cover 1,200 square meters with a single charge but, returning to the base independently, can resume the work from where it had interrupted it before exhausting the battery.
How automatic positioning works: RTK and artificial intelligence
When it comes to the Tagliaerba robot, a category once intended for only a few and now customs cleared technological progress that has reduced their costsone of the most important technologies is that relating to the positioning of the robot in space, usually much wider and without references than domestic environments.
To deal with this task is the stmicroelectronics chip with RTK system three frequencies “stolen” to the world of cars: the system it is compatible with two antennasso as to install the second RTK antenna in a rear area to extend the signal and guarantee coverage also on the back of a house, for example. But how does this system work? Acronym of Real Time Kinematic, the navigation technology of the cuts of the cutting robots uses satellite positioning, the GPS as on cars, including autonomous driving those.
The introduction of this system in the Navimow X3, allowed to Eliminate the perimeter wire, that “enclosure” that the products of the past had to have to find out what the borders of the lawn were. Here, instead, An antenna in our garden He receives the GNSS (GPS but also the GLONASS or Galileo satellite signal) and transmits it locally to the Tagliaerba robot which with a series of “blow and response” communicates its position in real time to the antenna. In practice, compare the step step by step with that of the fixed antenna, improving precision.
However, there is also a system of Computer Vision which, needless to say in 2025, is helped by artificial intelligence: It serves to avoid obstacles Thanks to 3 video camera (300 ° of visual angle) that work using the IA to recognize 200 different types of obstacles among the most common in the garden. By combining the eyes of the video camera with the RTK positioning, the robot has all the ingredients to deal with the lawn avoiding stones, trees and remaining in the (virtual) boundaries of our garden.
In addition to the novelties in the management of navigation, Su Navimow X3 arrives the new application that becomes more intuitive, the management of different areas of the garden to choose a particular area (as the robot vacuum cleaner do when we set them on a single room), the mapping via AI and the function that protects animals: the IA recognizes them (13 different species) and the robot is always held at least one meter away, continuing his work safely.
Finally, the Expansion Bay, an expansion door to add accessories. The first of these will be the Trimmeran accessory that connects sideways and allows you to independently perform the shaving of the edges that otherwise it should be done by hand.
The prices are interesting because they aim to significantly reduce the entrance threshold, with Navimow x315 that costs 2,499 € in the 1 version.
500 meters Quadrati and Navimow X390 which reaches 4,999 € and is suitable for meadows up to 10,000 square meters.