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Here are four research papers on robot lawn mowers, all free to read on arXiv. Each summary is ours, written from the paper's abstract.
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Mowers that change how they cut, for example to leave patches of flowers.
What they foundA modified commercial robot mower spares visually diverse patches of plants by switching off its blades.
Deep-learning plant embeddings, tested on a mock-up lawn and real garden data.
Protecting hedgehogs and other wildlife from robot mower blades.
What they foundA prototype robot lawnmower can recognise hedgehogs and pause to protect them.
Design studies and a prototype built in 2019–20 at FHNW.
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