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Our Worx Landroid L (Roger)
Our Worx Landroid L (Roger)
In August of 2024, the McMaker3D team purchased a Worx Landroid L (WR155) to dip our toes into the current robotic lawn mower movement. We named him Roger, in remembrance of Roger Cook from This Old House, who passed away in 2024. We set up our new mower at the end of August and let him get started mowing our backyard.
It looks like a crazy person mowed this lawn!
A note about our setup. The Worx Landroid L (WR155) is rated to mow up to 1/2 Acre, in our case we are having him mow about 0.75 Acres. Worx states the Landroid L needs about 50 hours a mow time per week to maintain 1/2 Acre, we usually have Roger mowing ~60 hours a week (~8 hrs each day). The WR155 is a "basic" robotic mower that uses a boundary wire to limit the zone. It mows in a random pattern because once it starts going it mows in a straight line until it hits the boundary wire, it then turns at a random angle and then goes again until it hits the boundary. Rinse and repeat. The result is interesting lines in your yard as you can see in the image to the left.
Once the battery is discharged to 9%, the Landroid heads home as soon as it hits the boundary wire again. Once back the the base it charges back to 100% and then continues mowing (depending on your schedule). Our Landroid (Roger) is mowing our backyard area (~0.75 acres) which is mostly flat, minimal obstacles, and is primarily zoysia grass. When we set this up in late 2024 we were in a slight drought and the grass wasn't growing to quickly. Often in September and October we only had him mowing a few days a week and he was able to maintain the entire backyard. Roger finished up the year and we stored him away inside for the winter and awaited Spring/Summer 2025 to put him to the real test.
Roger charging back at his home base
We decided to get Roger out as soon as it was dry enough in Spring 2025, and would bring him into the garage at night as temps were still below freezing. We did this with the goal in mind to not have to mow our backyard at all before putting Roger to the task. In some cases if the grass is too long it is best to mow it short with a gas mower to give the robot mower a chance to get the yard under control. Roger did fairly well through the spring and was able to keep up with the yard, but we have noticed a few areas that seem to always be missed. Mowing in the random pattern seems to result in some areas missing mowing for up to a week or more and they stand out in the yard. They are generally very small areas, but for some this may be bothersome. In general the yard looks uniform and stays short.
So far summer has been very hot and muggy. Lots of days in the 90s and dewpoints staying in the mid-70s. The grass has really enjoyed these conditions and is growing like crazy! We are unable to keep up with the rest of our yard using our gas mower, unless we want to mow every 4 or 5 days, which we refuse to do.
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