Differential Global Positioning Techniques to guide them and laser and sonar to watch for obstacles. All this to trim a patch of land without human intervention and a desire to win $15,000 dollars first price.

For an average price of $2.000 dollars, the LawnBott will do the job for you.
You may think that’s a lot of money to pay for a lawnmower but after a year or so it will have paid for itself, leaving you with a lawnmower and the money you used to pay to get the job [...]

My attention was drown towards an article about Toro’s Multicycler Lawnmower which does exactly that, cuts the grass in such a fine size that it all goes back to the grass and can be re assumed by the same.

Once again a lawnmower is on the headlights, this time by causing a fire that burned 10 acres and threatened to reach homes nearby. It took more that 45 fireman with the help of a helicopter and over an hour to secure the fire with no injures or property damage.

Lots of children are seriously injured each year by riding and pushing lawn mowers .
The emergency dpt. of the University of Michigan Health System’s says that an estimated 30 children under the age of 12 have faced an extremity injury or amputation that`s been caused by a lawn mower - all totally preventable with just [...]

An eight year old girl was run over by her mother
This is according to MSNBC news. According to the news story the little girl was run over while the mother was backing up the lawnmower.