ECOVACS Goat O1000 RTK Robot Lawn Mower, Perimeter Wire Free Vision Robotic Lawnmower for 1/4 Acres Lawn, Automated Mapping, APP Control, 3D Obstacle Avoidance, Zero-Edge Cutting

I am so delighted we went with the Ecovacs Goat. Some pertinent background; we live in Florida and let me tell you with our daily summer rainstorms our grass needs to be cut every 5 days or so. We only have grass in the front and on the sides of the house. The grass covers just under 1/4 acre. Set up out of the box was intuitive and pretty easy, in my opinion. I should note I do not consider myself exceptionally tech savvy either. I was able to sync with my home WiFi in under a minute. The unit updated for about 10 minutes and then it was time to sync with the satellites. The process was simple, the first time it only synced with 19 satellites but it was super easy to restart the process. The second time around I made sure I was more than 2 feet away. Worked like a charm! Once I had the unit synced with satellites. It was time to map our property. I found the process rather intuitive and honestly quite quick for what was taking place. After mapping was complete I let the robot charge to full and decided to run it for a cut. The robot did a beautiful job. Our lawn looked as good as if we had used the push mower ourselves. I really like that this ecovacs model doesn’t have a perimeter wire. I can’t imagine how time and energy intensive installing a perimeter wire might be. The real time GPS navigation is working flawlessly for us. Another cool feature is the LiDAR to detect obstacles and the subsequently avoid the obstacles. Our oldest son had left a hose out during a mow that we missed. The ecovacs robot avoided the hose thus saving us an expense replacing it. The ecovacs robot is surprisingly quiet, magnitudes upon magnitudes quieter than our push mower. It also has a zero cutting edge which actually works, we definitely will not have to edge every time we mow with how good this robot mows edges. The app is amazing and so easy to use. I can customize zones and schedule mowings all from the comfort of my house when I have a spare minute. Battery life was more than enough to finish mowing our whole lawn in one charge. Overall I am beyond delighted with the performance of this robot mower for all the reasons mentioned. I really did not find anything worthy of a complaint.

The Best robotic mower I ever seen! First , the packaging: It came very well packaged and organized, everything wrapped and put together in a way that makes it easy to unwrap and get going! The instructions: Super clear and easy to follow. Plus when you download the app you get a short guide that is easy to follow. At first it might look like a lot of parts but it’s really not bad at all. Took me 10 mins to put together. The calibration: I would say this was tricky at first but only because my backyard has a weird shape that at first it wasn’t connecting, but when I moved thing around it connected instantly. I think the robot has to be facing the stick thing in a certain way like shown in the picture. The functionality: It starts with the mapping and then it quickly starts mowing, the map is pretty precise and clear and you can make zones. The trimming is pretty close to perfect, it does the work in a very organized fashion missing barely any spot. I say almost because the first ran it missed a small area, but when I ran it again it took care of it. Bonus features: I love that you can track the progress real time and you can literally view the progress using a front camera that comes in a really good quality. Overall thoughts: I am very pleased with THE GOAT, it’s gonna save me a lot of time and energy and it’s definitely worth the price for me,

Update: I am adding this update and dropped the rating because we bought a Segway Navimow 110 and it is flawless. Set up and mapping were easy. It actually mows non stop with no input. Camera actually detects obsticals, Adjust its cut directions 60* each time, MUCH better battery life. This has met the standard of what we expected. I’ll start off by saying, when this thing works we loved it. Bought it with the expectation that it would regularly cut our lawn (less then 1/4 acre) for us and we could weed wack and mow here and there if needed for clean up. It has a pretty nice cut, missing strips sometimes but I adjusted the direction regularly (manually) and it generally got it next time. It generally does a good job making consistent cut lines back and forth, occasionally got stuck but only on steeper inclines where it ended up caught on something because it was struggling to turn. It ran at night multiple times flawlessly. It’s quiet, you really only hear the blades cutting the grass and that’s when you’re close to it. The set up was super quick, and the manual mapping didn’t give me too many issues. Minor downsides I found were that it really would need to spend 12+ hours cutting to get through everything. The dual blade one might be worth upgrade if you wanted it to minimize the cut time. I found that having it mow pretty much every day it actually did the job quicker likely because less cutting resistance extended battery. There is an option on the app to set and change mow direction but it only had an option to alternate weekly. I could see this tearing up the lawn when it makes its turns to come back if you were cutting every day. Probably a relatively easy software fix. I found adjusting the map boundaries to be more challenging than it should be. My neighbor has another brand that he can go into the app and pull or push boundary lines with his finger. The deal break for us was that it consistently lost its signal. We had 20-30 satellites and a “strong” connection. It would be mowing fine and then have errors like “lost rtk signal” or “out of bounds” even though it was dead center in the yard. It seemed to happen during the day consistently so I don’t know if it is overly sensitive to heat (hasn’t been over 85 but it is direct sunlight). Other times it would just stop, show in the app that it was in the charger and it would be somewhere else completely in the yard…sometimes still moving. Losing the signal caused sporadic behavior though. Support was OK, I only used the app messenger, did not try to call. Per their instructions I moved the RTK at least 3 times, remapped the whole yard probably 5-10 times. Did a hard reset to the mower, powered on and off time and time again. Ultimately ours has been having issues pretty much since it came out of the box and due to that it’s going back before the return period ends. I am tempted to buy another and hope we just got a dud and that is saying something but we might have to go with a different brand.

We had been considering getting a robot mower for a while now. We have 4 children that are on the spectrum and have adhd. Getting down to each other is like going due to medical issues of myself and my husband. It is hard for us to do the yardwork. I already have had to pay an exorbitant amount to have to do the front yard and I cannot afford to pay double that to add the backyard to it. So we were considering in getting a robotic mower just to do the backyard but now we can do the front yard. Most of our front is not within the 17” incline. The small portion that is, is the ditch and my husband said he could handle it with a weed eater since the robotic mower can do the rest. Which would save us more money in the long run. Part of our issues are our kids have sensory issues. We have an electric mower because gas mowers are too loud for the kids and the smell as well. While we do have a relatively quieter electric mower than others do. They find it too loud. This brand, Ecovac has a good reputation to begin with. So I thought would start with this. It took about 20 minutes to initially set it up and that did include Unpacking everything getting an all put together instead of outside. Also included downloading, updating and installing firmware. Surprisingly, the mower came with a 57% battery. It was essentially basically like a plug-in play robotic mower. The instructions as far as putting it together were very clear. Installing the app was easy in the instructions as far as setting up the pin code and then going from the pin code and adding it to the Wi-Fi Was really just very user-friendly. And then when you went out and then set it up as far as putting everything together and getting it going and installing the firmware, it was just really you followed the prompts and that was it. The same went when you were following the mapping you just followed it step-by-step. Then it took about 10 minutes trying to figure out how to learn the mapping. I have muscle twitches and so I was having a hard time Handling the “joystick “on the app so my movements were jerky so I was having the mower spinning and going in quirky movements. So I’m gonna have my husband redo the mapping of the backyard for me but all that considering it did really well it understood what I was telling it to do surprisingly. So it is definitely easy to maneuver just takes a slight learning curve! It understood the commands that I was giving in even with my twitches and reacted very quickly we had high patches of grass in certain areas. I should’ve chosen a higher setting, giving how high the grass was so that the mower would never work as hard as it did. But it actually did cut through the grass and did not stall. In one of my photos you’ll be able to see the huge difference between the basically 6-7 inch grass and the cut that it did because I had said it for it in 2 inches when I should’ve had it 4 inches that way I could just do a second pass. The mower itself basically is at a home as far as a noise. It is very very quiet. It does not bother my children at all. The dogs are actually louder. The cutting is actually very quiet. I would say that the quietest weed eater is 50 times louder. It has really good traction even with our super dry dirt at the moment. It had zero issues moving around. It’s a really well built machine. It’s super heavy, quality made and very we’ll constructed. Definitely made for the outdoors. It’s made to get the work done. It’s meticulous in its work buts not slow it moves quickly and gets the job done well. It does have an animal lockout. Which you can turn off if you want and it does do things if it notices something. I do like that. It has the pin code so that you can have an avoidance if somebody decides to steal it then they’re locked out. Also, I like the fact that you can schedule it so that way, even if you’re gone, you can schedule it for your away and have we can just have it mowed for whenever we want and not have to worry about it which will make it so much easier for us in the long run. I don’t have to worry about my kids. I can manage allergies so much easier now. And it’s one less thing that’s knocked off my budget and one less thing that’s knocked off our scheduling. Not to mention the fact that unlike some other brands, it actually has a rain sensor on it, which was something that I don’t know how but I completely missed when I read all about it and so if it just even senses that it’s gonna be a heavy rain, it will automatically stop and not run. It’ll resume after I think like three hours or so after the rain stops. Which means I don’t have to be so paranoid about it if it happens to rain and we have stepped out. I was exceedingly surprised with this.

Update Aug 2025: The warranty process went very well. Ecovacs customer support has been excellent. Communication was prompt and the new mower arrived quickly. I did not have to pay any shipping. I am still amidst the set-up process with the new mower, and I'm working through some kinks with the mapping. I will update again when things are up and running smoothly. Update July 2025: I had very successful use of the robot for 2 months. Then, a disabling error code appeared which will not go away, despite much troubleshooting, a factory reset, and contacting customer support. Customer support has been very responsive and offers warranty support. I am currently in that process, and I will update this review again regarding how that goes. For now, I've removed one star, and I will eventually reevaluate my rating pending the warranty process and my experience with a replacement (or repaired) robot. The timing is inconvenient, as during the hottest part of the summer, I find myself needing to manually mow with my push mower, which I am not able to do due to health issues with the heat. (Hence, the reason I purchased this product.) I think it is important to keep in mind, if you are considering purchasing a robotic mower (of any brand) that you will still need to be prepared to suddenly mow manually, again, in the event of a technical issue. I still feel that the Ecovacs Goat 1000Rtk is a very good product based on how extremely well it worked before the error code. I think it is reasonable to expect that any highly precise computerized machine, with complex AI and moving parts, which is constantly exposed to outdoor elements, can always be susceptible to technical glitches. I look forward to the completion of a repair or a replacement. After being able to use the Ecovacs Goat again, I will provide another future update. Original review: This Ecovacs Goat robotic lawnmower has made such a difference for me health wise, and it works so much better than I ever dreamed it would! The decision to buy: I found myself needing to take care of my parents’ huge lawn. I decided that I could mow it with my small push mower, if I mowed a section every day or two. Then, the grass started growing faster, and it got hot. Soon, I found myself needing to mow every single day to stay on top of it. I have some health issues that really limit my energy levels, especially in the heat. After mowing each day, I was left with almost no energy left to accomplish other things that day, and the mowing was also triggering asthma. I was about to call a lawn service, which would cost $100 per mow. We had used them before, and the very large machines would yank out the grass and create big ruts, so I really didn’t want to do that. Then, I found the Ecovacs Goat on Amazon! I was really hesitant to spend the money, but after watching a lot of You Tube videos and studying the reviews, I took a chance and got it. This is honestly one of the best purchases I have ever made on Amazon. Set-up and use: Right out of the box, it was fairly easy to do the initial set-up and the auto mapping. In just a couple of areas, I needed to steer it myself, using the app, and once I got the hang of it that was pretty easy, too (and fun.) I did find the instructions included were somewhat confusing, especially because they showed a diagram of a different model, referencing buttons that mine did not have. Thankfully, I had watched enough YouTube videos and read enough reviews that I was able to figure it out. (So I highly recommend that you watch some videos and read the reviews while you are waiting for your robot to arrive, as that did really help ease the set up process for me. Despite the instructions being a little lacking, the set-up is actually not difficult at all, and the robot does a very good job of auto mapping. I have also read other reviews stating that Ecovacs customer service is very helpful, so there is always that option if you need help. I did not need to do that though. Once you have the lawn mapped and zones created, the app is very straightforward to use, and the mowing is really fun to watch! The robot does a beautiful job of mowing perfectly straight lines. The only thing to note, is that if you have a very tall weed, like a 6-8 inch tall dandelion, it will think something is there and avoid it. (I find that you can just stomp on the dandelion, so that it is tilted over, and that seems to enable the robot to mow it. Yes, I know that spreads the seeds, but I’ll be doing some spraying too, lol.) After mowing an area, the robot will go back to any spots where it thinks there was an obstacle, and mow around it if it is still there. So if you accidentally leave something in the yard, like a bucket, dog toy, etc., you can go move it and the robot will come back and mow that area at the end of mowing that section. This robot navigates hills and uneven terrain quite well. Our ground is pretty uneven (remember those ruts I mentioned earlier created by the lawnmowing service?) There are also several hills which I expected I would surely still need to do myself with the push mower. The robot, however, handles those with no problem! I was so shocked and extremely pleased! Conclusion: This little robot mower is very well designed, functions extremely well, and is very easy to use. I cannot recommend it highly enough! This will be especially helpful to seniors and anyone with health issues who finds it a challenge to physically mow. I am very impressed with the amount of lawn this little robot can mow. I didn’t initially believe my robot friend would be able to do the entire lawn, because it is slightly larger than the size listed, so initially I had planned on still mowing the front lawn myself….but, what a delightful surprise, he easily does the whole thing, front and back, slightly over 1/4th acre! Final thoughts: If you aren’t physically able to mow, or you have limited time for mowing, this is another wonderful option instead of using an expensive lawn service. This robot cost much less, over the long run, and it really does a perfectly beautiful job. It is quieter and much better for the lawn too! I am so happy with this purchase, and I highly recommend it!