I might only be a man. Small, small man.
But with one full day of professional lawnmowing experience, I think I can
kick the ass of that robotic lawnmowing
machine. Yeah, like you can even find its ass, you virgin.
The Luba 2 all-wheel drive 5000X from our sponsor, Mimotion, will turn you to
mulch. Is that a challenge? You bet it is. And here's your first one. Oh,
great. You can mow a lawn, but can you mow a picture? and a scale drawing of
the LT logo. Why yes, I think I can.
Let's go.
Lionus is competing against the Motion Aluba 2 5000X all-wheel drive, a
top-of-the-line robotic lawn mower. It's equipped with two powerful cutting discs
that provide a 15.7 in cut width and 165
watts of cutting power. The 12 A battery allows this machine to mow for 13,000
square ft in a single charge. All of these features that Lionus just doesn't
have. The first challenge is all about precision. Lionus will be using his push
mower to mow the LT logo into this random dude's lawn. He doesn't have all
day, but the name of the game here is precision. So, to help him, we provided
him with these flags and tape. And we've already set a flag in the middle and at
the edge of the mowing area, so he has an idea of what the radius is. For me,
this is easy. I just load up the app where I can change all sorts of settings like the cut height, pattern, and mower
speed. Then I hit this button and we're off to the races. Now I'm going to find
something refreshing to drink.
He doesn't even know that we gave him a little measure thing. I just didn't tell him about it. Damn it. Take longer
steps. Okay, I've calibrated my steps.
Every step like this is a meter. This is going to be child's play. The play of a
child. Have fun. Your team has the flag.
Flag dropped. Your team has the flag.
Flag dropped. Oh, I didn't even know this was here.
That would have been helpful, but whatever. I'm doing paces now. The plan
is to map out my landmarks. So, that there is this corner of the circle. Shut
up. Circles can have corners. So far, it looks like we're off to a pretty winning
start with the robot, but I'm worried that once Lionus gets going, he's going
to have a lot of speed because look at how fast that thing goes versus if you
have something with like a big blade that you're pushing.
I mean, at least I'm not breaking a sweat out here.
Might not look like much, but I've got the concept of a plan here with eight
flags marking the eight corners of a
circle. Let's see if I can pull this off.
I mean, if the flag fits, I must have quits, right?
What's he doing? Is he not mowing? Okay,
so then straight, then gentle curve into
this flag,
then steeper curve. What?
How does that make any sense? Oh my god, this is way off.
This isn't even close. Oh crap. How's it going, chief? Great.
Never better. That's good. Oh my god. Oh god. Oh, okay. I'm not going to look at
that. I'm just going to relax real quick.
How do you relax quick? It's not really relaxing if you're doing it quickly.
Boom. Power naps. Boom.
Boom.
Oh, shoot. It's not even close.
Oh no.
Definitely getting in my steps. Um, I had this idea where I was going to have
like the whole grid mapped out and everything. I think I give up on that. I
just need to get the edges of my circle marked. What? What are you doing? You're
taking all your flags out. Look, I'm I
tried precision. Now I'm going freeball.
See, that's what a robot can't do. Creativity. I mean, a robot doesn't need
to wear underwear, so why would it have to freeball?
That's when you don't wear underwear so your balls. This is how confident I am.
I'm just going for it.
Seriously.
You might have to lift it up. You might have to lift it up a little bit. Lift it up. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, the
cut height.
Hey, Sean. How's my circle? Uh, it's um
Shut up. It's very circularly um there's
Wait, is it I don't get it. Is it in there? Wait, no. Is it there?
There. Can you see it now? Uh, it's uh You got to be kidding me. That's a live
view. Yeah, that's Hey, there's the part of the circle right there. What the
hell? Yeah, I can see it. You can see it and they can you see it's right there.
You're doing great. We'll fix it in post. Yeah. Yeah. Don't worry. Oh, yeah. Maybe bring them close to your screen.
Yeah. No.
Also, what might be is that your cut height's not super even. You The blade
might be a little dull. I did bring a file if you want to sharpen it.
I I didn't know it was dull. James told me that when I picked it up from him.
I don't know how it happened, but I'm off by a whole meter from center on this
side. So, it's going to be kind of eggshaped.
1 2 3 4 5 6 boom. Lionus, it's almost
done. It's not about speed, Adam. It's about precision. It's a little bit of
both. And I think it's more precise than you as well.
Two and a bit. One of the advantages that the Luba has over Linus' all-wheel
drive. The wheels on this thing can spin across two axis, allowing the mower to
turn in place instead of doing that stupid little like wiggle lance that you have to do when you don't have a
birectional mower. And the wheels have enough power that this thing can handle
an 80% slope. That's a steep freaking hill. Meanwhile, the design that the
Luba is mowing is shaping up really well thanks to the three key technologies
that work together to deliver centimeter level precision. The first one is GPS.
By using satellites, the lawn mower is able to cover up to 1.25
acres. But you're probably thinking, how is that precise enough to be able to
handle the complex curves of a well manicured lawn? It's not, which is where
the real time kinematics comes in. If you've ever seen a guy in a yellow vest
at the side of the road looking like this, then you've seen the godly power
of real-time kinematics or RTK. Basically, by putting a base station in
a known consistent position, we can use it as a means to correct positioning
errors from the satellites that are thousands of meters away. But this
system still requires both the mower and the base station to have a GPS signal.
So, what happens if the mower goes somewhere where a GPS signal is compromised, like under dense tree
cover? That's where the Luba 2's Ultra Sense AI vision system comes in. Using a
pair of cameras, the Luba 2 gets 3D vision, allowing it to navigate even
more accurately. And it can mow in areas without satellite signals without
getting lost up to 300 m. When the signal is restored, it can use its
stored map data to get back on track. And it also allows the robot to set up
visual fences with no need to lay out magnetic wires or lines for the robot to
know where it should be. The only reason we set this out was just so that you could see from the sky whose half of the
lawn is whose. All of this, plus smart obstacle avoidance, allow the Lubatu to
cut right up to edges within 5 cm of walls and to dodge any sort of obstacles
that may be on your lawn. At this point, the Lubetu has finished the entire
design and is now going to go back and forth trying to mow the rest of the
lawn. I guess we'll let it get a head start on the next challenge. I finalized
my plan. I'm going around with flags and then I'm marking where all the flags
are. This should give me enough landmarks that I can kind of eyeball the
rest of it, I think. Okay, his robot
might have been done 10 minutes ago, and that might not look like much, but wait
till you see the result.
Is this the L? No, he's putting it upside down. It's
okay. We'll fix it in post. No L's here,
boys. Only W's.
I'm just going to fluff up this area a bit.
Did you accidentally mow too far? That's why uh it's why Jesus made erasers. All
right.
I'm actually pretty proud of this. It's not bad. It's not perfect, but it's not
bad. Took you about an extra 30 minutes, but from here it looks really good.
Honestly, I'm pretty impressed. It's not like as good as the robots, but it's
also a stupid competition. Who would do this? Uh, you aliens.
I mean, maybe you're stuck on a desert island and all you have is a robot and a
lawn, right? Okay, this could say SOS. I
want a rematch. Just mowing the lawn. Fine. You got a second challenge. Let's
do it. Wow. I really have to be on my tiptoes to Okay, fine.
Oh, man. The camera really doesn't capture it, but it's it's not bad.
It's really not bad. So, you got absolutely destroyed in that first
challenge, but you have a chance to make it up with challenge number two. This is
just a full mo. Okay. Time is what's
most important, but precision also matters. I want to see good lines. Okay.
Oh, yeah. Sweet. 3 2 1 go. No, that's
not I do it. 3 2 1 go.
Go, go, go faster. Dude, all I'm missing
is some cake and then this would be a cakewalk. I'm going to be done so much
faster. I've already done as wide a path
here. Except I've done the entire perimeter that wide and it's still just
on the first couple passes. Take that machines making Skynet my Suck
it, Adam. Yeah. Okay. I'm playing Bellatro right now. Admittedly, the
concentric square dio that I have going on here is a little unconventional,
but I think I'm going to lean into it rather than reverse course at this
point.
Oi, do we have another battery for this
thing? Did you run out? Oh, we should have charged that on our break. He
hasn't even moved. He's not He's not trying to help at all. Look at Get this.
No, I'm trying to pause my Robo. It's only fair. So, this bad boy just ran out
of battery. And that's something you don't have to worry about with the Motion because it will automatically go
back to its dock to recharge itself. You
don't have to think about it at all. Now, Mimotion doesn't just make lawnmowers for massive lawns. If you've
got something a little bit more, well, normal size, you could always consider
their Yuka lineup. It's got the same name as my cat. And just like him, they
love eating grass. But Motion promises that this one won't vomit it up on my
carpet after it's done. And they also promise that they're going
to be giving away five of these if you just follow the instructions down in the
description. That's right. You have a chance to win one of five of them.
I got to say, as much as I'm obviously clowning on it in terms of speed, it's
not by as much as I thought. Like, that should be done in a couple hours, I
think. Right. Probably less. And I get
to just play Batro Flush five, baby.
Let's go. No way. Yeah. What's up now?
No. But I put in so little effort. I'm
just upset I didn't get to finish Batro in time. Looks good. Good job, Lionus.
Aw, thank you. Yeah, that makes this a tie now. That's a problem. Is it though?
Cuz we didn't have a tie breaking competition. Here, I have an idea.
Whoever paid for this video is the winner. And that's our sponsor, Motion.
Way to go, Motion. You're the winner of today's challenge. Yeah, but I paid you
in a last minute upset. It turns out that Lionus Sebastian is the winner. Way
to go, Lionus Sebastian. Motion paid me. In a last minute last minute upset
upset, it turns out that Motion is again the winner.