Segway Navimow has unveiled the H5 Professional, a robotic garden mower that includes an extendable chopping arm designed to eradicate the strip of uncut grass generally left alongside garden edges.
Launched at IFA 2026 in Berlin, the H5 Professional makes use of what Navimow calls its EdgeMaestro system, which extends the mower’s chopping mechanism by 7.7 cm to succeed in garden boundaries.
The system features a floating arm designed to observe uneven floor and transfer round obstacles reminiscent of backyard lights, whereas a rake mechanism attracts grass towards the chopping blade.
George Ren, CEO of Navimow, says: “At Navimow, our pursuit of innovation has by no means been restricted to advancing expertise. We’re right here to redefine what householders can anticipate from garden care.
“At present, with the zero-edge mowing by way of the breakthrough EdgeMaestro prolonged robotic arm, we’re doing precisely that. Expertise ought to serve folks: unlock their time, simplify day by day routines, and allow them to actually take pleasure in their gardens and time.
“And as extra households embrace robotic mowers, we additionally embrace the duty to design with look after the setting and the wildlife that shares these inexperienced areas. For us, innovation shouldn’t be full until it’s considerate, human-centered, and nature-conscious.”
The mower combines LiDAR, imaginative and prescient and NRTK positioning by way of Navimow’s EFLS Tri-fusion navigation system, which selects between navigation applied sciences in line with working situations.
Its all-wheel-drive system allows it to barter gradients of as much as 80 p.c, or 38.6 levels, and cross obstacles of as much as 6 cm.
Navimow has additionally added thermal infrared sensing to its 360-degree VisionFence obstacle-detection system. The corporate says the mixture of optical and thermal sensing permits the mower to establish small animals in low-light situations, cease its chopping blades and reroute round them.
The corporate is working with German hedgehog rescue group Igelhilfe Schulzendorf on testing and additional improvement of the expertise.
Heike Kasten, founder and chairwoman of Igelhilfe Schulzendorf, says: “We’re delighted to start this partnership with Navimow and welcome its assist for hedgehog rescue, rehabilitation and public consciousness. Defending hedgehogs relies upon not solely on rescue efforts, but additionally on serving to folks perceive how on a regular basis backyard selections have an effect on them.
“Our expertise utilizing Navimow expertise has bolstered our perception that handy garden care and consideration for animals shouldn’t have to be opposing targets. Mixed with animal-friendly practices, thoughtfully designed expertise may help folks care for his or her gardens whereas remaining conscious of the animals that share them.”
Navimow can be encouraging house owners to designate unmown areas as wildlife refuges utilizing no-go zones inside its app.
