ECOVACS GOAT O500 Panorama Robot Lawnmower 500㎡, Auto Mapping, Setup-free, LiDAR-Enhanced Panoramic Visual Navigation, Pass 0.7m path, Customized Mowing, Edge Precision Mowing, 45% Slope

The mower is great and works as directed. The app has lots of different features with sequencing and time setting. My lawn has been kept tidy since the 3 months it’s been live. However you still need to nurture and promote growth feed scarify etc. mine goes in a shed to keep dry and I’ll be closing the entrance and removing the power for winter. I’ve had no problems with connecting errors or being stuck. Set up was easy just require a European plug converter.

I really did my research and thought this was a good investment. I was wrong to be honest. I should have paid more for the mammotion. The mapping is terrible. You CANNOT edit the map at all. Only no go areas. My issue is we scan the lawn and then a 1 meter edge of the left side of the lawn just disappears. I had to move the base to fix this. The cats sit on top of the machine and the emergency stop button presses and it won’t do anything until I go outside and manually reset. There should be a remote e stop release. The stripes are inconsistent. Even on edge mode it leaves at the very least 20cm around the edge of my garden. The base needs moving again as it cannot be in a corner of a garden (I am aware of that but last time it was not and it missed that 1 meter patch) , it must be in the middle. It gets stuck all the time. The wheels get caked in mud and they’re difficult to clean. It chews my lawn up with its totally nonsensical twisting and turning. And this tiny lawn uses 75 percent of the battery. It’s a joke to be fair. Get the mammotion

What a shame. The initial experience was really good. Product seemed well made and was well packaged. Setup was straightforward. We have a small, relatively simple lawn and the automapping functionality was good, with one or two small sections where I needed to take over and do a bit of manual steering before allowing it to continue in auto-mode. The mower then mowed a number of times during the week, and did a great job. It didn't get stuck or head off into the flowerbeds once and we were pretty impressed. Then we were woken up in the middle of the night by it beeping away in its garage. Couldn't stop it that night (after undocking/redocking etc.). Factory reset didn't fix it the following day either. From what I could see it seemed to be connecting/disconnecting to the charging station continuously (for no reason we could figure out). I spoke to Ecovacs UK customer support who just said 'return it via Amazon' - no attempt to diagnose and fix the problem, no mention of an exchange. All a bit disappointing from a customer service point of view I'm afraid. The mower has now been returned for a refund. Whilst I was impressed with the camera only approach (no wire, no RTk antenna) hence the three stars, I'm not sure I'd recommend this device given it developed a fault within 7 days and the manufacturer didn't make too much effort to keep me as a customer.

As above. I think it's a bit new and the software needs tweaking a bit. Bought as we are both disabled and finding it harder to strim the edges that the drop and mow one i bought last year didn't cut. This will o over the edges if you can map just over the edge if you get what i am saying. The problem i had was it wouldn't go under out swing even thoe there was plenty of clearance but i think if they tweak the software it would. I returned this and bought the o800 this doesn't have the LIDAR? on the top and goes under the swing also goes over the path so cutting the edges happy day's. If you can't find the QR thing to scan in the software it's under the back end took me some time but the setup is easy. Also when you have gone round making the map drive the Goat back in front of the charger and then press the home icon and it will go back on charge and save the map well when you give the map a name took me 3 goes as i was driving it back on to the charger and couldn't work out how to save the map. Hope this helps.

I am extremely happy with this. I have had two Robot lawn mowers previously and they were never quite right. This one does everything I hoped for, plus a little more. It will hibernate away from the lawn on a patio, works very well simply using cameras, stripes the lawn with options, you can use it as a remote control camera. In terms of value for money it offers more for less than its competitors. The app is simple. I have only one minor gripe which is that it makes a whirring noise. Which sounds like it comes from the wheel drive. (not the spinning blades.). My two previous models were silent. But to be honest, very minor.

I'm really dissapointed about this product. I've only got about 30square meters of lawn and it's doing quite a bad job at it. - a lot of random patterns, it doesn't start one end and goes in parallel lines until everything is done - because it goes randomly sometimes, it leaves patches uncut - it does not do edges everytime it cuts, leaves quite a big chunk of grass on the edges unless I specifically do a manual cut and select edges The photos are not very clear to see unfortunately as the difference between cut and uncut is not that big as I didn't let it grow more than 3 days, but even on the screenshot from the app you can see there are spots that are missed. Based on this experience I would not recommand this Lawnmower

Mower gets lost, sees shadows as obstacles, misses random patches, often doesn’t go up to the edges, and performance is too inconsistent. Maybe there’s a better way to map my garden to perform better but I haven’t figured it out yet. I have two sections to mow and it sometimes struggles with getting to the second one. The Bluetooth / manual function is almost pointless. Unless I hold my phone directly above the mower it won’t connect or immediately loses signal. Even held above the signal often cuts out. Far too much work for something designed to automate an activity.

Almost good, but misses way too much… I probably will keep it and use a strimmer (the wall is probably quite complex to navigate), but I would have hoped for better (considering that’s 6 remaps, and 8 cuts later..)

Funciona perfecto lo unico que no tiene es zonas y caminos a las zonas, se tiene que tratar todo el jardin como una sola zona incluyendo areas de pavimento o tierra para pasar de unos trozos de jardin a otros, hay que tener rampas si hay desniveles en el camino

After some months, it starts to hallucinate. Even though the map is correct, it does not follow it and is completely lost. I’d like to return it.