The ‘set and forget’ robot mowers winning over Australian homeowners

Forget spending your weekend pushing a mower in the heat. A viral video showing a robot lawnmower slipping through a fence gate after finishing the job outside has sparked fresh buzz around the devices, which are quietly taking off in Australian backyards. The now-viral clip shows the machine returning to a property through a doggie-door-style opening in the fence after neatly mowing the nature strip, a patch many homeowners are responsible for maintaining. Posted with the caption, “My neighbour has a door in his fence for his robot lawnmower,” the video has racked up more than 320,000 likes and over 2000 comments, with viewers stunned by what many called a “clever hack”. For busy households, the appeal is obvious. MORE NEWS Woman solves leaf dispute with clever gardening hack Aus warned: Illegal neighbour backyard act ‘Send the invoice’: Gardener shames Aus council An Instagram user shared his neighbour’s clever gardening heck. Is that a doggie door for a mower? Robot mowers can trim lawns while owners are at work, inside with the family or simply getting on with their day, turning a time-consuming chore into something that happens in the background. The comments quickly filled wi...