TerraMow V1000 Review: Show Your Lawn Some Love
TerraMow V1000 Review: Show Your Lawn Some Love
TerraMow V1000 评测：给你的草坪一点关爱
WIRED Rating: 9/10 WIRED 评分：9/10
The Good: Excellent automatic mapping. Mows in neat lines and gets close to the edge. Spot Mode lets you drop and cut. Solid navigation and obstacle avoidance. Triple AI camera system, GPS, and 4G. Comes with a covered charging base. 优点： 出色的自动绘图功能。能以整齐的线条修剪，并能贴近边缘。定点模式（Spot Mode）支持随放随剪。导航和避障能力扎实。配备三摄 AI 系统、GPS 和 4G 网络。附带带顶棚的充电基座。
The Bad: The app has some messy translations and quirks. It can’t mow in the dark. It can only deal with moderate slopes (18 degrees). It’s not four-wheel drive, and the front wheel struggles with gravel. 缺点： 应用程序翻译有些混乱且存在小毛病。无法在黑暗中工作。仅能应对中等坡度（18度）。非四轮驱动，前轮在碎石地上表现吃力。
While the sci-fi future of robotic domestic servitude that was promised still eludes us, I’m happy to report that robot lawn mowers are actually good now. The TerraMow V1000 embodies this trend by combining a relatively affordable price, easy hands-off automation, and a nice, neat finish on my lawn. It’s feature-packed and comes with a covered charging station, making it a standout package at its current $1,200 price. (I’ve seen it dip below $1,000, so watch out for sales.) 尽管科幻电影中承诺的机器人管家时代尚未完全到来，但我很高兴地告诉大家，现在的割草机器人已经相当好用了。TerraMow V1000 正是这一趋势的缩影，它结合了相对亲民的价格、轻松的自动化体验，以及对我草坪修剪出的整洁效果。它功能丰富，并附带一个带顶棚的充电站，以目前 1200 美元的价格来看，是一个非常出色的选择。（我曾见过它降至 1000 美元以下，所以可以留意促销活动。）
Currently topping my picks of the best robot lawn mowers, this mower has been tending my front and back lawns with minimal input from me for several weeks. While it’s not without its quirks, it has outperformed many more expensive options. Folks with regular, mostly flat, rectangular lawns under 0.3 acres (around 13,000 square feet) in size don’t need to spend more than this. 作为目前我心目中最佳割草机器人的首选，它在过去几周里几乎无需我干预，就打理好了我的前后草坪。虽然它并非完美无缺，但表现已经超过了许多更昂贵的竞品。对于草坪面积在 0.3 英亩（约 13,000 平方英尺）以下、地形平坦且规则的家庭来说，没必要花更多的钱。
The TerraMow V1000 is a relatively small robot mower, and it looks like one of the friendlier competitors from Robot Wars. It has two large back wheels that drive it, and a simple front caster wheel. There’s a single spinning disc underneath with three cutting blades, and you get nine spares in the box. TerraMow V1000 是一款相对小巧的割草机器人，看起来就像《机器人大擂台》（Robot Wars）中那些比较友好的参赛选手。它有两个驱动后轮和一个简单的前万向轮。底部有一个带有三片刀片的旋转盘，包装盒内还额外附赠了九片备用刀片。
As with most robot mowers, the power adapter is large and may not fit your outdoor socket, so you’ll likely need an outdoor box and extension lead. The TerraMow V1000 also comes with a covered charging base to shield it from bad weather, something many manufacturers will charge you a couple of hundred extra for. 和大多数割草机器人一样，它的电源适配器很大，可能无法直接插入你的户外插座，因此你可能需要一个户外防水盒和延长线。TerraMow V1000 还配备了一个带顶棚的充电基座，可以保护它免受恶劣天气影响，而许多其他厂商通常会为此额外收取几百美元。
There’s no antenna or anything else to set up, because this mower relies on its triple camera system and AI to map and navigate your lawn. You can connect your phone via Bluetooth, and it supports Wi-Fi. It also comes with a year of 4G service ($19 per year after that), but you don’t need it if you have Wi-Fi in your garden. The 4G and Wi-Fi are just for firmware updates and remote control when you’re away from home. It has GPS tracking for theft alerts. 它不需要安装天线或其他设备，因为这款割草机依靠其三摄系统和 AI 来进行绘图和导航。你可以通过蓝牙连接手机，它也支持 Wi-Fi。它还附带一年的 4G 服务（之后每年 19 美元），但如果你的花园里有 Wi-Fi，则无需使用 4G。4G 和 Wi-Fi 仅用于固件更新和远程控制。它还具备 GPS 定位功能，用于防盗报警。
The setup was by far the easiest of any robot mower I’ve tested. Aside from not having to fiddle with wire or an RTK antenna, the TerraMow V1000 has an automapping feature. Usually, you have to remote-control your robot mower around the borders of your lawn to define the cutting zone. I have tried other mowers with automatic mapping, but I always ended up having to make significant edits to the map. Not so with the TerraMow. The V1000 successfully mapped my (admittedly straightforward) lawn without any input required. 这是我测试过的所有割草机器人中设置最简单的一款。除了无需摆弄边界线或 RTK 天线外，TerraMow V1000 还具备自动绘图功能。通常，你需要遥控割草机绕着草坪边缘走一圈来定义切割区域。我尝试过其他带有自动绘图功能的割草机，但最终总是需要对地图进行大量修改。TerraMow 则完全不同，V1000 在无需任何人工干预的情况下，成功绘制了我（虽然确实比较简单）的草坪地图。
The spec sheet for the TerraMow V1000 is relatively modest. It can handle slopes up to 18 degrees, offers a cutting height of 0.98 to 2.95 inches (25 to 75 mm), and a cutting width of 8 inches (20 cm). I like that you can define different settings for different zones. Perhaps you want a finer cut or closer edge mowing on one section of lawn. It can run for 150 minutes on a full charge and takes two hours to recharge. Like most robot mowers, it leaves the cuttings to mulch, and you can set a cutting schedule in the app. TerraMow V1000 的规格表相对中规中矩。它能应对最高 18 度的坡度，切割高度为 0.98 到 2.95 英寸（25 到 75 毫米），切割宽度为 8 英寸（20 厘米）。我喜欢它可以为不同区域定义不同设置的功能。也许你希望在草坪的某一部分进行更精细的修剪或更贴近边缘的修剪。它充满电后可运行 150 分钟，充电需要两小时。像大多数割草机器人一样，它会将碎草留在草坪上作为肥料，你可以在应用程序中设置割草计划。
I didn’t have high expectations of the TerraMow V1000, because it relies entirely on AI vision, which can be erratic in my experience. To my surprise, it mowed my lawn in perfect straight lines with a kind of fish-tail maneuver at the end of each turn, leaving neat but narrow stripes and a fairly uniform cut. Where the edges allowed, such as along a path, the TerraMow cut right up to the edge. On sides with obstacles, such as a garden shed and tall plants, it left a modest border. Strips of uncut grass of various sizes seem to be unavoidable with robot mowers, but the TerraMow V1000 got closer to finishing the job than most. 我原本对 TerraMow V1000 期望不高，因为它完全依赖 AI 视觉，而根据我的经验，这种技术有时会不稳定。令我惊讶的是，它以完美的直线修剪了我的草坪，在每次转弯时还会进行一种类似“鱼尾”的机动，留下了整齐但狭窄的条纹，修剪效果相当均匀。在边缘允许的地方（例如沿着小路），TerraMow 能修剪到最边缘。在有障碍物的一侧（如花园棚和高大植物），它会留下一小段边缘。对于割草机器人来说，留下未修剪的草条似乎是不可避免的，但 TerraMow V1000 比大多数产品完成得更好。
We have three cats, so obstacle avoidance is crucial, and the TerraMow V1000 does not disappoint. I always test mowers with a football, and I also had a badminton net on the lawn with very thin posts. The V1000 was able to skirt around both without touching them. 我们家有三只猫，所以避障功能至关重要，而 TerraMow V1000 没有让我失望。我总是用足球来测试割草机，草坪上还有一个立柱非常细的羽毛球网。V1000 能够绕过这两者而不会碰到它们。
The navigation is generally impressive, and that extends to creating paths between lawn areas and also back to its charging station. You don’t have to install the charging station on the lawn; I put mine slightly farther back, tucked out of sight next to some wooden outdoor家具 across concrete paving, and it had no issues finding its way in and out. 它的导航表现总体令人印象深刻，这延伸到了在不同草坪区域之间创建路径以及返回充电站的过程。你不必非得把充电站安装在草坪上；我把我的充电站放在了稍微靠后的位置，藏在混凝土路面旁的一些户外木制家具后面，它进出时完全没有问题。
It’s easy to set up multiple mowing zones, and you can define no-go areas with tools that enable you to create virtual fences and shapes like rectangles, circles, and polygons. Ideal if you have a pond, trampoline, or some other garden feature you want it to steer clear of. The one weakness is that front wheel, which does not cope at all well with gravel or sudden dips in the terrain. This is just a rear-wheel-drive mower. You may prefer a four-wheel-drive mower, like the Mammotion Luba 3 AWD, if you have rough terrain or steep slopes in your yard. 设置多个割草区域非常简单，你还可以使用工具定义禁区，创建虚拟围栏以及矩形、圆形和多边形等形状。如果你有池塘、蹦床或其他不想让它靠近的花园设施，这非常理想。唯一的弱点是那个前轮，它在碎石地或地形突然凹陷处表现非常糟糕。这只是一款后轮驱动的割草机。如果你的院子里有崎岖的地形或陡峭的斜坡，你可能更倾向于选择四轮驱动的割草机，比如 Mammotion Luba 3 AWD。
Because there’s no RTK (real-time kinematic positioning), the V1000 could be a great pick for folks with a lot of tall buildings around or tree cover that can play havoc with satellite navigation. 由于没有 RTK（实时动态定位）技术，对于周围有许多高大建筑物或树木遮挡、可能干扰卫星导航的用户来说，V1000 可能是一个绝佳的选择。