Mammotion LUBA mini 2 AWD 1500

What the tests say

Two independent tests of the Mammotion LUBA mini 2 AWD 1500 (Heise, Germany, 4.5/5, and Meilleure-Innovation, France, 8.5/10) both confirm all-wheel drive praised for agility and off-road traction: Heise praises its "very good off-road capability thanks to all-wheel drive," and Meilleure-Innovation finds the same "4x4 agility and traction" that had already won this outlet over on the first generation. Both also flag the same limitation of the dedicated edge-mowing disc, but not with the same severity: its cutting height is fixed at 50 mm, independent of the main deck's own setting (20 to 65 mm per Meilleure-Innovation), creating a visible height mismatch along edges whenever the main deck is set lower - Heise treats it as a permanent, annoying flaw, while Meilleure-Innovation calls it minor, noticeable mainly on a very short-cut lawn; both also note corners remain a weak point despite that dedicated disc, with Heise observing leftover grass "in corners and at certain obstacles," and Meilleure-Innovation finding the mower "tends to swing too wide" near an obstacle close to a boundary, and separately regretting that it doesn't spontaneously change mowing direction in narrow passages, unlike some Ecovacs rivals that reorient their lanes to make better use of a corridor. On range, both conclude real-world performance falls short of the roughly 500 m2/150 minutes Mammotion claims: Heise measures a real per-charge range of 350 to 400 m2 in everyday use (about 2 to 2.5 hours), and judges covering the claimed 1,500 m2 in a single day "basically feasible" but only with several charging breaks and fairly simple lawn geometry; Meilleure-Innovation doesn't publish its own per-charge figure but a mowing rate, 152 m2/h without edge management against 101 m2/h with edge management across multiple passes, extrapolating a real-world throughput of about 70 m2/h including recharging, or 550 to 600 m2 over 8 hours, up to 800-900 m2/day on a simple lawn with few edge passes. On the session behind the 101 m2/h figure (292 m2 completed over roughly 4h20 end to end, including a partial recharge from 17:22 to 18:32), Meilleure-Innovation itself notes this was "more a worst case than nominal use" (a hot day, tester interruptions) - a caveat about that specific session, not about the net 101 m2/h rate itself - and concludes that for the targeted 1,000 to 1,500 m2, "the Luba mini 2 won't do the job in one go," needing several cycles spread across the week. Heise also reports isolated points Meilleure-Innovation doesn't confirm: the mower crossed 70 cm narrow passages without issue (Mammotion claims 69 cm, a figure this test doesn't itself verify), crossed a 3.6 cm obstacle but only with obstacle detection turned off, and by default, with detection on, avoids branches and bushes overhanging the lawn, leaving the grass underneath uncut - Heise documents three workarounds: turning off detection, defining an obstacle-free zone on the map, or creating a dedicated edge-only task with detection off; it also notes the front fender can trap branches when mowing under bushes, enough to get the mower stuck in extreme cases, while Meilleure-Innovation, by contrast, reports no lockups across its own testing. Meilleure-Innovation, for its part, measured noise at 1 meter with a sound meter at 63 dB on slow blade speed, 65 dB medium and 67 dB fast, timed a recharge from 14% to 100% in 121 minutes, and found the AI obstacle detection sometimes mistakes tall grass for real obstacles (steering around it instead of cutting it, skewing results in overgrown areas), plus a Bluetooth connection that gets flaky under 40% battery. Meilleure-Innovation places the LUBA mini 2 AWD 1500 against the Ecovacs GOAT A1600 LiDAR Pro, the Segway Navimow i2 LiDAR Pro and the MOVA LiDAX Ultra AWD in the same price bracket, with traction as its main selling point against rivals each betting on a different strength.