Segway Navimow i210 LiDAR Pro

What the tests say

Five independent tests of the Segway Navimow i210 LiDAR Pro (PC-WELT and Basic Tutorials in Germany, PCtipp.ch in Switzerland, cedric.fm in Belgium and TechRadar in the UK) agree on setup without a boundary wire or RTK antenna judged simple and fast, and triple-fusion LiDAR plus Network RTK plus vision navigation judged precise and stable. On the claimed 55% (29°) slope, only PCtipp.ch actually exceeded it on the ground, deliberately, up to over 70%: the mower still climbs with good grip in a straight line, but a lift-safety sensor stops the mow out of caution when turning (a drive slip control setting in the app can push this limit further). PC-WELT confirms good handling on a more modest real slope, about 27%. cedric.fm reports good traction on its own slopes, which it states as "35-40°" (well beyond the 29° its own spec table lists as this same mower's maximum, an inconsistency the article doesn't explain). TechRadar and Basic Tutorials, meanwhile, repeat Segway's claimed 55% figure without testing it themselves. All five testers cite an identical 22 cm cutting width, but none presents it as an instrument measurement: the figure, absent from Segway's official spec sheet, likely comes from the same technical press kit. On runtime, PC-WELT measures about 68 minutes of mowing for 176 m2 on its own lawn (against a claimed 75 minutes and 195 m2), and Basic Tutorials confirms a close real-world range, 65 to 75 minutes for 175 to 195 m2; PCtipp.ch reports a notably longer runtime, about 100 minutes, with no source explaining the gap between the three. On its own lawn of just 170 m2, TechRadar twice failed to finish mowing on a single charge in the 'precision mowing' setting, returning to the dock with 4% of the lawn left and 15% battery before an 80-minute top-up charge; the reviewer itself notes Segway's claimed 1,000 m2 applies to a full 24-hour mowing cycle with recharge stops in between, not a single charge; notably, Basic Tutorials' own spec table separately lists a "daily output" of 1,700 m2/24h, with no source reconciling how either figure should be read. On edge cutting, PC-WELT praises navigation that follows detected edges precisely, but puts the uncut grass around fixed obstacles like a sun umbrella or a planter at about ten centimeters; Basic Tutorials separately confirms edge cutting is limited by the deck's fixed central position, and TechRadar measures it at about 7.5 cm (three inches) along solid borders. On small-object detection, the two outlets disagree: TechRadar saw the mower successfully avoid a dog toy and a small rubber ball, while Basic Tutorials judges detection not 100% reliable on small, flat objects like a tennis ball. PC-WELT and Basic Tutorials both judge the mower bulky for narrow passages (65.5 x 44.5 cm as stated, though PC-WELT doesn't claim to have measured this itself, unlike its own weight measurement of 17.35 kg), and each separately report a mandatory firmware update on unboxing taking about 10 minutes. 4G connectivity and theft protection are free the first year, then billed at about EUR 29.90/year (CHF 30/year per PCtipp.ch), a figure independently confirmed by PC-WELT, PCtipp.ch, cedric.fm and Basic Tutorials. Each test also reports isolated points the others don't confirm: cedric.fm notes wheels that get dirty quickly on wet ground and automatic mapping judged disappointing on a complex garden, while giving two inconsistent durations for its own manual mapping (about 15 minutes in one place in the article, 30 to 40 minutes in another for a comparable property). The price also diverges by tester and market: EUR 1,599 for cedric.fm, matching the current official price on Segway Europe's store, a close range from PCtipp.ch (about CHF 1,529) and TechRadar (GBP 1,399 in the UK, USD 1,399 in the US, but EUR 1,599 stated for Europe by that same source); Basic Tutorials states EUR 1,399 as the public price at the time of its test without saying whether this was a temporary discount; PC-WELT states no price at all. The unit cedric.fm tested came from Navimow Belgique for an unrelated radio segment, with the author stating the article itself isn't sponsored; none of the other four testers states where its unit came from.