Future vision for lawn care – the smart private gardener

The future robot is described as an AI-driven machine that protects your garden´s health and maximizes biodiversity

Press Release
Husqvarna Forest & Garden
Apr 7, 2022

Excerpt:

Husqvarna also sees that new technology can enable the robotic mower to boost local biodiversity in urban gardens. Through increased data analysis capabilities from sources outside your garden – your neighbor’s mower, for instance – as well as utilizing sensors that measure key environmental components within the garden, the robotic mower can optimize mowing and give recommendations on how to best support biodiversity.

The future robot will maximize the potential of your garden, but also seamlessly adapt to your needs as a family. Through increased capabilities like an improved vision system and AI, the robot will learn to recognize reoccurring scenes, determine your behavior and adapt its behavior as a response. Based on the preferences of each family, it can learn to act socially or behave as a silent server.

The smart private gardener – innovation supporting the future vision

1. Your Smart Garden Supervisor

The future robotic lawn mower will use cloud computing and AI to simplify how you interact with your garden – managing your lawn and garden with minimal human interference. By interacting with other smart appliances and sensors around your house, for example watering systems, the mower can optimize the wellbeing of your lawn – just like a gardener. For example, it can quickly adapt its behavior to live data points – such as the weather forecast for the area. Also, by utilizing public data, the robot’s navigation capabilities will most likely extend to areas outside your garden. This makes it easier to cut in areas adjacent to your garden and even assist the neighbors in their lawn care if your robot has spare capacity.

2. Your Biodiversity Guardian

By supporting an approach to lawn care that views the entire garden as an ecosystem, your smart private gardener can help boost biodiversity. Through improved capabilities in data collection from sources inside and outside your garden, the future lawn mower could, for example, collect information from other robots in the neighborhood and provide you with insight into the overall composition of flora and fauna in the area. This, paired with data on where and how lifeforms in the garden create their habitat, makes the robotic mower equipped to optimize lawn care to best support the ecosystem.

3. Your Sociable Garden Companion

Through an improved vision system combined with cloud computing and AI, the robotic mower will be able to determine your behavior and adapt its own behavior as a response. For instance, it can adapt its level of social interaction depending on the owner’s preferences, keeping away when needed and playing or even acting as a pet if preferred. .Perhaps using your voice as opposed to the app to interact, the mower can, for example, advise on what nutrients to add when you’re planting a new flower bed during spring by using its knowledge of your land and soil.

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