No boundary wire or RTK receiver required.
The Eufy Lawnbot E15 ditches boundary wire and unsightly RTK receivers, using cameras and AI to automatically map your lawn, avoid obstacles and navigate for cutting. It’s the fastest, easiest robot lawn mower to get started with, and the app allows customisation that other camera-based robots don’t have. With excellent obstacle avoidance and generally very good cutting, this robot works perfectly in most suburban gardens. It did struggle with a bumpy lawn, and those with complicated layouts (or who want to take control) may prefer an RTK-based robot where you create the map.
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No antennas to deal with -
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Excellent obstacle avoidance
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Struggled with bumpy lawns -
Can only run in daylight
Key Features
Introduction
The Eufy Lawnbot E15 is a robot lawn mower that promises to do away with almost all human intervention. Rather than installing boundary wires or unsightly RTK antennas in your garden, it uses clever cameras and AI technology to map, navigate, and mow your lawns. Tackling up to 800 m², it’s a great mower for flat, suburban-type gardens.
Design and Features
- AI-enhanced cameras and GPS map out and mow the lawn
- Mapping requires little input from the user
- It will only mow when there’s daylight
The Eufy Lawnbot E15 is the second robot lawn mower to use cameras rather than RTK or boundary wire that we’ve seen on Trusted Reviews, after the LawnMaster OcuMow 18 Autocharging Vision Robot Mower.
While the LawnMaster is a more simple, budget model that doesn’t even have an app, the Eufy Lawnbot E15 is a more premium affair, with more advanced features and app control. At £1499 this robot is priced more in-line with mid-range robots, such as the Segway Navimow i105E.
The mower looks rather different to other robots. It has a friendly and quite angular design that looks a little bit like a Sinclair C5. It’s not low and streamlined because the E15 uses cameras mounted high up on its body to get a good look at its surroundings.
The robot’s navigation system is called V-FSD (Vision Full-Self Driving) and it uses cameras, sensors, and AI to quickly scan the area in front of the robot to decide where to go and what to do, spotting and avoiding obstacles, such as pets and ponds.
Initial setup is remarkably hands free, but you do need a Wi-Fi connection to get set up. If you have poor coverage in your garden, you can use a Wi-Fi hotspot on a phone first, and then you can enable the optional 4G connection, which costs €19.99 a year. That could be a good choice in a large garden or one with poor Wi-Fi coverage. GPS is built-in for tracking and theft prevention.
If you hate the idea of driving your mower round like a remote-control car or using satellite mapping to define lawn shapes, you’ll love the E15. It insists on exploring the garden on its own before building a map, live on the app.
The size of your garden defines how long it takes to build a map, but the E16 was generally quite quick at its job, carefully moving over the test lawns to build up an accurate map. While driving, the robot uses it’s camera to detect borders and obstacles, such as trees and ponds.
Remote control is only used to define channels between lawns, the rest is fully automatic. At the end of the mapping process, the app can be used to set your own No-go zones and Must-go zones, which force the robot to ignore some obstacles and always cut grass in that area.
Combining a camera with a proper map, the Eufy Lawnbot E15 is much more advanced than the LawnMaster OcuMow 18, which has no map control at all and the only option to stop it going somewhere is to put down magnetic tape.
There’s plenty of customisation available via the Eufy app too. Changing the cutting height between 25 – 75mm, travel speed, and even blade speed can be done with a couple of taps. Having electronic cutting height adjustment is excellent, as it makes it easy to slowly reduce grass length over a season without having to fiddle with a manual control.
Full scheduling is also easy to set-up, so you can run the mower with no intervention. The only limitation is that the robot can only run in daylight (half an hour before and after sunset).
Overall, the app worked well enough, but it felt a little bit slow. Button presses to pause or edit the lawn took a while to go through to the mower at times.
As you might expect from a mower that relies on clever cameras to navigate, there’s even the option to see your lawn from a first-person camera view. Handy for keeping an eye on the garden or just watching the E15 work, it’s a fun feature.
There’s also a nice feature that lets you choose the width of your edge trimming to help tackle borders and pathways. Setting a large overlap between paths and grass borders makes the robot straddle the transition and neatly cut the edge grass.
Similar to the mode on the Segway Navimow i105E, this mode only works on flat paths. If you want to cut right up to all types of borders, the Husqvarna Automower NERA 305E has its secondary cutting deck, called EdgeCut, which almost entirely removes the need for a grass trimmer.
One drawback of this camera-controlled mower is that you can’t mow before sunrise or after sunset. Because it doesn’t rely on RTK or a boundary wire, the E15 needs light to be able to work. For some users, mowing after dark fits better in their schedule and keeps an expensive robot away from prying eyes. Personally, I don’t see this as an issue, because it’s best to mow during the day, avoiding harm to insects and snails.
Performance
- Very good obstacle avoidance
- Not great on uneven lawns or in tall grass
- Mowing performance improves over time
To thoroughly test the Eufy Lawnbot E15, I took it to a challenging country garden that featured large lawns with undulating sections, borders, steep slopes, and plenty of overhanging trees. Measuring more than 500m², it was a true test for any robot mower. I also tested it in a much smaller suburban lawn to see how it could cope in a tight space.
Starting with the setup, the mower insisted on mapping the area itself. It mistook a small car parking space for a lawn and had to be guided with a channel to the lawn, which was several metres away; however, the app did at least make it easy to correct the error.
Once on the lawn, the Eufy Lawnbot E15 mostly did well, although I did have a few issues with the robot getting stuck on some very slight undulations. The front bumper dug into the grass and left the rear wheels spinning. This wasn’t an issue on flat sections of lawn, but it’s clear that the Eufy E15 is best suited to neatly laid lawn.
The mower also fell off a steep border and into a flower bed several times. The border should have been easy to notice, so it was quite a surprise when it got itself stuck. It was easy enough to mark out a new virtual boundary, but it was something I had to do myself. And unfortunately, there’s no manual mowing mode to deal with the tufts left in some corners of the lawn.
However, once setup was complete, the E15 did the rest of the mowing without many issues. It seemed to learn its routines better during each mow and needed less interference over time, and the quality of the cut from the 20.3cm cutting deck and three razors was excellent.
General problem avoidance was very good, too, with the E15’s cameras good at spotting and avoiding common obstacles, such as chairs, tables and other items left on the lawn.
Whisper quiet at under 60 dB, this mower’s three spinning blades cutting through the grass were the only noise it made, apart from the wheels getting occasionally stuck in longer grass.
Should you buy it?
You should buy if you have lots of flat lawn and hate the idea of getting involved with the setup process
The Eufy Lawnbot E15 tries to do as much as possible on its own without user input
You should not buy if you have an uneven and undulating lawn
This mower performs best on the flat. And if you like to get involved with setup, you might find the Eufy wants to do a bit too much on its own.
Final Thoughts
The Eufy Lawnbot E15 is an undoubtedly impressive mower. Doing away with fiddly boundary wires and ugly RTK antennas is great, and so is the idea of a mower that can do everything itself without any input, but it’s nowhere near perfect.
For very simple, small gardens, with well-defined (or raised) borders, the LawnMaster OcuMow 18 Autocharging Vision Robot Mower is a lot cheaper. If you need more control over maps and top object avoidance, then the Lawnbot E15 works brilliantly, but it worked best in my tests on flat lawns and struggled with bumpy ground.
However, for most suburban gardens, the fast setup and ability to quickly edit maps and schedules makes this lawn mower a brilliant choice.
Those with more challenging environments will find something more suitable in our guide to the best robot lawn mowers.
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FAQs
Yes, GPS is integrated for tracking and theft prevention.
Yes, mowing height is controlled via the app between 25 and 75mm
Test Data
Full Specs
| Eufy Lawnbot E15 Review | |
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| Manufacturer | Eufy |
| Size (Dimensions) | 318 x 603 x 394 MM |
| Release Date | 2025 |
| First Reviewed Date | 05/06/2025 |
| Model Number | Eufy Lawnbot E15 |
| App Control | Yes |
| Lawn Mower Type | Robot |
| Blade Type | 3x razors |
| Cutting width | 20.3 cm |
| Max lawn size | 800 m2 |
| Cutting heights | 25-75mm |
