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Eufy E15 robot lawn mower: two-minute review
To date I’ve tested quite a few wire-free, autonomous lawn mowers, but of all of them, the Eufy E15 is the easiest to set up and use. Much of that is down to the robot’s AI algorithm-rich software, its superb dual camera system and the simplicity and excellent navigability of the Eufy app.
This admittedly odd-looking lawnbot uses Full Self Driving (FSD) technology, which means there’s no need to lay a perimeter wire or install an RTK GPS antennae. In fact, setup took all of about 15 minutes – it can automatically map a lawn up to 800 square metres by cleverly distinguishing the textural differences between grass and planted borders. It then goes out and cuts the lawn in pristine parallel stripes before finishing off with an edge cut along the borders.
Like many robot mowers, the E15 is equipped with a small 20cm cutting deck comprising three razor-like blades attached to a spinning disk. These blades are so sharp that they snip grass with the cleanliness of a pair of scissors, leaving the tips of the nitrogen-rich cuttings to fall back to earth, which in turn fertilise the lawn.
There are a few minor niggles – the navigation system means it can’t mow at night, and it can’t handle gradients over 18-degrees – but overall, this is an extremely impressive lawnbot and a very strong recommendation for technophobes in particular. Aside from an easily-fixed map-making mistake, and one expected issue regarding small obstacle avoidance, the E15 hasn’t put a foot wrong during several weeks of testing. It just works out of the box. That’s the short version; read on for my full Eufy E15 review.
Eufy E15 review: price & availability
- List price: $1,799.99 / £1,499
- Available: US / UK
- Launched: June 2025
Eufy’s first robot mower is available in two variants – the E15 I’m reviewing here, and the E18, which is only available in the US. Both machines are the same size and spec but the E18 has a larger capacity battery which allows it to cut lawns up to 1,200m² / 0.3 acre – that’s 400m² more than the E15.
If you live in the UK, you can purchase the E15 direct from Eufy UK for £1,499. Granted, it’s an awful lot of money but that’s the price one pays for new tech that saves a ton of time and effort. I personally think it’s very competitively priced, especially given the fact it comes with a roofed garage to protect it from the elements. It’s also exceedingly well built, using highly-quality materials with expert fit and finish.
Stateside dwellers, meanwhile, have a choice of either the E15 or E18. The US Eufy site lists the E15 at $1,799.99 but if you have a lawn larger than 800 square metres (0.2 acre), I would suggest the E18. Eufy sells this model for $1,999.99.
- Value for money score: 4 out of 5
Eufy E15 specs
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Max lawn size: |
0.2 acres / 800m² |
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Navigation: |
Dual V-FSD cameras |
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Cutting deck width: |
8in / 20.3cm |
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Cutting height adjustment: |
1-3in / 2.5-7.5cm, motorized |
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Drivetrain: |
Rear wheel drive |
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Maximum zones: |
More than two |
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Maximum climbing ability: |
40% / 18 degrees |
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Obstacle avoidance |
3D Perception camera system |
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Connectivity: |
Wi-fi, Bluetooth & 4G (sim optional) |
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Noise: |
56dB |
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Waterproof: |
IPX6 |
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Rain sensor: |
Yes |
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Mow time per charge: |
About 100 minutes |
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Lawnbot size: |
23.7 x 15.5 x 12.5 in / 60.3 × 39.4 × 31.8cm |
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Garage size (L x W x H): |
28.6 x 18.9 x 17.8 in / 72.7 x 48 x 45.2cm |
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Lawnbot weight: |
39.7 lbs / 11kg |
Eufy E15 robot lawn mower review: design
- Full self driving lawnbot, uses cameras to navigate
- Comes with a charge dock but requires no boundary wires or RTK receiver
- Otherwise relatively standard lawnbot design, with 20cm cutting deck
Eufy (a subsidiary of Chinese electronics manufacturer Anker) has approached the development of its first robot mower with the same set of design principals it has applied to its burgeoning range of excellent robot vacuum cleaners. Hence, the E15 is probably the most robot vacuum-like lawnbot on the market right now. And that’s a very good thing for anyone who already owns a robot vacuum cleaner and is familiar with the way it is set up and used from day to day.
Although it’s not the prettiest looker on the lawn (at least when compared to the F1-inspired Mammotion LUBA Mini), the E15 feels very high quality. It is also the only robot mower I know of to come with a roof for its charging dock as standard – that can be considered a major benefit because, while the E15 is IPX6 rated for waterproofness (IPX6 means ingress protection against powerful water jets), it’s direct summer sunshine rather than rain that could have the biggest affect on batteries and electronics.
Incidentally, like all modern robot mowers, this model is fitted with a rain sensor so if it starts raining while it’s out cutting, it will return to base and wait a predetermined number of hours before it heads out again.
Although size and weight is pretty inconsequential given that, once in situ, the E15 pretty much stays on the lawn until the end of the cutting season around late autumn, for the record the E15 measures 23.7 x 15.5 x 12.5 in / 60.3 × 39.4 × 31.8cm, weighs 39.7 lbs / 11kg and comes with an integral handle on the front so it’s easy enough to lift if necessary.
Like all robot lawn mowers, the Eufy E15 is equipped with a cluster of manual control buttons on the top of its outer casing, including a large red Stop button for any unlikely emergencies. These buttons are handy for quickly pausing or cancelling a task, commanding the robot to return to its dock and turning it on and off without the need for the accompanying app. There is also a master on/off switch on the base of the cutting deck, which is only used when putting the robot into storage or transporting it in the car.
Before we tackle the E15’s clever navigation system, let’s head below and take a closer look at the business end. This model is good for lawns up to 800m² (0.2 acres) and has an 8in / 20.3cm cutting width – that’s the norm for a robot of this size, but still way short of the Mammotion LUBA 2 which has a generous 15.7in / 40cm deck.
Like almost all current robot mowers, the E15 uses an array of small razor-like blades for the cutting process. Put simply, a silent motor spins a circular disc with, in this case, three double-sided 1.5-inch razor blades attached to the disk’s outer edge.
Since the blades are attached loosely and are able to spin 360 degrees, the disk’s centrifugal force causes the blades to whip round at immense speed so the grass is cut to a much finer degree than any large-bladed rotary mower. Likewise, if they hit something hard like a stone, the easily replaced blades are less likely to be damaged. (Here’s more on how robot lawn mowers work, if you’re interested.)
Aside from the whisper-quiet sound the cutting system makes (and believe me this thing is near-silent in operation), the main bonus of a system like this is that the fine nitrogen-rich cuttings the robot leaves in its wake are fed back into the lawn as future fertiliser. This ‘mulching’ method of grass maintenance is not only good for your lawn, but it also means you don’t need to figure out what to do with all the cuttings.
The Eufy E15 is rear-wheel drive and those wheels are an ample 7.9 in / 20cm in diameter, with deep treaded paddles that provide excellent traction without causing any grass damage. The front end is fitted with a robust castor wheel that allows the robot to turn on a sixpence. Eufy states a maximum gradient of 40% (18 degrees) which is a few degrees steeper than much of the competition but still nowhere near the Everest-scaling, all-wheel-drive Mammotion LUBA 2 and LUBA Mini’s 80% (38.6 degrees) ability.
Robot mower navigation tech has come on in leaps and bounds since the first models were introduced way back in the mid ’90s. These early models required a boundary wire around the perimeter of the lawn and many robot mowers like this are still available to purchase today. However, recent advances in RTK GPS, LiDAR and camera-based navigation technologies are quickly making these types of wired robot mowers obsolete.
Take this model, for instance. The Eufy E15 is equipped with a FSD (Full Self Driving) camera tech that works in a similar way to many autonomous cars. The system itself is comprised of two side-by side cameras that produce a stereoscopic image with some depth to it, rather like a pair of human eyes. This, along with a smorgasbord of AI algorithms and heaven knows what else it has hidden beneath the bonnet, ensures that the robot can not only find its way around a lawn but also differentiate between grass and border plants.
Like a human, it can spot the textural and height differences between grass and plants and map the lawn accordingly. And for those who love driving RC cars, you can easily do that with this mower, too, and even view a high-definition livestream of what the camera sees.
The downside to a camera-based system like this is that the E15 cannot mow beyond sunset because it won’t be able to see where it’s going. Eufy might elect to fit a bright headlamp on the next incarnation but for now, your best bet for night mowing is either the Mammotion LUBA 2 or its new smaller sibling, the LUBA Mini.
The upshot of this robot mower’s superb navigation system is that it gives it the amazing ability to cut a lawn in a series of perfectly straight parallel stripes that never fail to impress. Granted, they’re not bona fide stripes like a cricket ground, but they’re the next best thing. I guarantee you’ll be blown away by how smart your lawn looks after just one cut.
Finally, a shout out to the E15’s security measures. Firstly, it’s bonded to the user’s account and Wi-Fi system making it useless to any light-fingered thieves. But as an extra precaution it also features GPS tracking over optional 4G while the unit itself will sound an alarm, enter a locked state and send a notification to the user if it’s ever taken beyond its working boundary.
- Design score: 4.5 out of 5
Eufy E15 robot lawn mower review: setup
- Charge dock requires power source and good Wi-Fi signal
- – Mapping is fully automated – and no-go zones can be added in-app if required
- – Extremely fast and east to set up
No question, the Eufy E15 is one of the easiest robot mowers I’ve ever set up; there is no RTK GPS antennae to install and not a perimeter wire in sight. All you need is an electricity source within the eight metres of cable provided and a decent WiFi signal to the robot so you can initiate its setup procedure, update the firmware when required and program weekly schedules and other parameters in the Eufy app.
Once you’ve created a Eufy account in the app and mounted the charging dock using the provided ground screws, it’s simply a case of firing it up and selecting the auto map function. I’d say the whole process took me about 15 minutes and most of the time was spent screwing in the dock’s ground screws using the provided Allen key (a cordless driver with an Allen key bit speeds this process up considerably). The E15’s excellent mapping ability is fully automatic – the bot can tell the difference between grass and plants, and uses this information to map the lawn.
However, there may be instances when it treats a scrubby patch on the edge of the lawn as grass and map that too – as was the case in my testing. With some robot mowers you need to physically steer the robot like an RC car to the area in question and modify it by driving the bot on a different trajectory and then saving the map. With this model you simply add a no-go zone or a virtual boundary by drawing a square or line on the app’s map. A big high-five to the designers for bringing this robot vac-style editing approach to the table.
While this whole process was very simple, I still hope Eufy will include a manual mapping option in a future update for those who want full hands-on control. Manual mapping – where you drive the robot around the perimeters of a lawn like an RC car – allows the user to fine-tune the map right from the off, with no need to add no-go zones or virtual boundaries.
Once the mapping has finished, it’s time for the robot’s first mow. But before you do this, make sure your grass isn’t too long or the cuttings it creates could litter the lawn. Instead either opt for the highest cutting height first (these range from 25mm to 75mm in 5mm increments and are set using the app).
Alternatively, use your standard mower with grass catcher to cut the lawn to about 40mm (position 4) and set the robot off on its first cut a day later – I find that 35mm is a perfect height for UK rye grass. Once the grass is ready for the robot, chances are you may never need to use your standard mower again, though you will still need your line trimmer to tidy up some edges every now and then.
If you have a few different lawns separated by pathways and boundaries, that’s not a problem. The Eufy E15 can be programmed to cut all of them in succession, even when they’re many meters apart. Simply map the lawns individually and set a virtual passageway between them by steering the robot from one lawn to the next. The robot will then follow this set path from lawn A to lawn B and so on and so forth every time it’s on a cutting session. Just make sure that there are no gates or stairs in the way and that the passage the robot takes is free of clutter and wide enough for the robot to navigate.
Eufy E15 robot lawn mower review: performance
- Neat, methodical cutting performance
- Motorized cutting heights
- Expert navigation and very good obstacle avoidance
In terms of cutting performance, I’ve been exceedingly impressed by how well this robot mower has navigated and cut my lawn, and in such methodical fashion too. It’s a joy to watch the E15 as it trundles up and down the lawn in perfect parallel lines, and I love the pseudo stripes the wheels leave in their wake.
The fact you can easily adjust cutting parameters in the app – cutting height (from 25mm to 75mm), edge spacing (how close it cuts to the edge), path spacing (the amount of overlap between each pass), and travel and blade speed (slow, standard and fast) – is the icing on the cake. And if you’re looking for the cherry on top of that, it’ll be the Path Direction (cutting angle) setting, which is as simple as placing two fingers on the map of your lawn and swiveling the two arrows to the angle of cut you want, whether it’s perfectly vertical, horizontal or any angle in between.
Despite this model only having three cutting blades against the Mammotion LUBA Mini’s six, I haven’t been able to detect any noticeable differences in cut quality. Yes, I prefer the wider tract of the big 40cm Mammotion LUBA 2 – the width of a small push mower – but I’m nitpicking here.
Obstacle avoidance on indoor robot vacuum cleaners is essentially for the convenience of not having to untangle a loose sock from under the robot, but a robot mower with fast spinning razor blades is an altogether different kettle of danger. Just as well that all autonomous robots and most wired models have various levels of obstacle avoidance built into their navigation systems.
The Eufy E15’s obstacle avoidance is excellent for anything larger than about the size of a tennis ball. I tested it on a number of occasions using some dog toys. Amazingly, the E15 avoided every item including – surprisingly – a small whale-shaped toy with a slim tail. In fact I was especially impressed by how well it managed this last feat because the whale was off-centre to the robot, and yet its camera caught the obstacle in its periphery.
However, as expected, the E15 didn’t spot a table tennis ball on two occasions and rode over it, almost slicing it in half. As a result, I wouldn’t trust this model to avoid pet mess unless, perhaps, you have a Great Dane, or a horse. (This has been the case with every robot mower I’ve tested, and for that matter every robot vac, too.)
I’m pleased to report that everything has run smoothly with this model, from its initial auto mapping to its weekly routine of keeping the lawn looking spick and span. It has never got lost or failed to find its charging base, and it’s always remained within the confines of its boundary. And that’s not a bad accolade for any manufacturer hitting the market with a first-time product. Well done Eufy.
- Performance score: 5 out of 5
Eufy E15 robot lawn mower review: app
- Easy to navigate
- Excellent interface
- Could do with a couple of extra features
While I’m a huge fan of the Mammotion range of robot mowers, its accompanying app is quite technical and, in some areas, difficult to get a handle on. By contrast, the Eufy app (which also covers Eufy’s security cameras) is mostly a joy to use, and mercifully free of any technical jargon. It’s as simple as simple can be, but there is room for improvement.
What I’d like to see is an option to manually map a lawn and an option to mow in a chessboard pattern (i.e. cut vertically and horizontally) in one go. But I’m pretty certain we’ll see something like this in a future update. It is, after all, early days for this newcomer.
Should you buy the Eufy E15 robot lawn mower?
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Value |
The Eufy E15 isn’t cheap but it’s in the same ballpark as other similarly-styled models on the market. |
4.5/5 |
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Design |
Odd looks aside, the E15 is robust and extremely well equipped to deal with most lawn layouts, bar those with steep slopes. |
4.5/5 |
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Setup |
Setup is also extremely fast and straightforward, thanks to accurate automatic mapping. |
5/5 |
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Performance |
The E15 is a sterling operator that cuts grass brilliantly well while avoiding almost all obstacles in the process. |
5/5 |
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App |
There is no simpler mowbot app on the market, though a few tweaks wouldn’t go amiss. |
4/5 |
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How I tested the Eufy E15 robot lawn mower
I’ve been using this lawnbot for the past few weeks, and I’ve been working it hard during that time. It has been out on regularly scheduled mowing tasks, and I’ve also put it through a range of tests – including assessing its obstacle avoidance using dog toys. I also assessed the ease of setup, how user-friendly the app is, and how the cutting performance compared to other lawnbots I’ve reviewed.
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