Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to The Kobi
Fully autonomous robot for mowing your lawn & snow removal.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Kobi launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi all, excited to share our latest work, OK-Robot, which is an open and modular framework to perform navigation and manipulation with a robot assistant in practically any homes without having to teach the robot anything new! You can simply unbox the target robot, install OK-Robot, give it a "scan" (think a 60 second iPhone video), and start asking the robot to move arbitrary things from A to B. We already tested it out in 10 home environments in New York city, and one environment each in Pittsburgh and Fremont. We based everything off of the current best machine learning models, and so…
2024 · ok-robot.github.io · its alternatives →
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Sowbot is an open-hardware agricultural robot designed to close the "prototype gap" that kills most agri-robotics startups and research projects — the 18+ months spent on drivers, networking, safety watchdogs, and UI before you can even start on the thing you actually care about. The hardware is built around a stackable 10×10cm compute module with two ARM Cortex-A55 SBCs — one for ROS 2 navigation/EKF localisation, one dedicated to vision/YOLO inference — connected via a single ethernet cable. Centimetre-level positioning via dual RTK GNSS, CAN bus for field comms, and real-time…
Feb 2026 · sowbot.co.uk · its alternatives →
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The premier robotic reel mower with auto-mapping
2024 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Using the Raspberry Pi to water plants automatically
2017 · mtlynch.io · its alternatives →
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Google's best robotics AI for the edge
2025 · deepmind.google · its alternatives →
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A fluffy robotic duster that cleans as it explores your home
2015 · its alternatives →
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