ROBOT Review


By Laurence Gale MSc & Ellie Tait


The Pitchcare staff are always interested in innovation and new ways of working but know from talking to grounds managers that the latest 'robotic mowers' are viewed with suspicion as very few people have seen them in action. We believe that one of the ways that manufacturers and grounds staff can make greater advances in product technology is to work together, so we invited three manufacturers to bring their machines to the Midlands to be tried and tested by a group of grounds men and women from local schools, councils and contracting companies.


In what must surely be an industry ‘first’, the ‘BigMow’ from Turfmech, the MAS01 and MAS02 from McMurtry and the Ransomes Spider were used together at one venue. Many historic events have been recorded at Rugby School over the years, but perhaps not since William Webb Ellis first ran with a ball there in 1823 has there ever been anything more worth watching than three robotic mowers mowing the grass simultaneously on the school rugby pitch.


We all congregated for coffee at the Pavilion at 10.30 where we outlined


the structure of the day and introduced the manufacturers to our invited guests. The group then made its way onto the pitch where each manufacturer introduced their machine and explained the history of its development, the technology involved and how they see it being adopted into its intended market.


Our guests were then split into three groups, each being given the opportunity to operate the robotic mowers, look at them close-u


up and


ask more detailed questions before moving round to see the next machine.


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