Yosemite Robotics, a Shanghai-based AI robotics company, is making significant waves at the spoga+gafa trade fair in Cologne, Germany, by unveiling its second-generation Lawnova robotic mower lineup. This strategic move precedes a planned U.S. Kickstarter campaign, aiming to transform years of AI platform development into a consumer-facing outdoor robotics brand. The company's ambition is to shift outdoor robots from mere tools to intelligent partners capable of perceiving, understanding, and operating in complex outdoor environments.

At the core of Lawnova's advanced capabilities is Yosemite's proprietary NovaMind 3.0 platform. This system integrates inertial measurement units into a unified AI stack, enabling robots to autonomously map and navigate intricate outdoor spaces without the need for physical perimeter wires. The X Series, designed for all-terrain residential use, combines RTK positioning, LiDAR, IMU, and computer vision, powered by an NVIDIA Orin computing platform delivering 40-67 TOPS. This technology allows for 2-3 cm positioning accuracy, object and boundary recognition, autonomous mapping, and intelligent path planning.

The Lawnova product roadmap is comprehensive, featuring four distinct series—S, X, P, and G—to cater to a wide range of applications, from entry-level residential mowing to all-terrain home gardens, commercial landscaping, and even golf-course maintenance. The P Series, aimed at commercial and professional landscaping, boasts four-wheel drive with active steering, dual LiDAR, and a Jetson Orin NX computing platform with 150 TOPS of AI power, alongside various powertrain options including hybrid-electric, hydrogen, and pure electric configurations.

CEO Jack Li emphasized the company's long-term vision of embodied intelligence, where machines can interact naturally with operators through natural language commands, such as "mow the backyard but avoid the flower beds." The company's technology roadmap also includes cloud-based model support with local inference, ensuring efficient decision-making even in offline environments. With over 15 years of AI and robotics expertise and five years of dedicated robotic mower R&D, Yosemite Robotics is well-positioned to capitalize on the rapidly growing global robotic lawn mower market, projected to reach USD 2.74 billion in 2026 and USD 5.32 billion by 2031.