{"id":35847,"date":"2026-04-29T11:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=35847"},"modified":"2026-04-29T11:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:51:14","slug":"ces-2026-worx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/ces-2026-worx\/","title":{"rendered":"CES 2026: WORX Robotic Mowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allison interviews Todd Zimmerman, Senior VP of Kress Sales\/Operations, about their WORX robotic mowers. They use a combination of Real-Time Kinetic (RTK) Cloud positioning for satellite-guided mowing, cameras with AI-assisted vision, and Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (V-SLAM) to maintain precise mowing patterns, even when GPS signals drop. The system relies on Wi-Fi, GPS, and built-in 4G connectivity, with no subscription required.<\/p>\n<p>Zimmerman highlights improvements like \u201ccut-to-edge\u201d trimming, which reduces the need for manual edging, and model options ranging from two-wheel to four-wheel drive, the latter capable of handling steep slopes and uneven terrain.<\/p>\n<p>WORX mowers are fully electric, self-docking for charging, and controlled through an app that allows users to set patterns, zones, and schedules. Batteries are interchangeable across WORX&#8217;s PowerShare tools.<\/p>\n<p>Pricing runs from about $999 to $3,700, positioned as a low-maintenance, time-saving alternative to traditional lawn mowing.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worx.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.worx.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1066\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S5diK9oReLQ\" title=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Using a Screen Reader? <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/S5diK9oReLQ\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Transcript of Interview:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Todd Zimmerman gave a great speech right before the ShowStoppers event where he talked about the robotic mower called Worx, WORX, I believe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> I just want to have a drink every time he says V-Slam, so everybody get ready.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> It&#8217;s the best drinking game there is right now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> All right, let&#8217;s talk about Worx and explain to me all the things that you said in the presentation, only quicker. Go.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> I will try my best, Allison. Worx has been in robotic mowers since 2009. We&#8217;re the global retail leader for robotic mowers in the world. We&#8217;ve had everything from boundary wire and continue to push innovations all the way through to the launch of Vision Cloud. Vision Cloud brings together three different technologies fused together with a neural network of 20 million-plus real-world images for robotic mowers. The three technologies are RTK Cloud, Vision Cloud, a stereo camera with two cameras, as well as V-Slam coming together &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> V-Slam!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> V-Slam! coming together to allow the unit to always operate and maintain a perfect stripe or perfect pattern in your yard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Okay, so what is V-Slam?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> V-Slam is a combination of using a stereo camera and the technology on the inside to create a 3D map. What happens is when a robot mower is out and you&#8217;re connected to the cloud, to RTK, if you&#8217;re under shaded areas or narrow passages, if that RTK signal drops, V-Slam kicks in so it always maintains your perfect pattern. You never lose connection, and then when it&#8217;s back out, it picks up RTK and keeps going. It always maintains your 2 to 3 cm level accuracy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> So, is this using Wi-Fi, cellular? What&#8217;s it using?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> So it does. It uses GPS. It&#8217;s a combination of all the above.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Okay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> When you connect to your phone, it&#8217;s using Wi-Fi. It connects through our cloud for 4G, and there&#8217;s no subscription cost for using our network or using 4G at all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> You know, that was actually the thing that got me the most excited. Not actually V-Slam. It&#8217;s when you said you&#8217;re not going to charge for the cellular service for it to work. That&#8217;s amazing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> Yeah, the biggest thing that we&#8217;re trying to do from a Worx standpoint is make life easier. When you buy a robot mower, the one thing you don&#8217;t want to do is go, &#8220;Great, a year&#8217;s over. Now I have to pay for a subscription in order for it to work the way I want it to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> We&#8217;re bringing together technology that allows us not to have to interact with the robot as much as we had to before, because technology allows us to do that now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Now, you talked about edging, and you used a bunch of words I didn&#8217;t know when you talked about getting to the edges of yards. I thought edges of yards were pretty obvious. You get out the weed whacker and you do the edge. What is it this does?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> You&#8217;re right. You get out the weed whacker and do the edge. But what this does is what we call cut-to-zero. Cut-to-zero is on the side of the unit. Once it goes around, when you get to your house where you string trim today, typically a robotic mower will leave 6 to 8 inches of a gap. So you&#8217;ll have to go back and string trim.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> That&#8217;s a big gap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> It is, but it&#8217;s because of the offset of the blades, because we have to maintain safety. Cut-to-zero now gets within half an inch to three-quarters of an inch of your house, so it limits the amount of time you have to actually string trim.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Oh, yeah. That&#8217;s a quick job then.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> Before, during the rainy season, you may do it twice a week, once a week. Now you may have to do it once every other week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Yeah. So, you&#8217;ve got two-wheel drive, and then I know I&#8217;ve got the silliest, tiniest little yard in the world, but I loved it when you showed the four-wheel drive thing and it&#8217;s like going up a mountain, man. It&#8217;s mowing like crazy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> So, that&#8217;s another unit, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> We do. We have a range of two-wheel drive, which is a quarter acre, half acre, and one acre. And we&#8217;ve got four-wheel drive, which we&#8217;ll show in just a second, which is quarter acre to half acre to one acre and one and a half at the high end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> So, what are the features of that? Is it a bigger motor, bigger blades? What about it is different?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> That&#8217;s a great question. The biggest thing is the design to be able to do all kinds of terrain. We can handle 40 degrees, or 84% slope capacity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Are you serious?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> Yep. That&#8217;s what you saw in the video where it&#8217;s mountain climbing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Yeah, I thought that was fake.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> The other part of it is that it can do that both vertically and horizontally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> So basically, if it&#8217;s tilted to the left or right versus up and down. So it&#8217;s going at an angle like the dune buggies we were on in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> Yeah, exactly. You want the power to be able to handle any slope, but you want to be able to do that at any angle as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Wow, that is crazy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> And the other part is the way we have it for servo steering, which is basically in the front. It&#8217;s all-wheel drive, but we also have drive motors to turn the wheels, so that way it doesn&#8217;t tear your turf.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Wow. So it&#8217;s doing all this while I&#8217;m sitting in an easy chair watching Friends, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> Absolutely. All you have to do is sit back and watch the mower mow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> And I think you talked about it mowing at night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> You can. We have a light that is an accessory that allows you to let the mower mow at night. So when you wake up, your yard&#8217;s freshly mowed and you&#8217;re looking at a diamond pattern or checkerboard or perfectly inline stripes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Do you get to choose that?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> You do in the app. You can choose anything you want. You can choose the pattern, set the cutting height, do it by zone, turn a rain sensor off. Everything&#8217;s at the touch of your fingertips now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Wow, that is fantastic. So, Worx, what is the itty-bitty one and what is the expensive one?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> From a retail standpoint, the smallest is a quarter-acre two-wheel drive at $999. At the very high end, an acre and a half of four-wheel drive is $3,699.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Well, per acre that probably works out, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> It absolutely does. But you also have to remember, you get your time back. There&#8217;s no gas, there&#8217;s no oil, there&#8217;s no smell, there&#8217;s no pull of a string.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> I guess I didn&#8217;t notice that this is electric, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> It is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> How does it charge?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> It actually goes back to the charging station by itself. Any robotic mower, the one thing you want to make sure of is it has the ability to charge because you don&#8217;t want to touch it. So when it&#8217;s done with its mowing routine, it&#8217;ll go back, self-dock, charge, and keep going back out to mow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> So, how big is the battery in the quarter acre?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> The batteries that we use are part of our Power Share system for Worx. We&#8217;re using a 20-volt 4-amp-hour or a 20-volt 5-amp-hour battery depending on the size.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Oh, okay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> And so these are completely removable, and it&#8217;s part of your overall Worx Power Share system. So you can take these batteries out to use them with a drill, a string trimmer, an edger, an ice cooler or a cooler, a fan. There&#8217;s an overall 100 different tools that you can choose from to use the Power Share platform.<\/p>\n<p>**Allison: ** Ah, We should have been checking out Worx a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> Hey, we&#8217;re here to make your life easier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Exactly. So we would find that at WORX.com?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> Yes. It&#8217;s WORX.com, or it&#8217;s available on Amazon, Lowes.com, and Walmart.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Perfect. Sounds like everywhere. All right, thank you very much. This is fantastic, and great presentation earlier. I really enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Todd:<\/strong> I appreciate it, Allison. Thank you so much. I appreciate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allison interviews Todd Zimmerman, Senior VP of Kress Sales\/Operations, about their WORX robotic mowers. They use a combination of Real-Time Kinetic (RTK) Cloud positioning for satellite-guided mowing, cameras with AI-assisted vision, and Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (V-SLAM) to maintain precise mowing patterns, even when GPS signals drop. 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