ECOVACS Goat A2500 RTK Robot Lawn Mower, Lidar-Enhanced RTK+Vision Navigation, Auto-Mapping, Dual Blades, Edge Precision Mowing, Perimeter Wire-Free, Suitable for 5/8 Acres Lawn, 50% Slope Capability

I love my new robomower! It took a couple of tries over a couple of days to get things just right-- finding a good home for the mower and base, moving the satellite receiver so I get excellent reception everywhere, outlining and re-outlining the areas I want mowed with every change, learning to control the mower manually, learning to use the app-- but it was worth it! Now I have it mow all three yards (front, back, side) every 2-3 days which allows me to use the time I used to spend mowing doing other yard work and outdoor projects that I've been neglecting because I was too worn out from mowing in this Texas heat and humidity to do them. My yard in just over 1600 SF all together and the mower can do all of it on one charge in about 1.5 to 2 hours. Sometimes when I ran the mower extra and the battery did run low, the mower returned to its base, charged itself, and then went back out and completed the job. I really like the map in the app which shows you where the mower is, what has been mowed (both in area and percentage), and how much battery is remaining. The mower will send a message if it gets stuck but it's pretty good at getting itself unstuck too if you just leave it be. For sticking issues, the mower can dig a bit of a hole in the grass but as I've used it over these couple of weeks, the problem areas it ran in to are either now "no go" zones that I've added to the map or else the problem resolved itself organically. For example, initially the mower got hung up on some (surprisingly strong) long tendrils of St Augustine grass I had grown in some problematic areas of the yard where a shade tree had been removed and new grass was beginning to grow in to some previous grass-free areas. But after having the area mowed a couple of times the grass tendrils are broken up and now are tamed enough that the mower no longer gets stuck there. Where there was a large tree root or a flower bed without a clear border that the mower could detect, I just "no go" zoned those spots. I bought a different pole to mount the satellite receiver so that it is 12 feet high instead of the 5-ish feet that comes with the mower. This was needed because of the size and placement of my grassy areas, the heavy tree cover, and the closeness of my neighbors houses did not always provide excellent communication between the receiver and the mower. There are lots of inexpensive ways to improve the reception of the receiver such as using a cement or water or sand filled umbrella holder for a base and mounting the receiver to a wooden closet rod, or buying a portable flag pole such as those used by RV travelers, or even strapping the receiver to the side of a chimney. The mower base likes to be out in the open for best reception. I suppose you could keep it in the garage but I think you probably would have to open the garage door and move the mower/base outside to put it on auto-pilot-- not 100% sure about that-- which sort of defeats the automatic and programming features available on the unit. The mower didn't like being parked under an eve of the house due to satellite reception (pre new pole. Maybe it would work now with the improved receiver location). I didn't want the mower and base on the grass itself since we have short but heavy rains here and I didn't want it to drown. Plus keeping it on the grass would kill the grass under the charging base which building a stepping stone pad to move it an inch or two higher would not prevent. So I build it a home on the deck and then built a small ramp for it to get up and down off the deck. It does not need or want a lot of ramp (I think my ramp is about 6-8 inches long) since it begins to turn shortly after leaving the base and it handles the incline just fine. I do worry a little about theft. Someone could certainly just pick it up and throw it in a truck if they saw it unwatched in the front yard but it would be useless to them. The mower won't work at all without the base and receiver but how would they know that? The mower does have a recorded message if picked up. It also requires a passcode needed to restart it once picked up but again, how would a thief know that? Once it was all set up and the various issues were resolved, I have no complaints at all about this mower! It is a smart machine that does a fine job of mowing. It can manage a few small sticks and leaves just fine. Of course, pick up any large sticks. I also want to build a "garage" or small cover over it jut it give it a little shade since it is sooo hot down here but I think I might just buy a small patio table instead so I can have a double duty item on the deck- a table and a garage for the mower. The upshot is I love this mower. It's made my life a lot easier. It's quiet, cuts well, has has a lot of nice features.

November 2025 update: After communicating with customer support back and forth for weeks, I'm pretty sure the root cause is due to the RTK receiver not getting stable and solid signals. With 2-year product warranty, they shipped a brand-new replacement to me very quickly. They went above and beyond. I received a latest version of the mower. The new one is a game changer. With the dual lidar system, the mower is working great so far. But the drawback is that I can no longer see the satellite signal strength from the app, which I do not think is a good idea. Anyway, I'm impressed with their customer service, and I think the latest model is great if you have lots of trees around your lawn. ---------------------------- This robot mower stopped functioning correctly after just two months. The main issues are critical system failures that persist despite repeated attempts to fix them (I remapped the yard more than twice): • Navigation Failure: It constantly goes off the map and struggles to "scroll out" of the edge boundaries, often freezing mid-mow. • Connectivity: The unit consistently reports a poor signal from the receiver, which seems to cause the mapping errors. • Customer Support: Trying to resolve these issues was difficult due to slow customer service. Responses took at least one day per inquiry, making troubleshooting a painful process. Overall, this has been an extremely bad experience with a costly product.

I’ve had the GOAT A2500 RTK for a few days now but just got around to setting it up. Connection to the app was quick and easy. At first, I placed the round positioning antenna in the wrong spot, which caused frequent disconnections between the mower and the base. After relocating it to a better position, the connection became stable and hasn’t dropped since. My grass was quite tall, so the first mow took a long time, but the second run went much smoother and faster—clearly the system adapts over time. The cutting quality is solid, and once you get through the learning curve, the mower works as advertised. I love that it returns to charge on its own and resumes mowing without much input. The navigation is quite accurate thanks to the LiDAR and RTK tech, though I did have to spend some time understanding how to properly map zones using the app. It could use some improvements, especially in how it handles separated areas or custom zones, but overall, the setup is manageable. I haven’t had any issues with it getting stuck or leaving big patches uncut, and it performs well on my mostly flat lawn. It’s reduced my mowing workload drastically. If you take the time to place the sensors correctly and learn the app settings, this mower is definitely worth it.

For the most part it does a pretty good job. Properly mapping is a must if you want it to get to the edges and not skip or get hung up. Seems to mow over the same area a lot only taking a small cut. It will get confused but eventually will go back to its pattern. Batteries could use a little upgrade and GPS mapping is decent. For the price point it’s a good buy. I’m satisfied with this as my expectations weren’t over the top but if I had to do it again I might upgrade. All in all 4 stars!

Mostly worked as intended in the first season in 2025, Occasionally it would go out of bounds into a neighbor’s yard, but it kept to the schedule time after time. It did eat a tennis ball one time and wedge it over the cutting blades so the yard got scalped from the lowered blades. After restarting this season it has become infatuated with the neighbor’s lawn, often making the equivalent of crop circles. It can get lost while docking or go out of bounds and just stop when it goes below 15% power. Rebooting helps for a day then it shifts the map boundaries by 10 feet south which puts it out of bounds with no alert. I think it might work if I reboot it every day which is hard to schedule. I thought it would be more stable based on previous Ecovacs products. I can’t trust an unstable product like this and would not recommend their mowers.

So far so good. But ONE BIG issue is that the setup is QUITE a bit unintuitive, and HAVING to use the phone app to set mowing boundaries requires a process of trying to use one digit of your hand to do something that only would work well if you had a joy stick. It's IMPOSSIBLE to guide the mower in a straight line due to this. But, for me, even though it means more trimming with my Weed Wacker for now (because it can't keep a straight line based on the process to attempt to get it to not being thought out well), the mower itself does do well cutting the areas you are able to define for it to do. And it normally works without glitches, even it it requires being recharged a couple of times and returning to base, before the areas are completed. BUT I've still not once had the mower end up not missing a spot or two (and with no less than a minimum of four or five feet uncut, here and there where it just failed to mow), before informing me it had successfully cut the ENTIRE selected area (which I'd have thought should INCLUDE not missing patches of grass up to five feet long, and thinking it had cut them, too). Once in a while I'll have to re establish my Bluetooth connection for no reason. I can live with that. And sometimes, the mower won't continue it's task (will get locked up after running into a problem) without needing to restart the mower. And the problem is that makes it forget (evidently deletes from it's memory) the progress it had already made mowing the area, so that I'll need to tell it to start over to mow the ENTIRE area it may have already been close to finished mowing. So, it needs work to be an effortless GPS robotic mower. It'll get stuck sometimes (but far less than the boundary wire Husqvarna Automower it replaced) so that I'll have to go out and move it away from the place it stopped mowing). And I can live with that, too. The reason I'm giving it four stars instead of the THREE it deserves max (if we're basing them on value for it's NORMAL PRICE) is that I paid only $1200 for it to cut my half acre yard and am now free of neighbors cutting through my Husqvarna's boundary wires when they're edging their sidewalk. And the GPS has NOT ever caused glitches. That was my biggest concern, honestly with a lot of trees in my yard. But I have it mounted on my roof (where a direct tv satellite mount is which no longer has a satellite dish in it, that came with my home, and made a convenient holder after using a U-bolt to mount it to it). Even at 40% less than the normal price, my MAIN concern (the risk I was most worried about) was if it would glitch out because of not being able to locate a GPS satellite because of a lot of trees and ALSO just because some brands of mowers evidently just don't do that well. And maybe some of these ECOVACS Goat A2500s have glitches with that for some who (if so) didn't luck out like I seem to have based on this NOT being one of the issues I've ever had. Instead, the glitches I'm having are (hopefully) something future app updates might allow to be less glitchy. And if you're reading this, ECOVACS, PLEASE develop a setup boundary setup area process that doesn't require trying to guide the mower using one finger moving it in a very tiny circle on your phone screen. At least make it like Mammotion's (I know because my son bought one) that lets you guide the boundary setups using two thumbs letting the process possible to help you keep moving the mower in a straight line. It's impossible with the current app and process you have designed for this. PLEASE fix it. I'll try later to see if I can re-set the boundaries by putting the mower in a pull (Gorilla) cart and pulling it around my yard where I want the boundaries to be. Maybe that'll be an optional alternative to the currently poorly designed phone app's only way to let you do this. Evidently some manufacturer's of robotic mowers will work to establish the boundaries by doing this. I have yet to determine if it will work for my GOAT. Bottom line. The app needs work. My GOAT (can't tell you if you'll have the same experience if you get one) has no problems connecting with GPS. But don't expect a perfected wire free robotic mowing experience with this mower. It won't give you that. It needs work/better programming to give you that. But if you can buy it new for $1200, and it works as well as mine (which is TOLERABLY well, which I'll define as definitely not glitch free now and then), then you'll have something that works well enough most of the time, that you'll probably find it a less stressful experience than any wire-based mower. And my Husqvarna, although more sturdy and of better quality Auto Mower's app is much better and local support easier to find (vs. probably having to ship this off someplace if something ever happens in the warranty period requiring something if/when this fails -- which hasn't yet happened after about six months use), I DO prefer this mower because of the hassle of the boundary wires.

I wasn’t sure what to expect from a robot lawn mower but it really impressed me. Setting it up was surprisingly simple. No need to mess with any buried wires. Just open the app, let it map your yard and you’re basically good to go. It uses some kind of advanced GPS and vision system that keeps it super accurate, even around trees and flower beds. Once it finishes mapping, it pretty much runs on autopilot. As for mowing, it does a good job. The blades cut clean and even, and the mower moves at a good pace. It covers my lawn without missing spots and it is much quieter than I thought it would be. I have a little over half an acre and it handles it with ease. It also docks itself when it’s low on battery which is great because I never have to worry about charging it. There are a couple of things to keep in mind. It sometimes misses narrow edges or spots really close to fences, so I still do some quick touch ups with a trimmer. The app works fine most of the time. I used to dread mowing the lawn but now it’s completely off my to do list. It saves me time and the yard looks great. If you’re someone who wants to spend less time sweating in the sun and more time relaxing, this is definitely worth checking out. It’s not perfect but it does 95 percent of the work for you.

Frequently gets stuck, often violates the defined "no go" zones, a single run over an obstacle due to a malfunction ruins a $15 set of blades and saddles you with ordering and painstakingly replacing 6 blades. The powering of the RTK from the docking station does not work - the unit comes up, but there is no sufficient power, so it finds no satellites. Powering the RTK with the included "bonus" adapter works well, but they should not call it "bonus" when it's the only way to make the thing work. 1 year update: still dismal performance, requires absolutely flat and smooth surface to operate (especially its docking station - best of all if there is 30' of concrete all around it). It will respect the "no go" zones while mowing, but if one happens to be in its way while it's heading to a different zone, it will happily enter it, then realize what it had done, stop, and scream for help. It doesn't just happen once in a while, it's 100% reproducible: if there is a "no entry" zone in Area A, and the robot is heading to mow Area B, and that "no entry" zone happens to be in its path, it will get stuck in it 100% of the time. Make sure you make the "no go" zones physically inaccessible (surround them with rocks, garden gnomes, or little flags), and create a "goat rescue" schedule for your family, making sure there is always a person standing-by to intervene if there is a problem.

I have tried to get support for this product and they say it’s from USA and there for your not covered. The product was sent out with a 110 PSU and so won’t work in UK. If you want to send back you lose the following .. Shipping cost and the tax to bring this product over to uk which was over £400 … this should be removed from amazon in UK or restrictions should be clearly shown … Ecovac have a lot to answer for…£1800 dead