Remote-Controlled Lawn Mowers

A remote control lawn mower is the answer for ground that is unsafe to walk with a mower and too steep for most autonomous robots: hillsides, retention ponds, ditches, embankments, and fields of waist-high overgrowth. You stand on stable footing and drive the mower with a handheld controller, so the machine takes the risk and you keep the view. RoboticsSelect carries the complete Mowrator S1 line as an authorized dealer: five battery-powered, zero-turn models from the S1 2WD at $2,499 to the S1 4WD Grip Tread Tire Edition at $4,399, rated for slopes from 45 to 119 percent.

Pick by slope first. The S1 2WD ($2,499) is rear-wheel drive, rated for 45 percent (24-degree) grades, cuts overgrowth up to 27 inches tall, and weighs 99.2 pounds without its battery. The S1 4WD 12Ah ($3,499) and S1 4WD 18Ah ($3,999) add four independent brushless wheel motors with 1,000 W of traction, 3.94 inches of obstacle clearance, and 51-inch overgrowth capacity, and climb 75 percent (37-degree) slopes. The Wide Wheel Edition ($4,299) fits puncture-free TPU wide wheels with a larger contact patch for 85 percent (40-degree) grades, and the Grip Tread Tire Edition ($4,399) uses 12 mm non-directional tread teeth for mud, wet grass, and slopes up to 119 percent, which is 50 degrees.

Then pick by runtime. The 12Ah battery in the 2WD and 4WD 12Ah runs up to 1.5 hours, about 0.75 acre per charge, and recharges in about 70 minutes on the included 600 W fast charger. The 18Ah pack in the 4WD 18Ah, Wide Wheel, and Grip Tread editions stretches that to 2.25 hours and about 1.125 acres per charge, with a 90-minute recharge. All packs are detachable automotive-grade LiFePO4 rated for 1,500 or more cycles. Our Mowrator S1 comparison puts all five side by side.

The cutting deck is the same across the line: a 21-inch swath, 1,985 W of peak cutting power with 6.0 ft-lbs of torque, blade speed adjustable up to 3,200 RPM, and five cutting heights. Every S1 mows, mulches, side-discharges, or vacuums and collects, pulling leaves and clippings at 931 CFM into a 70 L bag, and covers about 0.5 acre per hour at a top speed of 3.4 mph. Zero-turn steering, cruise control, and an IMU-based auto U-turn make long passes on a slope repeatable, and the 2.4 GHz dual-antenna controller responds in 5 milliseconds.

Safety is built in for a machine you steer from a distance: four ultrasonic radars, a bumper sensor, tilt protection, grass-outlet lift protection, and two emergency stop buttons. The high-strength aluminum frame carries an IP54 rating for light rain, the mower runs at 63 dB measured from 3 meters, and firmware updates arrive over the air.

If your lawn is flat to moderately sloped and you want to stop thinking about mowing altogether, an autonomous robotic lawn mower is the better buy. If the problem is a specific hill, ditch, or field that a walk-behind cannot handle safely, the S1 solves it in an afternoon and doubles as a leaf vacuum in the fall. Many properties end up with both: a robot for the front and back lawn, and a Mowrator for the bank behind the fence.

Mowrator covers the mower, remote controller, and battery for 2 years or 2,000 hours of use, whichever comes first, with 1 year on the charger, and warranty service runs through RoboticsSelect as the authorized dealer. Every S1 ships free to the contiguous 48 US states, with most orders leaving the warehouse within 1 to 5 business days and tracking emailed within 24 hours of dispatch, and Shop Pay Installments powered by Affirm splits eligible purchases into four interest-free biweekly payments at 0% APR, with a soft credit check that never affects your score. Every model in this collection is priced over $2,000, so our price match policy matches any verified lower price from an authorized online retailer, and beats it by $50 on products over $2,000. Please note that Mowrator products cannot be shipped to California. Call (412) 415-7375 or email support@roboticsselect.com, Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm EST, if you want to talk through a specific slope before ordering.