2025 could be the year of the robot lawn mower

Manufacturers are hoping that the convenience and regained leisure time the machines offer will be enough to rope in American homeowners.

Skeptics scoffed in 2002 when Roomba introduced the robot vacuum to homeowners. That didn’t last very long as the little round device quickly became a fixture in millions of households. Now the lawn care industry is hoping for the same sort of revolution as the robots make their way to the front yard.