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Will a robot mower work on your grass?

Yes — and the details differ by grass. Pick yours below for the honest owner's-manual answer: the right height and why, the year at a glance, and what daily cutting does to weeds. Or skip ahead and let the software work it out from your address.

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A real mixed lawn with clover and dandelions
Most lawns are a mix — often with weeds. That page is the one to read first.
Mixed lawn with clover and dandelions
🌿 Mixed / a blend — most lawns, honestly

Several grasses, some weeds, one yard. How robots handle blends, the one height rule that covers every mix, and why daily cutting beheads weeds before they seed.

Read the mixed-lawn fit check →

Or pick your grass

Tall Fescue close-up 🌿 Tall Fescue 3–4″ · cool-season Little-and-often is exactly what fescue wants: it never loses more than a whisker of blade at once, so it stays dense and never gets the ragged, clumpy look of a missed week. Kentucky Bluegrass close-up 🌱 Kentucky Bluegrass 2.5–3.5″ · cool-season Frequent light cuts make bluegrass THICKER: every trim nudges the rhizomes to branch, so the daily robot pass is quietly knitting your lawn denser all season. Perennial Ryegrass close-up 🌾 Perennial Ryegrass 2–3″ · cool-season Rye is the grass that punishes dull blades fastest — it frays and whitens within a day. Bermuda close-up ☀️ Bermuda 1–2″ · warm-season Bermuda grows faster than any lawn grass in summer heat — the one grass that can genuinely outrun a weekly mow. Zoysia close-up 🍃 Zoysia 1–2.5″ · warm-season Thatch is zoysia's one vice, and thatch comes from cutting too much at once. St. Augustine close-up 🌴 St. Augustine 2.5–4″ · warm-season The ⅓ rule is easy to break with St. Bahia close-up 🏝️ Bahia 3–4″ · warm-season Those wiry summer seed stalks can grow faster than a weekly service can return — it's the grass that makes weekly mowing feel pointless. Fine Fescue close-up 🪡 Fine Fescue 2.5–3.5″ · cool-season A robot's featherweight daily pass suits fine fescue far better than a heavy weekly mower — less crushing, less tearing, and the tiny clippings disappear into that dense, fine canopy. Centipede close-up 🐛 Centipede 1.5–2″ · warm-season Centipede's nickname is 'the lazy man's grass', and a robot completes the joke: a grass that wants minimal intervention, mowed by a machine that intervenes a few grams of clippings at a time. Buffalo Grass close-up 🦬 Buffalo Grass 2–3″ · warm-season A robot on buffalo grass is nearly retired — short growth, slow summer pace, no seed-stalk emergencies.

Not sure which one you have? Start with the mixed-lawn page — or map your lawn and pick from photos inside the app.