‘When it must pivot, it turns the wheels and does a crab stroll’ – Segway Navimow exec reveals the invention which means its new flagship lawnbot will not churn up your grass

There have been loads of spectacular lawnbots on present at CES 2026, however Segway Navimow’s new flagship has a trick I did not see anyplace else. It is all to do with the way it handles tight turns, and I had an opportunity to grill a model exec on precisely the way it all works.

I spoke with Tony Ho, Vice President of Enterprise Growth for Segway Navimow, and he informed me that another lawnbots had an inclination to churn up the garden when making a pivot (a standard requirement, as most lawnbots lately will mow in straight, parallel traces, turning on the high of every row).

“Once they flip, the wheels are rubbing in opposition to the grass. It type of simply kills the grass on the turning level,” he defined.

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For the brand new X4 sequence, Segway Navimow got here up with a special technique. “The X4 has this function the place it nearly turns the wheels and does a crab stroll. It is one in every of our innovations. Our engineers are so happy with that,” he tells me. “We prefer to say, ‘It is robust on the terrain, nevertheless it’s very mild on the grass.'”

The ‘robust on terrain’ a part of that’s vital, too. The X4 was designed particularly with giant and difficult yards – the type which might be frequent in North America – in thoughts.