Robotic mower releases its own kidnapping: « When thief tried to start the lawn at home, he ran into the lamp » (remarkable)
The robotic lawnmower photographed the thief when he wanted to activate the device. – © EEVE
A Belgian -made robotic mower has solved his own ‘kidnapping’. The built-in camera of the robot was able to portray the thief recognizable, the GPS location did the rest. End well, already good … except for the perpetrator.
« When I went to sleep on Friday evening, the robotic lawnmower still happily drove around my garden. The next day he had disappeared without a trace, » says Oostdenaar Bart Vandaele. « Someone had taken him along with the charging station. I received a message on my smartphone that the device had been moved, but I could not see the location myself. Fortunately, the manufacturer was. »
The thief in question. He first tried to deny the facts. – © EEVE
‘Sheriff’ mode
The ‘kidnapped’ robotic lawnmower was therefore not a model during the week. According to manufacturer Eeve from Waregem, the Willow is completely AI-controlled: it functions without border wire, scans the site and prints everything neatly in his memory. He communicates with an app on the smartphone of his ‘owner’, knows his GPS coordinates and is equipped with a camera that can make and forward images. And he has a ‘sheriff’ mode: you can program him in such a way that he monitors the site in certain hours and records images with the least movement.
« The resident first tried to talk to it: they had bought the device themselves, so to speak. But they could not prove that, while we could present all the documents »
Bart Vandaele
And the thief has experienced that to his own scha and shame. « When he tried to start the lawn mower at his home, he ran to the lamp, » says Vandaele. « My son then went to the police with that photo and the GPS coordinates. They had not yet experienced something similar. On Tuesday they rang the bell at the location in question and found it our robotic mower. The resident first tried to talk to it: they had bought the device, so to speak.
The lawn mower has a ‘sheriff’ mode: the device is then programmed that it ‘guarded’ a site at certain hours. – © EEVE
And so the Willow has solved its own abduction. In the meantime, the robotic lawnmower is once again doing his thing in the Ostend garden. End well, well … except for the perpetrator, for whom this story still gets a tail.
