Lawnmowers

Gas-powered lawnmowers are notorious polluters. Switching to an electric or reel mower is certainly one option, but a team of engineering students from the University of California, Riverside are developing another: an attachment that they claim reduces noxious emissions by over 90 percent.

Cutting the lawn can be a tedious chore, so no-one wants to be doing it for longer than they must. The bods at Honda obviously feel the same way. The Honda Mean Mower has broken a Guinness World Record to become the world's fastest lawnmower.

Landscape equipment manufacturer Toro is looking to reshape the floor plan of backyard storage sheds with its Recycler mower, a lawn mower designed to be vertically stored without undesirable pools of oil and gas forming underfoot.

Sporting a 1000cc engine borrowed from a Honda VTR Firestorm and wearing all-terrain rubbers, the one-off Mean Mower from Honda UK just turned grass removal into an extreme sport.

RobotLabs claims its SmartMow robot lawnmower is safer than other models, and has launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring it to the market.

The Honda Miimo is Honda’s entry into the growing robotic lawn mower market.

The TANGO E5 will not only mow your lawn without you having to move off your garden lounge, but it will do so at times when you’d rather be indoors.

Bosch has introduced its new robotic lawnmower, the Indego.

The Robby Garden XP uses patented grass detection sensors to identify where to mow without the need to install a virtual perimeter wire.

The Momentum Reel Mower boasts InertiaDrive Technology that stores energy like a flywheel to unleash a burst of extra cutting power when tackling tough patches of lawn.

The world speed record for lawnmowers is currently 80 mph, but Project Runningblade, launched this week, aims to raise it to more than 100 mph using a highly-modified Countax-based machine.

Husqvarna has shown off its Panthera Leo concept mower with three cutting heads, LCD dashboard and collision avoidance system.