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Mammotion

Mammotion YUKA 3000

Name: Mammotion YUKA 3000
Brand: Mammotion

NetRTK positioning through Mammotion's iNavi service replaces both the buried wire and a separate base station, enabling full-yard autonomy under about an acre. Clipping collection depends on the sweeper kit, which is a separate purchase; with it fitted, the mower carries its own basket and tips it at one of up to 150 user-defined dumping spots. Blade durability and sweeper reliability remain underdocumented in field reports.

Autonomy Ladder

Why Level IV.

One five-rung scale, every category, from acting only on command to working unsupervised anywhere.

VGeneralized AutonomyAny task, any setting. No consumer robot has reached it.
To reach Level VWorks across task types and environments it was never configured for.
IVEnvironmental AutonomyThis robot

Mammotion YUKA 3000 sees ordinary obstacles before contact, copes without the space being cleared, and frees itself when stuck.

Navigation and control

RTK-GNSS + camera vision with AI obstacle avoidance
Why this level
- Jardinage Media's hands-on test reports it recognizes and routes around obstacles, and had no trouble with objects left on the lawn, so the yard needs no clearing first.
- The same test notes only that it sometimes circles while finding its route.
- Mammotion documents wire-free mapping with vision obstacle avoidance.
Autonomy dimension 78 / 100 · 7 sources reviewed
IIIConditional AutonomyFinishes whole jobs in familiar spaces; struggles at the edges.
IIAssisted AutonomyRuns preset routines; stalls at anything new.
IManual AutomationOne action on command; no independent operation.

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Behind the classification

Sources we reviewed.

Provisional7 sources reviewed

Enough has been reviewed to classify, but gaps remain across source types.

Sources reviewed

Manufacturer documentation1 sourceReviewed

Mammotion YUKA 3000 product page: NetRTK positioning through the iNavi service, vision navigation, the 45 percent slope rating, the optional sweeper kit and the 1-acre operational envelope.

Mammotion YUKA robot lawn mower product pagemammotion.com

Longitudinal signal2 sourcesReviewed

Robovations dated log for this robot: 3 tracked entries spanning ~7 months.

Firmware release notes1 sourceOngoing

Mammotion publishes firmware releases and software notes through its support portal; reviewed on an ongoing basis.

Mammotion support portalsupport.mammotion.com

Owner reports1 sourceOngoing

Owner-reported experience threads reviewed on an ongoing basis.

r/mammotion on Reddit: Anyone got a YUKA 3000?reddit.com

Specification sources2 sourcesReviewed

Pages the published specifications were read from.

Monitoring record4 sourcesReviewed

Sources behind the tracker entries following this robot.

How we evaluate evidence →

Human Readiness

Ready Now.

One question: what does buying this robot today walk you into? The state is computed from the record, and recomputed daily.

Ready NowThis robot

Mammotion YUKA 3000 is on sale, assessed, and nothing on its record argues for waiting.
How this was derived
- Shipping past the first-90-day ownership window with a published assessment, no documented issues on record, and no announced successor.
On the record
- Shipping since January 2025 · 20 months on the market
- Retail listings on file: Amazon
- No successor announced
- 7 sources reviewed
What would move it
A documented problem, an announced successor, or a withdrawn listing moves it out; the rating recomputes daily.
New to MarketOn sale under 90 days; the ownership record is still forming.
WaitA successor is announced and has not shipped; re-read the decision when it arrives.
Known IssuesDocumented problems stand on the record; read the case before buying.

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Robovations Score

How this number was reached

67of 100

CapableAt or above 49% of the 436 robots we scoreand 39% of the 109 scored robot lawn mowers

DeficientLimitedCapableStrongExemplary

Measured on 8 of the 9 inputs14% not counted

Our assessment did not establish an independent source for software stability on this machine, so that input is left out of the score rather than guessed at, and the rest re-weighted to fill the space. A gap in what we have been able to verify is not evidence against the robot. Where a whole pillar has nothing measured, we publish no number at all.

What moved itpoints gained or lost against a typical robot

Carried by

Routine maintenance95+3.4
Edge-case recovery65+1.3
Task completion78+1.0

Held back by

Field failure rate57−2.1
Support longevity52−1.0
Consumables61−0.6

Capability40% of the score72What it does without you.

Task completion16% of the score78

Evidence

The Staffordshire landscaper's assessment reports that 'the battery life is sufficient to cover the entire recommended area on a single charge,' that edge cutting left 'neat borders without the need for manual trimming,' and that in real-world use it 'proved reliable, consistently returning to its charging dock without issue,' with the single caveat that 'on particularly dense patches, I noticed it occasionally needed a second pass to achieve a uniform cut.'

Coverage and navigation10% of the score68

Evidence

Jardinage-media's hands-on says navigation is 'globalement bonne' and that its stereo vision meant 'je n'ai pas eu de mauvaise surprise avec des objets oubliés dans le jardin,' but qualifies that 'il lui arrive de tourner en rond avant de trouver le bon chemin,' which costs run time. Systematic and map-retained, with recurring inefficiency episodes rather than missed regions.

Edge-case recovery10% of the score65

Evidence

The only recovery behavior anyone in this set actually observed is jardinage-media's: when it loses the route it circles until it finds the way through, 'rien de dramatique,' and the reviewer reports no intervention across the test. That is self-resolution of the class's routine confusion, though no source documents a genuine stall on a wet slope or a beaching, so it does not reach the top anchor. The stored 43 asserts a halt-and-wait or found-stalled machine that no fetched page supports.

Operating envelope4% of the score75

Evidence

The Staffordshire assessment reports it 'handled a 45% incline in a client's uneven, hilly garden in Cannock with ease' and that rain sensors return it to the dock in bad weather, with the one documented degradation being dense growth needing a second pass. Holds across slope, uneven terrain and wet weather, degrades in a single named condition.

Dependability40% of the score55Whether it keeps doing it.

Field failure rate16% of the score57

Evidence

Testberichte.de's 19.10.2025 verdict, drawn from Drohnen.de, Notebookcheck and Heise online, lists 'Gelegentliche technische Probleme' among its weaknesses and states there are 'Berichte über gelegentliche technische Probleme,' while customer support is described as helpful and responsive. A recurring mode reported across independent outlets, not universal and not stated to be job-stopping, which sits below the normal-field-record anchor rather than at it. Note the same page's datasheet claims 'Eine Kamera ist nicht integriert,' which is wrong for this machine, so only the aggregated verdict is used.

Software stabilitynot countedno source verified65

Evidence

The ordinary-case anchor on vendor practice rather than model evidence. Mammotion demonstrably publishes dated release logs for its mower lines, so an inspectable channel exists and no regression pattern is reported across nineteen months. This record cites only the support portal home page with no model-specific release history, so nothing further can be claimed in either direction.

Support longevity10% of the score52

Evidence

A short service term, and it governs the machine's core capability. Positioning is NetRTK delivered over the mower's 4G radio through Mammotion's iNavi service, and the record states one year of service is included, against three years on the LUBA 3 and the LUBA mini 2. Renewal terms are unpublished, so the positioning arrangement enters unknown cost inside year two. Mammotion's parts and service channel is otherwise real, and sweeper consumables and blade pricing are both undocumented on this record.

Ownership burden20% of the score81What it asks of you.

Routine maintenance12% of the score95

Evidence

A light published schedule: seasonal blade replacement on both discs, monthly dock contact cleaning, seasonal indoor storage with the pack charged, and keeping the user-defined dumping spots clear if the sweeper is fitted. There is no boundary wire and no base station to site or service. One reservation rather than a deduction: the record advertises no monthly sensor cleaning on a vision-navigated machine, where a camera-guided mower usually schedules lens cleaning weekly or monthly.

Consumables8% of the score61

Evidence

The blade interval is excellent, seasonal rather than monthly, on flip-and-replace items across two discs. Three unknowns hold the score down and all three are the record's own admissions: Mammotion's current blade set price is not recorded, sweeper kit consumable costs are not documented in field reports, and the 4G and iNavi service that carries the corrections is included for one year with no published renewal price. A machine whose positioning needs a service is not cheap to run just because its blades are.

middle half of the databaseits medianthis robot

Reported, not scoredneither measures how well the robot works

Five-year cost$2,950

Middle of the range for wire-free robot mowers, with two soft numbers inside it. Figured on the $2,099 MSRP, roughly $200 of blade sets across five years on a seasonal interval, one replacement battery pack, and four years of iNavi and 4G service. That last item is the assumption a reader should see, and it is a large one: only one year of service is included, against three on the LUBA 3 and LUBA mini 2, and renewal pricing is unpublished, so years two through five carry a category-typical estimate for a correction service the mower's boundary depends on. Two notes on the purchase itself: the record lists a current price of $1,449 against the $2,099 MSRP used here, and the sweeper kit that provides clipping collection is a separate purchase not included in either figure.

Data postureCloud-dependent

Core function stops without the vendor cloud.

What leaves the homeNot documented

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FIT CHECK

Will the Mammotion YUKA 3000 work on your yard?

Describe your yard using the controls. Each choice reads the spec sheet for you, flagging where the Mammotion YUKA 3000 is built for your space and where it isn’t.

Yard size

Terrain

Grass type

Boundary setup

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A classification of fit for the conditions you set, not a recommendation. Verdicts describe engineering design intent, not test results.

OWNERSHIP

Living with it.

RTK consistency and sweeper durability unproven over seasons.

Unprovenowner-reported arc

The record so far

Manufacturer documentation covers RTK accuracy and vision capability; multi-year reliability data sparse. Self-emptying sweeper mechanism is novel; long-term durability undocumented.

What goes wrong4 documented · 1 self-recover

Common

Blade dullnessUneven cut, scalping on slopes, increased motor load

Owner fixSeasonal blade replacement; $40–80 per pair

Occasional

RTK signal dropoutMower stops or reverts to vision-only navigation

Self-recoversVerify base-station power and antenna alignment

Occasional

Sweeper brush wearReduced sweeping efficiency, grass accumulation at dock

Owner fixReplace annually per manufacturer schedule

Occasional

Charging station contaminationPoor dock connection, incomplete charging, sweeper misalignment

Owner fixClean dock contacts and sweeper funnel weekly

Upkeep routine

Monthly12×/yr

Clean the charging dock contacts, and if the sweeper kit is fitted, clear grass from the brush and the basket.

Seasonal4×/yr

Replace the small on both cutting discs. They are flip-and-replace items: sharpening strips the coating and weakens a part that spins on an unattended machine.

Store the mower indoors over winter with its battery charged. Lithium packs are stored charged, not run flat.

As neededno fixed schedule

Keep the user-defined dumping spots clear so the mower can tip its basket where it expects to.

Cost over timeabout $240 past the sticker over three years

PurchaseRunning cost

Year 1

$2,179

Year 3

$2,339

Year 5

$2,499

$2,099 to buy, then about $80 a year for the replaceable parts below. Over three years that is roughly $240 past the sticker price. Excludes electricity and any repairs.

What you replace

Seasonally

Replacement cadence from the maintenance schedule; prices shown where the source documents them. Part links may earn a commission and do not influence the classification. All parts at Mammotion

Step-by-step fixes

Blades Not Spinning or Not Cutting?Cutting Uneven or Scalping the Lawn?Says No Loop Signal or Lost Satellite?All robot mower guides

Safety notes2 notes

RTK antenna placementBase-station position affects accuracy. Dense trees and buildings degrade signal.
Moving blade hazardRotary blade presents pinch/laceration risk. Keep hands clear during operation.

SPECIFICATION

The full spec sheet.

Priced above the category median, with every figure charted against the category below.

Dimensional drawing

Key specificationsManufacturer-published

FootprintThe width, depth and height of the robot itself, without its dock.: 25.5 × 20.4 in · 13 in tall•
WeightThe robot alone, without its dock, as the maker states it.: 36 lbs•
Wi-FiThe bands the robot can join; many models need a 2.4 GHz network to set up.: Supported
NetworkA radio the robot carries besides Wi-Fi, so it reaches the maker without your router.: Cellular
Max slope: 45%•
Max area: 32,700 sq ft•
Blade system: 2 cutting discs•
Boundary method: Wire-free, RTK-GNSS with camera vision
Drive layout: Rear-wheel drive

Where it lands · ranked across 128 robot lawn mowersThis robotMedianTypical range

PriceThe maker's list price, not a price found in a shop.$2,099

$549$5,999

Near median

WeightThe robot alone, without its dock, as the maker states it.36lbs

13 lbs134 lbs

Near median

Position shows where the figure sits across the tracked category, not a quality judgment.

Official referencesProduct page

RECORD

How the assessment has moved.

Every announcement, release and reassessment behind the current classification.

Coming soon

Just launched

Active updates

Settled

Discontinued

Sep 2026 · AssessmentAutonomy Ladder reclassified IV → III
Sep 2026 · AssessmentRecord status: Verified → Provisional
Sep 2026 · AssessmentReadiness reassessed: Promising Progress → Ready Now
Aug 2026 · AssessmentRecord status: Provisional → Verified
Aug 2026 · AssessmentRobovations Score rescored under v4.2: 73 → 67
Jul 2026 · AssessmentRobovations Score recorded at 73 of 100
Aug 2025 · UpdateMammotion app update adds multi-zone scheduling and RTK signal diagnostics for YUKA 3000
Mar 2025 · ReleaseEnters commercial release with $1,599 retail pricing

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Jan 2025 · AnnouncementUnveiled at CES 2025 with wire-free RTK design

Editorial comparisons

How Mammotion YUKA 3000 compares.

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Tech shift

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Goal-based

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Common questions

What people actually ask.

5 answered

OperationDo I need to bury a perimeter wire for the YUKA 3000?

No, and there is no base station either. RTK positioning replaces the wire, and the corrections arrive over the network through Mammotion’s iNavi service, which Mammotion states lets the mower use NetRTK without a physical RTK base station. The reference receiver and antenna are built into the machine.

OperationWhat is the YUKA 3000's operating range?

Manufacturer specs list 0.5–1 acre as documented working range. Multi-acre operation would require multiple boundary zones or faces battery limitations.

OwnershipHow often do I replace the blades, and what do they cost?

The YUKA 3000 cuts with two rotating discs, each carrying several small replaceable blades, so there is no single mower blade to price. Replacement is seasonal, sooner with heavy use, and the blades are flipped or swapped rather than sharpened. Mammotion’s current price for the blade set is not recorded here.

OperationWhat happens if the RTK signal drops mid-mow?

Fallback behavior is not documented. With NetRTK the correction arrives over the network, so cellular or Wi-Fi coverage and the mower’s view of the sky are what determine practical reliability, not the distance to a base station.

OperationCan the YUKA 3000 operate in rain or wet grass?

Mammotion does not publish explicit weather guidelines for this model. Satellite positioning is not the limit: GNSS signals are microwave transmissions that pass through rain and cloud with negligible attenuation. What wet conditions affect is traction, clumping and cut quality, and a wet camera lens for vision-based avoidance.

Availability

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Mammotion YUKA 3000

Will the Mammotion YUKA 3000 work on your yard?

Living with it.

The full spec sheet.

How the assessment has moved.

How Mammotion YUKA 3000 compares.

Do wire-free robot mowers with sensor fusion navigate better?

Robot mowers for fragmented yards: zone transit and narrow passages

Robot mowers for detached lawns: zones, transport paths, and second docks

What people actually ask.