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The Missouri Department of Transportation has purchased a remote-control lawnmower to help trim grass along Kansas City-area highways.MoDOT purchased the mower, known as a Spider, after seeing one ...

Now you can sit back and mow your lawn with a Wii remote controller. Researchers in Denmark call it the Casmobot. It's pretty basic: Tilt the remote forward, the mower drives forward. Tilt it back, ...

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Early Wednesday afternoon, what looked like a compact version of NASA’s Mars Rover could be seen crawling up and down the hillside of Walter Kunz Stadium, along John James Audubon Parkway. The bright ...

There’s something about lawn mowers and hackers. A desire to make them into smart, independent robots. Probably in preparation for the day when Skynet becomes self-aware or the Borg collective comes ...

ST. LOUIS — On a hot June day, a $65,000 machine sliced a path through an inhospitable landscape in the heart of St. Louis. Johnny Epps stood at the top of a steep, overgrown hill off South ...

Baby steps are the name of the game with this lawn mower. Behold the Remote Control Lawn Mower 2006 S-Class. All standard lawn mowing components are involved except the tag-a-long human guide. This ...

[Terry] sent in the first of his projects that he’s posted on his site. Having grown up in the midwestern US, I can’t even express how badly I wanted to build one of these puppies when I was a kid.