Segway Navimow is taking its robot lawn mowers from private yards to championship tennis grass.
The company announced that it has become an official international Platinum Partner of the Bad Homburg Open, the WTA grass court tournament in Germany running from June 20 to 27. The event is expected to feature top players including last year’s Wimbledon winner Iga Swiatek and Venus Williams.
For Navimow, the partnership is a very visible way to show what robotic mowing is supposed to do: keep grass precise, consistent, and playable without relying on buried boundary wires or constant manual work.
The company says its robotic mowers will maintain demanding lawn areas at a height of eight millimeters, matching the championship standard used for the tournament’s grass surfaces. That is not just a nice marketing detail. Grass court tennis depends on an unusually exact playing surface, where small inconsistencies can affect ball bounce, player movement, and court wear.
Navimow is deploying mowers from its X4 series at the Bad Homburg Open. The machines include EdgeSense, a feature designed to recognize walls, fences, edges, and height changes while mowing close to boundaries. The company says the system can mow up to about five centimeters from edges, which is one of those small details that matters if you have ever watched a robot mower leave an annoying strip behind.
The X4 series also uses Xero-Turn steering, which Navimow describes as turf-friendly turning technology. That is meant to reduce lawn damage during maneuvers, something that becomes especially important on grass surfaces expected to look clean and perform well under heavy use.
Efficiency is another part of the pitch. Navimow says its MowMentum system uses a twin-disc cutting deck with twelve blades to provide 1.8 times the coverage of single-disc systems. The mowers also use two 180-watt motors to cover large lawns more quickly.
The partnership shows how robot mowers are moving beyond backyard convenience and into higher-profile turf management. Sports venues, estates, public grounds, and commercial landscapes all need repeatable maintenance, and robotic systems are starting to look less like gadgets and more like part of the groundskeeping toolkit.
Navimow says it is the world’s top cordless robotic mower brand by retail sales volume for 2024 and 2025, with products used by more than 550,000 customers in over 40 countries and regions.
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