Kress releases new autonomous mower details

Kress has unveiled a new autonomous mower called the Cut N Go. The mower comes with a 40-inch deck and was unveiled at the company’s NEXT Summit in early April.

Kress hosted the event in Colorado Springs, Colorado and invited selected media and representatives from more than 3 dozen landscaping companies to see the new mower and to talk about battery powered products and autonomous mowers.

Cut N Go is designed to navigate residential properties with crews mapping each customer’s lawn once — a ride-on process — which allows Cut N Go to navigate lawns “by memory” each subsequent time it’s deployed, storing infinite property maps. It can mow in the background while crews complete other tasks.

Cut N Go can mow as many as five acres on one charge and autonomously loads and unloads from a trailer, or even moves from one property to the next — trailer free — in an HOA-style neighborhood.

It features a 5,000-hour operational life and fully integrates into the Kress Fleet Management System. With boundary-wire-free navigation and 360-degree obstacle avoidance on par with autonomous vehicles, Cut N Go avoids people, pets, pools, trees, gardens, toys and lawn furniture.

Cut N Go also features all day run time and ride-on mode for initial property mapping and commuting across large properties.

The automower market

Kress CEO Don Gao was on hand at the event and told attendees that the battery-powered market is ready for a new start. He said some landscapers had poor experiences with battery-powered equipment before, but that has to change. Gao has been traveling the country to speak with landscapers about the technology.

“We need to rebuild their trust, their confidence, their understanding,” he said, adding Kress is not a products company, rather a technology provider.

Sales will begin in 2026 at Kress dealer locations across North America.

More from the event

During a panel discussion on autonomous mowing at the event, Todd Reinharrt, owner of Reinhart Landscaping & Snow, said having a champion to deploy and manage autonomous mowers will help a company succeed with them. “They are on their own to support robots,” he says. “Not on any crews. Otherwise, it is noise.”

David "DJ" Johnson, executive vice president of national accounts, commercial sales, said the company didn’t do everything perfect out of the gate with some products, but have listened to the feedback and acted on it.

“Weight was an issue on certain products, runtime on a certain product, just different things,” he said. “We listened and within 18 months, I think we got where we needed to be. So there're really not any more objections that we need to drastically overcome. That's the good thing about our company under Don's leadership: If we hear something that is causing us a problem, we try to address it really quickly.”