What I Really Think of My Yarbo Robots – 1 Year on the Farm

Yarbo asked me what I thought of my units after a year, for their Black Friday sale. https://go.yarbo.com/YQdXK (non-commission link) If you’ve never seen one before, Yarbo is basically a modular outdoor robot – one tracked base that you can attach different modules to, like a mower, a blower, or a snowblower. It docks itself on a wireless charging pad, connects through a data center, and you control and monitor it from your phone. I’m a farmer with a pretty beat-up body, chronic pain, and limited energy. I still want to get work done and look after my land and animals, but I don’t have the gas in the tank to do everything by hand anymore. That’s the real reason I use these robots. They’re not toys, and they’re not perfect, but they help me more than you might think. In this video I’m running two Yarbo robots at the same time off a single data center. One is out on my roughly 7,000 sq ft drive pad with the blower attachment, pushing around goat droppings, pebbles, and all the random farm junk that builds up. The other is down on the tennis court at the end of the season, blowing the last of the leaves off so I’m not walking around with a blower strapped to my back. While they’re working, I can save my body for other jobs that actually need me, not just my spine and shoulders. I walk you through how I actually use them day to day: the phone app, how I start and tweak work plans, how I can jump in and manually nudge them around when I want something cleaned a bit better, and how the Smart Vision cameras let me see what they see, whether they’re in the middle of a plan or I’m just driving them around. I also show the mowing side of things and give you an overview of the snowblower, along with real footage of it blowing snow so you can see it working in winter, not just in a promo shot. You’ll see them dock themselves on the wireless charging pads, you’ll see my goats and dogs hanging around them and staying pretty calm, and you’ll see what it looks like to have more than one Yarbo working on different jobs at the same time. On a bigger property, that’s where it starts to make sense: one is clearing the pad while the other is dealing with leaves, or mowing, or whatever job I don’t physically feel up to that day. I’m honest about the rough parts too. The first unit I got had some issues, and there have been bugs and moments where I was frustrated. I don’t hide that. I talk about what actually went wrong and how Yarbo dealt with it. They’re a growing company and you can tell—they push hotfixes, software updates, and even hardware changes. Ive even had a complete robot switched out, at no hassle, and no charge. In this video I show my original Yarbo side by side with the newest updated one so you can see what they’ve changed and improved over time. If you’re expecting a perfect robot that never has a problem, that’s not what this is. But if you’re someone with more land than energy, or you’re dealing with health issues, or you’re just tired of burning up your body on the same repetitive jobs over and over, this will give you a real look at how Yarbo fits into my life after a full year. I’m not here to give you a sales pitch—just my experience, what works, what doesn’t, and why, even with the flaws, I still keep these machines running on my farm.