Exmark introduced its first commercial autonomous mower, the Turf Tracer with XiQ at Equip Expo. Designed to help ease the labor issues that many landscape contractors face, Turf Tracer with XiQ delivers supervised autonomy with a fully integrated high integrity safety system.
According to Exmark senior autonomous program manager, Jeremy Tate, the Turf Tracer with XiQ enables crews to do more, more efficiently.
“With the ability to mow in manual or autonomous modes, Turf Tracer with XiQ provides increased flexibility, productivity, and profitability for landscape professionals,” Tate said. “The XiQ technology package provides state-of-the-art location and safety systems to ensure reliable operation with easy mapping of properties.”
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Developed over more than four years, the XiQ technology package integrates high-precision GNSS and RTK location technologies with ISO-certified radar detection to detect obstacles and prevent collisions. The mapping technology makes it easy to create and store property profiles, and each profile is stored online for quick and easy recall on all autonomous units in a customer’s fleet.
While the Turf Tracer with XiQ is capable of operating on its own using its integrated full-color 4.3-inch display, Exmark has developed an easy-to-use mobile app for Android and iOS. It allows operators to store property maps and manage their autonomous fleet, and also provides live machine status updates in real time.
The integrated safety system offers audible and visual alarms to aid in safe operation, as well as collision avoidance, and PTO and ground drive monitoring. In addition, a full-color 4.3-inch display delivers comprehensive machine status data without the need to open the app. Equipped with a 60-inch UltraCut Series 4 cutting deck, the Turf Tracer with XiQ delivers the Exmark Signature cut quality, while the fabricated and fully welded construction provides the long-term durability Exmark customers expect.
The Tracer will be available in 2025.
