A cut above: Scottish tech firm plans grass-cutting revolution with satellite guided robot mower

From the battlefield and the surgery, to the factory floor and the skies above our heads, few areas are off-limits to the increasingly advanced robotic systems that are transforming our world and reshaping our place in it. 

But on the West of Scotland Science park - a quiet, leafy campus just outside Glasgow - an altogether more bucolic version of the robot revolution is underway.

This is the home of engineering startup Kingdom Technologies, developer of an advanced new robot lawnmower that, it’s claimed, could help transform the highly lucrative and rapidly growing global lawn care market.

Founded in 2018, Kingdom has spent the past five years prototyping, developing and refining a system said to be more advanced than anything else on the market. Following a series of successful trials, the company is now poised to embark on a new push for investment that could see its technology deployed around the world on golf courses, playing fields, university campuses, and - in fact - anywhere with lots of grass that needs cutting.