The market potential for robotic lawn mowers greatly exceeds current sales. Price, skepticism, complexity, and unfamiliarity all play a role.If one purpose of a robot is to remove the burden of dangerous, difficult, time-consuming, or tedious tasks from humans, then the robotics industry has been failing a large part of the consumer market.No one has yet come up with a reliable, inexpensive device willing to do the dishes or the laundry. However, the availability of robotic lawn-mowing equipment continues to increase, with steady improvements in technology and price. Despite advances, however, the labor-saving technology homeowners still turn to most often is a relatively old-fashioned solution: a spottily reliable teenage boy. But Robotics Business Review expects that to change over the next decade, as robotic lawn mowers better address navigation and obstacle-avoidance issues, as well as safety concerns.