Roborock's Australian robot mower site is live and documents four families, and this is the first correction to make: most of the coverage this week listed six models. Roborock's own Australian specification pages list eight. The RockMow Z115 and Z130 sit alongside the Z150 and have been left out of nearly every write-up.

The range as Roborock documents it

RockNeo Q1, meaning the Q105 and Q110, is the entry line. Roborock's own page puts the Q1 at up to 1,000 square metres a day. Navigation is what Roborock calls Sentisphere, which is full-band RTK combined with visual mapping, with Stereo Vision for obstacle avoidance. No boundary wire needed, it maps the yard itself. It squeezes through 0.7 metre gaps, has IPX6 water protection and rain sensing, and the RTK reference station is in the box.

RockMow S1, the S108 and S115, is the step up, at up to 1,500 square metres a day, with the same navigation and obstacle avoidance plus what Roborock calls an Adaptive Terrain Traversal System.

RockMow Z1, covering the Z115, Z130 and Z150, is the serious one. All-wheel drive, an Active Steering system that steers the front wheels for zero-turn, dynamic suspension and a floating cutting deck, Quad Vision obstacle avoidance, six blades with a 20 to 70mm cutting height, and an anti-clog double-layer disc. It handles slopes up to 80 percent, which is 38.7 degrees, climbs 8cm obstacles, fits through 0.8 metre gaps, has IPX6 protection and 4G tracking. The Z150 is quoted at up to 5,000 square metres a day.

RockMow Z1 LiDAR, the Z120 LiDAR, swaps the approach. It uses a 360 degree 3D LiDAR fused with visual mapping, 200,000 points per second and a 70 metre detection range, with vision and LiDAR fusion for obstacles. Same all-wheel drive, same steering, same six blades. Notably there is no RTK reference station in the box, because the LiDAR replaces it. Roborock's own page puts it at up to 2,000 square metres a day.

One number worth correcting there. At least one outlet has quoted 2,500 square metres for the LiDAR model. Roborock's own Australian page says 2,000.

Read the coverage figures properly

Those square metre numbers come with footnotes and they matter. The Q1 and S1 figures are measured across a 12-hour period including charging time. The Z1 figures are measured across 24 hours including charging. All of them are under standardised European test conditions, not a Queensland yard in February. Treat them as a comparison between models, not a promise about your lawn.

Also, the headline figures on each series page belong to the top model in that series. The 1,000 square metres is the Q110, not the Q105.

What is not confirmed

Here is the honest part. The Australian prices circulating this week, running from around A$1,409 for the entry model up to around A$4,999 for the Z150, do not appear anywhere on Roborock's own Australian pages. Neither does the 1 September on-sale date. Neither does Bunnings as a retailer. All of that comes from an Australian press release carried by other outlets. It may well be exactly right, but Roborock has not published it where you or I can check it, so I am not stating it as fact.

The per-model coverage figures for the Q105 and the S108 are in the same boat. They live in specification tables that Roborock's site loads with scripting, and I could not read them.

The bits sold separately

Two things are not included on the Q1 and S1 lines, and they are easy to miss. The PreciEdge module that gets the cut down to 3cm from the edge is an extra. So is the 4G and anti-theft module. On a mower you leave unattended in a yard, the anti-theft module is not really optional, so factor it in.