Homeowner comes home to discover his native pollinator garden has been damaged, discovers neighbor's trespassing $3,800 robotic mower is the culprit, repeated attempts to stop it crossing their shared boundary fail—homeowner takes more drastic measures

We knew the robot uprising was coming, but who could have possibly predicted it would start with a trespassing robot lawn mower damaging your garden? While AI and robots are a growing concern globally, contending with a glorified, oversized "Roomba" that your neighbor got to mow their lawn is not one technology concern a lot of us have on our 2026 bingo cards. Turns out, all we need to stop the robot uprising is $95 of metal landscape edging.

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