prSRPS EN ISO 18460:2026

Powered lawn garden equipment - Internal-combustion engine-powered autonomous lawnmowers

Scope

This Type C Standard specifies safety requirements and their verification for autonomous combustion-engine-powered lawnmowers and equipped with:
— metallic cutting means; and/or
— non-metallic cutting means with one or more cutting elements pivotally mounted on a generally circular drive unit, where these cutting elements rely on centrifugal force to achieve cutting and have a kinetic energy for each single cutting element of 10 J or more.
This document deals with the significant hazards, hazardous situations, and events relevant to lawnmowers with autonomous functions when used as intended and under the conditions of misuse foreseeable by the manufacturer during normal operation and service.
This standard does not apply to:
— travel on public roads;
— grassland mowers;
— sickle bar mowers;
— scrub-clearing machines;
— automatic docking and refueling systems.
This International Standard is neither applicable to machines which were manufactured with an auto-guidance system, nor to self-contained auto-guidance retrofit systems which were placed on the market before the date of this International Standard.

Related directives

NOTE: If the word "harmonized" (marked in green) is not found in the field with the name of the directive, it means that the European standard is not cited in the OJEU.