When I first saw the Robera electric cart, I was intrigued. Iāve tested a number of electric caddies during the past few years but never one that had the ability to follow me around the course.
I love the idea of the cart following me around with my clubs. Remote-control carts are very fun but you need to actively steer them with the remote. Thatās not difficult but it does take some concentration.
These days, just hitting the golf ball is taking most of my bandwidth.
I romanticized the idea that playing with a cart that follows you would be like playing with a human caddie. You get to walk the course while someone else or, in this case, something else carries your bag.
No pushing and no remote controlling required. You just walk to your ball, enjoying a sunny afternoon, and your clubs are there when you need to make your shot.
Thatās a delightful daydream and what I was hoping for when I put the Robera Pro cart into play.
Others follow transmitters but the Robera Pro follows you
The Robera Pro is not the first electric cart with the ability to follow golfers. Some of the carts in our 2025 Best Electric Push Carts Buyerās Guide also have the ability to follow the golfer.
In reality, those carts are not really following the golfer. They follow the remote unit the golfer carries in their pocket.
Unlike those carts, the Robera Pro uses a high-tech camera system to see the golfer, locking onto the player rather than a device. Not only does the Robera Proās camera recognize the golfer but it recognizes course hazards and objects to be avoided on the course.
If a cart is just following a remote, none of this functionality would be possible. How does a cart with no camera see a tree?
Are you starting to understand why I was so interested in getting the Robera Pro on the course?
The Robera Pro cart doesn’t just follow
Although it’s unlikely, some of you might not want the cart to follow you. If that is the case, the Robera Pro has other control options.
First of all, you can drive the cart using the remote control. With a range of 100 meters (110 yards), you can direct the Robera Pro to the precise club delivery location.
If the remote is too much interaction for you, turn on Marching Mode. The cart uses data from the camera to stay just ahead of you on the course as you walk. Itās like follow mode but now you do the following.
If none of those options pumps your pumpkin, grab the Robera Proās handles and let the variable levels of assist make pushing the cart easy-peasy.
Getting the Robera Pro on the grass
Here are my key observations and impressions of the Robera Pro cart.
Portability
The Robera Pro is very transportable. It folds into a compact package with the bag holder on the arm securing the whole unit by attaching to the front section. The front wheels fold under the unit, reducing the volume of the unit. When the front wheels fold flat, they restrict the cart from rolling around in the car.
The rear wheels do take up some space but you can easily remove them if needed.
At about 40 pounds, weight is the only thing that you may struggle with. Thankfully, the weight is fairly well balanced. I found it easier to roll the unfolded cart to the car and then fold it prior to placing it inside. If weight is a big issue, you could make the cart lighter by removing the battery and transporting it separately.
It does fold up smaller than I expected. For reference, the shot above is the Robera Pro in the back of my Subaru Forester. Here is a shot with my bag, too.
If you roll the roads a little fancier, like my wife, then youāll appreciate how the Robera Pro sits in the back of a BMW X3.
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With any kind of hatchback, loading and unloading the Robera Pro is no big deal. It took a little more effort to lift it over the sidewall of my brotherās truck but no backs were tweaked in the process.
Small trunks could struggle to handle the cart and a bag but I bet it is possible in most trunks.
Unfolding and folding the Robera Pro
Easy. I really could just stop with that single word. First, you unlock the console arm and extend it. Next you pull a pin to unlock the front wheels, flipping them down so they are positioned to roll.
After that, you use a bungee cord to secure the bag to the upper and lower bag holders. My trusty Vessel Player 4 bag sat great at the bottom but just at the edge of the upper mount. Even so, I had zero twisting or stability issues on the course.
To fold the cart, you pull a pin at the base of the neck to fold that part down and then flip the front wheels under the unit. Lock in the top bag holder (shown above) and you are all set for transport.
Battery life
Never once during testing did I have any fears of running out of juice during play. After each round, the battery still had two or three of the five green lights remaining.
The mid-winter days are too short to get in 36 holes in but I think the Robera Pro has a chance to get the double done. Robera says it will run for six to eight hours, and that seems about right.
The battery must be removed for charging and a full charge will take about three to four hours depending on battery depletion.
Modes of operation: The great, the good and the meh
Follow mode is amazing. As Iāve mentioned in other articles, I played most of my 2025 golf carrying my clubs on my back. I always walk when I can but for some reason carrying felt better than pushing this year.
In follow mode, itās like carrying your clubs without actually carrying your clubs. You just stroll along and the Robera Pro follows dutifully behind with your sticks.
With an intentional quick sidestep, you can get out of the cartās field of view and cause follow mode to stop. During normal strolls, the cart never lost me.
When you stop, the cart rolls up to you and stops. At this point, you disengage follow mode by pressing a button on the console or with a hand gesture.
Yes, the camera gives the cart gesture control capabilities.
Show the camera under the console your palm with your fingers down and it will start or stop the cart in whatever mode you are in. For follow mode, I didnāt use this much. It was easy just to press the button on the console to start and stop.
For marching mode, the hand gesture is critical for stopping the Robera Pro since it moves away from you as you try to catch it to press the stop button.
Overall, follow mode was everything I hoped that it would be and it may have changed my whole play strategy for 2026.
The remote control worked well but didnāt really wow me since Iāve used similar units with different carts. It worked as expected with a rapid response time that should allow you to control the unit as needed.
Marching mode was not my favorite. It was useful for marching the cart out of the trees but I rarely used it otherwise. It just isnāt as convenient or intuitive as follow mode.
First of all, I mentioned you need to use the hand gesture to stop it. Sometimes, it takes a couple of tries to work. Remember that if you keep walking after the cart to catch it, it keeps moving.
The real marching mode killer for me was the steering. Maneuvering the cart is like driving a boat with an outboard motor. Like the boat, you need to move left to make the unit go right. I struggled to figure out how far left or right to go to get the cart to turn the desired distance. With practice, I improved, but ultimately the ease of follow mode made that form of control way more attractive.
General observations on the course
As you can tell by the grass on the Robera Pro, the testing conditions were damp. I hadn’t intended to test the IPX3 waterproofing of the unit but I can report that moisture did not have any effect on the electronics.
The cart is very stable as it cruises around but there are some limitations.
During early testing, I did tip it forward by having it follow me down a short, but steep, tee box slope. On steep climbs, especially in wet grass, the Robera Pro would lose traction and spin its wheels.
When spin-outs happen, or when the unit loses visual lock on the golfer, it immediately enters parking mode and waits for you to come and help it. The cart is not going to go rogue and roll away unsupervised.
I was thinking that Robera could (easily?) address wet-round slippage by offering winter tires with a more aggressive tread. The outer layer of the rear wheels pops off easily so a conditions-based tire swap would take just a minute or two.
The Robera Pro had no problems with steep climbs on the cart path but on wet grass I took it out of follow mode and pushed it.
Itās worth noting that all you need to do to enter freewheel mode is to turn the dial one click left when parked. This is also the way you add pushing motor assist if desired.
The key thing here is that it is really easy to remove the motor from the equation. Not all power carts have this ability. One cart I tested previously annoyingly required unlocking the rear wheels to free-wheel.
Thankfully, free-wheeling is much easier with the Robera Pro.
The console has attachment points for accessories. I found the scorecard holder and beverage holder to be especially useful.
The beverage holder in particular shows how Robera thinks about the golferās needs during play. Not only are there tee holders on the beverage holder but there is also a slot at the bottom that holds the remote.
How smart is the Robera Pro AI?
Built-in AI Vision: Featuring advanced RGB and TOF technology, Robera uses an AI deep learning model to recognize golfers in all lighting conditions, even at night. This allows the caddy to accurately follow you using hand gestures.
The camera system has no problem recognizing the golfer and keeping track of its proximity to the golfer. I was a bit nervous at first in follow mode when I would stop walking, thinking the cart would run into me.
That did not happen. Not once. When I stopped walking, the cart always scooted up just to the perfect distance where I could reach the control console.
It did accidentally follow my playing partner once who was standing next to me when I activated follow mode but that was the only deviation from the norm. (For the record, he was actively trying to steal the cart.)
Did automatic hazard detection work?
The Robera Pro AI has the ability to spot hazards and obstacles on the course, ideally avoiding them after detection.
Basically, if the cart is following you and you walk around a tree, will the cart avoid the tree and keep following you or will it run into the tree?
When it came to trees and shrubs, the Robera Pro avoided the dangers with Daredevil-like precision. On the course, it deftly dodged so many trees that I stopped trying to make it hit one.
Still not convinced, I set up an obstacle course at home using trash cans and my wife’s car (sorry, honey) and the Robera Pro followed me amazingly well.
It lost me on a tight slalom session through the trash cans and the backyard gate but I think the turns were too tight for it to maintain the visual connection. When it lost target, it just stopped and waited for me.
Back on the course, I tested the no-go zone detection in a few bunkers and it worked, but not every time like with the trees. It seemed like there needed to be a hard transition between grass and sand for the Robera Pro to recognize the bunker.
On a trap with a transitional edge, as shown in the photo above, the Robera Pro followed me in.
While this was a little disappointing, Iām not sure how necessary the hazard recognition feature really is during play.
The only time the cart will follow you into a bunker or a water hazard is when you forget that it is behind you and you walk into the hazard. If you stop before the bunker, the cart stops, too, and this becomes a non-issue.
If you walk into a pond and the cart follows you, maybe walking into a pond is a bad idea in the first place.
All in all, my appreciation of follow mode continued even after our day at the beach.
The Robera Pro cart changes how you play golf
The Robera Pro represents a serious threat to my identity as a bag-on-back golfer. It allows me to walk the course without carrying or even pushing anything.
I donāt play at places where caddies are available but this cart makes me appreciate how great it would be to have one. The Robera Pro canāt offer club suggestions or tell cool stories about the course but it has the carrying the bag part of the job down.
In addition to saving you the cart fee each time you play, the follow mode of the Robera Pro creates a whole new way to play golf. Other carts with follow mode do as well but the Robera Pro does so with its camera system rather than an electronic leash.
Following by camera is a big deal. Without a camera, the other following carts canāt see the forest, or the trees.
At $1,999, it is an expensive investment but that price is actually hundreds of dollars less than some other traditional following and non-following power carts. Robera also warranties the cart body, battery and charger for two years.
Naturally, your finances and how you perceive value are your business. All I can say is that the Robera Pro is jam-packed with features such as the various control options and it makes playing golf more fun.
Probably more fun than the three $700 drivers that some golfers will buy next year.
Find out more about the Robera Pro at roberashop.com.
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