The burnt-bridges ratchet (BBR) mechanism is a model for biased molecular motion whereby a random walker destroys substrate sites as it moves, thereby inhibiting backwards stepping. Nature has been shown to employ the BBR mechanism in a variety of processes, most notably the segregation of low-copy-number plasmids and the degradation of human collagen by matrix metalloproteinases. To better understand the BBR mechanism, we developed an artificial molecular motor that is designed to rectify directional motion through the cleavage of surface-bound substrate. The substrate sites are presented to the motor as a ‘lawn’ through the tips of a dense block-copolymer brush; we therefore call our artificial motor design ‘the Lawnmower’. We have shown that our surface chemistry used for the lawn has applications for fluorescence imaging and force spectroscopy [Langmuir (2018) 34, 13550]. I will present experimental tests of the Lawnmower moving on a two-dimensional lawn and quantify the extent of its superdiffusive motion.