An end to the mop and bucket, pass floor-cleaning duty to robots

Think of all the floors in public places you have walked across today: airports, supermarkets, stations, restaurants, there’s a lot of surface area out there that needs cleaning every day. It’s repetitive, takes time and often means cleaners have to work out of peak hours. So why don’t we hand it over to robots?

Currently there is no robot that satisfies the requirements of professional users and cleaning services companies. Floor washing tasks are demanding in a variety of ways: the operation needs to be autonomous, areas have to be navigation precisely, the safety of people and goods has to be assured, the robot has to be managed by cleaning staff and must be able to operate on demand during opening hours. Other obstacles such as the presence of multiple robots working at the same time, and programming issues, all have to be taken into account.

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