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The International Federation of Robotics, an industry body, said professional cleaning robots were the third-biggest kind of service robot sold in 2025, mostly for floor cleaning.
A dated step forward on the record · Sets Commercial cleaning robots's stage
What the source says
“The market for professional cleaning robots follows in third place, with floor cleaning”
What it means
Commercial cleaning robots, from Brain Corp, Avidbots, and others, is at stage 5 of 5 on our ladder: regulator-cleared or mass market. This event is one of the milestones that placed it there.
Human help: People working remotely can steer it or take over.
More on Commercial cleaning robots
- Brain Corp said its robots ran for more than 5.3 million hours on their own in the first half of 2026.
- Brain Corp said more than 50,000 robots using its self-driving software were at work worldwide, and that deployments grew 68% in the first half of 2026.
- DHL is quoted saying Avidbots' robots can cut up to 80% of the hours spent cleaning.
- Sam's Club is quoted saying it added shelf-scanning to its existing fleet of Brain Corp robot floor scrubbers to collect stock data.