Warehouse
DHL is quoted saying Avidbots' robots can cut up to 80% of the hours spent cleaning.
A dated step forward on the record · Company-reported
What the source says
“reduce up to 80% of labor hours spent 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. Its stage is set by other milestones on its record; this one adds to the history. This line rests on the company's own announcement; no regulator, customer or independent report confirms it in our sources yet.
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.
- Sam's Club is quoted saying it added shelf-scanning to its existing fleet of Brain Corp robot floor scrubbers to collect stock data.
- 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.