WarehouseSelf-driving floor scrubbers

Commercial cleaning robots

Name: Commercial cleaning robots
Brand: Brain Corp, Avidbots, and others

by Brain Corp, Avidbots, and others

Commercial cleaning robots are self-driving floor scrubbers and vacuums that clean large spaces such as stores, warehouses and airports. Avidbots website

Stage 5 of 5

Regulator-cleared or mass market

Which rule placed it

Evidence: Independently reported
Human help: Remote operators
Last milestone: 6 Aug 2026

01Can I get it?

Yes, in places

Where it works today: Shops, warehouses, airports and other big buildings worldwide. Brain Corp says more than 50,000 robots run its software. Brain Corp press release, 6 Aug 2026
Published price: No published price in our sources.
Human help: Avidbots says its remote assistance team helps a robot get back on track when it gets stuck. Avidbots website

02Track record

What has actually happened

Every milestone is dated and links to the page it comes from. Lines marked company-reported rest on the maker's own word.

6 Aug 2026
Paying customers
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.
Brain Corp press release, 6 Aug 2026Company-reported
6 Aug 2026
Update
Brain Corp said its robots ran for more than 5.3 million hours on their own in the first half of 2026.
Brain Corp press release, 6 Aug 2026Company-reported
2026
Paying customers
Sam's Club is quoted saying it added shelf-scanning to its existing fleet of Brain Corp robot floor scrubbers to collect stock data.
Brain Corp website (Sam's Club quote)Company-reported
2026
Paying customers
DHL is quoted saying Avidbots' robots can cut up to 80% of the hours spent cleaning.
Avidbots website (DHL quote)Company-reported
2025
Mass market · sets the stage
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.
IFR press release, 30 Sept 2026

03Safety and incidents

What has gone wrong

No crashes, recalls or regulator reports in our sources. That is not proof none happened; we add them when a regulator or trusted outlet reports one.

How we placed it

The rule, not an opinion

Stages are worked out by published rules from the dated milestones above. We never rate robots, and no maker can pay to change a stage.

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Regulator-cleared or mass marketThis robot
A regulator has cleared it where approval applies: FDA clearance or approval for a medical robot, a permit to run with no one aboard for a self-driving vehicle, or an FAA approval for routine drone flights. Or: Widely sold: sales in the hundreds of thousands, or a product category you can buy in ordinary shops.
Placed by: 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 (2025).
4
Paying customers
Delivered to customers who pay for it, beyond a trial, or a paid service the public can use.
3
Pilot
Working with a named customer in a real setting, as a trial.
2
Pre-orders
Orders, reservations or deposits taken, with nothing delivered yet.
1
Demo only
Shown in videos, staged events or a factory, with no units working for customers.

What we couldn't confirm. Customer quotes come from the makers' own websites. No independent count of cleaning robots in stores or airports was found beyond the IFR ranking.

Sources

Cite this page

Robotics Verdict. “Commercial cleaning robots (Brain Corp, Avidbots, and others): how far has it got?” roboticsverdict.com/robots/cleaning-robots. Checked 19 October 2026.