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Commercial floor cleaning

Cleaner with a walk-behind autoscrubber vs Autonomous floor scrubber

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إنسان · سنويًا‏٢٨٬٨١٧ US$Staff cleaner
روبوت · سنويًا‏٢٧٬٩٣١ US$Buy a robot scrubber
فترة الاسترداد45 أشهر
سنة التقاطعالآنBase-case year (earliest to latest across scenarios)

On these numbers it is close: decide on the things that are not cost. The robot would sit idle most of the time; it pays off at higher volume or longer hours. Payback is longer than three years, which is longer than many robot contracts and some robot companies.

الولايات المتحدة · USD · BLS OEWS May 2025 national medians by SOC occupation

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افتراض

Square feet scrubbed per day: a big-box store or small warehouse. Use yours.

افتراض

Hours per day the floor is available for cleaning.

افتراض

Cleaning days per month.

افتراض

Active months per year.

العمالة
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

BLS OEWS May 2025 national median hourly wage, SOC 37-2011.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Wages and salaries were 70.0% of total employer compensation cost for private industry workers in June 2026 (ECEC), so total cost = wage / 0.70.

ilostat.ilo.org

Nominal 4.4% a year, 2015-2025 (ILOSTAT hourly earnings).

ISSA, as reproduced by Parish Supply

ISSA practical rate for a 20-inch walk-behind autoscrubber, sq ft per hour.

الروبوت
افتراض Avidbots

Robot sq ft per hour relative to a person with a walk-behind scrubber. Vendor theoretical maxima are about 3.6x (Avidbots Neo 2: 33,583 ft²/h); real floors with turns, obstacles and tank changes run far below that.

مشتق RobotLAB (reseller)

Midpoint of RobotLAB's Gausium purchase range ($29,600-$95,880). Small units sit at the bottom, ride-on-class at the top.

MLive

Midpoint of the quoted $2,250-$2,900/month Avidbots Neo lease (January 2024).

مشتق RobotLAB (reseller)

Midpoint of Gausium RaaS $829-$2,669/month (36-month term).

افتراض

Site mapping, training and docking setup per site.

افتراض

Yearly maintenance and consumables (pads, squeegees, batteries) as a share of purchase price.

افتراض

Useful life in years.

افتراض

Share of the cleaning window the robot is actually cleaning (charging, tank changes).

افتراض

Share of robot work lost to faults that a person has to cover.

افتراض

Share of the area robots skip (corners, under racking, spills, stairs) that a person still cleans.

افتراض

Minutes of staff time per robot-hour (start, empty, refill, rescue).

افتراض

kWh per robot operating hour.

افتراض

Electricity price per kWh (USD). Check your bill; energy is rarely a big line.

التمويل
افتراض

Annual financing / discount rate. Nobody publishes yours; 8% is a round mid-2026 commercial borrowing guess.

افتراض

Years in the NPV comparison.

افتراض

Share of a human service price that is labour (rises with wages). Used to escalate and to adjust US service prices to other countries.

افتراض

Share of a robot service price that is labour (pilot, technician). The rest is equipment, which learning curves make cheaper.

افتراض

Share of a lease or RaaS fee that pays for hardware (learns down). The rest is service and support (moves with wages).

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النتائج

الخيارشهريًاسنويًاPer unit (sq ft)التكلفة الأوليةفترة الاستردادBreak-even utilisation5-year NPV vs baseline
إنسان Staff cleaner خط الأساس ‏٢٬٤٠١ US$‏٢٨٬٨١٧ US$‏٠٫٠٠٣ US$— — — —
روبوت Buy a robot scrubber ‏٢٬٣٢٨ US$‏٢٧٬٩٣١ US$‏٠٫٠٠٣ US$‏٦٤٬٧٤٠ US$ 45 أشهر ٣٢٪؜
Utilisation ٣٤٪؜
 ‏١٣٬١٨٧ US$
روبوت Lease a robot scrubber ‏٣٬١٧٥ US$‏٣٨٬٠٩٨ US$‏٠٫٠٠٤ US$‏٢٬٠٠٠ US$ أبدًا ٤٨٪؜
Utilisation ٣٤٪؜
 ؜-‏٣٠٬٤٣٩ US$
روبوت Robot scrubber as a service ‏٢٬٣٤٩ US$‏٢٨٬١٨٦ US$‏٠٫٠٠٣ US$‏٢٬٠٠٠ US$ 21 أشهر ٣٣٪؜
Utilisation ٣٤٪؜
 ‏١٠٬٢٩٨ US$

What moves the answer most

Each bar shows the 5-year NPV of the best robot option when one input moves to the low or high end of its range, with the rest held at your values.

5-year NPV vs baseline: Buy a robot scrubber5-year NPV vs baseline: Buy a robot scrubberWorkloadlow value: 15000 → ؜-‏٤٨٬٤١٠ US$high value: 100000 → ‏١٦١٬٠٢٠ US$Robot purchase pricelow value: 29600 → ‏٥٧٬٢٢٣ US$high value: 95880 → ؜-‏٣٠٬٨٤٩ US$Human output per hourlow value: 6500 → ‏٥٥٬٢٤٨ US$high value: 12000 → ؜-‏٩٬٢٠١ US$Useful life or contractlow value: 3 → ؜-‏٢٢٬١٦٨ US$high value: 7 → ‏٢٥٬٢١٩ US$Hourly wagelow value: 14.168000000000001 → ؜-‏٦٬٦١٣ US$high value: 21.252 → ‏٣٢٬٩٨٨ US$Work that stays humanlow value: 0.05 → ‏٢٤٬٧٨٢ US$high value: 0.3 → ؜-‏٤٬٢٠٥ US$Maintenance per yearlow value: 0.04 → ‏٢٣٬٥٠١ US$high value: 0.15 → ؜-‏٤٬٨٦٢ US$Employer on-cost multiplierlow value: 1.2790000000000001 → ‏٢٬٧٩٥ US$high value: 1.579 → ‏٢٣٬٥٧٩ US$Supervisionlow value: 2 → ‏١٧٬٧٣٣ US$high value: 15 → ‏٢٬٩٦٠ US$‏١٣٬١٨٧ US$low valuehigh valueSource: Whirrwork Robot-or-Human model v1.0.0 (whirrwork.com/tools/robot-vs-human/commercial-floor-cleaning/). Modelled estimate, not a fact.

Cost per unit to 2035

Real terms (today's money). Robot hardware follows Wright's law; wages follow each country's history. Shaded band: robots-slow to robots-fast scenarios. تقديرات من نموذج Whirrwork، وليست حقائق.

Chartتكلفة الإنسان لكل وحدة (الأساسي), تكلفة الروبوت لكل وحدة (الأساسي), تكلفة الروبوت لكل وحدة (الروبوتات: تقدّم سريع), تكلفة الروبوت لكل وحدة (الروبوتات: تقدّم بطيء). Source: Whirrwork Robot-or-Human model v1.0.0 (whirrwork.com/tools/robot-vs-human/commercial-floor-cleaning/). Modelled estimate, not a fact.‏٠٫٠٠ US$‏٠٫٠٠١ US$‏٠٫٠٠٢ US$‏٠٫٠٠٣ US$2026202720282029203020312032203320342035USD / sq ftscenario rangeتكلفة الإنسان لكل وحدة (الأساسي)تكلفة الروبوت لكل وحدة (الأساسي)تكلفة الروبوت لكل وحدة (الروبوتات…تكلفة الروبوت لكل وحدة (الروبوتات…Source: Whirrwork Robot-or-Human model v1.0.0 (whirrwork.com/tools/robot-vs-human/commercial-floor-cleaning/). Modelled…

سنة التقاطع: الآن

What the spreadsheet misses

السلامة
Fewer slips while floors are wet if the robot cleans after hours; a 300 kg machine near shoppers needs working sensors and sensible routes.
الجودة
Robots are consistent on open floor and log what they cleaned. They miss edges and spot spills unless someone follows up.
المرونة
A cleaner handles bathrooms, bins and the unexpected; a scrubber scrubs.
Edge cases
Cluttered, changing layouts (pallets left in aisles) kill robot productivity fast.
Customer experience
Usually neutral to positive in stores; noise at night is a non-issue.
Jobs and redeployment
The common pattern is redeploying cleaners to detail work rather than cutting hours one-for-one; plan the redeployment before the robot arrives.
التنظيم
No licence needed. Check lease terms for damage liability.

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  1. ISSA 612 cleaning times: 20-inch walk-behind automatic scrubber about 9,274 sq ft per hour; wet mop about 1,333-1,429 ISSA, as reproduced by Parish Supply, 2026-10
  2. Neo 2 disc cleaning head technical specifications: maximum theoretical productivity 33,583 ft²/h (26-inch) Avidbots, 2026-10 · vendor
  3. Gausium autonomous scrubbers: purchase $29,600-$95,880; RaaS $829-$2,669/month on a 36-month term RobotLAB (reseller), 2026-10 · vendor
  4. Avidbots Neo lease $2,250-$2,900/month, as quoted by an Avidbots representative MLive, 2024-01
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