a Kansas high school
A Kansas High School Runs Six Hours of Autonomous Floor Scrubbing a Day
One autonomous floor scrubber gave a Kansas high school six hours of continuous cleaning a day, freeing custodians for restrooms and high touch points.
Deployment at a glance
- 6 hours
- Continuous cleaning per day from one floor care unit
- 1
- Autonomous scrubber handling the daily floor work
- 320,000
- Square feet in the school building
- 1,400
- Students attending, nearly 1,400
Based on a documented real-world deployment. Figures are from public reporting; the organization is not named.
A large building and a short custodial crew
The school occupies a 320,000 square foot building and serves nearly 1,400 students. Keeping its floors clean is a daily task that never fully ends, and the custodial team had less staff than the work called for.
Floor work ate hours that custodians would rather spend on tasks that need a human eye and hands, such as deep cleaning restrooms and sanitizing high touch points. The gap was not a lack of effort. It was a lack of hours.
- A large building with a steady daily floor load
- Custodial staff stretched across floors and specialized work
- Restroom deep cleaning and high touch sanitizing waiting for time
Setup, docking and a shift in custodial time
The school bought the unit, and the robot supplier's trainers set it up on site.
The docking system carries much of the routine labor. It empties dirty water, refills the tank and recharges the unit, so custodians spend less time on those steps.
- School buys one autonomous floor scrubber
- Robot supplier trainers set up the unit
- Docking system handles water emptying, refilling and recharging
- Custodial hours move to restroom deep cleaning and high touch sanitizing
Six hours of continuous cleaning from one unit
The headline result is six hours of continuous cleaning per day from a single floor care unit. That is six hours of floor work done without a person pushing the machine.
Staff hours moved toward specialized work. Custodians shifted to deep cleaning restrooms and sanitizing high touch points, the tasks that most need attention in a school. The gain is measured in hours and in the kind of work the crew could take on, and the head custodian calls the scrubber an ultimate game changer.
What a school like this needs from a robot partner
Service Robot Co. is a full service, OEM neutral commercial robot integrator for US businesses. We select the right robots across manufacturers, then finance, deploy, integrate, train and service every unit through a nationwide US engineer network, so one vendor covers the whole lifecycle. This deployment was not run by Service Robot Co.
For a facility weighing an autonomous floor scrubber lease, the study points to three practical questions: how many daily hours the floor work needs, where the dock will sit, and who trains the custodial crew. A school can take a robot on a three year lease, with one fixed lease quote after a site assessment.
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