Floor-Care Cobots at a UK Banking Campus: 26 Ride-On Hours Freed a Week

Floor care that tied up the cleaning team

A banking campus with about 2,500 staff across three locations has a great deal of floor to keep clean. Much of that work ran on ride-on vacuums, and every hour spent on one machine was an hour not spent elsewhere.

The question was how to keep routine floor care on schedule without loading the cleaning team further. Hygiene work competed for the same hours, which left little room to move the team toward tasks that mattered more to the site.

• Large floor areas spread across three campus locations
• Ride-on vacuuming absorbing a big share of the cleaning week
• Little spare time for higher-hygiene tasks

Adding cleaning cobots to routine floor care

The campus added cleaning cobots to its routine floor care rather than rebuilding the routine around them. The robots took on floor work that had been done on ride-on vacuums, and the cleaning team's hours moved with it.

The robot supplier describes the cobots as covering more floor area in the same working time, which is where the added coverage comes from. The approach comes down to extending what the team can reach, then deciding what the freed hours are for.

• Keep the existing floor-care routine in place
• Add cleaning cobots to take on floor work
• Point freed ride-on hours at higher-hygiene tasks, the supplier's stated intent

Hours freed and coverage added, as the supplier reports

The robot supplier reports about 26 hours a week of ride-on vacuuming time freed for the cleaning team. Because the cobots cover more floor area, the supplier puts the added coverage at roughly 21 further hours of work a week.

The supplier also says the freed time was redirected toward higher-hygiene tasks. These are the supplier's figures and stated intent, and they describe one campus rather than a benchmark for other sites.

Where a lease fits a floor-care cobot plan

Service Robot Co. is a full-service, OEM-neutral commercial robot integrator for US businesses. We select robots across manufacturers, then finance, deploy, integrate, train and service each unit through a nationwide US engineer network, so one partner covers the whole lifecycle.

Our commercial robot leasing runs on a 3-year lease, with one fixed robot lease payment quoted after a site assessment. For a facility team weighing floor-care cobots, that assessment is where the floor gets mapped and the ride-on hours already in use get measured.

This campus is not a Service Robot Co. deployment. The lesson that carries across is to measure the hours a floor routine consumes before any robot lease options are weighed.