Pringle Robotics’ Autonomous Floor Cleaning Robots Surpass 1 Billion Square Feet Cleaned in 2024

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Pringle Robotics, a developer of autonomous robotic solutions and software integrations for facilities management, announced today a milestone of 1 billion square feet of flooring cleaned by autonomous robots at client facilities across the U.S. since January 1, 2024.

"This milestone reflects our commitment to helping facilities within all verticals achieve optimized facility management through rapidly scalable automation," said Sudheer Sajja, founder and CEO of Pringle Robotics.

A partnership with Aramark, announced last year, has enabled the deployment of approximately 70 autonomous floor cleaning robots across verticals such as hospitals, senior living facilities, schools, universities, businesses, and sports and entertainment facilities, with additional units being deployed on an ongoing basis. Collaboration with other leading Jan/San companies and distributors has allowed for numerous additional deployments of floor cleaning robots across the country.

Significantly, the recent large-scale rollout of Pudu CC1 autonomous floor cleaning robots to over 1,200 locations of a national convenience store chain has contributed to the rapid rise in square footage cleaned autonomously by Pringle Robotics units. Seeking to improve the cleanliness of their stores while giving staff more time to interact with customers and keep products stocked, the convenience store chain partnered with Pringle Robotics to deploy the Pudu CC1 units for automated sweeping and scrubbing of store floors. The efficiency gains enabled by automated floor cleaning have allowed these convenience stores to reinvest employee hours into other tasks and responsibilities that help elevate the store environment and customer experience.

"Facilities have moved beyond curiosity about autonomous cleaning robots into an adoption and utilization mindset that reflects the very real value this technology brings to a variety of industries," says Sajja. "Automated floor cleaning allows facilities to redirect employee labor to more complex and meaningful tasks while simultaneously improving efficiency and hygiene."

Pringle Robotics began tracking the total square footage cleaned by its deployed suite of floor cleaning robots on January 1, 2024. Cleaning coverage data from the robots, along with key sustainability metrics, are compiled in Pringle Robotics' Autonomous Cleaning Sustainability Report, which is updated in real time. The Pringle Robotics models included in the ongoing floor cleaning square footage tally are:

• Pudu CC1 - a multipurpose autonomous floor cleaning robot for low-pile carpet and hard floors
• CC3 - a 20-inch autonomous scrubber with both wet and dry cleaning modes
• Pudu MT1 - an AI-powered robotic sweeper with visual trash recognition and active dust control
• CC5 - a heavy-duty 32-inch industrial scrubber with large water tanks and a dual brush system for large facilities

Delivering customer value through a total solutions approach, Pringle Robotics clients are supported by the Pringle FMS Ecosystem, a unified cloud-based solution that allows facilities to easily manage their physical assets, spaces, cleaning/maintenance and workflows in one place. Comprising Pringle NOC, Pringle FMS and Pringle Pristine, the FMS Ecosystem serves as the central hub for managing all robotic operations, non-robotic assets, and sensor/enterprise data within a facility.