By the What Robot? team · Last checked: 7 November 2026

Commercial Cleaning Robots 2026: Prices, Specs & UK Guide

The short answer: most commercial cleaning robots in 2026 are autonomous scrubber dryers. Small office and shop robots cover roughly 350–1,300 m² an hour and cost around £13,000–£20,000 to buy in the UK. Big warehouse machines from Avidbots and Tennant claim 2,600–5,900 m² an hour, but they're mostly sold by quote. Leasing and hire bring the entry price down to about £500–£725 a month for small models. For larger machines, short-term hire runs into thousands of pounds a month.

All prices and specs below were sourced on 7 November 2026 from manufacturer and dealer pages. These are published figures, not our own measurements. Prices exclude VAT unless we say otherwise.

How to read this guide

• Function is what the robot does: scrub (wet clean and dry), vacuum, mop or sweep. Many do several.
• Coverage is the maker's published figure. "Theoretical" figures are rarely reached in practice. Where a "practical" figure exists, we show it.
• "Price on request" means we couldn't find a published price.
• UK distributors are firms that list the robot on their own UK site. This is not an endorsement, and none of the links pay us.

Which robot for which building?

The robots

Avidbots Neo 2 and Neo 2W (warehouses, airports, large retail)

• Function: scrub (autonomous scrubber dryer). The Neo 2W is the warehouse version.
• Coverage: up to 3,900 m²/h (Avidbots brochure). Runtime up to 6 hours on a charge (Avidbots).
• Buy price: US$79,830 (SweepScrub, US dealer, with installation and training). No UK purchase price published, so UK price on request.
• RaaS / rental: £4,830 a month from roboTED (UK). That's a hire with a 3-month minimum, paid 3 months in advance, plus VAT.
• UK distributors:
• Beta Solutions. Listed by Avidbots as its UK partner.
• roboTED. Hire only.

Avidbots Kas (shops, schools, healthcare)

• Function: scrub. Designed for tighter spaces than Neo.
• Coverage: not stated on the Avidbots product page. It runs up to 3 hours, with a 46 L solution tank and a 45 L recovery tank. Minimum aisle width is 1.0 m.
• Buy price: price on request.
• RaaS / rental: price on request.
• UK distributors: Beta Solutions.

Tennant T7AMR (large retail, airports, light industrial)

• Function: scrub (ride-on scrubber converted to robot, with BrainOS navigation).
• Coverage: 2,660 m²/h in autonomous mode. The theoretical figure in manual mode is 4,250 m²/h. Runtime is up to 4 hours, and the solution tank holds 110 L.
• Buy price: price on request.
• RaaS / rental: price on request (Tennant offers leasing and rental).
• UK distributors:
• Tennant UK
• Clemas & Co. Buy, lease or hire.

Tennant T16AMR (warehouses and factories)

• Function: scrub (industrial ride-on scrubber, autonomous).
• Coverage: up to 5,890 m²/h. Tennant's brochure calls this a theoretical maximum in manual mode.
• Runtime is up to 4 hours with lead-acid batteries, or 5.4 hours with the optional lithium-ion pack.
• Tanks hold 190 L of solution and 225 L of recovery.
• Buy price: price on request.
• RaaS / rental: £6,038 a month from roboTED (UK). 3-month minimum, plus VAT.
• UK distributors:
• Tennant UK
• roboTED. Hire.

Tennant X4 ROVR (shops, schools, healthcare)

• Function: scrub. This is Tennant's compact, purpose-built robot, not a converted ride-on.
• Coverage: 1,860 m²/h theoretical maximum (Tennant brochure, manual mode). Runtime is up to 2.5 hours, with 38 L tanks.
• Buy price: price on request.
• RaaS / finance: from £725 a month plus VAT over a 5-year term (Hugh Crane, UK).
• UK distributors:
• Hugh Crane Cleaning Equipment
• Tennant UK

LionsBot R5 (larger commercial floors)

• Function: scrub.
• Coverage: 1,300 m²/h on average, and 5,000 m² per charge (LionsBot).
• Buy price: £19,500 plus VAT, shown as a sale price down from £20,500 (Motion, UK).
• RaaS / rental: Motion says the R5 is available to hire. No hire price was shown on the page we checked.
• UK distributors: Motion Cleaning Machines. Covers about 200 miles around Cambridge.

LionsBot R3 Scrub Pro (corridors, aisles, small shops)

• Function: scrub.
• Coverage: 800–1,200 m²/h, which LionsBot gives as its average practical figure. Runtime is up to 3 hours, with a 21 L clean tank and a 24 L waste tank.
• Buy price:
• UK: £16,795 plus VAT, a sale price down from £17,500 (Motion).
• US: US$31,250 (RobotLAB).
• RaaS / rental: US$869 a month RaaS (RobotLAB, US). No UK monthly price found.
• UK distributors: Motion Cleaning Machines.

LionsBot R3 Vac (offices with carpet)

• Function: vacuum (carpet and hard floors).
• Coverage: 500–1,000 m²/h (LionsBot).
• Buy price: £13,999 plus VAT, a sale price down from £14,999 (Motion, UK).
• RaaS / rental: price on request.
• UK distributors: Motion Cleaning Machines.

Gausium Phantas (offices, hotels, small retail)

• Function: scrub, vacuum, sweep and dust mop (4-in-1).
• Coverage: practical 350–700 m²/h. The theoretical figure is 1,188 m²/h when scrubbing and 1,674 m²/h when vacuuming.
• Runtime is 4.5 hours scrubbing or vacuuming, and 10 hours dust mopping.
• Tanks hold 11.5 L of clean water and 10.5 L of waste water (Gausium).
• Buy price:
• UK: £15,495 plus VAT (Hospitable Automation).
• US: US$32,600 with docking station (RobotLAB).
• RaaS / lease:
• UK: from £115 plus VAT a week from Hospitable Automation. The lease runs from 24 months, and the dealer calls the price indicative and subject to approval. It includes 3 years' warranty, support and yearly servicing.
• US: US$1,360 a month RaaS (RobotLAB).
• UK distributors:
• ICE (Industrial Cleaning Equipment). Named Gausium's exclusive UK distribution partner in a July 2022 post.
• Hospitable Automation

Gausium Vacuum 40 (offices, hotel corridors)

• Function: vacuum and dust mop.
• Coverage: practical 400–800 m²/h, against a theoretical 2,300 m²/h. Runtime is 3 hours vacuuming or 18 hours mopping (Gausium).
• Buy price: from US$42,000 (RobotLAB, US). UK price on request.
• RaaS / rental: US$1,169 a month on a 36-month term (RobotLAB, US). UK price on request.
• UK distributors: ICE.

Pudu CC1 and CC1 Pro (shops, offices, transport hubs)

• Function: scrub, sweep, vacuum and mop (4-in-1). The CC1 Pro adds AI spot scrubbing and VSLAM+ navigation.
• Coverage: 700–1,000 m²/h standard for the CC1 Pro. Runtime is up to 5 hours scrubbing, with 15 L clean and 15 L waste tanks (Purozo spec sheet).
• Buy price:
• CC1: £15,600 at RS Cleaning Machines (UK). The page doesn't state VAT, but its leasing form shows a value of £13,000, so £15,600 probably includes VAT. We haven't confirmed this.
• CC1: US$22,000 (RobotLAB, US).
• CC1 Pro: from US$24,000 (RobotLAB). UK price on request (Purozo).
• RaaS / rental:
• CC1: £1,399 a month from roboTED (UK). 3-month minimum, plus VAT.
• CC1: US$917 a month (RobotLAB, US).
• CC1 Pro: US$669 a month on a 36-month term (RobotLAB, US).
• UK distributors:
• RS Cleaning Machines. Describes itself as an authorised UK distributor.
• Purozo. CC1 Pro.
• roboTED. Hire.

Keenon KLEENBOT C40 (retail, hotels, healthcare)

• Function: sweep, scrub, vacuum and dry (4-in-1).
• Coverage: up to 1,100 m²/h. Runtime is up to 5 hours scrubbing or 12 hours sweeping. The supplier pitches it for sites of about 500–4,500 m².
• Buy price: price on request.
• RaaS / rental: price on request. The UK dealer offers outright purchase, RaaS and a hybrid option. An on-site demo costs £295 plus VAT, credited against an order placed within 90 days.
• UK distributors: Fresh Mango Robotics. An authorised Keenon dealer based in Yorkshire.

Comparison table

Prices were sourced on 7 November 2026 and exclude VAT unless marked. "PoR" means price on request.

"n/a" means the runtime wasn't on the pages we used. The monthly figure for Phantas is £115 × 52 ÷ 12.

Cost example: robot vs cleaner hours for a 2,000 m² floor

Illustrative only. This is not a quote or a forecast. It shows how the sums work using published prices, and your own site will differ.

Assumptions

• The floor: 2,000 m² of hard floor, scrubbed every night, 7 nights a week, 52 weeks a year.
• Manual pace: a cleaner with a walk-behind scrubber dryer covers 1,000 m² an hour, so 2 hours a night. This is our own assumption, not a sourced figure.
• Wage: the UK National Living Wage of £12.71 an hour from April 2026 (aged 21 and over). Source: GOV.UK.
• On-costs: employer National Insurance, pension and holiday pay sit on top of the wage. We show a bare-wage line and a second line with 30% added. The 30% is our assumption, not a sourced figure.
• Supervision: the robot still needs a person to fill and empty tanks, spot-check and watch it. We allow 15% of the robot's run time. That's the supervision allowance LionsBot uses in its own published savings calculator.
• Robot speed:
• Phantas: the midpoint of its practical range, 525 m²/h, or 3.8 hours a night. That fits within its 4.5-hour scrubbing runtime.
• R3 Scrub Pro: 1,000 m²/h.
• CC1: 850 m²/h.

What's left out

• Excluded: VAT, electricity, water, detergent, pads and brushes, docking stations, edge and corner work the robot can't do, and the cost of the manual scrubber in the "cleaner" case.
• R3 Scrub Pro: the figure has no servicing or warranty costs added, because none are published.
• Phantas: the lease includes 3 years' warranty, support and yearly servicing.

Results per year

What this shows

• Every night: at bare National Living Wage, a leased small robot only just beats the cleaner. Once you count on-costs, the gap grows to about £2,600 a year.
• Five nights a week instead of seven: the cleaner costs about £6,609 a year at bare wage and the leased Phantas about £7,868, so the robot loses on wage alone.
• Buying works out cheapest on paper, but only if the robot lasts five years and servicing doesn't eat the difference.
• Short-term hire is for trials, not for the long run. On these numbers it costs roughly double the cleaner.
• The real saving usually comes from moving staff to other work, not from cutting hours outright. The robot still needs a person nearby.

What to check before you buy

• Floor type. Scrubbers are for hard floors. Carpet needs a vacuum robot, such as the R3 Vac or Vacuum 40, or a 4-in-1 like the Phantas, CC1 or C40.
• Aisle and door widths. Kas needs aisles of at least 1.0 m, the R3 Scrub Pro fits standard doorways, and the C40 passes through 65 cm gaps.
• Water handling. Small tanks mean someone has to refill them unless you add a docking station. Some docks need a mains water and waste connection.
• Runtime against your cleaning window. Divide your floor area by the practical coverage figure, not the theoretical one.
• Who services it locally. Several UK dealers only cover certain regions. Motion, for example, covers about 200 miles around Cambridge.
• What the monthly price includes. Check for warranty, servicing, software, the minimum term, an upfront payment and a security bond.

Sources

All pages were accessed on 7 November 2026.

Manufacturers

• Avidbots Kas product page (and Neo runtime FAQ): https://avidbots.com/robots/meet-kas
• Avidbots Neo 2 brochure: https://avidbots.com/assets/Knowledge/Neo-2_The_Multi-Application_Cleaning_Robot_RED.pdf
• Avidbots UK partner announcement (Beta Solutions): https://avidbots.com/news/avidbots-news-leading-industrial-floor-cleaning-machine-supplier-beta-solutions-brings-avidbots-autonomous-floor-scrubbing-robots-to-the-uk
• Avidbots worldwide distributors: https://avidbots.com/company/worldwide/
• Tennant AMR family brochure: https://www.tennantco.com/content/dam/tennant/tennantco/products/Innovations/amr/amr-fam-brochure-en-noam.pdf
• Tennant T16AMR (EMEA): https://www.tennantco.com/en_eu/1/machines/robotics/product.t16amr.industrial-robotic-floor-scrubber.m-t16amr.html
• Tennant UK: https://www.tennantco.com/en_gb.html
• LionsBot R3 Scrub Pro (also R5 and R3 Vac figures, and the 15% supervision method): https://www.lionsbot.com/robots/r3-scrub-pro
• Gausium Phantas specifications: https://gausium.com/specs/phantas
• Gausium Vacuum 40 specifications: https://gausium.com/specs/vacuum-40

UK distributors and dealers

• Beta Solutions (Avidbots UK): https://www.beta-solutions.co.uk/
• Beta Solutions cleaning robots: https://www.beta-solutions.co.uk/cleaning-robots/
• roboTED, Avidbots Neo 2: https://roboted.io/robots/avidbots-neo-2
• roboTED, Tennant T16AMR: https://roboted.io/robots/tennant-t16amr
• roboTED, Pudu CC1: https://roboted.io/robots/pudu-cc1
• Clemas & Co, Tennant T7AMR: https://www.clemas.co.uk/product_range/t7amr-robotic-floor-scrubber-dryer/
• Hugh Crane, Tennant X4 ROVR: https://hughcrane.co.uk/tennant-x4-rovr-robotic-scrubber-dryer.html
• Motion Cleaning Machines, LionsBot range: https://motioncm.co.uk/robotic-floor-cleaning-machines-motion
• Motion, LionsBot R3 Scrub Pro: https://motioncm.co.uk/lionsbot-r3-scrub-pro/
• ICE, Gausium UK partnership (27 July 2022): https://ice-clean.com/posts/ice-gausium-robotics-exclusive-partnership-continues
• ICE home page: https://ice-clean.com/
• Hospitable Automation, Gausium Phantas: https://www.hospitableautomation.co.uk/robots/hospitality-phantas
• RS Cleaning Machines, Pudu CC1: https://rscleaningmachines.com/products/pudu-cc1
• Purozo, Pudu CC1 Pro: https://www.purozo.co.uk/shop/pudu-cc1-pro-autonomous-cleaning-robot-15241
• Fresh Mango Robotics, Keenon C40: https://freshmangorobotics.co.uk/robots/c40

US price references

• SweepScrub, Avidbots Neo: https://www.sweepscrub.com/products/avidbots-neo-robotic-floor-scrubber-24-or-32-disk-or-cylindrical-29-gallon-agm-battery-includes-installation-and-deployment-included
• RobotLAB, LionsBot R3 Scrub Pro (also Pudu CC1, CC1 Pro, Gausium Phantas and Vacuum 40 prices): https://www.robotlab.com/store/r3-scrub-pro-cleaning-robot/

Wages

• GOV.UK, National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates: https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates

Images

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neo_2_by_Avidbots.jpg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AvidbotsNeo1.jpg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moscow,_PUDU_CC1_cleaning_bot_at_Perekryostok_shop,_June_2025_04.jpg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cleaning_robot_PUDU_01.jpg

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