Robots earn their place on large square footage: the floors where cleanliness, dust control and labor hours are measured. The same Gausium robots behave differently in a distribution center, a mall concourse, a campus and a hospital corridor, because the surface, the hours and the people around them differ. Below is what changes in each kind of facility and which models fit, in the order we sell into them. First Class Building Supply & Services is an authorized Gausium dealer.
The largest runs of sealed concrete on any site, and the hardest custodial shifts to fill. Dust from pallets, cardboard and forklift traffic settles every day, and a floor measured in hundreds of thousands of square feet takes a person on a ride-on machine most of a shift. An autonomous sweeper such as the Beetle takes the dry debris and fine dust, and a heavy-duty scrubber such as the Scrubber 75 follows on the same aisles overnight. Routes are mapped around racking, dock doors and charging areas.
Lobbies, concourses and common areas where appearance is judged every morning and several tenants share one cleaning budget. The floors are stone, tile and vinyl with foot traffic all day, so the robot works the opening and closing windows while the crew handles restrooms, glass and spot work. The Omnie and the Scrubber 50 suit large open hard floors; the compact Phantas covers smaller corridors and mixed surfaces. Cleaning reports give a manager something concrete to show tenants.
Gyms, cafeterias, long corridors and lecture halls, on a fixed annual budget with peaks around terms and events. Custodial teams are small relative to the square footage, and the same corridors need the same pass every night. A scrubber takes the hard floors after hours and a robotic vacuum such as the Vacuum 40 takes carpeted halls and libraries, which leaves staff for classrooms and restrooms.
Very large hard-floor areas with continuous public traffic, no closing time, and cleaning standards that are audited. Robots here run mapped zones in the lower-traffic hours and route around passengers, luggage and queues. The Omnie is the model Gausium positions for airports and transit hubs. Route logs record what was cleaned and when, which is the record an operator is asked to produce.
White space and corridors where dust is an equipment problem rather than an appearance problem, and where access is restricted and escorted. The work is frequent, light and repeatable: dry sweeping and vacuuming with fine filtration on a schedule. The Vacuum 40, with H13 HEPA filtration, and the compact Phantas fit narrow aisles. Which areas a robot may enter, what it may run on, and under whose supervision is settled with the site's own security and operations team on the site walk.
Corridors, waiting areas and support space that need documented, repeatable floor cleaning around patients, visitors and carts. The robot takes the routine passes and logs each run, so environmental services staff spend their hours on rooms and high-touch work. We make no infection-control or disinfection claims for the robots: they clean floors. Lab areas are mapped only with the facility's safety officer, and restricted rooms stay off the map.
Production floors and aisles where dust, fines and light oil are part of the process and housekeeping is tied to safety and product quality. An autonomous sweeper such as the Beetle handles dry debris between shifts, and the Scrubber 75, which has an oil-cleaning mode, takes the scrubbing passes. Routes are built around cells, crossings and forklift lanes, and adjusted when the line layout changes.
Gaming floors that never close, hotel corridors, back of house and convention space. The guide covers which robot vacuums carpet and which scrubs hard floor, how noise is judged on your own floor, and what your surveillance team will ask before a robot is mapped.
Read the guide →We publish a full guide for each facility type as we go. In the meantime, the buy or lease page has a note on how each kind of facility pays for a robot, and the cost guide shows the monthly figure and when a robot does not pay off. Describe your facility and we will tell you which model and which ownership option to look at first: see the full lineup or request a quote.