Facility Cleaning
Automation
Autonomous robots can add consistent scheduled floor-care capacity, including approved overnight routes, while staff focus on work that still requires people.
The Problem
The cleaning labor problem is real
Every facility manager knows it. Cleaning is expensive, inconsistent, and getting harder to staff every year.
Labor costs keep rising
Minimum wage increases, overtime, recruiting, and turnover costs add up fast. Cleaning is one of the highest-cost line items in most facility budgets.
Inconsistent results
Different employees clean differently. Standards vary shift to shift, season to season. Robots clean the same route, at the same depth, every time.
High turnover
Cleaning staff turnover averages 200% per year. The time spent recruiting, hiring, and training new employees is a hidden cost that never shows up in the budget.
The Solution
Autonomous robots add dependable floor-care capacity
With a compatible station, approved routes, site utilities, recovery procedures, and proper scheduling, robots can handle repeatable floor care during off-hours. Use the calculator below to test a facility-specific planning case instead of relying on a promised payback range.
Return on Investment
How fast does a robot pay for itself?
Enter your own labor and floor-area assumptions. The complete result stays visible on-page and includes governed real-world planning rates plus the required compatible station.
Facility cleaning ROI planner
Full results are free. Adjust the assumptions to model addressable floor-care hours and governed real-world robot capacity.
Up to 200,000 ft² per selected robot. Increase robot quantity to plan a larger total area.
Select the fleet quantity. Capacity, area range, and investment update for one compatible station per robot.
Editable planning input for payroll taxes, benefits, insurance, and paid time.
Hours potentially reassigned to higher-value work—not a job-elimination assumption.
Your modeled result
250,000 ft²/week planned across 1 L3 robot.
Selected fleet covers about 82.1% of the weekly plan.
Add capacity or reduce area/frequency. The modeled minimum is 2 L3 robots, based on 30 scheduled cleaning hours per robot per week. Published runtime is 4 (ECO mode) hr and charging is 1.5 / 2 hr.
Robot investment
$24,000
1 × L3 at published MSRP
WS3 investment
$3,500
1 compatible station included
Total modeled investment
$27,500
Robot plus required compatible station
Real-world modeled capacity
205,140 ft²/wk
6,838 ft²/hr × 30 scheduled hours × 1 robot
Addressable floor-care hours
24.6 hrs/wk
50% entered share, limited by 82.1% fleet coverage
Modeled annual savings
$36,610
$3,051/month; not guaranteed payroll reduction
Simple payback methodology
9 months
Total investment ÷ modeled monthly savings
Five-year modeled net
$155,550
Five years of modeled savings less initial investment; excludes ongoing costs
Assumptions and calculation method
- • Planning uses the governed RFM real-world weighted productivity for the selected model, not the manufacturer theoretical maximum.
- • Each selected robot is modeled for 30 scheduled cleaning hours per week, allowing time for charging, refill/drain workflow, operator checks, and recovery; route complexity and traffic can reduce actual capacity.
- • The compatible workstation or charging station is included for each robot so the estimate supports scheduled autonomous operation.
- • Modeled savings apply only the customer-selected addressable share of current floor-care labor and are reduced when the selected robot quantity cannot cover the entered weekly area. They represent hours that may be reassigned to higher-value work, not an eliminated job or guaranteed payroll reduction.
- • Scheduled overnight operation can add cleaning capacity while staff are home, but it still requires approved routes, site utilities, recovery procedures, and scheduling.
- • Purchase prices are current published MSRP planning inputs. The estimate excludes tax, financing, consumables, site work, service outside included terms, and other facility-specific costs.
Planning estimate only; not a quote, guarantee, financing offer, tax analysis, or staffing recommendation. Actual results require a facility assessment.
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Our Robots
CenoBots autonomous cleaning robots
Four models to match every facility size.
CenoBots L3
Compact
- Narrow aisles & tight spaces
- Ideal for retail & offices
- 128-beam 3D LiDAR, Depth camera, Bumper sensor
- 128-beam 3D LiDAR
CenoBots L4
Mid-Size
- Medium commercial spaces
- Hospitals & schools
- 32-beam 3D LiDAR, 3D depth camera, Bumper sensor, IMU
- 24-month warranty
CenoBots L50
Large
- High-capacity scrubber for large open floors
- Retail stores & warehouses
- 6 hours
- 5,800–8,200 ft²/hr real-world expectation from RFM fleet telemetry (rfm.sproutmation.com) (Hospitals, Large grocery and warehouse, Large factory and warehouse, K-12 schools, University)
CenoBots SP50
Dry sweeper
- Vacuum sweeper with waste detection for daytime cleaning
- Distribution centers & lobbies
- 28.3 in / 720 mm
- 32-beam 3D LiDAR, 3D depth camera, Bumper sensor, IMU
Industries We Serve
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