Cleaning robot deployment: what to expect, day by day
From site assessment to a scrubbing robot on your floor is a matter of days, not months. Here is what happens each day, and the one thing that adds time.
You're not signing up for a construction project. There's no wiring, no permits, no downtime. Here's exactly what happens between "we agreed to try this" and "the robot is cleaning your floor on a schedule."
Before day one — the site assessment
We walk your floor first — the surface, the square footage, the aisles, the doorways, the times of day people are around. This is what decides which robot fits: a Pudu SH1 for a small grocery floor, a Gausium Scrubber 50 Pro for a hospital wing, a Pudu CC1 for a mixed-floor mall, or a Scrubber 75 Pro for a warehouse slab. If nothing fits yet, we say so here — before anything is committed.
Day one — mapping and setup
The robot arrives, and we map your site. It drives the floor once, building the route it will run every time after. We set dock location, water hookups if the machine needs them (scrubbers refill and drain themselves on the bigger units), and the cleaning schedule — overnight or during hours, your call.
Day two — the first live run
The robot runs its actual route for the first time, and we watch it. We check the clean quality, adjust the route around anything the first map missed — a rack that moved, a door that's usually propped open — and confirm the schedule holds.
Day three — training and handoff
Your staff learns to start a run, read the dashboard, and handle the basic exceptions — clearing an obstruction, restarting after a low-battery dock. By the end of day three, running the robot is routine, not something one specialist has to babysit.
The one thing that adds time
A floor with a lot of unmapped clutter — inventory that moves daily, construction in progress, layout changes mid-week — slows the first map and may need a second pass. A stable, walkable floor on day one is what keeps this to three days. We'll tell you upfront on the site assessment if your floor looks like it needs extra mapping time.
After deployment
Once it's running, service is ours to worry about — not your downtime. See how it works for the full service model: 10-minute remote triage, 24-hour on-site dispatch, 24/7 emergency response.
FAQ
Does the robot need Wi-Fi or IT setup? Basic connectivity for the reporting dashboard — we handle the setup during the site assessment.
What if we rearrange the floor after deployment? Tell us — we remap the affected section, which usually takes less than a day.
Do we need to be there for the whole three days? A point of contact for day one and day three (training) is enough. Day two runs mostly on its own.
See what your floor's timeline looks like. A free site assessment tells you the robot, the schedule, and the go-live date.