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🇨🇦 Avidbots

Canada · Founded 2014 · Official site ↗

The leader in autonomous commercial floor-cleaning robots. Neo 2 runs 18+ hours on one charge and is deployed in major airports, malls, and warehouses worldwide.

Avidbots Neo 2 autonomous floor cleaning robot

Strengths

  • Neo 2 is the largest autonomous floor scrubber on the market
  • 18+ hour runtime per charge
  • LiDAR + computer vision autonomous mapping
  • Cloud fleet management, monitor the whole fleet in real time

Typical products

  • Neo 2 autonomous floor scrubber
  • Kas autonomous vacuum (offices / hotels)
  • Fleet management software

Flagship series

Neo 2Kas

About Avidbots

Avidbots was founded in 2014 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada by Faizan Sheikh and Pablo Molina, both engineers from the University of Waterloo.

Neo 2, flagship

  • Size, similar footprint to a commercial walk-behind scrubber (~1 m tall)
  • Water, 100 L tank capacity
  • Runtime, 18+ hours per charge (full commercial shift)
  • Navigation, 360° LiDAR + IMU + gyroscope. No tape, no QR codes, no infrastructure changes
  • Safety, 3D front camera with emergency stop on obstacle detection

Real deployments

  • Airports, Changi Terminal 3 (Singapore), Toronto Pearson, MAD (Madrid)
  • Malls, Simon Property Group, Westfield
  • Warehouses, Walmart supercenter fulfillment centers
  • Hospitals, selected NHS sites (UK)

Kas (newer model)

Targets offices, hotels, and retail. Roughly 40% smaller than Neo 2 (no large water tank, vacuum-based).

In Thailand

No direct distributor yet. Orders route through Singapore or Australia partners. Typical pricing USD 80–120K per unit + fleet software subscription ~USD 500/month.