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Fresh Mango Robotics supplies, leases, installs and supports commercial cleaning, service and logistics robots across Yorkshire and the UK from a base in Ripon, North Yorkshire. These pages answer the most common questions on cost, leasing, Robotics-as-a-Service, and what service and logistics robots actually do.
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Cost and leasing
- Can I lease a cleaning robot in Yorkshire?Yes. Fresh Mango Robotics leases commercial cleaning robots across Yorkshire on a fixed monthly Robotics-as-a-Service fee that includes the machine, site survey, installation, mapping, staff training, software updates, maintenance and UK-based support. There is no capital outlay, the monthly cost sits alongside the labour it displaces, and outright purchase and hybrid arrangements are also available.
- How much does a cleaning robot cost?A commercial cleaning robot in the UK is priced by machine size, cleaning function, tank capacity and whether lift integration is required, and is offered as an outright purchase, a hybrid arrangement, or a fixed monthly Robotics-as-a-Service fee including support. The figure that matters is whether the monthly cost is below the fully loaded cost of the cleaning hours it displaces — on sites above roughly 500 m² of hard floor it usually is.
What things are
- What industries use cleaning robots?The UK industries using commercial cleaning robots most are warehousing and logistics, hotels and hospitality, care homes, schools and colleges, retail and shopping centres, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres, and garden centres. The common factor is not the sector but the floor: a large hard-floor area cleaned on a regular schedule, where the hours are difficult or expensive to cover.
- What is Robotics as a Service (RaaS)?Robotics as a Service (RaaS) is a subscription model in which a business pays a fixed monthly fee covering a commercial robot and everything needed to run it: site survey, installation, mapping, staff training, software updates, remote monitoring, maintenance and UK-based support. There is no capital outlay and the provider carries the uptime and obsolescence risk, so the cost sits beside the labour it displaces.
- What are service robots?A service robot is an autonomous mobile machine that performs a useful task for people — delivering food, carrying linen, guiding visitors or transporting supplies — without being driven or accompanied. It navigates using LiDAR and 3D cameras, follows routes mapped during installation, avoids people and obstacles in real time, and returns to a charging dock on its own.
- What are logistics robots?A logistics robot is an autonomous mobile robot that moves goods inside a building — totes, cages, pallets, linen or supplies — between fixed points without a driver. It maps the site, follows repeatable routes, avoids people and MHE, and can be called or scheduled. It replaces the walking and pushing element of internal transport, not the picking or packing decisions.
Results and efficiency
- How do warehouse robots improve efficiency?Warehouse robots improve efficiency by removing non-value walking and pushing time from the operation. Logistics robots take repeated internal transport between pick face, packing and dispatch, while cleaning robots take nightly floor care. The result is more picker time on the pick face, stable throughput regardless of staffing, reduced agency spend, lower slip and MHE risk, and run data that makes the operation measurable.
- How do cleaning robots reduce labour costs?Cleaning robots reduce labour costs by absorbing the repetitive open-floor scrubbing that consumes the largest block of cleaning hours. That removes paid hours, eliminates weekend and bank-holiday premium cover, reduces agency reliance, and caps exposure to National Living Wage and employer National Insurance increases — because the robot's cost is fixed while the cost of an hour of labour is not.
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