PUDU ET1

Cleaning automation conquered the airport years before the corner store. Big scrubbers earned their keep on big floors, while the places people visit most — the convenience store, the pharmacy, the chain restaurant, the budget hotel lobby — stayed on mops and closing-shift labour, too tight for the machines and too small for the maths. The PUDU ET1 is built for exactly that neglected square footage. Launched by Pudu Robotics in August 2026 as the first product of the new PUDU E Series, it is an AI-native compact scrubber-dryer sized for commercial spaces of 100 to 800 square metres: roughly 45 kilograms in a 500 by 380 by 580 millimetre body that threads aisles just 50 centimetres wide and clearances 60 centimetres low, yet cleans like a full-format machine — scrubbing, sweeping, vacuuming and dust-mopping in one front-sweep, rear-scrub pass, at 300 to 720 square metres per hour, with an 800-rpm roller, 20 kilopascals of suction and 85-degree hot scrubbing for the grease and sticky spills that define food retail. Between runs, a fully automated 8-in-1 docking station does the work a staff member used to: charging, clean-water refilling, wastewater drainage, detergent dosing, mop and squeegee rinsing, roller spin-drying and water heating, with the robot running a self-cleaning cycle after every task and transferring dust and debris to an onboard container that needs emptying roughly once a week.

The PUDU ET1 is available for purchase internationally through this page, with delivery, customs clearance and after-sales support arranged for buyers across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and worldwide.

The gap between the mop and the machine

Small-format businesses have always been robotics' awkward middle: large scrubber-dryers cannot turn in their aisles, and consumer robot vacuums cannot meet their hygiene standards or survive their soiling. The result was a market where cleaning remained the last fully manual, daily, skilled-labour-consuming task in otherwise highly systematised chain operations. Pudu Robotics — a global leader in commercial service robotics whose delivery and cleaning fleets already work restaurants and hotels worldwide — created the E Series to close that gap, and the ET1 defines its formula: commercial-grade cleaning performance, compact-format mobility, and automation of everything around the cleaning as well as the cleaning itself.

AI Magic Cleaning: the store maps itself

Deployment friction kills small-site automation, so the ET1 removes the setup visit. Under Pudu's AI Magic Cleaning architecture, Auto Mapping with one-click start lets a store team power the robot on and begin cleaning with no pre-mapping session; from there the system unifies perception, motion control and cleaning into one adaptive process — recognising stains, building cleaning heatmaps, and adjusting travel speed, roller speed and water output where soiling is heavy. The surface-recognition layer does concrete mechanical work: at a carpet edge the ET1 lifts its scrubbing roller to keep the carpet dry, and over a liquid spill it lifts the sweeping and side brushes so the mess is recovered rather than spread. A dual-mode interface separates manager and operator roles, keeping daily use one-button simple for store staff while chains retain configuration control.

Technical Specifications

Configurations are confirmed at quotation.

What makes the ET1 different from other cleaning robots?

Scale honesty. Most "compact" commercial cleaners are shrunk large-format machines that still need wide aisles, plumbing decisions and trained operators; most small machines are consumer robots wearing a commercial badge. The ET1 was engineered from the small store outward: its 50-centimetre aisle capability matches real shelf gaps, its hot-scrubbing system targets the specific enemy of food retail — dried cola, grease film, footprint haze — and its 8-in-1 dock answers the question that actually decides small-site automation: who looks after the robot? In a 200-square-metre convenience store there is no facilities team; there is a shift worker with no spare minutes. By automating water, detergent, rinsing, drying and even its own dust transfer, the ET1 reduces the human role to emptying a 2.5-litre container about once a week — the difference between robot-assisted cleaning and genuinely hands-free operation.

Who is the ET1 for?

For the operators of small, busy, hygiene-critical floors: convenience store and drugstore chains cleaning during trading hours between customers and shelving; chain restaurants fighting grease and sticky spillage to food-service standards; business and economy hotels keeping lobbies and corridors presentable around the clock; and offices and small retail units where cleaning contracts are a recurring cost with variable results. Multi-site chains are the natural buyer — Auto Mapping and one-click startup mean a new store is live the day the robot arrives, and manager-mode standardisation holds one cleaning standard across hundreds of branches. Within a wider fleet strategy, the ET1 covers the small formats while Pudu's larger cleaning and delivery machines handle big-floor sites — one vendor, every footprint.

What is the PUDU ET1 used for?

1. Convenience store and drugstore cleaning: daily single-pass floor care in narrow-aisle, high-traffic small retail.
2. Restaurant floor hygiene: hot scrubbing of grease and sticky stains in chain and quick-service dining areas.
3. Hotel public areas: lobby and corridor maintenance in business and economy hotels on continuous schedules.
4. Office cleaning: after-hours autonomous floor care for small and mid-size office premises.
5. Mixed-surface sites: automatic component lifting at carpet edges and over spills across tile, vinyl and carpeted zones.
6. Multi-site chain programmes: standardised, heatmap-documented cleaning quality rolled out with one-click deployment.

Pricing and Availability

The PUDU ET1 is available for purchase and international delivery through this page, from a single unit with docking station for one store to multi-site programmes for chains and facility service providers. Price and cost depend on configuration, docking station and consumables provisioning, deployment and training scope, and quantity, so buyers should request a current quotation for their site profile; delivery, customs clearance and after-sales support are arranged worldwide. Purchase enquiries, datasheets and availability details for the PUDU ET1 are available on this page.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the PUDU ET1?

An AI-native compact scrubber-dryer robot from Pudu Robotics — the first product of the new PUDU E Series — purpose-built for small commercial spaces of 100 to 800 square metres such as convenience stores, drugstores, chain restaurants, budget hotels and offices.

What cleaning does it perform?

Four functions in one pass: scrubbing, sweeping, vacuuming and dust-mopping, using a front-sweep, rear-scrub layout — with an 800-rpm roller, 20-kilopascal suction and 85-degree hot scrubbing for grease and stubborn stains, at 300 to 720 square metres per hour.

Will it fit a genuinely small store?

Yes — that is its design brief: a 500 by 380 by 580 millimetre, roughly 45-kilogram body that navigates aisles from 50 centimetres wide and clearances from 60 centimetres high, with Auto Mapping and one-click start requiring no pre-deployment mapping visit.

How much daily work does it create for staff?

Almost none — the automated 8-in-1 docking station handles charging, clean-water refilling, wastewater drainage, detergent dosing, mop and squeegee rinsing, roller spin-drying and water heating, while the robot self-cleans after each task and transfers dust to a 2.5-litre container needing emptying roughly once a week.

How does it handle carpets and spills?

Through surface recognition: at a carpet edge it lifts the scrubbing roller to keep the carpet dry, and over liquid spills it lifts the sweeping and side brushes to avoid spreading the mess — while adaptive control raises roller speed and water output where soiling is heavy.

Can a chain manage many ET1 units consistently?

Yes — the interface separates manager and operator modes, cleaning heatmaps document coverage and quality per run, and one-click deployment means each new branch is operational without technical onboarding, holding one standard across the estate.

Where can I buy the PUDU ET1 and what does it cost?

The PUDU ET1 is available through this page, with delivery, customs clearance and after-sales support arranged for buyers worldwide. Because cost varies with configuration, docking station provisioning and quantity, buyers should request an individual quotation. All purchasing details are available on this page.

Summary

The PUDU ET1 automates the floors automation forgot: the 100-to-800-square-metre world of corner stores, pharmacies, chain restaurants and budget hotels, where aisles are 50 centimetres wide, grease is daily and nobody has time to babysit a robot. It cleans four ways in one pass, scrubs hot at 85 degrees, maps its own store on first power-up, lifts its roller at carpet edges — and hands everything between runs to a dock that charges, fills, drains, doses, rinses, dries and heats, leaving humans a weekly dust container. As the opening product of Pudu's E Series, it turns small-format cleaning from a labour line into a fixed, documented standard. For chains and store operators ready to make that trade, this page is the starting point.