PUDU CC1 Intelligent Commercial 清掃ロボット

PUDU CC1 Cost of Ownership: Amortization Per Month, Week, Day and Hour

Every facility manager evaluating an autonomous cleaner asks the same question in a different form: what does this actually cost me once it is running? A sticker price answers almost nothing on its own. What matters is the figure the machine carries on a monthly budget line, and the figure it works out to per hour against the labor it offsets. This page breaks the PUDU CC1 down both ways, across every warranty term available.

What the CC1 Is

The CC1 is a compact autonomous cleaning robot built by Pudu Robotics for indoor commercial floors. It handles four jobs in one chassis: sweeping, scrubbing, vacuuming and dust mopping, which covers most routine floor care in an office tower, hotel, retail store or clinic without switching machines between surface types.

Navigation runs on PUDU SLAM, a hybrid system that fuses visual SLAM with laser SLAM so the robot holds its position in cluttered, changeable environments rather than only in empty corridors. Suction is rated at 17,000 Pa. Clean and dirty water are held in separate 15 liter tanks with automatic filling and draining, and the docking station handles charging, water supply, drainage and detergent dosing without any plumbing modification to the building. If the battery runs low mid task, the CC1 remembers where it stopped, recharges, and resumes the unfinished area. Elevator integration lets a single unit work several floors.

Coverage runs to roughly 10,764 square feet per hour, and each session produces a report on time, area and coverage, which turns cleaning from an assumption into an auditable record. Facilities needing closed loop verification, where the robot detects remaining stains and re cleans them automatically, should look at the PUDU CC1 Pro instead.

Purchase Price and Warranty Structure

The CC1 is priced at $19,500.00, and that figure includes the first twelve months of warranty coverage as standard. Extended warranty is sold as additional years layered on top of that included year, not as a replacement for it, so the maximum protected ownership window runs to sixty months.

Cost Per Month, Week and Day

Spreading the total investment evenly across the covered term gives the calendar cost of ownership. This is the number that belongs on a budget line, and the one to set against an existing cleaning contract.

Held for the full five years with warranty coverage throughout, the CC1 costs under $360 a month, under $85 a week, and under $12 a day. For most commercial buildings that is materially less than a single cleaning shift.

Cost Per Operating Hour

Hourly cost depends entirely on how hard the machine is worked, which is why a single hourly figure is misleading. A robot running four hours a night in a small office carries a very different cost per hour than one running around the clock in an airport terminal. The table below shows the real range.

The realistic center of that range for most commercial buildings is the eight hour, seven day row. On a fully covered sixty month term, that puts the CC1 at $1.47 per operating hour. Run continuously, it falls below fifty cents.

What the Extended Warranty Costs Per Month of Coverage

Because the base price already carries a year, the extended warranty should be judged on what each additional month of protection costs. The rate improves steadily the further out the term runs.

Reading the Hourly Figure Against Labor

The hourly numbers only mean something in comparison. Fully loaded janitorial labor in North America, once wages, payroll taxes, insurance, supervision and turnover are counted, typically lands somewhere between twenty and thirty dollars an hour depending on market and shift premium. Against that, a CC1 at $1.47 to $2.54 per operating hour sits at well under a tenth of the cost of the routine floor work it absorbs.

The honest framing is not replacement but reallocation. The CC1 takes over repetitive large area floor maintenance, which is the least skilled and most schedule bound part of the job, and frees cleaning staff for detail work, restrooms, touchpoints and response tasks that a machine cannot do. Facilities that model it as a headcount cut usually get the arithmetic wrong. Facilities that model it as recovered hours usually get it right.