The Catapulting Cleaning Robots Market – Disruptive Trends and Opportunities Ahead

People spend a lot of time cleaning– a time that they can utilize on productive and thought-intensive purposes. This has led to a remarkable upsurge in the demand of cleaning robots or robovac, which in turn has led to a propitious market size that is backed with the continuously progressing technology and the promising evolution of Artificial Intelligence. 

The major factor influencing the cleaning robots market is the inculcation of automation in the household sector. Furthermore, 95% of the cost of mopping in the industrial and healthcare sectors is that of labor, which can be alleviated by introducing cleaning robots. The compact size of the robots makes them all the more convenient to use. On the other hand, the challenge in the cleaning robot market is that even though they are a notch advantageous than human janitors, their demand and the market size is dwarfed by the exorbitant cost. Furthermore, they don’t operate when the slope is more than 30 to 35 degree, and they are not capable of climbing or descending stairs. The light sensors in robot vacuum cleaners cannot identify dust on black surfaces. 

Cleaning robots are categorized based on their use, application sector, and components. There are four types of cleaning robots that perform different cleaning jobs that include floor cleaning robots that are gradually gaining prominence in the janitorial department of organizational bodies like hospitals, airports, and shopping malls which makes up for their huge market size as they save time and cost in those sectors. Apart from that, lawn cleaning robots, pool cleaning robots, and window cleaning robots have titular applications. 

The major target markets of cleaning robots are residential, industrial, corporate, and healthcare sectors in the regions North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Rest of the World (RoW) covering a gamut of countries in each region. 

The leading manufacturer of cleaning robots is iRobot Corporation with a revenue of USD 883.91 million in 2017 with more than 25 million robots sold worldwide. The prominent conglomerates like LG Electronics Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. have also ventured into the cleaning robot market. Neato Robotics, Inc. has been an emerging player in robovac market which also featured in the list of best robot vacuum manufacturers by USA Today. Furthermore, the market share of Ecovacs Robotics, Inc. had grown by over 100% in the Asia-Pacific region and had clinched the market in 2010. 

With continuous progress of AI and the growing need for eliminating repetitive and time-consuming janitorial jobs, it is expected that cleaning robots are going to create a lot of business opportunities.

Cleaning And Disinfection Robots Market: By Type (Cleaning Robots, Disinfection Robots and Others); By Application (Residential, Healthcare, Commercial, Industrial and Others); By Geography - Forecast(2018 - 2023)

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