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Retail & Shopping Centres
Shopping centre cleaning robots for Perth.
Common malls, food courts and entries carry a centre's presentation standard through every trading hour, and every spill is a slip risk until someone reaches it. Autonomous scrubber-dryers and AI spot cleaners hold that standard during trade and overnight, and we run the service end to end across Perth and WA.
- Owned & operated in Perth
- Servicing all of WA
- Engineering-led: robotics & autonomous systems
- Multi-OEM: the right robot for your site
- From as little as $50 a day
The floor is judged every trading hour.
A warehouse floor is inspected once a shift. A shopping centre floor is inspected by every shopper who walks it, from the first coffee to the last late-night trade. The presentation standard has to hold while the centre is full, which is exactly when it is hardest to clean.
Spills make it sharper. A dropped drink in a food court is a slip liability measured in minutes, not hours, and reaching it means a cleaner crossing a busy mall with a trolley, working around shoppers, prams and casual leasing displays. The longer the walk, the longer the exposure.
Pushing everything to the night window has its own cost: penalty rates, after-hours security and access arrangements, and a standard that has already slipped by mid-afternoon. Most centres end up paying for both problems at once.
Why shopping centres suit autonomous cleaning.
Large public floors with constant, localised mess are the work this fleet was built for.
- Public-space pedigree. The CenoBots L50 scrubber-dryer is built for shopping centres, atriums and concourses, and it is rated to share the floor with shoppers during trading hours, not just after close.
- AI spot response. Between full passes, the CenoBots SP50 patrols, recognises 30+ debris types at 99% accuracy and drives straight to them, covering up to 15,550 m²/h in spot mode.
- Cleaning during trade. A robot working the mall is the presentation standard being kept in plain sight, rather than a night-shift claim shoppers never see.
- Logged coverage. Every run lands on the dashboard with coverage and run time, so centre management gets a documented record for contract and tenant reporting.
The units we deploy in retail centres.
Most centres pair a scrubber-dryer for the overnight full pass with a spot cleaner for trading hours. We confirm the combination at survey.
L50
The mall and atrium unit. Scrubs 2,203 m²/h on a 510 mm deck with 55 L + 55 L tanks, dries behind an 840 mm squeegee, and the CWS-01 workstation refills, drains and recharges it for 24/7 unattended running.
L50 detail →SP50
Entries and food courts. The AI spot-cleaning vacuum patrols, detects spills and debris and drives to them, with H13 HEPA filtration and quiet ≥58 dB(A) operation for occupied space.
SP50 detail →C40
Mixed surfaces in one pass: sweeps, vacuums, scrubs and dust-pushes across short-pile carpet, tile, vinyl and stone. Built for 500–4,500 m² floors and clears a 650 mm passage.
C40 detail →S5
Back-of-house. The industrial sweeper clears dry debris at about 2,500 m²/h with an 820 mm brush and 50 L hopper across loading docks, service corridors and covered carparks.
S5 detail →Deployment in a live centre.
We survey the floor plate first: surfaces, gradients, choke points and where the mess actually concentrates. Our engineer then builds the 3D map and sets no-go zones around escalator approaches, travelators, entries and any area centre management wants excluded, so the robots never operate where they shouldn't.
Schedules are split around trade. Full scrub passes run in the overnight window; spot patrols run during trading hours, when the robots slow, stop or reroute around shoppers and trolleys rather than expecting a cleared floor. Commissioning work is scheduled around trading hours, and mapping changes after fit-outs or casual leasing moves are part of the service.
Prefer to talk it through before a survey? Contact us and we'll walk the centre with you →
Three ways to pay. Your choice.
Most competitors offer one commercial model. We offer three, and recommend the one that fits the centre's budget structure.
Robot as a Service
A monthly subscription from $50 a day covering the robot, service, support and software. Lowest commitment, predictable opex, and the hardware risk sits with us.
How RaaS works →Lease-to-own
2–4 year terms, with the centre owning the unit at the end. Spreads the cost across budget years while building an asset on the register.
Compare the models →Outright + Care Plan
A capex purchase with an optional Care Plan for ongoing service, parts and software, suited to owners who prefer to hold the asset from day one.
Compare the models →Where this doesn't fit.
The robots cover floors. They don't do escalator steps, stairs, amenities, glass or touchpoints, so they reduce the floor-coverage load on your cleaning roster rather than replacing it. Detail cleaning stays with people.
A single small tenancy under about 500 m² rarely justifies a unit of its own, and open-air forecourts sit outside the indoor fleet's rating: the S5's outdoor capability is limited to covered carparks and loading docks. If a walk-through shows a robot isn't the right answer for your centre, we'll say so at the survey.
Why Perth Robots
Honest credibility, not just claims.
WA-based service, not a reseller.
We deploy and service every unit ourselves across WA. If a robot's down at 2am on a mine site, that's on us, same time zone.
Multi-OEM, honest advice.
We recommend the right robot for your site, not the only one we carry.
Low-risk by design.
RaaS is a flat monthly subscription, not a capital gamble. The risk sits with us. Run the robot as often as you need.
Retail & shopping centre FAQ
Is it safe around shoppers, kids and prams?
The units are rated for live public environments. The L50 uses an automotive-grade 32-beam 3D LiDAR, depth camera and bumper to slow for and steer around people, trolleys and fixtures, and the SP50 navigates the same way while it patrols. They give way rather than assume right of way, and we set no-go zones around escalators, entries and any area centre management wants excluded.
What happens when something is spilled during trade?
Between full passes, the SP50 patrols, detects spills and debris (it recognises 30+ types at 99% accuracy) and drives straight to them, covering up to 15,550 m²/h in spot mode. That shortens the window a spill sits on the floor from a cleaner's walk across the centre to minutes. Your team keeps its normal spill procedure for anything that needs immediate signage or a wet scrub, which is the L50's job.
When do the robots run?
Both during trade and overnight. Most centres run the L50's full scrub in the overnight window, where the CWS-01 workstation refills, drains and recharges it so it covers the whole window unattended, and run the SP50 on spot patrol during trading hours. The L50 is also rated to share the floor during trading hours, so a daytime pass is an option rather than a compromise.
How does a robot sit with our public liability and insurance?
Every unit carries the sensor and safety systems listed on its product page, and the SP50 carries a confirmed IEC 63327 certification dossier. Insurance and liability positioning is specific to each centre and each policy, so speak to us: we supply the documentation your insurer, centre management and risk teams ask for, and we walk through it with them before deployment.
Can we report cleaning coverage to centre management and tenants?
Yes. Every run is logged, with coverage maps, area cleaned, run time and incidents landing on the dashboard. That gives centre management a documented record for cleaning-contract KPIs, and gives multi-tenancy reporting something firmer than a sign-off sheet.
How quickly can a Perth centre be deployed?
Three to four weeks from enquiry to first run for in-stock units. Roughly a week to survey and quote, then two to three weeks to commission, map the floor and tune routes and schedules, with commissioning work scheduled around trading hours.
Site survey · Fast WA quote
Scope a centre survey.
Walk us through the common mall, food court and back-of-house, and we'll recommend the scrubber, the spot cleaner, or the combination, plus the commercial model that fits the centre.
- WA-based service, not flown in from the east coast
- Three ways to pay: RaaS, outright or lease-to-own
- The right robot matched to your site, not whatever one brand sells
- Free site check, with an indicative quote within one business day