The PUDU ET1 is a compact scrubber-dryer built for the floors most cleaning robots are too big for. It scrubs, sweeps, vacuums and dust-mops in a single pass at up to 720 m²/h, fits down a 50 cm aisle, and empties, rinses and refills itself at an 8-in-1 dock. Supplied, mapped and serviced from Perth.
Front, three-quarter, side and rear, plus the optional advertising screen raised.
Commercial cleaning robots have mostly been built for big floor plates: warehouses, shopping centres, airports. If you run a convenience store, a pharmacy, a café or a single office floor, the machines were too wide for your aisles and too expensive for your floor area. The cleaning stayed manual because nothing else fitted.
The ET1 is built for exactly that gap. PUDU designed it for spaces between 100 and 800 m², with a body 380 mm wide that passes through a 50 cm gap. It goes down a convenience-store aisle, between café tables, and through a standard doorway without anyone lifting a door off its hinges.
It also does more per pass than most machines its size. A front-sweep, rear-scrub layout means it sweeps and vacuums dry debris at the front, then scrubs and squeegee-dries behind, in one lap of the floor. Dry rubbish goes into a 2.5 L dust box, dirty water into a separate 7.2 L tank. You are not running a sweeper and then a mop.
The part that matters most for a small team is what happens at the end. The ET1 returns to an 8-in-1 docking station that charges it, refills clean water, drains the dirty water, doses detergent, rinses the roller and squeegee, spin-dries the roller and heats the water for the next run. Nobody empties a bucket or washes a mop head at close.
Eight things the ET1 does that a mop and a manual sweeper do not.
Scrubs, sweeps, vacuums and dust-mops in a single pass, front to back.
The roller mop rinses itself as it works, so dirt is lifted off the floor rather than pushed along it.
The rear squeegee and 20 kPa suction leave the floor walkable straight away, with no streaking.
Charging, water in, water out, detergent, rinsing, spin-drying and heating, all automatic.
Reads the floor surface and the dirt on it, then sets its own speed, roller speed and water flow.
Compact enough for shop aisles, café floors and office corridors that larger scrubbers cannot enter.
Maps the space itself on the first run, then starts on one press from the panel or the app.
An advertising display that runs promotions or wayfinding while the robot cleans.
The specifications that decide whether a floor actually comes up clean.
The scrubbing roller turns at up to 800 rpm and rinses itself in real time, so it keeps cutting into the floor instead of loading up with grime after the first few metres. Behind it, the squeegee and 20 kPa of suction pull the water straight back off, which is why the floor is walkable immediately rather than roped off to dry.
The station heats water to 85 °C for stubborn stains, which is the difference between a floor that looks mopped and a floor that looks cleaned. It matters most in food service, where the residue is grease and sugar rather than dust, and where cold water and a flat mop just move the film around.
The ET1 needs 50 cm of width and 60 cm of height to get through. That is the specification that decides whether a robot is useful in a convenience store or a café, because a machine that cannot reach between the shelving leaves you doing the hard parts by hand anyway.
The ET1 returns to its station and resets itself for the next run. This is the part that decides whether a cleaning robot actually saves labour.
Most cleaning machines run one routine everywhere. The ET1 identifies the floor surface and the type of dirt on it, then sets its own driving speed, roller speed and water output to match. On a lightly used office floor that means less water and a faster pass; on a greasy kitchen approach it means the opposite.
Two behaviours are worth knowing about because they are the ones that catch people out with cheaper machines. At a carpet edge, the ET1 lifts the scrubbing roller so the carpet stays dry. Over a liquid spill, it lifts the sweeping brush and side brush instead, so it does not drag the spill across the floor before the scrubber gets to it.
It maps the space itself on the first run, so there is no long commissioning exercise, and the cleaning is reported back as a heatmap showing what was covered and when. For a multi-site operator that is the useful part: evidence that the floor was cleaned, on the nights you are not there.
Small-format floors with hard surfaces, long trading hours and no dedicated cleaning team on site.
Narrow aisles between chillers and shelving, where a full-size scrubber has never fitted and the floor gets mopped after close.
Presentation floors that need to look clean during trade, with a documented record of when they were cleaned.
Grease and sugar residue in front-of-house and kitchen approaches, where hot scrubbing does what a cold mop cannot.
Hard-floor lobbies, kitchenettes and corridors on one tenancy floor, cleaned overnight without a contractor visit.
Lobbies, lift lobbies and back-of-house circulation in budget and mid-market properties with small housekeeping teams.
Childcare rooms, training centres and community facilities where the floor is hard surface and the budget is not big-site scale.
One survey, one map, then a schedule. The only recurring manual job is emptying the dust box.
We walk the floor, check aisle widths and surfaces, and confirm the ET1 is the right size for the space before anything is ordered.
The robot maps the space on its first run and we set cleaning zones, exclusions and a schedule that fits your trading hours.
It cleans on schedule, adapts to what it finds, and returns to the dock to charge, refill, drain and rinse itself for the next run.
Someone tips out the 2.5 L dust box when the app flags it. In a typical store that is a weekly job, not a nightly one.
Manufacturer figures for the ET1. Runtime and charge times depend on floor type and settings, so we confirm those against your site at survey rather than quote a best case here.
Most WA businesses that clean a hard floor are not warehouses. They are convenience stores, pharmacies, cafés, single office floors and small clinics, and until now the automation conversation skipped them entirely because the machines started too big. The ET1 changes the arithmetic: a floor of 100 to 800 m² is now a size a robot is actually designed for.
The labour case is different at this scale too. A small site is not replacing a cleaning crew, it is usually recovering the half-hour a shift that a staff member spends mopping after close, every day, at penalty rates. That is the number worth checking against a $50 a day subscription, and it is the calculation we will run with you honestly, including when it does not stack up.
PUDU is not a small manufacturer. According to Frost & Sullivan's 2025 report, PUDU Robotics ranks first globally in commercial cleaning robotics revenue with a 29% share, and the company reports more than 130,000 robots shipped across 85 countries. The ET1 is new, launched on 12 August 2026, but the platform behind it is not.
What we add is local. We are Perth-based, we survey your floor before anything is ordered, and we will tell you if the ET1 is the wrong size for your site. For bigger floor plates we would put you on a CenoBots L4 or L50 instead. Same partnership, same dashboard, right machine.
Built by someone who has engineered advanced systems and operated them in demanding environments. We know what these machines can and can't do.
We deploy and service every unit ourselves across WA. If a robot's down at 2am on a mine site, that's on us, in the same time zone.
We recommend the right robot for your site, not the only one we carry.
RaaS is a flat monthly subscription, not a capital gamble. The risk sits with us, and you run the robot as often as you need.
Send us your floor area, surface type and trading hours. We'll come back inside one business day with an indicative quote and a survey date, and we'll tell you if a different unit suits your site better.
The ET1 is the small-format unit. If your floor is larger, or the mess is dry debris rather than spills, one of these fits better.
The step up when the floor plate outgrows the ET1 but the aisles are still commercial scale.
For dry debris rather than spills: a modular sweeper for larger commercial and industrial floors.
Our other compact scrubber, built for healthcare corridors and furnished floors.
Every model, every spec, in one table. Every spec side by side, grouped by what the machine does.