The PUDU SH1 is not a robot: it is a cordless upright scrubber-dryer an operator pushes. We carry it because every robotic deployment leaves detail work, and a 44 cm scrubber that dries behind itself beats a mop and bucket for the corners, the tight rooms and the spill that will not wait.
Front, both sides, and the swappable battery that keeps it running between charges.
A cleaning robot handles the open floor extremely well and the awkward parts not at all. Behind the toilet door, under a fixed bench, the two square metres between the fridge and the wall, the spill in the middle of service: these are the jobs that stay manual after the robot arrives, and pretending otherwise sets a deployment up to disappoint.
The PUDU SH1 is what we put against that gap. It is a cordless upright scrubber-dryer, pushed by a person, not autonomous and not pretending to be. What it replaces is the mop and bucket, which is a much lower bar than replacing a robot.
The mechanism is the reason it is worth having. A brush turning at 350 rpm under 27 kg of downward pressure, followed by 20 kPa of suction, lifts dirt off the floor and takes the water straight back up. A mop redistributes dirty water and leaves the floor wet; this does not.
Practically it is a 44 cm path covering 1,100 to 1,600 m²/h, with 4.3 L tanks each way and a swappable battery so a second pack keeps it going. Cordless matters more than it sounds: no lead means no trip hazard and no hunting for a power point in a public space.
Eight things a cordless upright scrubber does that a mop and bucket cannot.
20 kPa of suction takes the water back up, so the floor is walkable straight away.
Downward force at 350 rpm lifts dirt out of the floor instead of moving it around.
A second pack keeps it working while the first charges, with no cable.
No lead across a public floor, and no hunting for a power point in a venue.
Narrow enough for tight rooms and around fixtures where a large machine cannot go.
Mode, battery and tank status on a screen rather than guesswork.
4.3 L clean and 4.3 L recovery, so dirty water never goes back on the floor.
Eco, standard and heavy-duty, trading runtime against how hard the floor needs working.
Three reasons a manual scrubber earns a place alongside an autonomous fleet.
A mop leaves water on the floor, which means either a wet-floor sign for twenty minutes or a slip risk you have chosen to accept. Twenty kilopascals of suction behind the brush takes the water back up, so the area reopens immediately. In hospitality and retail that is the entire argument.
Ninety minutes in eco, seventy in standard, fifty in heavy-duty, and a full charge in about two and a half hours. Because the battery swaps out, a second pack turns that into continuous availability rather than a machine that is flat when you need it most.
A 44 cm path gets into amenities, storerooms, behind counters and around fixed furniture. Those areas are small individually and substantial in total, and they are exactly what stays manual after an autonomous machine takes the open floor.
Detail and edge work alongside a robot fleet, and small hard-floor sites where a full robot is not yet justified.
Kitchen approaches and front-of-house spills that need dealing with during service.
Behind counters, in fitting rooms and around fixed displays where a robot cannot reach.
Small tiled rooms that stay manual on every robotic deployment.
Back-of-house, service corridors and rapid turnaround between functions.
Oil and grit on sealed floors in areas too congested for an autonomous machine.
The detail machine that makes a robotic deployment complete rather than partial.
We are including this section for consistency, but an upright scrubber is genuinely simple: charge it, fill it, push it, empty it.
About two and a half hours for a full pack, or swap a second battery in and keep going.
4.3 L of clean water and detergent, which is one tank fill for a typical detail round.
Pick a mode by how hard the floor needs working, then walk it. It scrubs and dries in one pass.
Tip the 4.3 L recovery tank and rinse the brush. That is the whole maintenance routine.
Manufacturer figures for the SH1. This is a manual machine, so there is no coverage-per-shift figure: how much it does depends entirely on the operator and the floor.
We would rather tell you what a cleaning robot does not do. It does not clean behind a toilet door, under a fixed bench, or in the metre of floor between a fridge and a wall, and on most sites those areas add up to a real amount of work that stays on someone's roster after the robot arrives.
The SH1 is the answer to that, and it is deliberately a modest one. It is not autonomous and we will not describe it as smart cleaning. It is a cordless upright scrubber that does a much better job than a mop, in the places an autonomous machine will never reach.
The drying is the part that matters commercially. A mop leaves a wet floor, which in a WA café or shop means a hazard sign and a closed area during trade. 20 kPa of suction means the floor is walkable as the operator finishes, so the space stays open.
It also works as a starting point. If your site is too small to justify an ET1 on the numbers, an SH1 improves the cleaning immediately at a fraction of the commitment, and the conversation about automation can wait until the floor area or the labour hours justify it.
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.
Tell us what stays manual on your site after the open floor is handled. We'll come back inside one business day with an indicative quote, and an honest view on whether you need this, a robot, or both.
The SH1 handles detail. These handle the floor area, and the two together are what a complete deployment usually looks like.
The small-format robot: 100 to 800 m² floors, 50 cm aisles, and it empties itself.
Sweeps, scrubs, vacuums and dust-mops across mixed office and hotel floors.
How managed robotic cleaning works from $50 a day, without buying the machine.
Every model, every spec, in one table. Every spec side by side, grouped by what the machine does.