Cyberworks Robotics is a story of innovation 35 years in the making.

In 1982, founder Vivek Burhanpurkar wrote
the world’s first academic research paper
on autonomous navigation in an unknown (unmapped) environment.

The pioneering engineering thesis paper encapsulated autonomous exploration, mapping, self-localization and complete coverage using a novel AI approach for complex unmapped areas.

This work effectively kicked off the self-driving revolution we see today.

Commercial floor cleaning is a multi-billion dollar industry that is begging for an automation upgrade.

In the high wage G7 nations alone there are millions of buildings -- from schools and shopping malls to hospitals and hotels -- all of which use professional commercial floor cleaning services to keep their floors clean.

The result: professional commercial floor cleaning is a
$30 billion-per-year business in the US alone.

But the commercial floor cleaning industry is not without its challenges.

The industry is plagued by high turnover and high labor costs, and companies are under constant pressure to cut costs and improve efficiencies.

The good news:
these are the kinds of challenges that automation is perfectly suited to solve. 

But it’s not enough for a solution to be automated in order for it to work for commercial floor cleaning. It has to be reliable, it has to be practical and, most of all, it has to be affordable.

And with the Guidance System, that’s exactly the solution that Cyberworks Robotics has created. 

Here are just a few of the features that make the Guidance System a watershed innovation for commercial floor cleaners. 

Existing cleaning robots clean in a simple linear back and forth “​ox-plow” pattern. But in complex buildings like shopping malls, real cleaning professionals clean in more complex, curvilinear patterns that conform to the contours of their surroundings.

Cyberworks’ path planner technology uses the latest advances in AI to learn from a human cleaning person and then repeat their cleaning patterns. Its adaptive Artificial Intelligence then automatically adapts to changes in the environment.

The Cyberworks system has been tested in hundreds of real-world conditions, including those with moving people and highly reflective or transparent surfaces. The Guidance System easily performs in feature-sparse, feature-repetitive and very large-scale environments – something that has been impossible for competing self-driving systems.

Some companies have spent millions of dollars trying to match Cyberworks’ functionality with a “purpose-built” machine.

These attempts have been unsuccessful at a technical level, but more importantly, purpose-built machines do not solve the needs of the industry; to automate the existing 3 million units of fielded equipment.

In the commercial floor cleaning business, one principle rules supreme: cost effectiveness. Floor cleaning companies don’t want to replace machinery they’ve invested millions of dollars in buying. They want a kit-based automated solution.  They want the Guidance System.

The Cyberworks Robotics Guidance System is compatible with floor cleaners’ existing machines, so floor cleaners can take advantage of automation -- without breaking the bank to do it. 

Commercial floor cleaners are already expressing interest in the Guidance System.
We have received interest from two Building Service Contractors (BSCs) for an initial order of 400 pieces of the Guidance System.

Floor cleaners aren’t the only ones who are interested, either.
Cyberworks Robotics self-driving technology has been featured by some of the country’s leading press outlets, including:  

Floor cleaning is just the beginning of Cyberworks’s vision to pioneer the adoption of self-driving technology on a mass scale. Cyberworks has already developed a $500 Self-Driving retrofit kit for wheelchairs and are in talks to begin mass sales in China. Cyberworks is also in talks to license its Guidance System to an existing sentry robot company with immediate mass sales to the middle east.

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