Robotic Floor Scrubber Saves Money For School District

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The Upper Merion School District in Philadelphia, PA., has always desired to do more with less and make the most of available resources. As a result, we first considered introducing a robotic floor cleaner into our schools several years ago. In 2007, we returned a call from Intellibot Robotics and took our first look at the company’s IS800 scrubber. We weren’t quite yet comfortable with a robot, so instead opted for a more familiar manual cleaner.

Still intrigued by augmenting our staff with an autonomous floor cleaner that would allow janitors to focus on harder to clean areas, we called Intellibot again in late 2008. We examined their IS800c, a combination sweeper and scrubber; however, we didn’t purchase one due to concerns about job security among our custodial crew.

By 2010, the country’s economic conditions had clearly deteriorated and, as
with many districts around the nation, significant budget cuts were inevitable in the Upper Merion School District. While we wanted – and needed – to do more with less in terms of our finances, we also wanted to do more with less in terms of our natural resources. As part of
a district-wide energy saving program, we turned to Intellibot once again.

In November 2010, Intellibot demonstrated its 10th generation (G10) sweeper/scrubber product, the DuoBot. We were convinced of its immediate environmental and financial savings and purchased our first DuoBot in December.

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