Floor Scrubbing Robots - Pause and Return For The Cleaning Flexibility Modern Workplaces Need

We know that the modern workplace can be a spontaneous environment. That's why we developed the pause, return, and resume feature where Neo, the autonomous floor scrubbing robot, uses sensors to safely maneuver back to its original task after tackling a priority elsewhere. See it in action in our latest episode of Robot Talk with Duncan.


Hey guys, I'm Duncan McLennan. We're here at Avidbots, and today I would like to tell you about one of my favorite Neo tips and tricks. This is a new feature that was released with our version 2.6 software, and it's called pause and resume. Though I think pause, return, and resume probably describes what it does a little bit better. I'm gonna run out back, get Neo cleaning, and we'll show you how it works.

So I hope you can tell from that video what just happened. Basically, I started Neo cleaning, let him go for a couple of minutes all by himself, and then after a while, I went and interrupted him, drove him away, and left him somewhere that he doesn't really belong. Neo being the insistent guy that he is, figured out where he was, drove back across the floor, and picked up where he left off.

Now, I do want to point out that for the sake of this video I kept the floor scrubbing robot within the camera frame, but this feature does work over much longer distances as well, so long as you remain within your cleaning plan. An example of when this might be useful: Let's say that you notice that your dirty water tank on your robot is getting full, and there's a drain somewhere in that cleaning plan that you're currently running. You can pause the robot, drive over to the drain, dump out the dirty water and press resume, and the robot will automatically navigate over to where he was picked up and start cleaning all over again.

We've had some great feedback on this feature so far, so I wanted to share it with you. If you found this video useful, helpful, interesting, anything, please don't hesitate to subscribe to our YouTube channel, or share with your friends. For now, thanks for watching our floor scrubbing robot in action. Have a good one.