Cleaning robots for clinics and care homes: hygiene with proof

The proof is the product

Cleaning in clinics and care is inspected, tendered and signed off. Yet in many organisations documentation ends with a ticked list. Anyone who has to demonstrate that a floor really was cleaned during the night shift often has nothing but a cross on paper.

At the same time cleaning staff are becoming scarcer – for the same reason as everywhere in healthcare.

Our answer: cleaning robots for the large, open areas, with a log for every task. Staff stay where hygiene is genuinely decided: sanitary areas, edges and hand-contact surfaces.

What a cleaning robot does in clinics and care

A cleaning robot for clinics and care homes is an autonomous floor cleaning system that cleans defined areas to a plan and documents every task. The uClean range spans compact machines for corridors and wards through to scrubber dryers for large areas. Tasks and records run through uGo+.

• Reproducible area performance to plan, including nights and weekends
• A cleaning log per task – area, time, result, exportable
• Relief in shift operation without shifting hygiene responsibility
• An auditable chain for quality management, tendering and inspection
• Fleet operation across several buildings and sites

What we do not promise

No robot cleans a patient room, a toilet or a door handle. None reaches every corner. And none replaces your hygiene plan – it fulfils part of it verifiably. Anyone selling you a complete hygiene solution on wheels is selling you a problem.

Your robot. Your data.

A robot that works inside your building sees and hears things that are nobody’s business outside it. That is why AI processing runs on the device, not in someone else’s cloud. No permanent internet connection is required for operation, which makes closed hospital, care-home and laboratory networks possible. What is generated in your building stays in your building: you decide what is stored, analysed or deleted. Through uGo+ you define who may start which tasks, and mission reports are auditable – the basis for a data protection impact assessment, your works council and any inspection.

Buy or rent: Robot-as-a-Service

You can buy, or rent under Robot-as-a-Service. With rental you pay a recurring monthly fee that covers hardware, software maintenance and service together – from the operating budget rather than the capital budget. That is the usual route for a pilot and for a staged rollout across several sites.

An honest note: renting is not automatically cheaper than buying – it shifts risk and timing. What works for your organisation depends on term, quantity, available funding and budget structure. We work through that openly in a first conversation instead of selling you a model. We do not publish prices, because configuration and integration scope decide the number – a figure without that context would be misleading.

Why us

• More than 500 units in daily operation in hospitals and laboratories – not pilot promises, but shift work.
• More than 20,000 robots deployed across all our product lines – 15 years of experience with people who work alongside robots.
• uGo+ as a single interface for tasks, permissions, reporting and fleet management – across multiple sites.
• Manufacturer, not reseller. Development, integration and service come from us.

Frequently asked questions

Does a cleaning robot replace cleaning staff?

No. It covers large, open floor areas reproducibly. Sanitary areas, patient rooms, edges and hand-contact surfaces stay with people – which is where hygiene is decided anyway.

How is cleaning documented?

Every task produces a record with area, time and result. These logs are available in uGo+ and can be exported for quality management and audits.

Is this compatible with hygiene requirements?

The robot performs routine cleaning of floor areas. Which areas, with which agents and at what frequency is set by your hygiene plan – the robot does not change that, it only documents it better.

How much area can a cleaning robot cover?

That depends on the machine, floor plan and furnishing. We establish realistic area performance during a site visit rather than promising catalogue figures.

Can cleaning robots be rented?

Yes, as Robot-as-a-Service with a monthly fee – often the practical route where service contracts have a fixed term.

The next step

A first conversation takes twenty minutes. Afterwards you will know whether deployment pays off in your organisation – and if it does not, we will say so. Reach us through the contact form or your existing contact at United Robotics Group.

Sources: OECD, Health at a Glance: Europe 2024 · German Federal Statistical Office, nursing workforce projection, press release of 23 January 2024 · German Economic Institute (IW), STEM Spring Report 2026.