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About KITAU Robotics

We build robots for the floor nobody else reaches.

KITAU Robotics is a UK robotics company based in Birmingham. We design and program mobile robotic systems for industrial use, and ARTIC is our warehouse cleaning robot.

ARTIC, a low white robot with a black front and a green light strip, on a white background.

ARTIC

Autonomous Robot Trained In Cleaning.

The floor under pallet racking is roughly 20 cm high. It collects dust, packaging and dropped items, and cleaning it means staff kneeling with brushes and extension poles. Commercial cleaning robots are too tall to get underneath.

ARTIC was our answer: a low-profile cleaning robot, built, instrumented and deployed beneath racking at client warehouses. The series proved the space can be cleaned autonomously, and showed us what a production machine needs.

Today's ARTIC is that machine: brushes that sweep debris in ahead of the vacuum, up to six hours on a charge, emptying without manual handling, and protection for stock.

Meet ARTIC V2

Gallery

ARTIC on a warehouse floor between runs of red pallet racking.
ARTIC on the concrete floor of a warehouse aisle beside red pallet racking.
Front view of ARTIC on a concrete warehouse floor, with pallet racking behind it.
Close-up of ARTIC with a green light strip along its front and a red emergency stop button.
ARTIC in a dark studio, its white body edged with a glowing green light strip.
Render of ARTIC V2: a low white robot with black front trim and two black sweeping brushes.

Background

Mobile robotics is what we do.

We have developed mobile robotic systems for clients in cleaning, logistics, servicing and inspection, taking projects from a concept to a working production unit across mechanical, electronics and software design.

That experience is what ARTIC is built on.

Bespoke robotic development.

A pipe inspection robot on a workshop floor.
Inspection

Pipe inspection robot

Software and an operator interface for a pipe inspection robot, now used for inspection and installation tasks.

Render of three white service robots, one with a large screen.
Service

Service robots

Autonomous service robot designs for retail and hospitality, with a large screen to guide and inform customers.

A phone resting on a round KITAU smart charger.
Embedded

Smart charger

A bespoke embedded system that charges a phone around its owner’s routine to protect the battery.

Get started

Talk to us about your site.

Tell us what is under your racking and shelving, and we will tell you plainly whether ARTIC fits.

Book a site survey