01 · In every deployment
Avoid
The depth sensor maps anything taller than about 20 mm as an obstacle, and the robot drives around it.
ARTIC · Autonomous Robot Trained In Cleaning
ARTIC V2
A low-profile autonomous sweeper for the floor under pallet racking and shelving. It sweeps and vacuums dry debris, docks to charge itself, steers around your stock and runs entirely on your own network.
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170mmBody height
190mmMinimum clear height
6hUp to, per charge
2hAbout, to recharge
0Internet connections needed
The machine
What is on board.
Select a number on the robot. Everything ARTIC needs to navigate and clean is on the robot.
Cleaning
Brushes first, vacuum behind.
ARTIC V2 is a dry sweeper with integrated vacuum dust control. This is what it collects, and what it leaves alone.
| Debris | ARTIC V2 | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Dust, grit, sand, paper, label backing, small cardboard, wood chips | Designed for | The core job: dry debris swept in by the brushes and collected in the bin. |
| Fine dust and powders | Conditional | A centrifugal vacuum motor inside the bin draws fine dust into the system as the brushes sweep. We measure and report capture rates on your floor. |
| Strapping, banding, wire, stretch and shrink film | Managed | Long strands can wrap around the roller, so long items are avoided. The roller lifts out without tools for clearing. |
| Pallet blocks, broken boards, cartons, items larger than the bin opening | Avoided | Treated as obstacles and flagged on the map for removal. |
| Liquids, oil, spills, sludge, wet or damp cardboard | Dry only | ARTIC is a dry sweeper. Wet cleaning would need a separate design. |
Charging and emptying
It looks after itself.
When its battery runs low, or its route is finished, ARTIC V2 drives back to a compact floor charger, reverses onto spring-loaded contacts and resumes its route once charged. The charger plugs into a standard mains socket and has no network connection.
Sites that want no manual bin handling can add the self-emptying station. It lifts the robot's bin and tips it into a standard wheelie bin.
| Runtime | Up to 6 hours per charge |
|---|---|
| Charge time | About 2 hours |
| Charger | Compact floor dock, standard mains socket |
| Fleet | One dock per robot by default; docks can be shared where cleaning windows are staggered |
Low charge
The robot finishes its current pass and saves where it was.
Return
It drives to its dock along the aisles you have allowed.
Dock
It reverses onto the contacts. Charging starts after the robot and dock confirm each other.
Resume
It undocks and continues the route from the saved position.
Product protection
Your stock stays out of the bin.
ARTIC sweeps anything that fits under its front edge and through its bin opening. Large items cannot get in, and anything taller than about 20 mm is seen and steered around. Small, flat items are the real risk, so we deal with them in three layers.
02 · Set up before go-live
Recognise
Our team adds recognition of your own packaging. When the robot recognises a product, it stops and steers around it.
03 · In every deployment
Recover
Every product it steers around is marked on the site map with its bay, position and a photo, for your team to collect.
Set up for your products
Recognition of your own packaging takes about four weeks to add and test, so it is running at go-live.
- The product families most likely to end up under the racks, with sample items
- Photographs or samples of typical packaging
- Agreement on how a recovered item is returned to stock
Network and security
Everything stays on your site.
Each robot navigates, avoids obstacles and cleans using its own onboard computer. The network carries only work orders and status. Operation, updates, support and analytics all work without an internet connection.
Your segmented network
A dedicated VLAN and SSID on your wireless network (WPA2 or WPA3-Enterprise), firewalled from the corporate LAN. Operators reach the console through a single rule you control.
Fully isolated
We supply a private wireless access point and the on-site server, with no link to your network at all. Operators use a console terminal on the same isolated network.
Built in
- Authenticated by default. Every API call needs a credential, with viewer, dispatcher, maintainer and administrator roles.
- Tamper-evident maps. A robot only runs on the map version you approved.
- Mission journal. A durable record of who dispatched, paused or changed what, and when.
- No call-home. No telemetry, cloud account or automatic connection back to KITAU.
In place before go-live
- Encryption in transit and at rest, on the robots and the on-site server.
- Signed software. Mission Control checks each update's signature before installing it, with a tested rollback.
- Security pack for your IT review: port and flow list, software bill of materials and vulnerability scan results.
| Data | Leaves site? |
|---|---|
| Site map and layout | Never |
| Camera images | Never |
| Cleaning records | Only if you export them |
| Diagnostic bundle | Only if you send it |
| Software updates | Inbound only |
The ARTIC series
Proven on warehouse floors. Built for production.
The ARTIC series was built, instrumented and deployed beneath racking at client warehouses. Those deployments showed us what a production machine needs, and ARTIC V2 is that machine.
What those floors asked for
- Brushes that sweep debris in ahead of the vacuum
- Up to six hours of cleaning on one charge
- A self-emptying station, so nobody handles the bin
- A retractable 2D LiDAR and a 3D solid-state LiDAR for navigation
Get started
Start with a survey of your floor.
We map your warehouse, racking and shelving, measure clearances, floors and gradients, and you approve the cleaning map before anything runs.