Six jobs we can show you now.
Each one is a real robot category doing a real job in a real building. Watch the route, put in your own numbers, and tell us which you want to see.
The robot
Delivery robots
Open-tray delivery for restaurants, food courts and hotel food service.
Delivery robots
Kitchen to table, two hundred times a night.
Carry plates from the pass to the table and bussing back to the kitchen, so servers stay with guests instead of walking.
A runner loads three trays at the pass, taps the table number, and the robot threads a 59 cm gap between chairs to the table. Guests lift their plates, the robot returns for the next run, and at close it parks on its charger by itself.
What the robot does
- Up to 40 kg across three or four trays
- Passes gaps of 59 cm
- Up to 8 hours a shift, self-charging
- Guides a guest to their table
- A screen on the back can carry menus or promotions
Where it fits
- Restaurants
- Food courts
- Hotel breakfast rooms and banqueting
- Casino and conference floors
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The robot
Enclosed delivery robots
Lockable-compartment delivery across floors for hotels, offices and hospitals.
Enclosed delivery robots
Reception to room 412, with nobody in the lift.
Take room-service orders, amenities, parcels and documents from a front desk or mailroom to the right door on the right floor, sealed until it arrives.
Reception loads the order into a lockable compartment and enters the room number. The robot calls the lift, rides to the fourth floor, passes the access gate, and phones the room on arrival. The guest opens their compartment with a tap. Four rooms on one trip, then back down for the next.
What the robot does
- Two to four lockable compartments, about 90 litres
- Rides the lift and passes access control with a small controller fitted
- Up to four stops on one trip
- Up to 12 hours a shift
- Fits through a 70 cm door
Where it fits
- Hotels and resorts
- Office towers and campuses
- Hospital wards and pharmacies
- Apartments and mixed-use buildings
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The robot
Heavy-load transport robots
Deck transport of crates and bulk stock in back-of-house, factories and warehouses.
Heavy-load transport robots
Loading bay to shelf, a hundred kilos at a time.
Move stock, linen and supplies that people currently push on trolleys, from the dock or store to where they are used, on a loop that never stops.
Receiving loads four standard crates onto the deck and taps the aisle. The robot runs the corridor to the shop floor, stops at the bay, and a packer unloads. Night shift swaps the battery in fifteen seconds and it keeps going. Nothing in the building had to change to make it work.
What the robot does
- 100 kg and more on the deck, four standard crates
- Battery swap in fifteen seconds for round-the-clock work
- Fits a 90 cm corridor
- No Wi-Fi needed to operate
- Working within a day of arriving
Where it fits
- Supermarket back-of-house
- Hotel linen and stores
- Hospital supplies and laundry
- Light factories and warehouses
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The robot
Cleaning robots
Four-in-one sweep, vacuum, scrub and dust-mop for 500 to 4,500 m² floors.
Cleaning robots
The whole office floor, every night, with a report.
Sweep, vacuum and scrub 500 to 4,500 square metres of hard floor or short carpet on a schedule, so the cleaning team handles the desks, glass and washrooms.
At 21:00 the robot leaves its dock, sweeps and scrubs the open plan in one pass, dries the floor as it goes, and works around the chairs people left out. At 01:30 it is back on the charger and the facilities manager has a map of what was cleaned in their inbox.
What the robot does
- Sweep, vacuum, scrub and dust-mop in one machine
- Around 1,100 square metres an hour
- Five-second battery swap, up to 5 hours scrubbing
- Fits a 65 cm gap
- Scheduled from an app, with a cleaning report after every run
Where it fits
- Office buildings
- Retail stores and supermarkets
- Hotels
- Hospitals and clinics
- Residential estates
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The robot
Cleaning robots
Sweep-and-scrub for 3,000 m² and larger: malls, hypermarkets, parking, hubs.
Cleaning robots
The concourse and the parking garage before the doors open.
Deep-clean 3,000 square metres and up of concourse, hypermarket floor or underground parking on a nightly cycle, at a pace a walk-behind machine cannot match.
From 22:00 the robot sweeps and scrubs the ground-floor concourse, rides the goods lift to basement two, crosses the speed bumps and does the parking deck. A large tank means one fill covers the area of three football fields, and a hot-swap battery keeps it running until the last bay is done.
What the robot does
- Sweep and scrub in one pass, 550 mm wide
- Up to 3,800 square metres an hour
- Sixty-litre tank, one fill covers about three football fields
- Battery swap in five seconds
- Crosses 5 cm speed bumps, rides the lift, works around pillars
Where it fits
- Shopping malls and commercial complexes
- Hypermarkets
- Parking garages
- Transport hubs and exhibition halls
- Factories and distribution centres
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The robot
Delivery robots
Open-tray delivery for restaurants, food courts and hotel food service.
Delivery robots
Registration to stand 42, with a coffee on the way.
Work the check-in queue, carry coffee and food to the people standing in it, walk visitors from the entrance to an exhibitor, and run QR codes, demos and collateral to stands all day.
Doors open and the queue forms. One robot loops the queue with coffee and water while the screen on its back runs the sponsor reel. A visitor scans a QR code at check-in, taps the stand they came for, and the robot walks them across the floor and comes back for the next. Exhibitors book a robot for the afternoon to bring people back to their stand and hand out samples. The venue cleans the hall overnight with the same fleet.
What the robot does
- Guides a visitor to a destination and returns on its own
- Up to 40 kg of coffee, food or collateral over three trays
- A large screen for sponsor and exhibitor promotion
- Up to 8 hours on the floor, then self-charging
- Threads 59 cm gaps in a crowd
- Enclosed robots carry badges and lanyards in locked compartments
Where it fits
- Convention and conference centres
- Expo halls
- Registration and check-in areas
- Sponsor lounges and catering
- Exhibitor stands
Who pays, and what they get
- The registration platform. A check-in that can hand the visitor to a robot: scan, choose a stand, go. Fewer people stuck at the desk.
- The venue or organiser. Queue service, catering runs, wayfinding and overnight cleaning bought per event, with MOTIV on site.
- The exhibitor. A robot for the day that brings visitors to the stand, carries collateral and runs the promotion loop.
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Autonomous mobile robots, collaborative arms and machine vision are demonstrated on your process rather than a stand. Industrial automation explains what we start with.
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