Seeking Robotic Enabled Cleaning Solutions

  • The Procter & Gamble Company
  • From United States
  • Responsive
  • Project Size Range : 50,000 - 250,000 €
  • Deadline completed
    The submission process for new proposals is closed. Proposals submitted before the deadline will follow the standard evaluation process.

Desired outcome

looking to identify robotic devices, components, and/or accessories that enable automated hard floor cleaning in a quick and convenient way.

The Procter & Gamble Company

Details of the Innovation Need

Description of Need:

Robotic devices, components, and/or accessories that enable automated hard floor cleaning in a quick and convenient way

Key Areas of Interest Include:

  • Modular robotic chassis, powertrains and drivechains
  • Novel approaches to robot navigation and room mapping
  • Ways for a robot to precisely spray or apply liquid cleaning solutions directly to the floor
  • Ways to automatically attach a replaceable cleaning cloth to a robot and then dispose of it after use

Product form MUST include:

  • Attachment location for a replaceable cleaning cloth

Strong Preference for Solutions that:

  • Have IP granted/filed or technologies with a viable Freedom to Practice/Operate

What We are NOT Interested in:

  • Robotic vacuum enhancements or upgrades (e.g. More suction, better brushes, etc.)
  • Designing new consumable cleaning cloths and/or liquid mopping solutions for an existing robot
  • Robots for carpets only (carpets + hard floor OK), toilets, showers, windows, walls, pools, gutters or lawns

Disclaimer:

  • All submissions need to have IP or other protection such as Trademark, Copyright or In-market to be considered
  • Only non-confidential information can be reviewed

Related Keywords

  • Electronics, IT and Telecomms
  • Automation, Robotics Control Systems
  • Industrial Technologies
  • Clean Industrial Technologies
  • Cleaning Technology
  • Protecting Man and Environment
  • Clean Production / Green Technologies
  • Consumer related
  • Consumer Products
  • Other consumer products
  • Robotics

About The Procter & Gamble Company

An American multinational consumer goods corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. P&G was founded over 180 years ago as a simple soap and candle company. Today, we’re the world’s largest consumer goods company and home to iconic, trusted brands that make life a little bit easier in small but meaningful ways. We’ve spanned three centuries thanks to three simple ideas: leadership, innovation and citizenship.

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