iTR iTRmop Commercial Floor Sweeper

iTR iTRmop: The Compact 3-in-1 Commercial Floor Sweeper for Daily Indoor Maintenance

The iTRmop integrates three cleaning functions: sweeping, vacuuming, and dust pushing (dry dust mopping). Its defining technical capability is zero-distance edge cleaning, enabled by a patented structural design that allows the robot to reach and clean at the very edge of walls, column bases, and furniture perimeters rather than leaving an unswept gap along every boundary. This edge cleaning is performed using high-precision 2D laser, ultrasonic radars, and an RGB camera, providing the sensing resolution needed for millimeter-accurate edge navigation without contact.

The iTRmop is equipped with a 120 Ah battery providing 6 hours of operating productivity and supports the same application environments as the M2 Pro: airport stations, parking lots, commercial complexes, hotels, office buildings, hospitals, industrial parks, factories, large warehouses, exhibition centers, and schools. It operates with laser, 360-degree ultrasonic full-angle, depth-of-view, safe touch, and fall prevention in combination with an intelligent obstacle avoidance algorithm, and includes a "courtesy mode" that modifies the robot's obstacle response behavior when operating in occupied spaces with pedestrian traffic.

iTR Robot Technology: The Company and Its Commercial Cleaning Positioning

Founded 2015, Exporting to US, Canada, Singapore, Japan, Germany, France, Switzerland

iTR's About page confirms the company's international commercial reach: products are exported to the United States, Canada, Singapore, Japan, Germany, France, Switzerland, and other countries, "with a high popularity in the market." For international buyers evaluating the iTRmop, this confirmed global export footprint provides distribution evidence that the product is available through commercial channels beyond China's domestic market.

The company's founding technology, "low-speed unmanned driving technology," is directly applicable to the iTRmop's commercial indoor navigation requirements. Low-speed unmanned driving involves the same fundamental challenges as commercial cleaning robot navigation: mapping unfamiliar environments, maintaining precise position within that map, detecting and avoiding obstacles at operational speeds, and executing planned routes reliably across extended operating periods. iTR's characterization of itself as "one of the first robot enterprises in the world to apply unmanned technology in the field of commercial cleaning and a leading enterprise in the field of low-speed unmanned driving" positions the iTRmop's navigation technology as derived from this founding commercial expertise.

Two Manufacturing Facilities: OEM and ODM Available

iTR operates two factories: one in Mianyang, Sichuan Province and one in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province. The company accepts OEM and ODM orders, confirming that the iTRmop's manufacturing infrastructure supports both standard commercial purchase and customized product development for buyers requiring hardware or software modifications for specific deployment contexts.

The iTRmop's Role in the iTR Product Ecosystem

"Commercial Floor Sweeper" vs "Commercial Floor Scrubber"

iTR's product page at itrobotgroup.com/products_list_1.html categorizes the iTRmop specifically as a "Commercial Floor Sweeper" alongside the M2 Pro as a "Commercial Floor Scrubber." This distinction in iTR's own taxonomy reflects the functional difference between the two products:

The M2 Pro (Commercial Floor Scrubber) applies water to the floor surface during the scrubbing operation, making it appropriate for the periodic deep cleaning that removes bonded surface contamination. The M2 Pro's 117-liter water tank and 4-function system including wet scrubbing enable it to address the contamination levels that accumulate between deep cleaning cycles.

The iTRmop (Commercial Floor Sweeper) performs dry cleaning: sweeping, vacuuming, and dust pushing without wet scrubbing. This makes it appropriate for the daily maintenance cleaning that keeps floors in presentable condition between periodic wet-scrubbing sessions. The "dry" operational profile means the iTRmop can operate more frequently, in more occupied facility conditions, and without the post-cleaning drying time that wet scrubbing requires.

For facility operators deploying both products, the operational model is a daily iTRmop run maintaining surface cleanliness, complemented by periodic M2 Pro wet scrubbing sessions for deeper contamination removal. This two-tier cleaning robot deployment mirrors the manual cleaning protocol of daily dry sweeping followed by periodic wet scrubbing.

Design Features

Zero-Distance Edge Cleaning: The Patent Structural Design

The iTRmop's most commercially distinctive capability is its zero-distance edge cleaning: the ability to clean at the very edge of walls, column bases, furniture legs, and other boundary features without leaving an unswept strip along the perimeter.

iTR's official product description confirms this capability and its technical basis: "It can clean the edges with zero-distance-closer ability, by our patent structure design and high precision, 2D Laser, Ultrasonic radars and RGB camera."

The commercial significance of zero-distance edge cleaning is substantial in indoor commercial environments. In a standard commercial corridor, the floor area along the walls and column bases is precisely where foot traffic gathers, where debris accumulates from people walking close to walls, and where the visual evidence of incomplete cleaning is most apparent to visitors and inspectors. A sweeping robot that leaves a 5 to 10 centimeter unswept strip along every wall covers less than the full floor area and leaves the most visually prominent areas partially uncleaned.

The patent structural design enabling this edge capability, combined with the sensing resolution of the 2D laser and ultrasonic radar system, allows the iTRmop to navigate its cleaning path to within millimeters of wall surfaces without contact, achieving the edge cleaning quality that manual sweeping with a broom achieves through physical contact with the wall surface.

Compact Form Factor

Cobots.kindbg.com's description characterizes the iTRmop as "small, but a powerful product." The compact form factor is a design choice appropriate for the daily maintenance cleaning context: smaller robots navigate through furniture-dense spaces, narrow corridors, and between occupants in active commercial environments more easily than larger platforms. The compact design also means the iTRmop requires less storage space when not in operation, which is relevant for deployment in facilities where dedicated robot storage areas compete with other operational space requirements.

Technology and Navigation System

Four-Layer Sensor System

The iTRmop's obstacle avoidance and navigation system uses four distinct sensing modalities, confirmed by cobots.kindbg.com's documentation:

2D Laser (LiDAR): The primary geometric mapping and positioning sensor, providing 360-degree horizontal distance measurement for environment mapping and real-time position tracking.

Ultrasonic Radars (360-degree full angle): Full-perimeter proximity sensing for close-range object detection, providing the gap-free detection coverage that 2D LiDAR's horizontal scan plane leaves above and below the scan height. The 360-degree coverage ensures obstacle detection across the full perimeter around the robot at all times.

RGB Camera (Depth of View): Visual sensing for object recognition and depth estimation, enabling semantic understanding of detected objects (distinguishing between a chair leg and a person's leg, for example) alongside geometric obstacle detection.

Safe Touch and Fall Prevention: Physical contact sensors providing the closest-range detection layer, and fall prevention sensors detecting floor edge conditions (stair edges, elevated platform edges) that would create a fall hazard.

This four-layer sensing approach provides overlapping detection coverage across all obstacle distances, from the longest-range LiDAR detection at several meters through close-range ultrasonic, visual depth, and contact detection. The overlapping coverage means that an obstacle not detected by one sensing modality will be detected by another.

Courtesy Mode

The iTRmop includes a "courtesy mode" that modifies the robot's behavior when operating in environments with active pedestrian traffic. Cobots.kindbg.com confirms: "Active obstacle avoidance and courtesy mode can be switched arbitrarily."

Standard obstacle avoidance mode stops or reroutes the robot when an obstacle is detected ahead. Courtesy mode is designed for operation in active spaces where people are the primary obstacles, implementing a more socially aware response pattern: slowing rather than stopping abruptly when a person is detected, pausing rather than immediately reversing, and communicating the robot's intentions through display or sound to allow pedestrians to clear the path rather than treating people as static obstacles requiring hard avoidance.

The ability to "switch arbitrarily" between standard obstacle avoidance and courtesy mode means facility operators can configure the iTRmop's behavior for the specific occupancy profile of each operating session: courtesy mode during business hours when pedestrian traffic is continuous, standard mode during overnight or low-occupancy cleaning sessions when path efficiency matters more than social interaction quality.

Intelligent Indoor Positioning and Navigation

The autonomous mapping capability enables deployment in new environments by completing a mapping run, after which the iTRmop navigates autonomously on the self-generated map. For facility operators managing multiple locations, this self-mapping capability means deploying the iTRmop at a new facility location does not require specialist programming work before the robot can operate productively.

Confirmed Specifications

From iTR's official product page (itrobotgroup.com/products_detail/3.html) and cobots.kindbg.com distributor listing:

Cleaning Functions: Sweeping, vacuuming, and dust pushing (3-in-1, dry cleaning)

Edge Cleaning: Zero-distance edge cleaning via patent structural design

Sensor System: 2D Laser, ultrasonic radars (360-degree full angle), RGB camera, safe touch, fall prevention

 Battery: 120 Ah

 Battery Runtime: 6 hours productivity

Operation Mode: Obstacle avoidance mode and courtesy mode (switchable)

 Application Environments: Airport station, parking lot, commercial complex, hotel, office building, hospital, industrial park, factory, large warehouse, exhibition center, school

 Flooring Compatibility: Marble, granite, terrazzo, concrete floor, epoxy resin, tile, wood floor and other hard ground

 Navigation: Intelligent indoor positioning and navigation, automatic obstacle avoidance

Category: Commercial Floor Sweeper (daily maintenance cleaning)

Applications

Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities

For hospitals and healthcare facilities, the iTRmop's daily dry sweeping maintains corridor and common area cleanliness between periodic wet-scrubbing sessions, reduces the fine dust and particulate accumulation that contributes to airborne contamination, and operates during active facility hours in courtesy mode without creating the wet floor hazards that prevent wet scrubbing from operating during occupied periods.

Airports and Transportation Hubs

Airport terminal common areas experience continuous high-volume foot traffic that recontaminates floors faster than any scheduled cleaning cycle can match. The iTRmop's ability to operate continuously on 6-hour battery cycles, switching to courtesy mode when passengers are present, enables it to maintain a baseline cleanliness standard throughout the operating day between periodic deep-cleaning sessions.

Shopping Centers and Retail Complexes

Shopping center concourses, retail corridor common areas, and the pedestrian traffic zones around food courts all generate continuous dry debris accumulation from shopping bags, packaging, and foot traffic that the iTRmop's daily sweeping cycle addresses efficiently. The robot's compact size enables navigation through the varied furniture, fixture, and merchandise display configurations of retail environments.

Office Buildings

Office building common areas, lobby floors, and corridor spaces benefit from the iTRmop's overnight autonomous cleaning cycle, preparing the space for the following business day without requiring cleaning staff presence.

Comparison: iTRmop vs. iTR M2 Pro

The iTRmop and M2 Pro serve complementary rather than competitive cleaning functions:

iTRmop: Dry 3-in-1 sweeping for daily maintenance; compact size for furniture-dense environments; zero-distance edge cleaning; 6-hour battery; operates in both occupied and empty facilities; daily cleaning frequency.

M2 Pro: Wet 4-in-1 scrubbing including sanitizing; industrial scale with 117-liter water tank; requires post-scrubbing drying time; 4 to 9-hour battery; most appropriate for non-occupied periods; periodic deep-cleaning frequency.

For facilities requiring both daily maintenance and periodic deep cleaning, deploying both platforms in a coordinated schedule provides the full cleaning program that manual cleaning protocols typically require: daily dry sweeping plus periodic wet scrubbing.

Summary

The iTR iTRmop is iTR Robot Technology's compact daily maintenance floor sweeping robot, providing 3-in-1 sweeping, vacuuming, and dust-pushing cleaning with patent-enabled zero-distance edge cleaning, a four-layer sensor system including 2D laser, ultrasonic radars, RGB camera, and contact sensors, courtesy mode for occupied-facility operation, and a 120 Ah battery delivering 6 hours of operating productivity. As the "Commercial Floor Sweeper" complement to the M2 Pro's "Commercial Floor Scrubber" in iTR's product range, the iTRmop addresses the daily maintenance cleaning tier of the two-frequency cleaning program that large commercial facilities require, operating in hospitals, shopping malls, airports, hotels, office buildings, warehouses, and schools with the edge-cleaning precision and courtesy-mode social awareness that distinguishes purpose-designed commercial indoor cleaning robots from adapted industrial platforms.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

What is the iTR iTRmop?

The iTR iTRmop is a compact autonomous commercial floor sweeping robot from iTR Robot Technology Co., Ltd. It integrates sweeping, vacuuming, and dust pushing (3-in-1 dry cleaning) and is classified by iTR as a "Commercial Floor Sweeper" for daily indoor maintenance cleaning. Key specifications: 120 Ah battery with 6 hours productivity, patent-design zero-distance edge cleaning, four-layer sensor system (2D laser, ultrasonic radars, RGB camera, safe touch/fall prevention), switchable obstacle avoidance and courtesy operating modes, and compatibility with the same application environments as the M2 Pro (airports, hotels, hospitals, warehouses, offices, etc.).

What is zero-distance edge cleaning and why does it matter?

Zero-distance edge cleaning is the iTRmop's patented ability to clean at the very boundary of walls, column bases, and furniture perimeters without leaving an unswept strip along those edges. It is enabled by the robot's patented structural design combined with high-precision 2D laser, ultrasonic radars, and RGB camera. It matters commercially because the floor area along walls and perimeter surfaces is where debris accumulates most visibly and where cleaning incompleteness is most apparent to facility visitors and inspectors. Standard cleaning robots that cannot clean within 5 to 10 centimeters of walls leave a visibly dirty strip along every wall, which undermines the perceived cleanliness of the facility even when the central floor area is fully cleaned.

What is courtesy mode in the iTRmop?

Courtesy mode is the iTRmop's alternative obstacle response behavior for operating in facilities with active pedestrian traffic. Unlike standard obstacle avoidance mode, which stops or hard-reroutes when an obstacle is detected, courtesy mode implements socially aware responses: slowing rather than stopping abruptly when people are detected, pausing rather than immediately reversing, and communicating the robot's intentions through display or sound to allow pedestrians to clear the path naturally. Courtesy mode and standard obstacle avoidance mode can be switched arbitrarily, allowing facility operators to configure the robot's behavior for the occupancy profile of each specific operating session.

How does the iTRmop differ from the iTR M2 Pro?

The iTRmop and M2 Pro serve complementary cleaning functions at different frequency tiers. The iTRmop is a dry 3-in-1 sweeper (sweeping, vacuuming, dust pushing) designed for daily maintenance cleaning, with a compact form factor for furniture-dense environments, courtesy mode for occupied-facility operation, and 6-hour battery runtime. The M2 Pro is a wet 4-in-1 scrubber (scrubbing, sweeping, vacuuming, sanitizing) designed for periodic deep cleaning, with an industrial-scale 117-liter water tank, 120 Ah battery for 4-9 hours, and sanitizing for infection control. Facilities requiring both daily maintenance and periodic deep cleaning deploy both platforms in a coordinated schedule.

Where can I buy the iTR iTRmop?

The iTRmop is available through iTR Robot Technology Co., Ltd.'s direct channels at itrobotgroup.com, with international shipping confirmed to US, Canada, Singapore, Japan, Germany, France, Switzerland, and other countries. Cobots.kindbg.com in Varna, Bulgaria, provides the iTRmop for European and international buyers. OEM and ODM orders are also accepted through iTR's manufacturing facilities in Mianyang, Sichuan and Taizhou, Zhejiang for buyers requiring customized configurations. Enterprise pricing is available through direct inquiry.

• Dimensions: 0.77 × 0.93 × 0.7 m / 30 × 36 × 27 in
• Sweeping width: 93 cm / 36 in
• Max productivity: 3,384 m²/h / 36,425 ft²/h
• Maximum speed: 1 m/s
• Battery capacity: 120 Ah
• Rated voltage: 24 V
• Gradeability: 10°
• Weight: 102 kg / 225 lb
• Trash tray: 1.7 L / 0.3 gal
• Dust box: 9.7 L / 2.1 gal
• Minimum distance to edge: 0 mm
• Charging mode: Manual/automatic
• Charging time: 4 h
• Runtime: 6–12 h
• Battery type: Ternary lithium