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How to never get upset about employees again

It’s Friday afternoon. Your eyes wander over the pleated blinds on your office window. As you glance briefly into the production hall, you see him again. Your employee has been cleaning the 17,000 square meters—the space your company has grown to occupy over the past 17 years—for the past four hours.

He’s sitting comfortably on his ride-on scrubber-dryer. Every now and then, he smokes a cigarette or has a quick chat with his coworkers at the coffee machine. With money earned so easily, the 30 cents for coffee is no big deal.

23 € per hour. You wonder why you’re paying this guy so much money just so he can spend half of Friday slacking off. He’s actually supposed to be loading parts, bending sheet metal, or doing whatever else you hired him for. Something that makes you money.

It doesn’t even get really clean. The ride-on scrubber-dryer has seen better days and just stirs up the dust instead of cleaning properly. By Monday at noon, it’s just as dirty as before.

You’re annoyed. Frustrated, you plop down in your executive chair and pull out your iPhone 18 Pro. It’s not a noticeable upgrade from your previous iPhone 17 Pro, but your youngest wanted a new phone again. And besides, the company’s paying for it.

You open your YouTube Shorts. Alongside soothing short videos of metal blocks being milled into wild shapes and your favorite angler reeling in another giant catfish, a video from Tepto Robotics sneaks into your feed.

A reasonably good-looking man in his mid-thirties with a beard and a bald spot explains to you that there are now cleaning robots for production facilities and warehouses that sweep, vacuum, and scrub.

That thing you have running in your living room—is there now a larger version of it that can clean your 17,000 square meters every day?

If that were true, you wouldn’t have to worry about something as trivial as cleaning anymore.
If that were true, the same dust wouldn’t be constantly swirling around, settling on your merchandise and in your employees’ lungs.
If that were true, your employees would finally be able to focus on productive tasks again, instead of racking up overtime on routine chores.

You’re skeptical. Your eyebrows furrow in scrutiny as you look at your 6.3-inch display.

The man from the YouTube Short continues: Tepto Robotics is showcasing its cleaning robots at the FMB—the trade fair for mechanical engineering. Booth 20-407.

You were planning to go to the trade show anyway, and the booth is right across from the Digital HUB, where you’ll be checking out some new software. You decide to stop by the booth when you get the chance.

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Hi, Marco here from Marketing. Don’t take that comment about employees too seriously—everyone is valuable, and of course we all appreciate each other.

Still, one thing remains true: Employees should use their time wisely and take on value-adding tasks. Cleaning isn’t one of them, so it can be automated with robotics.

Our robots clean between 1,000 square meters and 50,000 square meters daily. They can sweep, vacuum, and wet mop or scrub.

Thanks to their docking stations, they can independently charge, refill with fresh water, drain dirty water, and clean themselves. This means you get higher cleaning performance and free up employee capacity for value-adding tasks.

Feel free to visit us at Booth 20-407 across from the Digital HUB and find out which cleaning robot is right for your facility.

P.S.: I’m always skeptical about whether anyone actually reads these exhibitor lists, so today I tried something different instead of the usual run-of-the-mill text. If this is what drew your attention to us, please let us know briefly at the booth so I’ll know whether I should come up with another story like this next time.

Best regards,
Marco