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KIRA B 50
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Kärcher · working robot

KIRA B 50

An autonomous scrubber-dryer for medium to large hard floors with a 55 cm working width. An optional dock refills clean water, empties dirty water and recharges it so it can run unattended.

Price
—Not published
Height
116 cmTaller than 69%
Weight
228 kgHeavier than 75%
Payload
—Not published
Speed
4.3 km/hFaster than 29%
Battery
3.5 hRuns longer than 10%
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Why it matters

Kärcher's first cleaning robot; it won the Innovation Award at Interclean Amsterdam 2018.

Real-world use

No customers or deployments reported yet.

Timeline

First shown
2018-05
Released
Not yet
Interclean Amsterdam 2018, where it won the Innovation Award

Maker

KärcherCompany · Winnenden, Germany

Private family business; EUR 3.48 billion revenue in 2025, about 17,000 staff

How it stacks up

Against other working & field robots that publish the figure. Pick a measure.

  1. UVD RobotUVD Robots (Blue Ocean Robotics) · 2018178 cm
  2. Guardian GTSarcos Technology and Robotics (now Palladyne AI) · 2017145 cm
  3. Scrubber 75Gausium (Gaussian Robotics) · 2017142 cm
  4. BellaBotPudu Robotics · 2019129 cm
  5. KIRA B 50Kärcher · 2018116 cm
  6. temitemi (Robotemi) · 2018100 cm
  7. Autonomous Work Vehicle (first shown as 3E-D18)Honda R&D Americas · 201890 cm
  8. TertillTertill Corporation (formerly Franklin Robotics) · 201912 cm

KIRA B 50 is taller than 69% of the 72 other working & field robots that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.

Height 116 cm 8 cm200 cm #23 of 73 · taller than 69%

Not published by the maker: payload, joints, price.

Public attention

How much public attention KIRA B 50 gets, from open data.

  • No Wikipedia article of its own yet
  • 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page

Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured

What’s inside

The parts the company has talked about publicly.

Movement
Wheeled base
How it runs
Fully autonomous. After a route is taught it scrubs floors on its own and can dock to refill, empty and recharge without staff.
Battery & power
Long-life lithium-ion battery; optional docking station recharges it, refills clean water, empties and rinses the dirty tank
AI & software
Simple initial mapping with user-set hygiene zones; KIRA Robots app and web portal for cleaning reports, notifications and machine status (encrypted data)
Other details
Up to 2,300 m2 per hour; KIRA platform holds IEC 63327 safety certificates for public areas

Lineage

Every Kärcher machine in order.

  1. KIRA B 50KIRA B 502018Commercial
  2. KIRA B 200KIRA B 2002025Commercial

Watch KIRA B 50

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Made, sold and where

Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.

Price
Not published
How to get one
No official buying page found
Where it is sold or used
Kärcher, Winnenden, Germany

News

The latest 1, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.

  1. KIRA B 50 wins awards at ISSA Show

    FMLink reported that Kärcher's self-docking KIRA B 50 scrubber earned ISSA honours after winning at Interclean Amsterdam.

    FMLink

Sources

Figures come from the maker. Every link below backs something on this page.

Kärcher Cleaning robots Kärcher KIRA B 50 brochure FMLink Kärcher award-winning cleaning innovations at the ISSA Show kaercher.com KIRA B 50: how it is operated

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