Fitness clubs · Sports halls · Multi-sports complexes
Stretching, abs exercises, weight lifting: they have their faces a few centimeters from the sweat and grime left behind since the opening. The Korben robot cleans during off-peak hours and go back between two rush hours, without mobilizing your team.
When all is said and done, the cleaning is still up to you.
Welcome, registrations, scheduling of coaches, group lessons, machine maintenance, follow-ups. And cleaning. On paper, just one of many tasks. In reality, one that we put off, because it's the only one for which no one demands a result before it's too late.
You open at 6 a.m. You close at 11 p.m. Between the two, hundreds of members go through cardio training on the gym floor, weight training in the gym. Everyone leaves a little sweat, dust, and magnesium behind. The floor absorbs all of it, without any respite.
So the provider goes late in the evening, quickly, on a surface that is too large for the time planned. And between two passes, the reception team does what they can to catch up. The result depends on who is there that day.
No one does their job poorly. There is just one task too many on an already full list.
A normal day
From 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., this is what really happens in a fitness club. You will recognize every line.
What if all of this was already done
when do you arrive in the morning?
The moment of reckoning
You can't see that on a dashboard.
You can tell on a Tuesday at 4:20 PM.
A prospect walks around the room before signing up. He looks at the machines, then at the floor around the weight benches. He says nothing; he takes the plaque and leaves. You will never know if he signed with the club next door.
Or it’s a three-star online review: «Top room, new equipment, but the cleanliness leaves a lot to be desired.» It stays at the top of your profile for months, and every prospective member checks it out.
No one will send you an invoice for that. And that's the whole trick: you pay for that cost without ever seeing it happen.
What it really costs
He doesn't distinguish between the cleanliness of the machines and that of the ground: he judges the whole thing. A trace of moisture near the cardio on the magnetron under a rack, and the impression is made. You have invested in new equipment. He looks down at the ground.
The cleaning department doesn't have a dedicated team: it's just one more line, stuck between reception, registrations, and the coaches' schedules. Every additional step becomes an arbitration, and between a prospect to welcome and a floor to clean, it's always the floor that waits. Your team isn't there for that, and everyone knows it.
It depends on who is there, the time of day, and the time the provider had that evening. The result changes from day to day. Your regular members see it, and some end up writing it down in their reviews.
The solution
A full cycle during the closing hours, or during the quieter hours if you are open 24/7, so that the room is clean as soon as the first members arrive. Then a second pass during the day, between peak times, to maintain the level until the evening. You set the pace once; it will be kept the same every day, even on the day the provider doesn’t come.
The night cycle is over when the first members arrive. They start their session on a clean floor, and your team has nothing to catch up on.
The second passage takes place during the day, with members present. The robot detects people, slows down, and avoids benches, dumbbells, and bags placed on the ground. There are aisles between the machines.
Task reports and precise tracking: you know what was cleaned, when, and in which area. No need to ask or find out the next morning.
How he works
A Korben technician takes a first tour of the room with the robot. He learns about your plates, obstacles, and areas to avoid (free weights, studios during classes).
During the closing hours or at off-peak times, he washes all the trays. The work is finished before the members return.
In the lane you have chosen, the members present are adhering. It detects, slows down and avoids obstacles: no markings, no areas to be closed.
Treated areas, schedules, duration. You can check at a glance what has been done, without having to double-check behind them.
Arbitration
In the large-scale retail sector, at Intermarché Express Villeurbanne, manual washing accounted for 3 hours and 45 minutes per day. On a fitness floor, that time is paid to a contractor or taken from your reception team. Before asking if you can afford it, take a look at what the manual washing already costs you.
Funding
No hidden formulas or lengthy quotes: there are only two setups, starting from €14 excluding VAT per day, and the right one mostly depends on how you prefer to incur the expense.
The robot is financed over 60 months. You pay nothing for installation and the expense is covered by the operating costs, spread over five years. This is the most common setup.
Depending on the model chosen for your surface area. 60-month financing.
You buy the counting robot. Add to that a monthly fee for usage and access to the Korben service (monitoring, updates, support), with no commitment to a fixed term.
Depending on the model chosen for your area, the details of the purchase price and the service monthly payment are given to you during the diagnosis.
The exact amount depends on your area.
It is given to you during the diagnosis.
The cleaning range
To choose, we start from your plan, not from the technical specifications: size of the trays, space between the machines, type of soil, opening hours. This is the entire scope of the diagnosis. Note: the range is designed for areas of at least 100 m².
The large-surface format: wide trays, long opening ranges.
The autonomous scrubber drier for very large areas and logistics.
The compact format: narrow aisles between the machines, dense areas.
The agile format for hard-to-reach areas and warehouses.
In real-world conditions
Five sequences filmed in a shopping mall, without editing. The sound is cut off by default.
Case study · Retail
First Intermarché Express in the Rhône-Alpes region. 45 employees, open from 8:30 AM to 9:00 PM and on Sunday mornings. A city-center store: narrow aisles, compact areas, tight checkout lanes, heavy traffic.
«I am very satisfied with having chosen this solution. The robot fits perfectly into our compact downtown store.»
The first Intermarché Express in the Rhône-Alpes region. Urban environment: narrow aisles, compact areas, tight checkout lines, dense traffic. The teams start at 5 am with the product preparation, and the store was often dirty even before it opened.
A place open to the public, lots of people passing by, no one to come back?
The same problem exists in your home.
They use it every day
«We tested it for a month before committing. The robot lives up to its promises: the aisles are spotless even at the end of the day, and our teams have saved precious time.»
«Our customers notice it and talk to us about it. It has become a real brand image argument for the store, in addition to saving time for the teams.»
«The setup was quick, and customer service always responded fast when we had a question. As for cleanliness, there is no comparison with before.»
«"Consistent, spotless cleaning, even in hard-to-reach areas. We've reduced our cleaning costs by 50 %. A profitable investment in record time."»
Objections
Is there one left? Ask an expert directly at 01 83 75 57 23, Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The diagnosis
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