Buyer's guide

Office robots

Office robots do three jobs: clean floors after hours, carry things between rooms and floors, or put a remote person in the room. Each one pays off only when the job repeats every day and the building works for it.

Updated Oct 29, 2026

A floor-cleaning robot and a delivery robot in an empty open-plan office at sunset — Illustrative image, not a real product

What is the best office robot of 2026?

Best of 2026

Best telepresence

Double 3

$4,499 at doublerobotics.com, seen Oct 29, 2026

The telepresence robot to shortlist when a video call isn't enough and someone needs to move around the office.

Best for after-hours floors

Pudu CC1 Pro

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A commercial scrub-and-vacuum robot sold through dealers. Get a quote that includes service before you compare it with a cleaning crew's hours.

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What each office robot does, and when it's worth it

Type	What it does	Who it's for	Worth it if	Skip it if
Cleaning robot	Vacuums or scrubs open floor on a schedule, usually after hours.	Offices with large open hard floors and a cleaning crew for edges and desks.	A crew spends hours every week on the same open floor.	The space is small, mostly carpeted cubicles, or the furniture moves often.
Delivery or transport robot (AMR or AGV)	Carries mail, supplies or parts along mapped routes.	Multi-floor offices, labs, clinics and offices joined to a warehouse.	Staff push the same cart along the same route many times a day.	Routes change daily, or doors and elevators can't be opened by the robot.
Telepresence robot	A screen on wheels that a remote person drives around the office.	Hybrid teams and managers who need to walk a site from somewhere else.	A remote person needs to move around the floor, not just join a meeting.	A video call already covers it. Most meetings don't need wheels.

Our verdict: start with the job, not the robot. Count how many hours a week a person spends on that one repeated task. If it's a few hours, a robot rarely pays off. If it's a full shift, get a quote.

The commercial makers below hold Department of War Conditional Approvals announced by the FCC, so their new models can still get FCC authorization. The notices name platforms and product classes, not finished office products. Ask the seller which platform a given robot is built on. We haven't checked any telepresence robot's FCC record yet, so none is listed.

Can these commercial robots still be sold in the US?

Office robots on our US availability check, newest first. Checked Oct 29, 2026.
Robot	Status	FCC ID or notice	Date	Source
Haystack RoboticsHaystack Robotics, Inc.'s Violet AI robotic device	Cleared	DA 26-1154	Oct 23, 2026	FCC Public Notice DA 26-1154 (PDF)
T-RoboticsT-Robotics Co., Ltd.'s entire product class of Automated Guided Vehicles	Cleared	DA 26-1154	Oct 23, 2026	FCC Public Notice DA 26-1154 (PDF)
Vulcan RoboticsVulcan Robotics Inc.'s Sourccey mobile robotic platform	Cleared	DA 26-1130	Oct 21, 2026	FCC Public Notice DA 26-1130 (PDF)
Volley AutomationVolley Automation, Inc.'s automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots (AGV/AMR)	Cleared	DA 26-1114	Oct 16, 2026	FCC Public Notice DA 26-1114 (PDF)
ANSCER RoboticsANSCER Robotics' AR250, AR650, and AR1250 robotic platforms	Cleared	DA 26-996	Sep 18, 2026	FCC Public Notice DA 26-996 (PDF)

Status comes from FCC grants and Conditional Approval notices. Full US availability check · what the statuses mean.