How long does a commercial cleaning robot actually run?

A buyer searching for cleaning robot runtime usually wants one number: will this machine cover my shift. The honest answer is that a scrubber does not have one runtime. It has at least two, and they come from different jobs run off the same battery.

Scrubbing and dry-mopping run on different clocks.

The C5 is rated at 3 hours scrubbing and 8 hours dry-mopping on its 24 V, 80 Ah battery. Scrubbing runs the roller brush motors, the water pumps and the suction motor on top of the drive; AGIBOT's manual names all three and says nothing about what runs while dry-mopping. The gap between 3 and 8 hours is not a discrepancy to explain away, it is the spec doing its job: it tells you the two tasks are not comparable and a schedule built around one figure while running the other will be wrong by a factor of two or more.

What that means for your shift.

If your floor plan needs wet scrubbing for most of the run, three hours is the number to build a rota around, not eight. An eight-hour shift on a 3-hour scrubbing budget needs a charging window built into the day, because AGIBOT's manual does not allow the battery to be replaced without permission, and that is a floor-plan decision, not a setting you choose at delivery. If the bulk of the floor only needs dry-mopping between deeper scrubs, the same machine covers most of a shift on one charge and the scrubbing pass becomes a scheduled task rather than the whole job.

Charging time sets the rest of the day.

The C5 recharges in 1.5 hours. Against a 3-hour scrubbing runtime, that is a charge cycle roughly half the length of a run, which is workable inside a lunch break or a shift changeover if the dock is placed where the robot ends its route rather than where it is convenient to install. Against an 8-hour dry-mop run, the 1.5-hour charge barely matters because one charge already covers most shift lengths.

Say what is not published, too.

The catalogue gives separate runtimes for scrubbing and dry-mopping and a single charge time; it does not publish a runtime for a mixed route that switches between the two modes within one pass, because that number depends on how much of your floor is wet-scrubbed versus dry-mopped, which is a property of your building, not the machine. No manufacturer figure covers that case, and a supplier who quotes one is quoting a guess dressed as a spec.

The buying question this actually answers.

Do not ask "what is the runtime": ask what fraction of your floor needs scrubbing versus dry maintenance, and size the rota against the published figure for whichever task dominates: 3 hours of scrubbing or 8 of dry-mopping. A single 80 Ah battery with a 1.5-hour recharge is either enough for a full shift or the start of a clean-and-recharge routine, and which one it is depends entirely on your floor plan, not on the robot. In the range, the smaller C4 is the machine whose battery lifts out to charge away from the robot. AGIBOT publishes the same 3 hours of scrubbing for it, and neither its brochure nor its product page names a spare pack.

If you want help mapping a real floor plan against the 3-hour and 8-hour figures before you commit to a rota, that is a conversation worth having before the schedule is fixed rather than after.