The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Gausium: 3 models, 9 deployments across 4 regions, $188.0M raised. 2 sources back the record.
CategoryRobot vacuums
Overview
Chinese commercial cleaning robotics company (formerly Gaussian robotics) developing autonomous floor cleaning robots. Ranked world's #1 commercial cleaning robot manufacturer by IDC. Raised $188M Series C from SoftBank Vision Fund 2.
Reality check
Market rank (company-claimed)
Called the world's No. 1 commercial cleaning robot maker by IDC.
Deployments (company-claimed)
Fleets with China Overseas Property and other property managers.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 9 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries C post-money
Key facts
Founder (reported, unconfirmed)
Series C (reported, unconfirmed)
IPO (reported, unconfirmed)
Data & sources
Web sources
2
2 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (3)
View all models →Current platform
Vacuum 40
The Vacuum 40 is a robot vacuum model made by Gausium. It is classified at the commercial maturity stage. No further specifications or operational details are available from the provided fields.
Current platform
Gausium Phantas
Compact multifunction autonomous cleaning robot (sweep/scrub/vacuum/mop) with in-house autonomy, designed for small-to-medium commercial spaces; complements Gausium's larger Scrubber line.
Current platform
Gausium Scrubber 50
Autonomous commercial floor scrubber with in-house autonomy and Auto Spot Cleaning (stain detection). Part of Gausium's scrubber line deployed across 50 countries and 25+ international airports.
Gausium on the deployment map
View the global map9 verified deployments across 4 regions, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where Gausium's robots are operating, by place and type.
- operationalVacuum 40 at China, Asia →East Asia · verified Jun 2024
- operationalVacuum 40 at Japan, Asia →East Asia · verified Jun 2024
- operationalVacuum 40 at United States (multiple hotel chains) →United States · verified Jun 2024
- operationalGausium Scrubber 50 at Tallinn, Estonia →Western Europe · verified Jun 2024
- operationalGausium Scrubber 50 at Shanghai, China →East Asia · verified Jun 2024
- operationalGausium Phantas at Shanghai, China →East Asia · verified Jun 2024
- operationalGausium Phantas at Europe →verified Jan 2023
- operationalGausium Phantas at Japan →East Asia · verified Nov 2021
- operationalGausium Phantas at China →East Asia · verified Jan 2013
View the full Gausium deployment record →
Relationships
Explainers
Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about Gausium, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.
What are commercial cleaning robots and how do they work?
What is Gausium and how does the Phantas robot work?
Founders (1)
- Yingcai Bicofounderno longer at company
Former / Previously (1)
- Yingcai Bi Founder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Gausium.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Gausium9 deployments
Recent coverage
Gausium in third-party press
Peers
151 peers across 2 segments. Every Gausium competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
service(144)
113 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 831.3520919269878) · leader Bond at 1957%
cleaning robot(7)
- Avidbotsdirect competitor(reported)strong
- SoftBank Roboticsdirect competitor(reported)strong
- Ecovacs Roboticsdirect competitor(reported)moderate
- ICE Coboticsdirect competitor(reported)moderate
- Karcherdirect competitor(reported)moderate
- LionsBotdirect competitor(reported)moderate
Mentioned on (4)
Registry pages whose text names Gausium.
Financial state
- Total funding
- $188.0M
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Funding rounds (1)
- Series C2024-01-01
$188M(reported) · $1.9B post
Investors: Capital Today, SoftBank Vision Fund 2
Timeline
Every recorded move in Gausium’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries C funding round
2024-01-01Series C raising $188000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
Success Case: A Day with Gausium Phantas at BTG Homeinns Hotel
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
Gausium Phantas all-in-one commercial floor cleaning robot
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 6, 2026
Gausium Scrubber 50 autonomous cleaning robot
- Record createdJun 6, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Gausium Phantas at Shanghai, China
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-12
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-12
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Gausium.Peer companies
- Ecovacs Robotics20 models
- Roborock20 models
- SharkNinja14 models
- iRobot9 models
- Samsung Electronics6 models
- Dreame Technology5 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Gausium from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
How Close Can a Robot Floor Scrubber Clean to Walls and Corners?
Open floor is the easy part. Any capable robot can cover the middle of a concourse or an aisle. The real test of a cleaning robot is the last few centimeters along the wall,…
6 Things to Measure in a Cleaning Robot Performance Test
A cleaning robot demonstration can look impressive and still prove very little. A robot gliding across an empty, freshly cleaned floor shows that it moves. It does not show…
How Gausium Cleaning Robots Use Elevators and Automatic Doors to Clean Entire Buildings
A cleaning robot that stays on one floor is only doing part of the job. Most commercial buildings stack their floor area vertically: malls over several levels, hotels with guest…
Autonomous vs. Ride-On Floor Scrubbers: How to Choose the Right Commercial Floor Scrubber
In a large facility, the hardest part of floor care is rarely the cleaning itself. It is finding someone to drive the machine. A ride-on floor scrubber can cover a mall concourse…
What Is an Autonomous Floor Scrubber? How Robotic Floor Scrubbers Are Changing Commercial Cleaning
Floor cleaning is getting harder to staff. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects about 351,300 openings for janitors and building cleaners every year through 2034. Most are…
Which Commercial Cleaning Robots Are Easiest to Deploy, and What to Watch For
Commercial cleaning robots now run across retail, transport hubs, warehousing, healthcare and education. Early deployments depended on the manufacturer. Engineers handled mapping,…
How Commercial Cleaning Robots Stay Safe Around People
Cleaning robots now run in occupied spaces as a matter of routine: shopping centres during trading, airport concourses, hospital corridors, school buildings between lessons. In…
School Cleaning Robots: Matching the Machine to the Campus Route
Custodial staff are getting harder to hire, while cafeterias, gyms and corridors still have to be cleaned every day. More schools are using cleaning robots to reduce the manual…
How to Roll Out Cleaning Robots Across a Pharmacy Chain
A chain rollout succeeds or fails on repeatability. The unit of the decision is not the machine, it is the store routine: what the same task looks like in every location, who…
How to Roll Out Cleaning Robots Across a Pharmacy Chain
A chain rollout succeeds or fails on repeatability. The unit of the decision is not the machine, it is the store routine: what the same task looks like in every location, who…
Do Commercial Cleaning Robots Record People and Store Building Data?
A commercial cleaning robot carries LiDAR, depth sensors and cameras, and all three exist to keep the machine on its route and away from people and obstacles. It is navigation…
Heavy-Duty Cleaning Robots for Industrial Floor Scrubbing
Industrial floor scrubbing is decided by what the soil is and how far it has worked into the slab, not by how large the floor is. A 2,000 m² machine shop with oil film bonded into…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/gausium.md
- RSS feed: /companies/gausium/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/984d336e-f545-46ce-87d4-b6451ad12f6e
- Revision history: /companies/gausium/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Ecovacs Robotics20 models
- Roborock20 models
- SharkNinja14 models
- iRobot9 models
- Samsung Electronics6 models
- Dreame Technology5 models
Video
"This aisle is this narrow… and it still passes?" 👀 Yep. Gausium #Mira threads supermarket aisles most scrubbers can't, mapping the space and adjusting in real time so cleaning happens around stock and shoppers — not a
That's a wrap on the China International Property Management Industry Expo! Over 3 days, our booth welcomed property management leaders, facility teams, and di
Heat Index
Category contender75/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Gausium draws attention at the 71st percentile but verifies reality at the 76th percentile among robot_vacuum robots. Hype Gap -5.8, 11th widest among robot_vacuum robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 9 verified deployments. Strong deployment footprint with 9 operational sites across 8 countries. Funding runway warrants monitoring: last known round 34 months ago.
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Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 19, 2026