ExplainersCommercial cleaning robots
What is Gausium and how does the Phantas robot work?
Gausium (formerly Gaussian Robotics) is a Chinese commercial cleaning robot maker headquartered in Shanghai. The Phantas is an autonomous floor scrubber-dryer deployed in airports including Singapore Changi Airport, using proprietary SLAM navigation developed in-house rather than BrainOS.
What Gausium is
Gausium is a commercial cleaning robot manufacturer headquartered in Shanghai, China. The company operated under the name Gaussian Robotics before rebranding to Gausium. Gausium develops its own autonomy software stack and manufactures its own hardware, making it a vertically integrated competitor in the commercial cleaning robot category.
Product line
The Phantas is Gausium's flagship autonomous floor scrubber-dryer. It combines floor scrubbing, vacuuming, and drying in a single machine with LiDAR SLAM navigation that builds a persistent facility map. The Phantas is sized for large commercial facilities and is the primary product deployed in airport environments.
The Vacuum 40 is a commercial corridor vacuum robot for narrower spaces. The Scout is a patrol and security robot that operates on similar navigation infrastructure to the cleaning products but performs surveillance rather than cleaning tasks. The multi-product approach across cleaning and patrol applications reflects Gausium's autonomy platform being applied across multiple use cases on the same hardware and software foundation.
Airport deployments
Gausium Phantas robots are deployed in multiple airport environments with publicly documented customer-of-record relationships. Singapore Changi Airport is a prominent documented deployment verified at customer-disclosure depth. Multiple Chinese airports have also deployed Phantas units. Airport deployments provide the most rigorous operating environment for commercial cleaning robots: high traffic density, complex layouts, diverse obstacle types, and extended daily operating hours under public visibility.
Navigation approach
Gausium develops its own SLAM navigation stack rather than licensing Brain Corp's BrainOS platform. The robot builds a facility map on initial deployment and navigates against it on subsequent runs. Obstacle detection uses LiDAR plus camera sensors for both static and dynamic obstacle types. The robot operates without a teach-and-repeat path demonstration requirement.
Competitive positioning
Gausium competes directly with Avidbots Neo and Karcher KIRA in the own-stack LiDAR SLAM tier, and with BrainOS-powered competitors in the broader commercial cleaning market. The Chinese manufacturing base and vertically integrated development model provide cost structure advantages in the machine hardware tier. Gausium's airport deployment record is the primary verified operating anchor in the cohort.
Framework cross-links
For the commercial cleaning cohort umbrella and BrainOS vs own-stack comparison, see what are commercial cleaning robots. For the Avidbots comparison in the own-stack tier, see what is Avidbots. The Gausium registry entry at registry.deploy.report/companies/gausium carries institutional depth.
Frequently asked questions
- What is Gaussian Robotics?
Gaussian Robotics was the former name of the company now operating as Gausium. The company rebranded from Gaussian Robotics to Gausium. The product line, headquarters (Shanghai, China), and autonomy approach are continuous across the rebrand.
- Where is Gausium deployed?
Gausium Phantas robots are deployed in airports and commercial facilities. Singapore Changi Airport is a documented customer-of-record deployment verified at customer-disclosure depth. Multiple Chinese airports have deployed Phantas units. Gausium also deploys in shopping malls, logistics facilities, and other large commercial spaces.
- Does Gausium use BrainOS?
No. Gausium develops its own autonomy software stack in-house. The Phantas and other Gausium robots navigate using proprietary LiDAR SLAM technology developed internally, not Brain Corp's BrainOS platform.
- What does the Gausium Phantas do?
Phantas is an autonomous floor scrubber-dryer that combines scrubbing, vacuuming, and drying in a single machine. It builds a persistent map of the facility using LiDAR SLAM on first deployment and navigates autonomously on subsequent runs. It is sized for large commercial spaces such as airport terminals and shopping mall concourses.
- How does Gausium compare to Avidbots?
Both Gausium (Shanghai) and Avidbots (Kitchener, Ontario) use own-stack SLAM navigation rather than BrainOS. Gausium is a Chinese manufacturer with airport deployments in Singapore and China as primary verified anchors. Avidbots is Canadian with airport and shopping center deployments primarily in Canada and internationally. Both compete in the non-BrainOS tier against each other and against BrainOS-powered OEMs.
- Does Gausium make security robots?
Yes. The Gausium Scout is a patrol and security robot that operates on the same navigation infrastructure as the cleaning products. Scout performs surveillance tasks in commercial environments. The cleaning and patrol product lines share the same underlying SLAM navigation platform.
Gausium Shanghai headquarters and Gaussian Robotics predecessor verified at company history documentation depth. Changi Airport Singapore deployment verified at customer-disclosure depth. Own-stack autonomy (not BrainOS) verified at product documentation depth. Product line (Phantas, Vacuum 40, Scout) verified at company product catalog depth. Specific financial metrics and total deployment counts at company-disclosed depth only. How DEPLOY verifies →