Five Key Highlights
This article is part of the results of The Biggest Fleet 2025. Click here for all resultsWhat this year’s expanded dataset reveals about adoption patterns, technology choices, and regional shifts.
1: A Ranking That More than Doubled
The 2024 edition listed 42 fleets. In 2025, the dataset spans 97 already. Three forces explain the jump. First, more operators crossed the threshold from pilot to genuine fleet. Second, the ranking itself gained internal legitimacy, making approvals to apply faster and easier. Third, the Biggest Fleet team expanded research capacity after 2024’s strong reception, combining open applications via biggestfleet.com with direct fleet verification through FieldBots and independent research. The result isn’t just a longer list; it’s a broader, better-documented snapshot of the market.
2: Parallel Worlds — Robots vs. Microbots
Across the 97 valid fleets, the pattern is stark: 59 are robots-only (≈61%), 20 are microbots-only (≈21%), and only 18 are mixed (≈18%). Of the 18 mixed fleets, 12 are operated by cleaning service providers. This indicates that the cleaning sector, more than any other, must adapt to the diverse operational realities and use cases of their clients. It also supports last year’s hypothesis that FM service providers are increasingly evolving – indeed, needing to evolve – into robotics specialists. And while there are more mixed fleets than in the previous year, the vast majority of fleets are still clearly separated between microbots and larger robots.
3: More Fleets, but Still Small
The market broadened, but most fleets remain modest. Using the Radar Score
(robots × 5 + microbots), 50 of 97 fleets (≈51.5%) sit at or below 50 — the equivalent of ≤10 scrubbers or ≤50 microbots. Even outside the Top-10, many retail and
service fleets still live in the double digits. The growth story in 2025 is broad rather than deep: far more entrants, but not yet many mega-rollouts.
4: Eastern Europe Steps Forward
Momentum within Europe is tilting east rather than south. B+N (HU) enters the global Top-10 at #8 with 176 self-developed robots (Radar Score 880). Albert (CZ) ranks #27 with 40 Tennant units. MAXI (SR) appears #31 with 30 Gausium machines. IKI (LT) and ELVI (LV) rank #59 with 6 Gausium robots. Read together, these cases signal openness to automation in Central and Eastern Europe; by contrast, no Southern European operator reached comparable scale in this dataset.
5: A German-Speaking Microbot Path
The DACH region shows a distinct trajectory among facility managers: microbots at scale. Vetter Pharma-Fertigung GmbH & Co. KG (#26) lists 142 microbots (Cleanfix, iRobot). Vebego Deutschland (#29) runs 160 (Nexaro). Further down the table, Dr. Sasse Gruppe (#48) 50 (Nexaro), McDreams (#48) 50 (Nexaro), Piepenbrock (#48) 50 (Nexaro), a Healthcare Company (#51) 30 (Cleanfix), Stadtforum Dresden (#67) 25 (Nexaro). These don’t look like isolated pilots but established operating models already. The broader picture: Some DACH facility managers are carving a microbot-centric path, while most large international fleets still ride on scrubbers.
This article is part of the results of The Biggest Fleet 2025. Click here for all results