“China’s No.1 Butler” Goes Autonomous: China Overseas Property Deploys Gausium Robots Across Premium Beijing Communities

Übersicht

China Overseas Property (COPL) — widely known in China as the “No.1 Butler” of the property sector — has deployed a multi-model Gausium fleet across four of its flagship residential communities in Beijing. Spanning the Phantas all-in-one indoor robot, the Beetle outdoor sweeper, and the Scrubber 75 heavy-duty floor scrubber, the rollout extends autonomous cleaning across the full premium-community footprint: from main-entrance lobbies and landscaped gardens to underground parking garages. The deployment moves COPL from pilot exploration to scaled, fleet-level adoption, setting a new benchmark for human–robot collaboration in high-end property management.

• Customer: China Overseas Property (COPL)
• Industry: Property Management / Premium Residential Communities
• Location: Beijing, China — four flagship residential communities
• Products: Gausium Phantas, Gausium Beetle, Gausium Scrubber 75 (7 units total)
• Deployment: From pilot to scaled fleet rollout, 2025–2026

Fleet at a glance

LACITÉ GENIUS – A China Overseas Property premium residential community, Beijing (photo cr: MUSE Design Awards)

Die Herausforderung

China Overseas Property is one of China’s leading listed property-management companies. Founded in Hong Kong in 1986 and listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2015, it has built a reputation for high-end service standards under the strength of its central state-owned-enterprise parent, China State Construction Engineering Corporation. By the end of 2025 the company managed approximately 480 million square meters of floor area and served more than 10 million customers, placing it consistently among the industry’s top tier.

That premium positioning raises the bar for cleaning. Across its high-end communities — including developments such as LACITÉ GENIUS, a China Overseas project in Shijingshan District noted among Beijing’s significant Q4/2024 transactions in Savills’ market research — residents expect spotless lobbies, immaculate landscaped gardens, and clean, safe parking garages around the clock.

Yet the property sector faces persistent operational pressures: large labour shortages, rising staffing costs, and uneven service quality. Traditional manual cleaning struggles to deliver the precision and consistency that premium communities demand, particularly across the wide variety of surfaces and zones found in a single estate. To break through this bottleneck and push service standards higher, COPL turned to Gausium and its intelligent cleaning technology to open a new chapter of service upgrade.

Die Lösung

As the only company in the industry to achieve full-scenario commercial cleaning, Gausium delivered COPL a one-stop digital cleaning programme — matching the right robot to each environment across outdoor roads and plazas, indoor lobbies and building common areas, and underground garages. Beginning in October 2025, dozens of Gausium robots entered COPL’s flagship Beijing projects, spanning three models working in concert.

Products Featured

Gausium Beetle — the outdoor all-scenario specialist. Purpose-built for community roads and complex outdoor environments, Beetle offers a 750mm sweeping width and “zero-distance” edge-cleaning that lets it work cleanly along kerbs and slip through narrow passages with ease. A 45L large-capacity waste bin, paired with an autonomous charging dock, supports all-weather continuous operation across large estates while sharply reducing the need for manual intervention.

Gausium Phantas — the indoor common-area all-rounder. Designed for lobbies, corridors and building common areas, Phantas combines scrubbing, sweeping, vacuuming and dust-pushing in a single compact unit, handling both soft and hard floors. Its slim body delivers 0 cm edge cleaning with a minimum passing width of just 65 cm, reaching under desks and through tight corridors with no blind spots. Cross-floor elevator integration lets Phantas ride elevators autonomously to clean multi-storey buildings, while all-weather, low-noise operation means it can work during the day without disturbing residents.

Gausium Phantas maintaining a main-entrance lobby at La Cité Genius

 

Gausium Scrubber 75 — the garage and heavy-soil workhorse. Positioned for underground car parks and heavily soiled environments, Scrubber 75 pairs strong environmental perception with intelligent obstacle avoidance to operate safely in mixed pedestrian-and-vehicle garages. It reaches cleaning efficiency of up to 3,000 m²/h, and its 270° rotating brush disc tackles 90° right-angle corners to eliminate cleaning dead zones. A 75 L clean-water tank matches the demands of large single-run jobs, while a dedicated heavy-oil-stain mode handles the stubborn grease common to underground garages.

Together, the three models cover the entire spectrum of a premium community’s cleaning needs — outdoor, indoor and below-ground — fully realising the scenario-adaptability of intelligent cleaning equipment under one coordinated programme.

Die Ergebnisse

The Gausium fleet has strengthened cleaning operations across COPL’s premium Beijing communities on several fronts:

• Full-scenario coverage: A single coordinated fleet now reaches outdoor roads and gardens, indoor lobbies and common areas, and underground garages — zones that previously required disparate manual approaches.
• Consistent premium-grade results: Autonomous operation delivers uniform cleaning quality regardless of shift, time of day or location, matching the standards expected at high-end estates.
• Reduced manual intervention: All-weather, self-charging operation — including Phantas’s autonomous elevator use and Beetle’s continuous outdoor runs — lowers the dependence on manual labour amid sector-wide staffing pressures.
• Resident-friendly by design: Low-noise daytime operation lets cleaning proceed without disrupting residents’ daily life.
• Safe in shared spaces: Intelligent obstacle avoidance allows Scrubber 75 to work safely in mixed people-and-vehicle garage environments.

Blick in die Zukunft

COPL’s deployment marks a shift from pilot exploration to scaled, fleet-level adoption — and a new model for “human–robot collaboration” in high-end property management. By extending intelligent cleaning across every zone of its flagship communities, China Overseas Property reinforces its position at the forefront of property-service digitalisation. As the programme matures, both partners aim to expand robot coverage across COPL’s broader managed portfolio and to deepen the integration of autonomous cleaning into premium residential operations.

About China Overseas Property

China Overseas Property (COPL) is a leading listed property-management company in China and a subsidiary of China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC). Established in Hong Kong in 1986 and listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2015, the company is widely regarded as “China’s No.1 Butler.” By the end of 2025 it managed approximately 480 million square meters of floor area and served more than 10 million customers, consistently ranking among the industry’s top tier.

Über Gausium

Gausium is a leading company of AI-powered autonomous cleaning solutions with more than 6,500 customers in more than 70 countries and regions. Products and services of Gausium include commercial floor cleaning robots, docking stations, cloud platform and application software, and more in the pipeline. Driven by a vision to lead the intelligent digital transformation of the cleaning and service industry, Gausium offers the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of commercial cleaning robots, empowering individuals to work smarter and lead more fulfilling lives.