The Germbot

09/26/2022

There's been an uptick in new article on increasing fungal infections this year and last week was fungal disease awareness week.

UV-C light & the Germbot UV Sweep Broom is a great way to reduce the risk of fungal infections on floor surfaces using a green chemical free solution!

A sick person may have a fungal disease if they are being treated with medicine for another type of infection but do not get better. During Fungal Disease Awareness Week, September 19-23, CDC encourages providers to "Think Fungus" and share information to increase awareness in your community: https://go.usa.gov/xPTX6

01/10/2021

We've been on a bit of a social hiatus...but hey, 2020...can you blame us!?

We've been working through logistics & manufacturing issues with so many shutdowns & shipping issues during the pandemic, but we're rocking & rolling with the new Germbot UVSweep units.

For those that haven't seen the UV Sweep in action, check out the action shot of Coach Flaherty (who invented the original Germbot!) cleaning the mat in between matches.

If you can push a broom, you can run this unit and protect the athletes & floor surfaces in your life. Just 1 pass and you've killed 93% or more of all of the nastiest germs on the surface in a second.

Just $1,995.00 and you're on your way to safe, green, & effective cleaning solution using some of the most advanced UV-C light technology on the planet.

03/30/2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to change & develop in our country, we’ve made a tough decision. As a small family owned business that started out of a commitment to make floors a safer place from bacteria and viruses, we’ve made the easiest tough decision we’ve ever had to make.

With the shelter in place and closing of many daycares and athletic facilities, our Germbots aren’t getting the chance to fight the battles they were designed to fight.

Starting late last week, we began gutting all of the Germbots we have in inventory and back from our lease program, bought up every toaster ovens we could find, and have built UV-C sanitization stations to clean N95 protective masks for our hospitals, firefighters, police officers, & other first responders. These individuals are our first and last line of defense and are facing tough decisions to reuse masks for long periods of time with no sanitization options or to go without.

We’re putting these units into every healthcare, first responder, & essential business we can at no charge. We want to keep our heroes safe. If you know of a location that needs one, please send a private message. Supplies are limited as we only have so many existing units and parts to cannibalize & we’re buying up every Oster TSSTTV0002 Toaster Oven we can find to gut & use.

This is the small part we can play to help keep our heroes safer in this unprecedented time.

03/20/2020

03/20/2020

Summit Training Center has been one of the early adopters of The Germbot. We stopped down to do a light refurb and retraining for their team that is using it to get the cleanest surfaces around with the combination of traditional cleaning methods and the UV-C light from Germbot to help protect and prevent the transmission of pathogens. COVID-19 doesn't stand a chance at Summit!

03/17/2020

We've had a lot of questions about the effectiveness of UV-C for sanitation. There's a lot of disinformation & misinformation floating around.
As many of you are noticing right now with dry and cracked skins on your hand from lots of washing and handling of disinfecting wipes, chemicals have side effects. They're a great trade-off to help slow the spread of harmful viruses & bacteria in a time like this, but a lot of us aren’t using these chemicals as directed and the kill rate (you can’t technically kill a virus, because it’s not a living organism like bacteria, but we can disrupt its ability to replicate….so close enough for our discussion!) is affected. Look at the back of your wipes, most chemical disinfectants require a 4 minute wet dwell time on a surface to properly disinfect. If you’re wiping on and wiping off like Mr. Miyagi, you’re not reaching the kill rate on the front of the bottle.

So, on to UV-C sanitization. It’s been around for a long time and it’s been used to make your life safer in ways you probably didn’t know. If you drank water from a tap today, it was likely sterilized with UV-C. The same with your sewage when it goes down the drain. It’s used in hospital rooms, surgical centers, & HVAC systems. The place where it’s at work every day however, is right outside from the sun we depend on. Along with giving warmth, the sun is also protecting us every day by killing viruses & bacteria.

Fun fact, The 1903 Nobel Prize for medicine was awarded to Niels Finsen for his use of UV against tuberculosis of the skin.

So back to where we are today. There are different types of UV. UV-C is the type & in specific wavelengths that kill bacteria & viruses. We’ve got that nailed down. There are a lot of unscrupulous sellers that have sold UV lights as sanitizing when they’re not. Good UV-C technology is not cheap. We’ve got some of the best UV-C technology that we’ve develop to get the best kill rate & effectiveness in existence, and it’s working away in our Germbots to keep our surfaces clean.

Because a picture is worth 1,000 words, here’s a lab test of The Germbot. This is the result of a ½ second pass. TNTC (Too numerous to count, which means over 500 colonies) down to nearly none, and with a second pass at ½ a second I’d eat off of it.

These are unusual times and our family has spent the better part of a decade developing our technology to help protect wrestlers on the mats, babies on the daycare floor, & now keyboards, documents, & more. We’re passionate about what we’ve created & do and want to put the product we do currently have available to lease where it can do the most good and keep developing new tools to fight the bad bugs, protect athletes & children, and make the world a better place for many years to come.

Wash your hands, let the wipes sit for a while, and run a Germbot on the floor where you can.

All the best,

Conor Flaherty

03/14/2020

We currently have a limited supply of Germbot Ver 1.0 available as part of our lease program. These units might show some wear & tear or signs of refurbishment, but they’re ready to get put to work protecting your floor surfaces & everything that interacts with them!

Monthly leasing rates starting at $125.00 per month.

These are the ideal way to clean, sanitize, & protect your floor surfaces that are contaminated with viruses & bacteria. The CDC recommends UV radiation as one of the 3 primary sanitation tool for use in the disposal of COVID-19 (Corona virus) contaminated materials for healthcare facilities.
Think;
• Daycare
• Athletic Facility
• Nursing Homes

We also have a limited number of our Germbot 2.0 Light Sweep Brooms available. Due to the extremely limited supply at this time and limitations from our manufacturing facility, we won’t be leasing or selling these units. However, we will be offering UV Sweeping Services to areas where we can travel or service those in need. We can also use our Light Sweep Brooms for several other sanitation activities, including, but not limited to;

• Keyboard Cleaning
• Phone Sanitation
• Laptop Sanitation
• Clothing Sanitation
• Mask Sanitation

If you’re interested in learning more and/or being put on the list to purchase a Light Sweep Broom when production ramps us, please contact us through messenger!

04/25/2017

Have a childcare facility that needs a Germbot? We'd love to talk to them. Send us a message publicly or privately and we'll reach out to see how we can help to make the floors our children play on safer.

04/22/2017

Team Germbot unveiled a new product design at the University of Iowa Venture School today.

Stay tuned for more information soon!

04/18/2017

Tuesday, the Rock Island County Health Department confirmed there are seven reported cases of staph infection within the county. According to the Centers for Disease Control, it's a bacteria that about 30 percent of people carry in their nose; however, some of the time the bacteria can become infect...