MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 2026--
Tennant Company (NYSE: TNC), a world leader in autonomous professional cleaning robots, today announced the launch of the X2 ROVR SCRUB, its smallest and most nimble autonomous floor scrubber designed to deliver consistent, repeatable cleaning performance in tight, high‑traffic commercial environments. Built for small retail, grocery, healthcare, education, convenience stores, and other space‑constrained facilities, the X2 ROVR SCRUB enables organizations to automate routine floor cleaning in areas where larger machines are impractical, helping teams maintain high standards of cleanliness amid ongoing labor shortages and increasing pressure to do more with fewer resources.
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The X2 ROVR SCRUB expands Tennant’s purpose‑built autonomous ROVR portfolio as part of the Company’s commitment to introduce 10 new products in two years and grow its robotics business to $250 million by 2028. The portfolio also includes the compact X4 ROVR ® for small‑ to mid‑sized commercial spaces and the mid‑sized X6 ROVR ® for large and complex facilities. Together, the ROVR lineup allows customers to deploy purpose‑built autonomous scrubbers across a wide range of facility sizes and applications.
The launch reflects Tennant’s continued investment in robotics through Tennant Company Robotics, the Company’s vertically integrated organization dedicated to developing, selling, servicing, and supporting autonomous cleaning solutions at scale. Powered by the BrainOS ® autonomy platform, the X2 ROVR SCRUB delivers intelligent, adaptive navigation designed for real‑world, high‑traffic environments. Its circular footprint allows the robot to pivot in place and maneuver through narrow aisles and congested layouts, helping ensure more complete coverage with less employee intervention.
Key features include:
Tennant supports the X2 ROVR SCRUB through its Robotic Support Ecosystem, which combines factory‑direct field service, dedicated customer success team, and automation success technicians to help customers adopt, operate, and scale autonomous cleaning with confidence. The X2 ROVR SCRUB is designed to align with Tennant’s global distribution model, reinforcing the company’s commitment to supporting channel partners as robotics becomes an increasingly important part of their portfolios. Tennant has successfully deployed and managed autonomous fleets across some of the world’s largest retail, manufacturing, and logistics organizations, leveraging its trusted brand, secure data practices, sales and service model, and global support infrastructure to deliver proven results at scale.
“With the X2 ROVR SCRUB, we are extending autonomous cleaning into smaller, high‑traffic spaces customers clean every day but have struggled to automate,” said Aaron Stotko, Director of Product, Robotics at Tennant Company. “Its compact form factor, exclusive SelfPath™ AI navigational software, and integrated dock ecosystem help customers clean more efficiently, reduce manual touchpoints, and achieve consistent results while making autonomous cleaning easier to deploy and operate.”
The X2 ROVR SCRUB will be available to order in late May 2026. For more information about the X2 ROVR SCRUB click here.
About Tennant Company
Founded in 1870, Tennant Company (TNC), headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, is a world leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of solutions that help create a cleaner, safer and healthier world. Its products include equipment for maintaining surfaces in industrial, commercial and outdoor environments; detergent-free and other sustainable cleaning technologies; and cleaning tools and supplies. Tennant's global field service network is the most extensive in the industry. Tennant Company had sales of $1.20 billion in 2025 and has approximately 4,500 employees. Tennant has manufacturing operations throughout the world and sells products directly in more than 21 countries and through distributors in more than 100 countries. For more information, visit www.tennantco.com and www.ipcworldwide.com. The Tennant Company logo and other trademarks designated with the symbol “®” are trademarks of Tennant Company registered in the United States and/or other countries.
The Tennant X2 ROVR SCRUB with docking station.
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices are rising Monday as the war with Iran threatens to drag on for longer, but the U.S. stock market is nevertheless inching toward more records.
The price for a barrel of Brent crude oil climbed 2.9% to $104.18 after President Donald Trump said the U.S.-Iran ceasefire was on “life support” after he rejected Iran's latest proposal to end their war. The rejection raises the stakes for Trump’s trip this week to China, where he could urge President Xi Jinping to pressure Iran into making concessions. Xi has leverage because China is the biggest buyer of Iran’s sanctioned crude oil.
The war has already sent the price for a barrel of Brent up from roughly $70 and delivered a blast of painful inflation through the global economy. That’s because it has shut the Strait of Hormuz and kept oil tankers stuck in the Persian Gulf instead of delivering crude to customers worldwide.
Still, the U.S. stock market has been setting records recently on hopes that the war will not keep oil prices high for very long. U.S. companies are meanwhile producing even bigger profits than analysts expected, while signals suggest the U.S. economy is holding up even though households are feeling discouraged by expensive gasoline and tariffs.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 rose 0.3% from its record set Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 7 points, or 0.1%, as of noon Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.3% higher and on track to set its own all-time high.
Mosaic helped drag on the market after the fertilizer company reported much weaker results for the latest quarter than analysts expected. The company is benefiting from higher prices for its products, but it’s also contending with much higher prices for sulfur and other raw materials because of logistics snarls created by the war with Iran.
Mosaic’s stock fell 2.1%, and more stocks within the S&P 500 sank than rose.
Stocks of companies whose customers have the least cushion to absorb higher gasoline prices struggled, and Dollar General fell 6.4%. Businesses with big fuel bills likewise had some of the market's sharpest losses, including drops of 4.9% for Carnival and 3.3% for Southwest Airlines.
Helping to offset that was Fox, which rose 1.3% after reporting stronger profit and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected.
More than four out of every five companies in the S&P 500 index that have reported their results for the latest quarter so far have topped profit expectations, and they're on track to deliver overall growth of nearly 28%, according to FactSet. If that turns out to be the case, it would be the best growth since the end of 2021.
Outside of earnings reports, Beazer Homes USA soared 32.7% after Dream Finders Homes offered to buy it in a deal valuing it at roughly $704 million. A combination would create the country’s seventh-largest homebuilder, and Dream Finders is asking Beazer’s shareholders to push its management and board to OK the deal after making several attempts itself.
Dream Finders added 0.8%.
Tech stocks were also strong, continuing their big run amid big spending in the boom around artificial-intelligence technology. Gains of 3% for Nvidia and 6.5% for Micron Technology were two of the strongest forces pushing upward on the S&P 500.
In stock markets abroad, indexes were mixed across Europe and Asia. France’s CAC 40 fell 0.8%, and South Korea’s Kospi soared 4.3% for two of the world’s bigger moves
In the bond market, Treasury yields held relatively steady. The 10-year yield edged up to 4.39% from 4.38% late Friday.
Yields have moderated a bit this month, but they remain well above where they were before the war began. Higher yields can raise rates for mortgages and other kinds of loans going to U.S. households and businesses, which in turn can slow the economy. Higher yields also tend to push downward on prices for stocks and other kinds of investments.
A report on Monday said the pace of sales for previously occupied U.S. homes was weaker last month than economists expected.
AP Business Writers Chan Ho-him and Matt Ott contributed to this report.
The South Korean-operated vessel HMM NAMU is docked after being damaged from a fire following an explosion in the Strait of Hormuz, at a port in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Friday, May 8, 2026. (Kim Sang-hun/Yonhap via AP)
Options trader Justin Kanda works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, May 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
People walk in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei index at a securities firm Monday, May 11, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
People work and rest near an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei index in an office building Monday, May 11, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
A man sweeps in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei index at a securities firm Monday, May 11, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
People stand in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei index at a securities firm Monday, May 11, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
