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Another couple of possibilities: 1. The cleaning staff management has their offices located in the 19th century. 2. Roombas are easy to steal. Even in the ni
by donw 18y ago
Another couple of possibilities:
1. The cleaning staff management has their offices located in the 19th century.
2. Roombas are easy to steal. Even in the nicer hotels, the paintings are bolted to the walls. Free-roaming robots that can fit in a suitcase? I think not.
3. Durability may be a concern.
4. Room turnover needs to happen very, very quickly, and so hotels are waiting for the 'Roomba-SS', because they need supercharged V8 cleaning power.
- jonknee 18y agoThe paintings are bolted to the wall so they don't fall, not for theft. There's an inventory taken when the room gets turned over, so if it's missing the customer is billed. Sort of like those $10 packs of cookies in the mini-bar. My guess is that vacuuming a room just doesn't take that long and it would take forever to make a Roomba cost effective.
- mattmaroon 18y agoTheft is a huge problem, especially for the only inanimate object that could be plausibly said to have ran away on its own. The hotel can, of course, bill you, but you can just dispute the charges. The guest only has to convince his credit card company that there was no Roomba when he got there. Given the state of charge backs in the industry today, that would be a shoe-in. You probably could convince them there was no painting if you stole that and tried.