The Use of Autonomous Robots in Hotels Increases

The service sector is one of the main livelihoods for millions of people all over the world. However, the long and tiring pandemic period led to layoffs and layoffs in many sectors (especially the service sector). In addition to all these, the idea of ​​working from home in a different job attracts many people.

On the other hand, some hotels in the USA, started to prefer cleaning robots instead of cleaning personnel. Robots working in conjunction with artificial intelligence have already started to lay off many employees in the USA.

Robots have already “paid off” their own money in 1 year

Grady Colin, the manager of the Garden City Hotel on Long Island in New York, USA, replaced the cleaning workers who left their jobs last year due to Covid-19 concerns and were dismissed due to the budget during the pandemic period. fully autonomous robot vacuum cleaner had received. After a long working period of 1 year, Colin said that although the robots cost them a lot of money in the first place, within 1 year the robots amortizing its own expenses and even stated that it started to make a profit.

The robots in question scan the hotel from start to finish when they are first purchased, and map the hotel, and combine the results of the two robots scans to identify the “cleanable” areas of the hotel. Afterwards, these robots can clean almost the entire hotel in as little as 2 hours without the need for any help. for each robot 30,000 dollars (approximately 560.000 TL) Grady Colin states that robots have completely changed the business. In addition, tech enthusiasts who are attracted to the idea of ​​an autonomous cleaning robot you booked a hotel just to see the robots Colin even says that the idea of ​​the “robot cleaner” appeals to everyone staying at the hotel.

The pandemic has completely changed the tourism industry.

Although the tourism sector came to a standstill due to the pandemic, it started to recover slowly in 2022. While visitors are slowly starting to fill the hotels and resorts, many tourism workers, especially in the US, refuse to return to work. According to data provided by the US Department of Labor, in 2022 compared to last year 350,000 service industry workers quit their jobs in hotels.

In order to close the employee gap, hotel managements gradually started to turn to autonomous robots. In addition to the Garden City Hotel on Long Island, Country Inn and Suites and many more hotels have begun to use autonomous robots in their kitchen and cleaning departments.

In addition, hotel managers who made a statement on the subject will use autonomous robots in different areas next year. announced that they are considering reducing the number of employees.