This holiday season at the Garden City Hotel on Long Island, Merle Ayers is feeling especially grateful for the Whiz.
At two feet tall and 66 pounds, the powerful robot vacuum doesn’t mind working late into the night after the parties are over. The Whiz doesn’t care that it’s the holidays. It doesn’t even need a day off.
"It just needs to be cared for. We have to change the vacuum bags periodically and keep the batteries charged," says Ayers, the hotel’s director of banquets.Amid ongoing staffing shortages, the two robot vacuums the hotel purchased late last year for about $30,000 […]
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