Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ease staffing shortages

Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by mcv on Thursday December 22, 2022 @05:19AM (#34091861)

I once heard that nowhere on Earth you're ever more than 6 meters away from a rat. I don't think that's true, but it's probably still a bad idea to blindly assume that there's no vermin anywhere. You keep vermin away by not feeding them.

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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by toyg on Thursday December 22, 2022 @06:51AM (#34092446)

> owhere on Earth you're ever more than 6 meters away from a rat. I don't think that's true

I see that as realistic, if we are talking 2D spaces. In urban environments, they live in sewers, and you have sewers under every building. In the countryside, they obviously live everywhere.

I can see that 6-metres rule broken only if going 3D, i.e. in multi-storey buildings with spotless maintenance of any nook and cranny, living on the third or fourth floor, you might be a bit further away than that.

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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by tectec on Thursday December 22, 2022 @07:53AM (#34092784)

The province of Alberta in Canada is famous for trying to be rat free, and I think they mostly succeeded

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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by LarryMullins on Thursday December 22, 2022 @03:27PM (#34098202)

Alberta is ostensibly free of invasive Norwegian rats, but overlaps with the natural range of native bushy tailed wood rats.

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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by sokoloff on Thursday December 22, 2022 @10:51AM (#34094580)

It's probably not worth it just to avoid the rats, but Antartica is rat-free. (Other extremely cold places are likely to be as well, at least enough to make the 6-meter distance.)

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Re:Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ... by cultofmetatron on Thursday December 22, 2022 @11:44AM (#34095320)

I'm pretty sure you an find places free of rats in the antarctic

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