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Bathroom-cleaning robot built for commercial businesses gives consumers hope for AI maid

FOX News

The CyberGuy, Kurt Knutsson, tells'Fox & Friends' about the'danger' of e-scooter speed limit hacking and robot janitors doing the'dirty work' for companies. An automation company's commercial bathroom-cleaning robot is giving consumers hope that one day there will be an at-home version. Somatic, a technology-focused cleaning service based in New York City, has seemingly grown enough in the three years since its founding that consumer technology shoppers are voicing their hope for residential bathroom-cleaning robots. Technology journalist and contributor Kurt Knutsson, also known as the "CyberGuy," spoke with Ainsley Earhardt of "Fox & Friends" on Friday, Sept. 15, to discuss Somatic's offerings. "You got to see this robot from Somatic," said Knutsson during his in-studio interview.


How this robot janitor is cleaning toilets and doing the dirty work

FOX News

Kurt "The CyberGuy" Knutsson introduces Somatic's AI janitor robot that was created to help with cleaning restrooms. In a time when AI is being used in everything from sneakers to music and movies, it's sort of interesting, perhaps even surprising, to see it tackle some of the less-glamorous tasks, such as cleaning toilets. From New York's backstreets comes Somatic's autonomous toilet-cleaning robot, revealing that, yes, robots, too, can roll up their metaphorical sleeves for the less-coveted gigs. CLICK TO GET KURT'S FREE CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH SECURITY ALERTS, QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS AND EASY HOW-TO'S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER Cleaning bathrooms is a tough job, but who doesn't appreciate a sparkling restroom? This innovative germ-killing invention tackles this exact issue.


Sam's Club is putting robot janitors in all of its stores during the pandemic

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New York (CNN Business)Soon every Sam's Club will have a robot to scrub the store floors. In partnership with Brain Corp, an artificial intelligence company, the membership-only warehouse chain will distribute 372 new autonomous floor scrubbers to its stores this fall. Sam's Club, which is owned by Walmart, has already deployed hundreds of the robotic scrubbers. With the addition of 372 new robots, the company will soon have a scrubber in each location. It will also implement one of Brain Corp's accessories that will allow them to analyze shelf inventory.

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6 Robot Janitors Doing Commercial Floor Cleaning - Nanalyze

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It's the boring stocks that let you sleep well at night, and that's because there is a lot of money being made in boring industries. Take the cleaning industry for example. Nobody wants to work in an unclean office environment, and there are rules and regulations that compel employers to make sure everything is up to snuff. All that means loads of cleaning needs to be done every night. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 2,384,600 building janitors and cleaners representing an annual spend of nearly $60 billion.


Artificial intelligence is creeping up on us--literally

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Using maps plotted by human employees, the AI-powered cleaners will placidly traverse the aisles, sweeping and buffing as they go--just as blue-aproned human employees used to do (and still will, in Walmart stores without an Auto-C, as the robots are called). Perhaps the most striking thing about these robot workers is how not-striking they are. Sci-fi movies suggest a future full of humanoid robots who unnerve us with their "uncanny valley" qualities. Now the future is coming into view, and it looks like a giant Roomba. It's easy to imagine walking absentmindedly past an Auto-C on a shopping trip without even registering its presence.


Walmart to roll out robot janitors: 360 floor scrubbing AI bots set to take to stores across America

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Walmart is set to unleash AI controlled floor scrubbing robots at its stores. The autonomous janitors can clean floors on their own, even when customers are around, the startup behind the smart bots said. The world's largest retailer will roll out 360 autonomous floor-scrubbing robots in some of its stores in the U.S. by the end of the January, it said in a joint statement with San Diego-based Brain Corp., which makes the machines. The autonomous machines are equipped with sensors to scan for people and obstacles nearby. The floor scrubbers need a person to map an initial training route, but can then follow the route on their own.