Travelodge is to employ robot cleaners at its five Leeds hotels in a UK first.
The Yorkshire-designed RoboVac Buddies will start work at the budget chain's city centre hotels on Swinegate and Vicar Lane.
The custom-made robots, shaped like giant tuna tins, will also be clocking into Travelodges at Colton, Morley and Leeds Bradford Airport.
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Each housekeeping team will receive one RoboVac which will hoover rooms while human staff clean bathrooms and change bedsheets.
The deployment at Leeds hotels is part of a scheme to deploy 7,500 RoboVac Buddies at Travelodges across the UK.
The droids, designed by Sheffield-based Killis, will assist housekeeping teams at the no-frills hotels.
The RoboVacs, designed to withstand the demands of frequent hotel cleaning, took nine months to develop.
Features include industrial capacity batteries and a larger and lighter dust collector so the RoboVac only needs to be emptied once a shift.
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The droids are more environmentally sound using just 60 watts of power compared to a traditional vacuum cleaner's 1,200 watts.
They are also bag-less to reduce plastic waste.
At the end of their shifts, the droids are recharged in their six-storey "bunk beds".
Lira Namoni, Travelodge RoboVac Buddy trainer, said: "On behalf of my colleagues across all of the UK Travelodge hotels, we are thrilled to welcome our new RoboVac Buddies.
"They are just incredible and made such a significant difference to housekeeping duties. They have now all completed their induction training and passed their probation and are just raring to get to work.
"There have been a couple of casualties during training, a RoboVac Buddy at Gatwick Airport Travelodge took a wrong turn and was found in Spain.
Another RoboVac Buddy at Cambridge Orchard Park Travelodge had a technical glitch during its reception cleaning shift and bolted out of the hotel onto the streets.
"The hotel team were distraught and put a SOR (Save Our RoboVac) message out on social media channels for its safe return. Luckily the RoboVac Buddy was rescued and after a good reboot and charge it is back on duty."
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