The C30 Found Some Vikings Fans… and a Weekend Job

I had a feeling this was going to be a good one pretty quickly.

Tree Tops Apartments is another Hegenes property, this one in South Minneapolis, and for this demo we brought in the CleanPro C30.

Which turned out to be pretty much the perfect robot for the job.

Tree Tops is mostly carpet, with two long hallways that immediately caught our attention. The areas they wanted us to start with were the first floor, a smaller common area, and the laundry room.

Long carpeted hallways?

Yeah… the C30 likes those.

So like most of our demos, we started by walking everything with the team.

That’s where we met Mario and Eric.

And then we found out they’re both huge Vikings fans.

Not casual “yeah, I watch the games” Vikings fans either.

Vikings fans.

At that point I figured even if the robot completely forgot how to clean, at least we were going to have something to talk about.

Luckily, the robot remembered.

We walked the areas they wanted cleaned, mapped everything out, ran some tests, made a few adjustments to the settings, and got the C30 dialed in.

Everything went smooth.

And one thing Mario and Eric noticed right away was how quiet the C30 is.

That matters in an apartment building.

A robot can clean great, but if residents are wondering why a commercial vacuum sounds like it’s preparing for takeoff at 1:30 in the morning, we’ve got another problem.

The C30 just quietly goes about its business.

Speaking of 1:30 AM…

That ended up being the scheduled cleaning time.

And apparently once wasn’t enough.

They wanted it to run three times straight.

I’m not sure that carpet understands what’s coming for it yet.

By morning there shouldn’t be a speck left with a safe place to hide.

We decided to leave the C30 there for the weekend, which is always where things get even more interesting for us.

A live demo is great.

But letting the robot stay in the building, run on its own schedule, and actually become part of the property for a few days tells you a whole lot more.

No standing around watching it.

No perfect demo conditions.

Just:

1:30 AM. Get to work.

And the first floor is really only the beginning.

Tree Tops is also another property where we plan to work toward elevator integration with the C30, so instead of being limited to one floor, the robot could eventually ride the elevator and take on those long hallways across multiple floors.

Now we’re talking.

One quiet robot handling multiple floors of repetitive carpet cleaning while everyone else is sleeping?

That’s where this starts getting really interesting.

We’ll be picking it back up Monday morning, and then we’re taking Mario and Eric out for breakfast to go over how everything went.

Not a bad way to start a Monday.

And honestly, the people are a big part of why I’m excited about this one.

Mario and Eric were both extremely easy to talk to, fun to work with, and genuinely interested in figuring out how the robot could help.

Then there’s Grant, Hegenes’ Director of Operations, who is another completely down-to-earth guy and has been great to work with.

You can tell these guys are close.

They joke around. They communicate. They seem to genuinely enjoy working together.

That matters to us.

Those are exactly the kinds of companies and teams we want to build relationships with.

And after Bristol Village, now Tree Tops, and the other conversations already happening, it’s getting harder not to think about the bigger picture.

Hegenes has a lot of properties.

Different layouts.

Different flooring.

Different cleaning needs.

Which means there probably isn’t one robot that fits every property — and that’s actually what makes this opportunity interesting.

At Bristol we had the C30 and C40 working.

At Tree Tops, with all that carpet and those long hallways, the C30 makes a ton of sense.

Add elevator integration and multiple floors into the equation, and it gets even better.

Another building might be perfect for the Boss.

Another might need something completely different.

That’s the fun part.

We’re not trying to force a robot into a building.

We’re trying to figure out which robot actually belongs there and how much of the building we can realistically take off the staff’s plate.

For now, though, the C30 has a weekend job.

Three runs a night.

1:30 AM.

Two long hallways.

A building full of carpet.

And two Vikings fans waiting to see the results.

SKOL, little robot. You’ve got work to do.