Mario Found Us Another One… So the C30 Went Boutique

At this point, when Mario tells us he has another building we should look at, we listen.

The guy has become pretty good at finding places where the CleanPro C30 makes a lot of sense, and this time it brought us to Boutique 28 Apartments in Uptown Minneapolis.

Another apartment building.

Another bunch of repetitive floor cleaning.

Another chance to see where the little C30 fits.

And, of course, another Mario appearance.

The man is becoming a regular on the Bot Blog.

We started the same way we usually do by walking the property, looking at the areas that actually need attention, figuring out how residents move through the building, and deciding where the robot could realistically help instead of just trying to make it clean everything in sight.

Boutique 28 gave us a really good mix.

There were carpeted hallways, some harder-floor areas near the elevator and entrances, turns, apartment doors, common spaces, and the normal little variables that come with an occupied apartment building.

That is exactly the kind of environment we want the C30 in.

It is compact enough to maneuver through tighter apartment hallways, quiet enough that we do not need everybody in the building wondering what is cruising around outside their door, and it can handle the repetitive dry-floor work by sweeping, vacuuming, and dust-mopping its mapped routes.

We got the building mapped, ran the routes, made some adjustments, and let the C30 start learning another new home.

It even got the proper introduction on its screen:

Boutique 28.

Apparently the robot is building a property-management résumé now.

Everything ran really well, and one thing that keeps becoming clearer with these apartment demos is how naturally the C30 fits into this type of environment.

Nobody on a property team wants to spend their entire day going back and forth through the same hallway doing repetitive floor work when there are resident issues, maintenance items, move-ins, deliveries, common areas, and a hundred other things that actually need a person.

If the C30 can take a repeatable route off that list, that matters.

And Boutique 28 has something that makes this one even more interesting.

The elevator.

This is the property where we are working through Schindler elevator integration, and that is a much bigger piece of the puzzle.

Right now, getting the robot dialed in on the floor is step one.

The bigger goal is for the C30 to eventually be able to communicate with the elevator system, call the elevator, ride to another floor, exit, clean the next route, and keep working through the building without somebody manually moving it between floors.

We are not calling that finished yet because elevator integration is one of those things that has to be done correctly.

There are controls.

Communication.

Safety requirements.

Building requirements.

Elevator-company requirements.

And plenty of technical details behind the scenes.

But when you stand there and look at a C30 parked directly in front of the elevator doors, it is pretty easy to see where we want this to go.

One robot.

Multiple floors.

Long repeatable routes.

Cleaning while the rest of the building goes about its day.

That is where apartment automation gets really interesting.

And Boutique 28 gave us another chance to keep learning exactly what that needs to look like.

That has probably been one of my favorite parts of working with Mario and these different properties.

Every building is just different enough to teach us something new.

Tree Tops gave us long carpeted hallways and another elevator opportunity.

Revel gave us repeat cleaning throughout the day.

And now Boutique 28 gives us another real-world apartment layout while we work through the Schindler side of multi-floor cleaning.

The C30 keeps getting better use cases.

We keep getting better at deploying it.

And Mario somehow keeps finding us more buildings.

Not a bad combination.

For now, the C30 has Boutique 28 mapped, it knows where home is, and it is doing what it does best.

The elevator?

We’ve got plans for that guy.

To be continued…