Aloft Hotel at Cascadia Station first deployed “Robby” back in December to roam the parking lot.
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Aloft Hotel at Cascadia Station is rolling out a new kind of security guard.
The management has enlisted a robot to deal with vandalism that they believe comes from homeless encampments in the area.
General Manager Mike Daley said they originally tried hiring human security but ran into staffing issues.
“We had to try to find a different solution that could work 24 hours a day that was affordable,” he said.
That solution is Robby. The R2-D2-adjacent robot stands about
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