A clean getaway! A robot vacuum runs away from the hotel Travelodge after it fails to find its way to the front door.

  • A robot vacuum was able to escape from the Travelodge at Orchard Park, Cambridge
  • It would be short-lived, one social media user said. “Nature hates vacuums.”
  • Reddit: The assistant manager of the hotel offered beer to ensure safe return. 
  • The robot AWOL was escaped from the prison on Thursday and found safety in a hedge on Friday 










The robot vacuum cleaner that broke through the front door of a Travelodge was taken back to its owner. 

According to reports, the cleaner who drives himself was missing from Orchard Park hotel, Cambridge on Thursday. 

According to the hotel assistant manager, “Today one of our robot vacuums ran for its lives.” 

“They usually sense their lip at the entry.” [to the hotel]This one made a run for it and turned around.

Users of social media were quick to create puns. One said that they feared the robot out in the open, because nature hates vacuums.

Another commented: ‘They’re going to clean up if we don’t watch out.’

A robot vacuum cleaner made a clean break for freedom from a Travelodge in Orchard Park, Cambridge, on Thursday before being found the next day relaxing under a hedge

A robot vacuum cleaner made a clean break for freedom from a Travelodge in Orchard Park, Cambridge, on Thursday before being found the next day relaxing under a hedge 

The assistant manager at the Travelodge in Orchard Park, Cambridge, posted on Reddit to promise a free beer at the hotel bar for anybody who could reunite him with his 'lil buddy'

The assistant manager at the Travelodge in Orchard Park, Cambridge, posted on Reddit to promise a free beer at the hotel bar for anybody who could reunite him with his ‘lil buddy’

One user made a political move, writing “Hope that Vac does a better cleaning job of the city than police and council.”

Reddit was posted by the assistant manager at the hotel regarding his ‘little friend’. He promised to give a drink at the Travelodge bar to anyone who can return the escapee. 

He explained that because the robot cannot be used with another charger, any kidnappers would lose it once its battery has run out.

Friday’s robot went missing and was discovered under a hedge. 

According to the hotel the AWOL device has been recovered from its front drive hideout and is now’sitting happy on a shelf with all its robot vacuum families’.

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