Best Western deploys robot to fold 3,600 towels daily
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-08-29
A Best Western manager noted that folding towels is an operational bottleneck, but the Dyna robot now meets the throughput of 3,600 towels per day, signaling exponential growth in commercial robot deployments.
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