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Can a robot revolutionize the hotel industry?

If 19-year-old Micah Green gets his way, his new housekeeping robot will be on the market by 2017. Maidbot is still a prototype, but the young inventor from upstate New York hopes it will help hotel staff make beds and vacuum floors.

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