Hotel Chain Has Robots Painting the Sleep Patterns of Its Guests

Ibis turns dreams into art

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Let's make sleeping in hotels in strange cities far from home even creepier than it already is! The Ibis hotel chain will treat 40 of its guests in London, Paris and Berlin to sensor-equipped beds that relay nocturnal sounds, temperatures and movements to a robot equipped with paintbrushes that will, for some reason, transform the data into acrylic paintings. It's called the "Sleep Art Project," and it was dreamed up by ad agency BETC Paris.

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