Self-cleaning environment

A non-transitory computer storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

• detecting, by an automated cleaning system that comprises the one or more computers, movement within a physical environment;
• determining, by the automated cleaning system and using data that represents the movement, that one or more threshold criteria for cleaning at least a portion of the physical environment are satisfied, wherein determining that the one or more threshold criteria are satisfied comprises:
• determining, by the automated cleaning system and using data that represents the movement, that there is at least a threshold likelihood that a person will move to a physical area that includes the portion of the physical environment;
• and
• determining, by the automated cleaning system, that there is not likely another person in the physical area that includes the portion of the physical environment;
• and
• in response to determining that the one or more threshold criteria for cleaning at least the portion of the physical environment are satisfied including i) determining that there is at least the threshold likelihood that the person will move to the physical area that includes the portion of the physical environment and ii) determining that there is not likely another person in the physical area that includes the portion of the physical environment, sending, by the automated cleaning system, an instruction to a device in the physical environment to cause the device to initiate a cleaning process of at least the portion of the physical environment that will likely finish before the person will likely move to the physical area that includes portion of the physical environment.

A system comprising one or more computers and one or more storage devices on which are stored instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

• detecting, by an automated cleaning system that comprises the one or more computers, movement within a physical environment;
• determining, by the automated cleaning system and using data that represents the movement, that one or more threshold criteria for cleaning at least a portion of the physical environment are satisfied, wherein determining that the one or more threshold criteria are satisfied comprises:
• determining, by the automated cleaning system and using data that represents the movement, that there is at least a threshold likelihood that a person will move to a physical area that includes the portion of the physical environment;
• and
• determining, by the automated cleaning system, that there is not likely another person in the physical area that includes the portion of the physical environment;
• and
• in response to determining that the one or more threshold criteria for cleaning at least the portion of the physical environment are satisfied including i) determining that there is at least the threshold likelihood that the person will move to the physical area that includes the portion of the physical environment and ii) determining that there is not likely another person in the physical area that includes the portion of the physical environment:
• determining a cleaning process for at least the portion of the physical environment and that will likely finish before the person will likely move to the physical area that includes the portion of the physical environment;
• and
• sending, by the automated cleaning system, an instruction to a device in the physical environment to cause the device to initiate the cleaning process of at least the portion of the physical environment that will likely finish before the person will likely move to the physical area that includes the portion of the physical environment.