A dinosaur will greet you at Japan’s new Robot Hotel!

Posted by: admin , July 17, 2015

A robot hotel manned almost entirely by robots has opened in Sasebo in South-western Japan.
The hotel is called Henn na Hotel (or Weird Hotel) and its rooms start at about 9,000 Yen (A$100) per night.
True to its name, guests interact with robots upon entering the front door – beginning with the receptionists, an English-speaking dinosaur and a humanoid that speaks Japanese.
Robotic porters cart luggage around and ‘Tuly’ a lamp-sized robot sits on your bedside table, ready to answer simple questions such as weather queries.
It’s reported that Hideo Sawada, who runs the robot hotel as part of an amusement park, emphasises that robots are used to achieve efficiency and reduce labour costs.
However, robots can’t do EVERYTHING – which explains why facial recognition is used to open doors (robots aren’t good at finding keys) and humans still man security cameras to keep people safe.
Also, robots can’t make beds!