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Airicist
23rd July 2015, 15:44
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Japan is opening the first hotel operated entirely by robots.
Airicist
23rd July 2015, 15:44
https://youtu.be/TI6Ra8kUVN0
Japan: See robo-dinosaurs serve guests at first ever robot hotel
Published on Jul 15, 2015
Robotic dinosaurs and humanoid lobby staff helped guests check in to a hotel run by androids, at the Huis Ten Bosch theme park in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Wednesday. The 72-room hotel, set to open in full on July 17, is staffed by 10 robots and 10 humans. Its name, "Henn na," means 'strange hotel.'
Airicist
23rd July 2015, 15:44
http://vimeo.com/133742184
Dinosaur greets guests at Japan's first robot hotel
July 17, 2015
A Japanese businessman has come up with what he thinks the hotel of the future will look like. He's replaced staff with robots, and added facial recognition to your hotel room door. It's not the stuff of fantasy, the future is here now.
Airicist
23rd July 2015, 15:46
https://vimeo.com/134272096
Japan Robot Hotel
July 23, 2015
Airicist
23rd July 2015, 15:46
https://vimeo.com/134271839
Japan Robot Hotel (CTM 2015)
Julu 23, 2015
Airicist
23rd July 2015, 17:08
https://youtu.be/N7dMcYzFLwQ
A very surreal check-in at Japan's robot hotel
Published on Jul 23, 2015
Welcome to Henn-na Hotel. Here's what happens when you try to check into a hotel that's (mostly) run by robots.
Airicist
24th July 2015, 01:17
https://youtu.be/AnNQRhtH_Ao
World's First Robot Hotel, Welcome To Japan's Henn-na
Published on Jul 20, 2015
On July 17th, the first robot-staffed hotel, Henn-na, opened in Sasebo, Japan. The managers say the use of robots to reduce operating costs is the way of the future. AJ+ went to take a look.
Airicist
24th July 2015, 16:06
https://youtu.be/oCDY3kNz5hw
Henn na Hotel — the Huis Ten Bosch hotel where robots are at your service
Published on Jul 18, 2015
Huis Ten Bosch, a theme park in Nagasaki Pref., opened a new official hotel with a difference.
Read more:
"Robot porter, check-in staff at innovative Sasebo hotel (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/16/business/robot-porter-check-staff-innovative-sasebo-hotel)"
by Yuri Kageyama
July 16, 2015
Airicist
23rd October 2015, 17:44
https://youtu.be/mpzIQt6l4xY
Inside the Japanese hotel staffed by robots
Published on Oct 23, 2015
If there’s one place on Earth you can already get a glimpse of our robot-assisted future, it’s Japan. Routinely at the forefront of robotics research, the country has brought us some of the weirdest automatons, most lifelike androids, and cutest helper-bots.
Nowhere is this more evident than at Nagasaki’s Henn-na Hotel, a hotel run by robots that opened this year. Walk into reception and a mechanised dinosaur will guide you through check-in; go to your room and a luggage bot will wheel your suitcase along beside you; get ready for bed and your own robot companion will turn out the lights.
Henn-na Hotel CEO Hideo Sawada sells his offering as part of a utopian vision where robots take over manual labour so humans can turn their attention to more creative pursuits. Replacing staff with robots might reduce labour costs, but their appeal to visitors needs to last beyond novelty value.
Motherboard host Ben Ferguson checks into the robot hotel in the first episode of our new travel series Voyager, made possible by Kayak. The robot workers he meets are courteous and communicative, but can they emulate the human warmth of their flesh-and-blood counterparts? Could robots really be our future holiday companions, or do man and machine ultimately get lost in translation?
Airicist
31st December 2015, 23:12
https://vimeo.com/150419750
Robot Hotel
December 31, 2015
Airicist
3rd March 2016, 02:17
https://youtu.be/nE9aoWkF1PI
Welcome to the Robot Hotel - please see the Velociraptor for check-in
Published on Mar 1, 2016
Tired of having to talk to hotel staff? Welcome to the automated future at Japan's robot hotel.
Airicist
6th March 2016, 23:35
Article "Check in with the velociraptor at he world's fist robot hotel (https://www.wired.com/2016/03/robot-henn-na-hotel-japan)"
by Gideon Lewis-Kraus
March 2, 2016
Airicist
28th October 2017, 08:31
https://youtu.be/k_jeHSXKdy0
Henn na Hotel Maihama Tokyo Bay
Published on Mar 16, 2017
Henn na Hotel, staffed mostly by robots, opened its second branch in the Tokyo suburb of Urayasu, hoping to offer more entertainment options for Tokyo Disney Resort visitors
Airicist
17th January 2019, 00:16
Article "Japan robot hotel fires most of its 'annoying' robotic staff (https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/japan-robot-hotel-henn-na-robotics-artificial-intelligence-a8731341.html)"
Robotic staff at the Henn-na Hotel include a velociraptor receptionist, an automated gardener and a one-armed claw that handles left luggage
by Anthony Cuthbertson
January 16, 2019