Article "NYC hotel employs robot to help visitors with their luggage"

Yotel, a hotel in New York, now has a robot called the Yobot designed to help visitors with their luggage storage before and after checkout
The Yobot can lift up to 500 pounds and handles roughly 300 bags per day
Guests take their bags to their own rooms
Yotel also has kiosks for self check-in which 95 per cent of guests prefer over checking in with hotel staff
Yotel will not say how much money they are saving by employing robots over people for certain tasks

by Alexandra Klausner
May 14, 2015