New 'smart hotel' to offer lower rates with stupid robots

[Taro Toporific]

Japanese theme park Huis Ten Bosch to open 'smart hotel' with low rates -- and robots
/asia.nikkei.com / January 28, 2015
NAGASAKI -- "Welcome to the future" might well be the greeting at a planned hotel at Huis Ten Bosch, where robots will greet guests, clean up and even serve coffee.
The operator of the Dutch-inspired theme park in Nagasaki Prefecture is not introducing the robots as a novelty, but, rather, as a way to slash personnel costs.
The hotel, whose Japanese name can be translated as "strange hotel*," will achieve low construction and operating costs by tapping robot staff and renewable energy, according to plans released Tuesday...
...Automation will be used throughout the hotel, which will be powered in part by a photovoltaic system. It will also be equipped with three customer-service robots handling check-ins, at least one "service robot" tasked with serving coffee to customers and other duties, and several cleaning robots. Instead of room keys, guests will use a facial recognition system...more...

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*According toThe Japan Times, the name of the hotel is, "Henn na Hotel" {Strange Hotel}...a play on words: 'Henn' is also part of the Japanese word for change."

[Russell]

How fitting.

They can use them robots as Dutch wives in Huis ten Bosch.

How fitting...