A hotel in Japan, opening this July, claims that it will eventually be staffed almost entirely by humanoid robots. Fittingly, the hotel’s name \u2014 Henn-Na Hotel \u2014 translates to “Strange Hotel.”<\/p>\n
Henn-Na will be housed on the grounds of Huis Ten Bosch, a Japanese theme park, and will initially feature three “actoids” (robots designed in the human likeness) to work as receptionists, according to CNN. Eventually, the owners hope that 90% of the staff will be robots.<\/p>\n
The robots will do an array of tasks, like conversing with guests at check-in \u2014 while exuding a natural “warmth” \u2014 as well as cleaning<\/span>, according to the hotel’s website. There will also be human staff on hand to assist.<\/p>\n The hotel’s high-tech features don’t end with robots. There will also be a facial-recognition system to enter hotel rooms as a way to replace traditional keys.<\/p>\n It’s already possible to make a “tentative reservation” on the\u00a0website, with projected room prices ranging from 9,000 yen (about $77) for a single bed to 44,000 yen ($374) for the highest-value room.<\/p>\n Human-like robots \u2014 depending on what you define as “human-like” \u2014 aren’t just found in science fiction movies anymore, so a robot-staffed hotel isn’t as out-there as it may seem. In fact, retail chain Lowe’s unveiled an in-store robot clerk called OSHbot last year. It’s a 5-feet-tall machine that can help consumers on the floor of retail hardware stores.<\/p>\n There’s also ChihiraAico, which Toshiba showed off at the International CES this year, a machine designed to “achieve real heart-warming communication with human-like facial expression.”<\/p>\n Let’s just hope ChihiraAico, OSHbot and the Strange Hotel robots don’t put too many concierges out of work.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: Mashable.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A hotel in Japan, opening this July, claims that it will eventually be staffed almost entirely by humanoid robots. Fittingly, the hotel’s name \u2014 Henn-Na Hotel \u2014 translates to “Strange Hotel.” Henn-Na will be housed on the grounds of Huis Ten Bosch, a Japanese theme park, and will initially feature three “actoids” (robots designed in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-89471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-togbe-afede-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}