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The hotel will be served by robots

12.02.2015

First, in banks, and now in hotels in the Land of the Rising Sun, it is planned to partially replace the staff with robotic mechanisms that can serve customers no worse than their biological counterparts. A new techno hotel Henn-na will open in the Japanese prefecture of Nagasaki. The staff of a small hotel will include 10 robots, three of which will have an extremely human-like appearance.

The task of humanoid devices will be to register visitors, so they can be met immediately at the reception desk. Developed by specialists from Kokoro, these mechanisms are called "actroids". They are able to communicate with hotel visitors due to the ability to recognize voice, body language and establish eye contact with the interlocutor using the appropriate sensors and cameras.

Further, an industrial manipulator adapted to work as a loader will help deliver your luggage. Simpler models of robots will be able to clean rooms, prepare coffee for you and perform certain tasks.

Not without "smart" and the most technologically advanced systems directly in the rooms themselves. Opening the door without a key is due to face recognition of hotel visitors. The setting of the operating mode of the climate equipment occurs automatically based on the current indicators of your body temperature, which is read by special sensors.

The Henn-na hotel itself is a small two-story building with only 72 rooms. Given its unusual robotic component, it will not be so easy to book a room in the "season" here. The hotel owners plan to organize special auctions so that everyone has an equal chance of booking a room. So, for example, the price for a single room starts at $60 per night, and for the most comfortable triple room they will ask from $153.

A hotel with robots, the main feature of which is the quick registration of customers, will open in 2016. However, so far the authors of the project are not ready to fully rely on soulless machines, so each of the ten devices will have one living employee. However, the owners of Henn-na are confident that in the future, automated staffing will not just become a way to capture the attention of customers and attract additional visitors. Robots can perform up to 90% of all key operations in hotels.

If Henn-na lives up to the expectations of its owners, they are ready to build a thousand more similar hotels around the world.

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