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Henn na Hotel, as it is called in Japanese, was shown to reporters Wednesday, complete with robot demonstrations, ahead of its opening to the public Friday.
Robot-staffed hotel opens in Japan NAGASAKI, Japan -- The world's first hotel staffed almost entirely by robots is opening its doors full-time to guests this month, but CBS News correspondent Seth ...
Here are eight hotels to check out in the center of both worlds, including capsule properties and historic ryokans. For more than five centuries, the Asaba family has welcomed guests to its ryokan, a ...
Japan Announces Plans for the First Hotel Run by Robots Slated to open July 17, the hotel in a Japanese theme park will be staffed by “actroids” ...
A theme park near Nagasaki in southern Japan will open a smart hotel featuring female androids that greet guests, and robots that carry luggage and serve coffee.
Peer Inside Japan's Secretive Love Hotels In an increasingly crowded and technology-mediated world, pay-by-the-hour love hotels offer sexual freedom.
Meet a hotel lobby receptionist at the Henn na Hotel in Sasebo, Japan. He talks a little and is one of the all-robot staff members at the offbeat hotel that opened Wednesday.
It sounds like the plot of a futuristic sci-fi movie—a squad of friendly robots in a Japanese hotel have been hacked to spy on guests. Except, the future is now. The Henn-na Hotel in Nagasaki ...