Robot Hotel Loses Love for Robots
https://www.wsj.com/articles/robot-hotel-loses-love-for-robots-11547484628 [www.wsj.com]
2019-01-15 00:48
Turns out, robots aren’t the best at hospitality. After opening in a blaze of publicity in 2015, Japan’s Henn na, or “Strange,” Hotel, recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s first robot hotel, is now laying off its low-performing droids. So far, the hotel has culled over half of its 243 robots, many because they created work rather than reduced it.