Machines might be putting humans out of work around the world, but hotel staff should be safe for a while. Japan’s Henn-na Hotel — or Weird Hotel — was the world’s first hotel run mostly by robots, but it has recently had to cull half of its robot workforce.
The hotel, which opened in 2015, employed 243 robots — some of which resembled dinosaurs — to manage every aspect of the hospitality experience, including check-in, luggage carrying, concierge, and even in-room robot assistants. But the hotel didn’t live up to the hype, and after three years of operation, the robots started malfunctioning and became obsolete.
