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Related article from a few days ago: https://www.hotelmanagement.net/tech/japan-s-henn-na-hotel-fires-half-its-robot-workforce https://www.hotelmanagement.net/t
by TulliusCicero 4y ago
Related article from a few days ago: https://www.hotelmanagement.net/tech/japan-s-henn-na-hotel-fires-half-its-robot-workforce https://www.hotelmanagement.net/tech/japan-s-henn-na-hotel-f...
> Japan’s Henn na Hotel fires half its robot workforce
> Japan’s Henn na Hotel, which first opened in 2015 with a staff of robots, has cut its robotic workforce after the experience failed to reduce costs or workload for its employees.
> The hotel, which is located in Nagasaki, will reduce its 243-robotic workforce by more than half and return to more traditional human-provided services for guests, though it will maintain a number of robots in areas where it found them to be effective and efficient. Its change of direction can offer lessons for companies that are pursuing robotic solutions for customer-service roles, reports the Business Insider.
- orisho 4y agoHenn na Hotel, literally "a strange hotel".
- JamesianP 4y agoThat's from 2019. I wonder if they're reactivated robots due to covid.
- TulliusCicero 4y agoSo it is; for some reason the Google result said it was from a few days ago.
- fomine3 4y agoThis is better example for Japan. Famous cheap restaurant franchise introducing robots. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Food-Beverage/Japan-s-Skylark-rolls-out-robo-waiters-for-contactless-dining https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Food-Beverage/Japan-s-Skyla...
- rendaw 4y agoAh, I was at one of those restaurants a couple weeks ago. But the robot was followed around by wait staff who took the food from the robot and put it on your table...