Huis Ten Bosch theme park to get hotel staffed by robots

The Japan Times ^ | January 28, 2015

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NAGASAKI – A hotel with robot staff and face recognition instead of room keys will open this summer in Huis Ten Bosch in Nagasaki Prefecture, the operator of the theme park said Tuesday.

The two-story Henn na Hotel is scheduled to open July 17. It will be promoted with the slogan “A Commitment for Evolution,” Huis Ten Bosch Co. said.

The name reflects how the hotel will “change with cutting-edge technology,” a company official said. This is a play on words: “Henn” is also part of the Japanese word for change.

Robots will provide porter service, room cleaning, front desk and other services to reduce costs and to ensure comfort.

There will be facial recognition technology so guests can enter their rooms without a key.

“We will make the most efficient hotel in the world,” company President Hideo Sawada told a news conference. “In the future, we’d like to have more than 90 percent of hotel services operated by robots.”(continued)

[Ken H]

'May I take your bag, sir?'

[tumblindice]

Actual size copies of old Dutch buildings, robots and a theme park, Mothra and Rodan?
What’s not to like here?

[Billthedrill]

I have been to that theme park twice. It was already a very strange experience - the name is Dutch, of course. This was the one port the Shogunate allowed to be opened for foreign contact for more than two centuries. The park is built on a Dutch theme, has its own brewery ("Golden Hop") and several exhibits of M.C. Escher, including a house tricked out like one of his weird drawings. There is an island, and a boat decked out like a pirate ship on which the parents put the kiddies to go to the kiddie side of the park on the island while the parents do the mainland park. Being Japan it works perfectly well.

This thing would fit right in. I'd love to see it.

[tumblindice]

Is there a Godzilla robot?

[a fool in paradise]

What could possibly go wrong?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTMtu4Z5T-U

[a fool in paradise]

Is there a Godzilla robot?

Wouldn't that be Mecha-Godzilla?

[Slings and Arrows]

Domo arregato, Mr Roboto.