Posted on 08/12/2014 10:12:11 AM PDT by C19fan
Look out Rosie the Robot, Starwood Hotels' Aloft brand has a taskmaster of its own.
His (or her?) name; A.L.O. pronounced "el-oh", the hotels' first Botlr (short of robotic butler.) Standing just under 3 feet tall, A.L.O. comes dressed in a vinyl-collared butler uniform and will soon be on call all day and night to fulfill requests from guests.
Forget your toothpaste? Need more towels? How about a late-night chocolate bar? All guests of the hotel have to do is call the front desk, where staff will load up the Botlr with requested items, punch in the guest's room number and send it off to make the delivery, navigating hallways and even call for the elevator using Wi-Fi.
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I saw a video of a place where robots on rails deliver the food, they are up high and the food lowers from a little elevator to the table.
ha
So???? How many Human Jobs were eliminated?
Weak robot that can't even fetch the requested items itself.
Do these robots have defense mechanisms to protect themselves from SEIU sabotage?
Does this robot “cough” and stick its hand out waiting for a tip?
It hacks your credit card account and deducts automatically, LOL.
sounds similar to what hospitals are using to transport items internally. Seems like a good idea.
The minimum wage zealots fail to realize that labor and capital are interchangeable. As labor costs go up it often becomes less expensive to automate to keep the same level of production at lower cost. I often challenged my economics students with the problem of whether they would use a group of workers with shovels to dig foundations for new construction or to use a single worker with a backhoe. If labor is very cheap and capital expensive as in some third world countries a crew of guys with shovels might be cost efficient, but as labor costs rise using a backhoe with a single higher paid worker would be not only cheaper but allow greater productivity. Too bad our politicians remain totally ignorant of basic economics.
Unfortunately, their ignorance is not limited to one subject area.
Testify my Brother!
another human job gone - with a count of thousands, replaced by a few jobs in manufacturing and technology programming
humans are becoming superfluous to the workforce
eventually even the jobs that design, make, build and program the robots will be done by robots
Interesting development. Dad retired from Pep Boys where he worked at the Vernon CA warehouse through about 1987. In the later years they had robot carts that followed “tracks” (wires under the floor) to and from the loading docks. Today the technology must be very reasonably priced indeed to automate gofor type labor in the hospitality industry. Bless ‘em!
-PJ
-PJ
I stayed on business at an Aloft hotel at the Philadelphia airport about 5 years ago.
Its bare bones, concrete walls, no closet but for some shelves with a curtain over them. Industrial carpet. In short, a loft design (Aloft).
The whole clientele could be broken down into two groups:
1. 45-50 yr old, thin, greying, short-haired fagola in jeans, and
2. Me, an overweight, slightly balding white man.
I wrote to Sheraton the evening I was there complaining of the accomodations and their reply was that, certainly I do not meet their profile clientele and that I should consider the full-service Sheraton right across the street. lol,
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