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MADem

(135,425 posts) Fri Jul 17, 2015, 12:38 PM Jul 2015

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ROBOT HOTEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33562368

A dinosaur at reception
The hotel in Sasebo, Nagasaki, features different types of automated receptionists, including an English-speaking dinosaur and a Japanese-speaking female android.

More at link....

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/16/japans-robot-hotel-a-dinosaur-at-reception-a-machine-for-room-service

Japan's robot hotel: a dinosaur at reception, a machine for room service
The Henn na – or Weird Hotel – has opened in Japan where guests check in with robots which also deliver their luggage to rooms

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ROBOT HOTEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Original Post) MADem Jul 2015 OP

A real life "five nights at freddy's" Bosonic Jul 2015 #1

Creepy--never saw that!!!!!!! nt MADem Jul 2015 #2

Yipes shenmue Jul 2015 #3

I would love to try it, just to be checked in by a dinosaur!!!! MADem Jul 2015 #6

Sky Net Lodge? Hotel Ex Machina? Initech Jul 2015 #4

Fits right in here....it's the WEIRD HOTEL!!!!! MADem Jul 2015 #5

But then, who doesnt enjoy a nice vacation in the uncanny valley? Warren DeMontague Jul 2015 #7

Bosonic

(3,746 posts)

1. A real life "five nights at freddy's"

Reply to MADem (Original post)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 12:47 PM

Jul 2015

Checkout time 6AM

MADem

(135,425 posts)

2. Creepy--never saw that!!!!!!! nt

Reply to Bosonic (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 12:48 PM

Jul 2015

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

3. Yipes

Reply to MADem (Original post)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 06:55 PM

Jul 2015

MADem

(135,425 posts)

6. I would love to try it, just to be checked in by a dinosaur!!!!

Reply to shenmue (Reply #3)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 09:01 PM

Jul 2015

It looks OK for seventy three bucks a night (which is a bargain in that end of the world...).

Initech

(100,124 posts)

4. Sky Net Lodge? Hotel Ex Machina?

Reply to MADem (Original post)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 08:44 PM

Jul 2015

MADem

(135,425 posts)

5. Fits right in here....it's the WEIRD HOTEL!!!!!

Reply to Initech (Reply #4)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 08:59 PM

Jul 2015

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)

7. But then, who doesnt enjoy a nice vacation in the uncanny valley?

Reply to MADem (Original post)

Tue Jul 21, 2015, 01:16 PM

Jul 2015

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