Where hotel is staffed by robots - BBC Click

konnichiwa do you speak English yes here with a new yoga no okay well let's try the next receptionist who turns out to be a dinosaur and he does speak my language welcome welcome to the hello hotel at least I think he does thank you for your visitors your name in the rooms card on top of the fill in the phone number please put us to the bottom of the post please press to proceed with us and - did you get that then I think I did please move to the right touch panel and check ok that was perfect English well after my animatronic introduction the next thing to do is scan my face I'll tell you why in a second thank you so much meanwhile I've been given a room in a wing and that means I don't even have to carry my own bag the porter what will do that for me start and we're off like a rocket say was it goes in the room just hope we get there in time for dinner well it looks like I've got a bit of time so let's deal with a couple of facts this is the hen our hotel henna Japanese for strange and yes I think we're all in agreement there and this being a robot hotel I can confirm that so far I have seen a total of 0 humans now here's the next coolest thing facial recognition to get you into the room my day just gets better and better now the hotels not being futuristic just for the sake of it the robots save on personnel costs and the rooms are all Low Energy so first thing to note there's no air conditioning in here instead you've got these weird cooling strips they're basically cold radiators but the most important thing about these rooms is there are no light switches apparently humans have a tendency to leave light switches on so these are motion sensitive there's also a tablet controller and of course a voice controlled robot called cheery Chan who only speaks Japanese Judy Jam Mandy shop Iman Angie cure no tenki Akari keshto lights off all right now I can't see the translation put lights on again

Channel: BBC Click

Views: 107,688

Rating: 4.8205609 out of 5

Keywords: travel, robots, robot, japan, robot hotel, tech, technology, hotels, bbc, news, bbc news, nagasaki, tokyo, science, hideo, sawada, machine, machines, henn-na hotel, documentary, documentaries, bbc documentary, documentary bbc, 長崎市, Click (TV Program)

Id: FogiE8_3fPE

Length: 3min 33sec (213 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 27 2015