Creepy robots, coming your way Editor's Note: This post was originally published in August 2015 and has been updated with the most recent information.
If people just aren?t your thing, check out the Henna Na hotel in southwestern Japan. Instead of your normal?and let?s face it, mercurial?hotel staff, you?ll get 140 robots catering to your every whim.
Now, the two concerns weighing equally on your mind are probably 1) I hope there isn't a power outage, and 2) I hope I'm not a protagonist in a movie that ends with me being enslaved by robots.
The 100-room Henn na Hotel (literal translation: strange hotel) bills itself as the world?s first hotel staffed by robots, and in terms of addressing the latter concern, they may be employing some reverse psychology in terms of making all the robots as creepy as possible. If you're nervous about checking in to your robot hotel room, don't worry?there's a raptor with a bow tie and beard to greet you in Japanese, English, or Korean. Or you can choose the somehow-even-more-unsettling lifelike lady robot, or the robots that handle all the window-cleaning and vacuuming.
For our money, though, the one that's most like to murder you in the concierge robot in your room or the ?cloak? robot that runs the in-house lockers. And then there?s the bright-red ?porter? robot that could take your luggage and flee at any moment. It?s hard to choose which one to be scared of first.
Since opening in 2015, the Henn na Hotel has done fairly well, e...