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Robot porter, check-in staff at innovative Sasebo hotel
16 July 2015, 12:00 am

                    From the receptionist that does the check-in and check-out to the porter that's an automated trolley taking luggage up to the room, this hotel in Nagasaki Prefecture, aptly called Weird Hotel, is "manned" almost totally by robots to save labor costs. Hideo Sawada, who runs the hotel as part of the Huis Ten Bosch amusement park, insists using robots is not a gimmick but a serious effort to utilize technology and achieve efficiency.

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