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Wacky
but realistic, this summer, a hotel will open in the Netherlands-themed Huis Ten Bosch amusement park in Nagasaki, Japan.
The two-story, 72-room Henn-na Hotel, will be staffed by ten robots that will greet guests, carry their luggage and clean their
rooms.
Slated to open July 17, the Henn-na Hotel's
humanoid Robots blink, and will be able to make eye contact, respond to body language, and speak fluent Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English,
They will check in guests, carry bags, make coffee, clean rooms, and deliver laundry.
At a news conference in Japan, Huis Ten Bosch president Hideo Sawada said, "In the future, we’d like to have more than 90 percent of hotel services operated by robots."
The hotel itself will also feature some high-tech amenities, such as facial recognition software that will allow guests to enter locked rooms without a key, and room temperatures monitored by a panel that detects a guest's body heat.
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