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Does Japan offer a preview of the near future of more robots? Perhaps, since the nation has an aging population, and it has rejected immigration as a source of labor, choosing automation to pick up the slack. The Atlantic magazine takes a look in a new article that visits a robot restaurant in a robot […] December 9th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, fast food, hotel, immigration, job displacement, job loss, robot, smart machines, technological unemployment |  Email This Post |  Print This Post Hotel management has reacted positively toward the improved capabilities of robots suitable for their industry. A recent confab of the hospitality industry highlighted the new automation becoming available to perform more challenging tasks. Robot bellhops are already in use in some Marriott hotels and elsewhere. One of the machines in the pipeline is a […] February 16th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, Congress, cost, hotel, immigration, job displacement, maidbot, robot, robot bellhop, smart machines | Email This Post | Print This Post Some of the automation applied to the lodging industry has been gimmicky to get easy press attention, like the dinosaur robot check-in clerk in a Japanese hotel. However, basic wheeled robots that deliver items to rooms seem about to expand with the $15 million invested in the Savioke company of Silicon Valley. A human […] February 9th, 2016 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, bellhop, hotel, job displacement, robot, room service, smart machine | Email This Post | Print This Post |
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