A pair of robot dinosaurs wearing bellboy hats welcome guests at the Henn-na Hotel in Tokyo, Japan. Photos: AP
The reception at the Henn-na Hotel in Tokyo is eerily quiet until customers approach the robot dinosaurs manning the front desk. Their sensors detect the motion and they bellow “Welcome”.
It might be about the weirdest check-in experience possible, but that's exactly the point at the Henn-na (whose name means “weird”) chain, which bills itself as offering the world's first hotels staffed by robots.
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