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Robots do check-in and check-out at cost-cutting Japan hotel

At Japan's Weird Hotel, receptionists, porters, concierge are all robots to save labour costs
Yuri Kageyama, The Associated Press
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SASEBO, Japan - 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 southwestern Japan, aptly called Weird Hotel, is "manned" almost totally by robots to save labour costs.

Hideo Sawada, who runs the hotel as part of an amusement park, insists using robots is not a gimmick, but a serious effort to utilize technology and achieve efficiency.

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