A Japanese hotel known for its robot staff had to fire half of its droid workforce because they couldn't perform tasks as well as humans

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• Japan's Henn-na Hotel had to fire half of its robot "employees" after they began to malfunction and could no longer handle simple tasks.
• The hotel opened in 2015 with a mostly robotic workforce that handled check-ins, luggage carrying, and concierge.
• After getting many complaints from patrons, the Henn-na Hotel now has humans in charge of the reception desk and other services.

Machines might be putting humans out of work around the world, but hotel staff should be safe for a while. Japan's Henn-na Hotel — or Weird Hotel — was the world's first hotel run mostly by robots, but it has recently had to cull half of its robot workforce.

Kim Kyung-Hoon/ReutersThe hotel, which opened in 2015, employed 243 robots — some of which resembled dinosaurs — to manage every aspect of the hospitality experience, including check-in, luggage carrying, concierge, and even in-room robot assistants. But the hotel didn't live up to the hype, and after three years of operation, the robots started malfunctioning and became obsolete.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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