SASEBO, Japan — The English-speaking receptionist is a vicious-looking dinosaur, and the one speaking Japanese is a female humanoid with blinking lashes. “If you want to check in, push one,” the ...

Japan’s iconic Henn-na — literally “Strange” ­— hotel has decommissioned half of the 243 robots it once used to handle everyday operations. Some of the problems stem from creative ideas that didn’t ...

How efficient was your last vacation? You may have confirmed your registration online, skipped the long security line and bypassed the car rental counter, but once you got to your hotel, were robots ...

Bye bye, bots. Henn na Hotel in Japan laid off droids that annoyed customers by failing to perform simple tasks. Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She ...

Located within Huis Ten Bosch theme park, Henn na Hotel will be staffed by robots. Not entirely by robots – not at first – but at least in past by what the company calls "Actroids". These actroids ...

Here's another one for the "only in Japan" books. A rather "forward-looking" hotel will be opening in Nagasaki later this July with a touch of high-tech fanciness you only read about in books or see ...