It's a Brave New World - Robots Take Over!
We don't quite know, yet, how this may affect the hotel industry and employment chances in the tourism and event industry but Nagasaki, Japan, proudly presents the first hotel completely run by robots: Henn-Na Hotel at Huis Ten Bosch Amusement Park. From check-in to porter services, it's all automatic and automated and multi-lingual at the push of a touch screen. We just have one question: how do you tip a robot? It seems that robots are everywhere these days! Closer to home, The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is developing "co-robots" who can work with humans. Robot assistants for the blind and caregiver robots for the elderly will be just as common as Google's autonomous driving car soon. Furthermore, robotic medical devices are nearly ready for implanting into human bodies to monitor health and trigger alerts for timely intervention and blood plasma based bioplastics that will revolutionize the natural healing process are already in t...