Guests can also access their rooms via face-recognition, and are able to control room amenities via tablets. The Henn-na Hotel was designed by Kawazoe Lab, the Institute of Industrial Science at ...

The Henn-na Hotel has been pitched by its development ... you’re theoretically inured to the bare-bones amenities provided. The full picture, though, is a little more complicated.

The hotel—appropriately named Henn-na or Weird Hotel—which happens to ... While the staff has not yet become adept at a few standard amenities—making beds, calling cabs—the reasonable ...

If you think robots can do better than humans in running a hotel, check out the newly opened Henn na Hotel (Weird Hotel, in English) in Sasebo, a city in southwestern Japan. It's staffed by robots ...

The hotel will be called Henn-na Hotel, which translates as Strange Hotel. According to the park, the first phrase of the two-story hotel will open on July 17 with 72 rooms. The second phrase will ...

But the "Henn'na Hotel," which translates to "strange hotel" in Japanese, lives up to its name. "Please ask me your request, but don't ask me a difficult question because I am a robot," says the ...

The Guardian reports that the robotic dinosaur receptionist is just one of the many bionic beings at the recently opened hotel in Japan’s southwestern Sasebo. We heard about Henn-na earlier ...

TOKYO -- Japan's H.I.S. is shifting the emphasis of its hotel business from expansion to increasing room rates through upgraded amenities and ... to some of its Henn na Hotels.

The sun is beginning to set over Omura Bay, south of the city of Sasebo in Nagasaki Prefecture on Kyushu island, and I’m about to check in at the Henn-na Hotel – or “Weird Hotel” – to ...

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".

Probably Japan's most out-there hotel chain (and that's saying something), robot-managed Henn Na Hotel is now striking down in Tokyo's classiest district. Quite a throw from their humble ...

The Henn na Hotel in Japan, which translates to "Weird Hotel" in English, is almost entirely operated by robots. The only humans on staff are security officers and a cleaning crew. A night's stay ...