Japan's Henn na Hotel is up and running which means now you can have robots tell you, "No, you can't extend your checkout another hour." The hotel, which is located in a Nagasaki amusement park, is ...

A new hotel that is staffed with robots has opened in Japan. The Henn-na Hotel (which translates as "Strange Hotel"), is part of the Huis Ten Bosch theme park complex in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture.

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 ...

A room in this futuristic hotel comes equipped with a steam machine, a temperature-regulating mattress, and a robot concierge ...

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 dinosaur says. 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The receptionists are robots,” wailed the traveler — who goes by @manuenalemania — in the clip, before panning to the cybernetic ...

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 ...