The first stage opening has 72 rooms, with 72 more to follow in the coming months.

Henn na hotel is billed by its operators as a Smart Hotel, and incorporates reduced construction costs it says can be adopted by the rest of the world’s hoteliers and in addition to the labour-saving robots, also features solar power in much of its operations, thus making it a low-cost hotel operationally.

One of the struggles the creators faced when attempting to use robotics to replace all human personnel was constantly evolving technology, especially within the Japanese market, which is fast-paced, with Japanese citizens often being early adopters of new tech.

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