[taylorling]

Sounds interesting, but for me, I think I would still prefer a more 'human' environment for hotel - robots might be highly efficient on some tasks, but they will never able to replace the 'human' part, which I thoroughly enjoy when I travel.

[xamuel]

Humans make great bartenders, great phone support, great teachers. But when I'm in my room, typing away or something, the last thing I want is a stranger coming in to change the towels or whatever. Keep a human in the front lobby, I'll take the robotic maids any day, please.

[taylorling]

That's true, but that's where you have the door sign says 'DND', at least the hotels that I have stayed so far have this 'feature'.

[xamuel]

So under what circumstances are the human maids better? If you miss them because you're at the conference, then you don't care whether they're human, robot, or some sort of arsenic-based life-form as long as the room is cleaned. If it's casual smalltalk you want, a hotel maid isn't a very efficient way to deliver that.