Robots to serve guests in Japanese hotel

A new hotel at a theme park in Nagasaki, Japan, named the Henn-na Hotel will have half of its staff as androids remarkably human-like robots which will work as reception attendants, robot waiters, cleaning staff and a cloakroom attendant..

The android have been developed by Japan's Osaka University and manufactured by the Japanese robotics company Kokoro, many of the "Actroid" robots resemble a young Japanese woman. The bots will be able to speak Japanese, Chinese, Korean and English, make hand gestures, and pull off the somewhat creepy feat of mimicking eye movements, according to The Telegraph