Posted on 08/14/2014 7:32:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hotel rooms for the introverts among us are an anti-social haven. Nothing beats a hot shower, followed by settling into a freshly made bed in a terrycloth robe to watch mediocre television with a glass of wine. No one bothers you and for an exquisite moment in time, you have nary a care in the world.
Then the realization hits. You’ve forgotten your toothbrush at home! You’re going to have to call the snooty concierge. You’re going to have to smile and tip and say thank you. You’ll have to deal with people.
The chain of hotels has introduced the Botlr (the name is a cringe-worthy hybrid of ‘robot’ and ‘butler’), a three-foot tall service robot designed by California startup Savioke. Designed to evoke the tux-wearing butlers of old, this high-tech helper is dispatched by a human bellman after a customer calls the front desk. It then navigates its way through the hotels’ maze of corridors and elevators to bring critical sundries to your door. Crisis averted.
Like the pizza drone and the Dutch gas pump jockey before it, this newest tech wonder looks to be another item in a long list of robots that threatens to crush jobs and wreak poverty among workers, only to become a minor marketing gimmick.
Even Starwood execs are remaining somewhat reserved on the matter: “It is certainly not replacing our staff, but it is augmenting our ability to service our customers,” Brian McGuinness, senior vice president for Starwood’s Aloft line of hotels, told CNBC, adding that he only foresees one or two Botlrs at most per hotel.
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DUTCH GAS STATION HAS ROBOT PUMPING GASOLINE (VIDEO)
WATCH HERE:
http://singularityhub.com/2009/09/16/dutch-gas-station-has-robot-pumping-gasoline-video/
FROM MOMENTUM MACHINES:
Fast food doesn’t have to have a negative connotation anymore. With our technology, a restaurant can offer gourmet quality burgers at fast food prices.Our alpha machine frees up all of the hamburger line cooks in a restaurant.It does everything employees can do except better:
It slices toppings like tomatoes and pickles immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger possible.
Our next revision will offer custom meat grinds for every single customer. Want a patty with 1/3 pork and 2/3 bison ground to order? No problem.
Also, our next revision will use gourmet cooking techniques never before used in a fast food restaurant, giving the patty the perfect char but keeping in all the juices.
It’s more consistent, more sanitary, and can produce ~360 hamburgers per hour.
The labor savings allow a restaurant to spend approximately twice as much on high quality ingredients and the gourmet cooking techniques make the ingredients taste that much better.
Not here in the USA. We’ll be using “Dreamers” for these purposes for the next 100 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fxhE16B7Bc#t=86
It won’t do your windows or check the oil.. yet...
but your car can likely tell it you need oil via it’s computer system.
"I'm an inventor. I made this-- the Bathroom Buddy. The invention of the century, friends. It eliminates the need to carry heavy luggage and things when you travel. You got yourself your shaving mirror. You got yourself your toothbrush. You got yourself a toothpick, you got toenail clippers. You got... nail file. You got yourself a dental mirror. This is gonna revolutionize traveling."
Not sure how a robot gas pump causes unemployment. The only states in the US that have gas station attendants pumping gas are NJ and OR. On the other hand, think how many job must have been created to design, build, distribute, install, and maintain such a complex device.
The jobs don't belong to those that have them now.
They keep them on sufferance, as long as they do a good job for less than it can be done by someone, or something, else.
/johnny
Jobs belong to the employer, not the employee.
/johnny
But, they don’t need health insurance!
The word “steal” used in that headline tells us ominously where the politics of all this are heading.
A robot bellhop can’t tell you where to get a hooker.
Alway runnin' at someone's bleedin' 'eel.
Can’t they?
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Doesn’t matter. Robots will vote for the Dems.
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