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Ugnė Lazauskaitė

Tourist Documents Struggle To Check In After Robots Don’t Seem To Speak English

“Imagine arriving at this hotel in Tokyo at midnight and finding this. It’s giving me the creeps.”

In an era where technology is making us double-think what we once considered impossible, it seems we are losing the capacity to be amazed every time we encounter a new high-tech product. That is until we see a humanoid robot welcoming us behind the front desk of a hotel.

Spanish influencer Carla Domènech is a well-traveled woman. She spent a month in Thailand, strolled through the streets of Prague, and visited the mesmerizing Sahara Desert in Morocco. Yet she was completely taken aback during one of her recent trips to the Japanese capital when she encountered a pair of unlikely hotel clerks and realized she would not be able to communicate with either of them.

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