The Future Of Room Service Is Robots

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The future of room service is robots.

Robotic lawnmowers and vacuum cleaners are now firmly established in many households. The future of room service is robots following the trademarks of other delivery robots aka. In fact that s already happening. The mercure hotel bochum city for example features a model of the us brand savioke relay service.

Having already significantly impacted the agriculture surgery and logistics sectors service robots are expected to offer greater assistive capability and value in the future. The approximately 120 centimeter high robot called se twin moves on rollers. Gone are the days of disgruntled employees racing around to hundreds of hotel rooms with each phone call to the front desk. Soon it will be known for its high tech hotels too where friendly robots serve guests welcome drinks collect laundry bags and deliver room service orders.

For example in the delivery of medicines and blood on nursing wards in waiting rooms and in treatment rooms. The international organisation for standardisation defines a service robot as a robot that performs useful tasks for humans or equipment excluding industrial automation applications. Providing room service is hardly the limit of a robot s capabilities. Savioke s friendly room service robot named relay has made its way into both hotels and hearts.

Now robots are also conquering german hotels. Take mixing a drink. According to the service robot deployment model paluch et al 2020 service robots will be able to deliver service tasks with almost any degree of cognitive complexity and virtually all tasks. Drones delivery innovations like relay come equipped with mood lighting touch screens and even the.

The international federation of robotics ifr forecasts that sales of service robots will grow between 20 and 25 per cent by 2020. Robots are taking over the hotel industry by storm. Almost 3 000 service robots were already in use in the medical field in 2017 73 percent more than in 2016.