Aloft Hotel to Begin Testing ‘Botlr,’ a Robotic Bellhop
Think of it as the Terminator’s human-friendly sibling. In a hotel lobby across the street from Apple’s corporate campus, a desk clerk places a razor in the bin of a three-foot-high robot and taps in a room number on a display. The robot, “Botlr,” chirps an R2-D2-style acknowledgment and rolls off to an elevator and its final destination.
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