The Future Of Room Service Is Robots

Room service of the future.

The future of room service is robots.

In fact that s already happening. 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. Robots are taking over the hotel industry by storm. The future of room service is robots following the trademarks of other delivery robots aka.

Take mixing a drink. 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. 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. Now robots are also conquering german hotels. Providing room service is hardly the limit of a robot s capabilities. Because hospitals are also increasingly reliant on mobile robots.

The mercure hotel bochum city for example features a model of the us brand savioke relay service. Almost 3 000 service robots were already in use in the medical field in 2017 73 percent more than in 2016. Robotic lawnmowers and vacuum cleaners are now firmly established in many households. 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.

The international federation of robotics ifr forecasts that sales of service robots will grow between 20 and 25 per cent by 2020. It s all in a day s work for the two tipsy robots which have become a major tourist attraction in las. Having already significantly impacted the agriculture surgery and logistics sectors service robots are expected to offer greater assistive capability and value in the future.