Hotel sacks half of its robot staff for being bad at their jobs
Robots are increasingly being tasked with jobs once done by humans. Stock image.
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A high-tech hotel in Japan has been forced to lay off half of its robot staff after finding they were incompetent and created more work for humans.
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