WHY Rise of the Machines?

Royal Caribbean installed cocktail-mixing robot bartenders on several of its cruise ships.

A robot porter as it carries our bags to our room.

A similar device, this one powered by IBM's human-mimicking Watson computer, has just taken up a concierge position at a Hilton McLean hotel in Virginia.

The Henn-na Hotel in Sasebo, Japan is staffed entirely by machines including one, bizarrely, resembling a dinosaur.

In a Marriott hotel in Ghent, Belgium, a diminutive humanoid robot named Mario has been working since June 2015.

U.S. online bookings company Travelzoo gathered some stats ahead of ITB Berlin that suggest many people worldwide are at ease with the idea of being looked after by machines on their travels.

Of 6,000 travelers surveyed globally, nearly two thirds said they'd be comfortable.

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