Sunday, February 7

Robot room service is coming to US hotels courtesy of startup Savioke

(credit: Savioke)

It’s easy to look at your smartphone and think you live in the future. But the past’s imagining of the future promised us a lot more robot butlers.

Robots have slowly made their way into the workplace via telepresence hardware like Double Robotics or Beam, but a company called Savioke recently completed a $15 million series A funding round that will allow it to expand its operations for building the Relay robot—a hospitality-focused ‘bot that brings towels, toothpaste, and Starbucks to guests’ room.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Savioke has 12 Relay robots in hotels in the US and is looking to expand.

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